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Enter a world of possibility where digital and reality meet: HP Sprout. From September 1st to October 26th, CoderPower will organize its first series in C++ and will introduce you to the basics of the Sprout SDK. In a stimulating environment set up to show you the fun experience that coding on Sprout really is, […]

10 Ways to Improve the Performance of Your WPF Application Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications tend to be slower on lower end machines or on machines without graphic acceleration devices. They seem to eat up resources and make the application unstable. However, note that the performance of a WPF application depends on the hardware you […]

10 New Things in Visual Basic 2015 Visual Basic 2015 provides a number of new features. Here are ten you’ll likely find useful. Multiline String Literals You are now able to split string literals over multiple lines. You are no longer confined to create a variable with a very long string value on one very […]

Ten Key Frameworks Every .NET Web Developer Should Know About There are a number of frameworks available to .NET developers. We list ten that you really should know about. Framework 1: jQuery http://jquery.com jQuery is essential to every .NET web developer. You must know it. You’ll be exposed to jQuery almost every day. Framework 2: […]

Sponsored by Rogue Wave, maker of Klocwork How good are you at finding errors in code? This is our second bug for you to track down and eradicate. The following is a code snippet compiles fine. Unfortunately, it contains an error. Take a look at the code listing and see if you can find the […]

Microsoft recently released a new editor for developing applications called Visual Studio Code. It is a lightweight, cross-platform, free editor that supports just about every modern programming language.  At the time of this article ii was still just a preview build. It is not going to replace Visual Studio but if you prefer something with […]

Sponsored by Rogue Wave, maker of Klocwork How good are you at finding bugs in code? The following is a code snippet that contains an error. Take a look at the code listing and see if you can find the error. To make it easier, we’ve listed five options. One of those options is correct […]

By William Kennedy with Brian Ketelsen and Erik St. Martin Excerpted from the book Go in Action. A unit test is a function that tests a specific piece or set of code from a package or program. The job of the test is to determine if the code in question is working as expected for […]

By Dominique D. Guinard & Vlad M. Trifa The majority of Internet of Things (IoT) systems paid little attention to the issues of an open and large-scale system of heterogeneous devices talking to each other. This is partially because the IoT focused strongly on the lower layers of the networking stack (how data can be […]

by Brady Kelly Introduction This article provides guidance on how to use the jQuery UI Datepicker widget for date fields in MVC forms. I assume you have a working knowledge of Visual Studio, C#, ASP.NET MVC, and Razor. You should know to add a controller and view to a new or existing project, and how […]

Betting that a picture is indeed worth a thousand words, Microsoft has updated its Office Sway software with a feature that makes it easier to find images and incorporate them into mobile-friendly interactive presentations. Office Sway represents a break from tradition for Microsoft. Instead of slide-based tools like PowerPoint, Sway enables users to create shareable […]