The Daily Six Pack: May 4, 2015

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Microsoft Monitors Malicious Android Apps Microsoft to monitor for malicious Android Apps to prevent them from being ported to Windows, Hemant Saxena Other Object Oriented Programming (Software Gardening - Seeds), Craig Berntson Rock Your .NET Coding Standards…

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Writing Faster Code With Visual Studio 2013

Writing Faster Code – I’m sure that many of you already know the following tips. Some of these are probably not even confined to Visual Studio 2013. Nevertheless, I called the article ‘Writing Faster Code With Visual Studio 2013’ because that is the version of the Visual Studio IDE I use. I feel however that this is a nice article to include on my blog, as it will make many of us more productive. (more…)

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Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code

Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code – It has finally happened. Microsoft announced the launch of Visual Studio Code today during its Build Developer conference. Why is this a big deal you might ask? Well Visual Studio Code is a lightweight cross-platform code editor that allows developers to create web and cloud applications that will run natively on OS X, Linux and Windows. (more…)

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Parallels Desktop – Run Visual Studio On Your Mac

Parallels Desktop 10 – Do you love your Windows Applications and wish you could run them on your Mac? Well as some of you might or might not know, Parallels Desktop is the perfect solution for you. I write software for a living, so I am what I guess you would call a power user? Nevertheless, I wanted to see how well Parallels Desktop would perform. How would it perform if I wanted to write software using Visual Studio 2013 on my Mac. (more…)

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The Daily Six Pack: April 28, 2015 – Windows 10 Developers

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Windows 10 Developers A Developer’s Guide to Windows 10, David Voyles Other What is a Windows Universal App and why should I care?, DevToolsGuy Introduction to Generics in .NET, Khalid Abuhakmeh The Future of the…

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