When a company like Microsoft talks about the future of computing, you can expect a fair bit of self-serving market positioning - public software companies need to be careful to sell a vision of the ...

It used to be that Windows Forms development for user interfaces was the VB programmer's bread and butter. In the MSDN article "Death of the Browser?," Billy Hollis opines that browser-based ...

VSM Web columnist Eric Vogel kicks off his first C# Corner installment with a walk through creating an application using asynchronous programming. Asynchronous programming is a means of parallel ...

Asynchronous programming enables you to perform resource-intensive I/O operations without having to block on the main or the executing thread of the application. Though beneficial and seemingly easy ...

Last month, Microsoft announced it would open source more of its .NET programming framework and take it cross-platform to Linux and Mac. The centerpiece of this work is the .NET Core, the development ...

Blazor United combines server-side and client-side rendering in a full-stack web programming model in ASP.NET Core 8, now available in a first preview. ASP.NET Core, Microsoft’s cross-platform ...

Microsoft has revealed it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5 but also that it has no plans to evolve the language. As Microsoft's .NET team notes, Visual Basic on .NET Core only supported Class ...