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Introduction Visual Studio 2017 code metrics is a set of important software tools for measuring the quality, code maintainability, and complexity of code written by a developer. These metrics also provide developers better insight into the code they have written by understanding the types of classes/methods/modules that should be reworked and thoroughly tested, identify potential […]

Introduction Performance of any application is top priority from a customer perspective. For a developer, identifying performance issues prior to production deployment is a difficult task indeed. Visual Studio 2015 Diagnostic Tools made it easier for developers to have a performance analysis and review before the application goes live. As a Visual Studio 2015 developer, […]

Introduction NLog is an open source logging framework that enables you to add high-quality logs and sophisticated tracing for your .NET application. It’s a free framework, cross-platform, and easy to configure and extend. NLog comes with excellent support for log routing and management capabilities. NLog can log your application data and create logs regardless of […]

Introduction An error-free piece of code theoretically should exist, but, in reality, it’s almost impossible to test whether an application works under every situation. When errors occur, there are different ways to handle them. As a developer, it’s best practice to detect and catch errors and log them as well. For example, performance problems may […]

Introduction Adaptive Cards is an open platform card exchange format for developers. It provides developers a new way to compose UX (user experiences) through multiple devices. An adaptive card is a piece of UI (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) defined by the developer and rendered by the native app (bot application) to display required content to […]

Introduction Developers now can send e-mails using Exchange Online as an SMTP server configured in the configuration file. Office 365 APIs also provide options to developers for sending e-mails from devices/applications. Microsoft Office 365 API Tools for Visual Studio enable developers to integrate Office 365 services into their applications. Office 365 APIs can be accessed […]

Introduction Microsoft’s new Cloud offering of Office 365 APIs is very popular now a days among developers. Developers can access the Office 365 REST APIs by using libraries available for .NET and JavaScript. Along with these libraries, the Visual Studio 2017 release also brings some key updates to developers for the tooling experience, making it […]

Introduction Three mobile platforms, iOS, Android, and Windows, has been improving their digital assistants (“Siri” on iOS platform, “Google Now” on Android, and “Cortana” on Windows) very frequently. All these digital assistants offer search device data and Cloud-based information. Cortana’s voice command features integrated into Windows 10 enable developers to give users convenient ways to […]

Introduction Cortana is the intelligent personal assistant for Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10, for both work and personal use; it’s used by millions of Windows users. Cortana uses natural language processing; its skill directory showcases the best of its abilities. The Cortana Skills Kit provides all the tools and docs for developers to promote […]

We live in a multi-platform, multi-device world as we access desktop PC’s, laptops, smartphones, VR and wearable devices, and now IoT and game box. As we increase our device count, it’s becoming more complicated to get things done on one platform. During the Microsoft Build Event 2017, a new concept of connected devices with Windows […]