The code will be released under Microsoft's "look but don't touch" Microsoft Reference License. Unlike traditional open-source licensing, Microsoft's restrictive terms only allow developers to study ...

Any long time MFC coder will tell you that one of the things Microsoft did right was to include the source code to MFC libraries with the binaries. That way, when you were debugging your own program, ...

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AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Unit tests are an important part of modern application development. NUnit is perhaps the best-known way of using them with .NET code. Modern application development depends on tests. The software ...

Microsoft risks burning all of its good open source work Microsoft risks burning all of its good open source work is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things ...

Upstreaming can improve your code, simplify development, and lighten your maintenance burden. Follow these best practices when donating code and reap the benefits. Code commonly flows downstream, from ...

JavaScript and .Net developers are getting helping hands in application-building efforts, through separate projects intended to make it easier to use JavaScript and to document .Net projects. Sun ...

.NET 6 will now include Hot Reload across multiple platforms .NET 6 will now include Hot Reload across multiple platforms is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all ...