Rust has been ranked as one of the most loved languages by developers. In this series, you will learn the fundamentals of Rust development. We'll start by downloading the tools you need to program with Rust, walk through common concepts, and share what's unique about Rust. By the end of this series, you will have enough knowledge to go forth and write your own Rust programs. It's highly recommended that you watch this series if you have prior experience with programming in another language.
In March 2014, Microsoft released the source code to MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 via the Computer History Museum. The announcement also contains a brief history of how MS-DOS came to be for those new to the subject, and ends with many links to related articles and resources for those interested in learning more.
Today, we're re-open-sourcing MS-DOS on GitHub. Why? Because it's much easier to find, read, and refer to MS-DOS source files if they're in a GitHub repo than in the original downloadable compressed archive file.
LINQPad Succinctly offers IT professionals a detailed examination of how and why LINQPad can improve development lifecycle and deliver applications in less time. Author José Roberto Olivas Mendoza begins with a detailed overview of LINQPad's features, then delves into the installation process, including necessary prerequisites. Readers then get instruction on how to get the most out of LINQPad, such as how to query data bases and using LINQPad as a code scratchpad, which allows users to save significant time and effort on application delivery.
Moq is a mocking library for .NET Unit Testing (cue the TDD folks reminding us mocks are unnecessary), and it is by far the most widely used mocking library in .NET (475 million downloads vs 87 million for the next largest, NSubstitute). Yesterday, its author released version 4.20.1; which added nagware and a backdoor to Moq, in a bid to drive up paid usages of Moq through ‘Sponsorships’.
EF7 will be the default data stack for ASP.NET 5 applications, but we will not recommend it as an alternative to EF6 in other applications until we have more functionality implemented
The ReSharper and Rider 2023.2.1 bug-fix updates have just been released! Let’s go over the most important fixes in those builds.
Support for the recently released Visual Studio 2019 RTM, including but not limited to supporting the “async packages auto-load” API in Visual Studio 2019.
With the latest version of ASP.NET Web API, Microsoft introduced support for cross domain requests, usually called CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing)
