TypeScript Basics for C# Developers

If you’re a C# developer dipping your toes into frontend development, TypeScript will feel surprisingly familiar. It’s JavaScript with types, and Microsoft designed it with C# developers in mind. Here’s what you need to know. Why TypeScript? JavaScript is… flexible. Too flexible sometimes. TypeScript adds compile-time type checking, which catches bugs before they hit production. […]

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Entity Framework Core 2.2: Performance Improvements

EF Core 2.2 shipped alongside .NET Core 2.2, and while it’s not a revolutionary release, the performance improvements are worth talking about. Here’s what I’ve noticed in real-world usage. Spatial Data Types Finally! If you’ve been waiting to use geography types with EF Core, the wait is over. Install the spatial package: Then use NetTopologySuite […]

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SharePoint Framework (SPFx) 1.7: Building Modern Web Parts

SPFx 1.7 dropped a few weeks ago, and it’s a solid release. If you’re building SharePoint customizations in 2019, here’s what you should know about the latest version of the SharePoint Framework. What’s New in SPFx 1.7 This release focuses on stability and developer experience. Not flashy, but important. Dynamic Data The dynamic data capability […]

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Azure Cognitive Services–Experience Image Recognition using Custom Vision (Build an Harrison Ford Classifier)

Custom Vision Service as part of Azure Cognitive Services landscape of pretrained API services, provides you an ability to customize the state-of-the-art Computer Vision models for your specific use case. Using custom vision service you can upload set of images of your choice and categorize them accordingly using tags/categories and automatically train the image recognition […]

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