This session will cover the strategic decisions you have to make as a developer when targeting multiples devices in your application. We will explore the tools and technologies that you have available in Visual Studio 2013 for both web and native applications that target Windows, iOS and Android devices, as well as best practices to reuse code and skills across them.
Deno is a new runtime for executing JavaScript and TypeScript outside of the web browser.
Using UTC in Applications
Using UTC dates for data is a pretty common and necessary practice but it definitely adds some complexity when managing dates as you always have to remember to properly adjust dates. For display purposes this is pretty straight forward, but for query operations there’s a bit of mental overhead to ensure your date math adds up properly.
No easy solutions, but I hope this post and some of the helpers make life a little easier for you – I know they do for me.
WebAPIContrib is a collection of open source projects to help improve your work with ASP.NET Web API. We have divided the projects into a few different categories. For more information on each project, click through to visit the GitHub page.
This is a list of common LINQ mistakes, which has grown out from reading code of others (and myself) - and using the results for training people new to .NET.
ES7 gives us a new kind of function, the async function. Inside of an async function, we have a new keyword, await, which we use to "wait for" a promise
Rough.js is a light weight (~8k), Canvas based library that lets you draw in a sketchy, hand-drawn-like, style. The library defines primitives to draw lines, curves, arcs, polygons, circles, and ellipses. It also supports drawing SVG paths. Demos
New features around file encoding
It is now possible to configure the files.encoding as well as files.autoGuessEncoding setting per language. VS Code also now supports CP 850 and CP 865 encoding.
