Although C# is the only language officially supported by Tizen .NET, you can write applications in other languages such as F# and VB.NET. Ideally, applications written in interoperable .NET languages are compiled into common IL (intermediate language) code, which can be executed by any CLI-compliant runtime.

Generalized async return types — it is a new C#7 feature that allows using not only Task as a return type of async methods but also other types (classes or s...

Fable is an F# to JavaScript compiler powered by Babel, designed to produce readable and standard code. It has an active community and can be used across the entire JavaScript spectrum. This webinar will start with a beginner-friendly introduction and move on to some highlights were Fable really shines. Don't be shy if you are new to F#, functional programming or web development.

Oracle Developer Tools for VS Code is a free extension available in the Visual Studio Marketplace that allows developers like you to easily connect to Oracle Database and Oracle Autonomous Database.

Today, we are announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 7. We’ve transitioned from creating new features to polishing the release. Expect a singular focus on quality for the remaining preview releases. Download .NET Core 3.0 Preview 7 right now on Windows, macOS and Linux.

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a text based, language independent data format. It’s more widely used than any other format, surpassing XML and others in popularity. That’s because JSON is meant to address the shortcomings of other data formats so that … Continue reading →

Did you know that the .NET compiler turns our async methods into classes? And that .NET adds a try/catch block to each of these classes, potentially hiding t...

Researchers’ at Microsoft’s Bing organisation have open sourced a brace of recipes for pre-training and fine-tuning BERT, the NLP model which Google itself open sourced just last November. Google describes BERT as “the first deeply bidirectional, unsupervised language representation, pre-trained only using a plain text corpus” – the corpus in question being Wikipedia. Wikipedia’s collective …

We are excited to announce ML.NET 1.2 and updates to Model Builder and the CLI. ML.NET is an open-source and cross-platform machine learning framework for .NET developers. ML.NET also includes Model Builder (a simple UI tool for Visual Studio) and the ML.NET CLI (Command-line interface) to make it super easy to build custom Machine Learning (ML) models using Automated Machine Learning (AutoML).

…or how CMake drove me to create an eldritch monstrosity.