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Searching for the Best Programming Language

What is the best programming language across the board? There is no such thing, of course. Each programming language has different strengths and weaknesses, different design goals and an entire

First Date with Visual Studio 2015

Last month, Microsoft finally made the announcement for general availability of Visual Studio 2015?along with an Update 5 for Visual Studio 2013?to enable support for some of the updated framework

Custom Visualizations for Power BI

When it comes to enterprise data visualization, Power BI?has been leading from the front. It not only allows you to create great visualizations from your datasets, transforming the way you

Visual Studio Tools for Docker

You can now create ASP.NET Docker containers from within your Visual Studio IDE with the release of Visual Studio 2015 Tools for Docker. Note that the tool is still in

Explore New Microsoft Azure Billing APIs

Yesterday, the Microsoft Azure team announced?the availability of the Azure Resource Usage and Rate Card API?that developers on the Azure platform can now leverage to programmatically retrieve usage and billing

Using CQRS for Event Sourcing

The Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) pattern isolates the data querying aspects of an application from the insert, update and delete operations. There are limited use cases regarding when you

What’s New in Google Play Services 7.5?

Last week’s Google I/O 2015 event saw a slew of announcements, most notably the announcement of Android M. A number of new features were also in the upcoming 7.5 version