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Debugging Linux CMake Projects with gdbserver

December 26, 2019 Dec 26, 2019 12/26/19

Shikha Kaul

Gdbserver is a program that allows you to remotely debug applications running on Linux. It is especially useful in embedded scenarios where your target system may not have the resources to run the full gdb...

An Introduction to System.Threading.Channels

December 26, 2019 Dec 26, 2019 12/26/19

Shikha Kaul

“Producer/consumer” problems are everywhere, in all facets of our lives. A line cook at a fast food restaurant, slicing tomatoes that are handed off to another cook to assemble a burger, which is handed off to a register worker to fulfill your order, which you happily gobble down. Postal drivers delivering mail all along their routes, and ...

An Introduction to DataFrame

December 26, 2019 Dec 26, 2019 12/26/19

Shikha Kaul

Last month, we announced .NET support for Jupyter notebooks, and showed how to use them to work with .NET for Apache Spark and ML.NET. Today, we’re announcing the preview of a DataFrame type for .NET to make data exploration easy. If you’ve used Python to manipulate data in notebooks, you’ll already be familiar with the concept of a ...

Build C++ Applications in a Linux Docker Container with Visual Studio

December 26, 2019 Dec 26, 2019 12/26/19

Shikha Kaul

Docker containers provide a consistent development environment for building, testing, and deployment. The virtualized OS, file system, environment settings, libraries, and other dependencies are all encapsulated and shipped as one image that can be shared between developers and machines. This is especially useful for C++ cross-platform ...

Relive Xamarin Developer Summit with On-Demand Videos

December 26, 2019 Dec 26, 2019 12/26/19

Shikha Kaul

This summer developers from around the world gathered for the Xamarin Developer Summit. The two-day event was packed full of deep technical content from the Xamarin team and amazing community members. For those that could not attend, we hosted a live stream of the main session hall on the Xamarin Developers YouTube channel. Tens of thousands ...

Get Moving with Xamarin.Forms 4.4

December 19, 2019 Dec 19, 2019 12/19/19

Shikha Kaul

We were speaking with a customer last year that builds dozens of mobile applications every year. They said, “We cannot remember the last time we made a mobile app that did NOT include a carousel view.” Many of you have expressed almost identical sentiments to us. So, we are very pleased to introduce a new control in Xamarin.Forms 4.4.0. ...

ConfigureAwait FAQ (.NET)

December 19, 2019 Dec 19, 2019 12/19/19

Shikha Kaul

.NET added async/await to the languages and libraries over seven years ago. In that time, it’s caught on like wildfire, not only across the .NET ecosystem, but also being replicated in a myriad of other languages and frameworks. It’s also seen a ton of improvements in .NET, in terms of additional language constructs that utilize asynchrony...

Participate in the Developer Economics Survey

December 19, 2019 Dec 19, 2019 12/19/19

Shikha Kaul

The Developer Economics Q4 2019 Survey is now open! Every year more than 40,000 developers around the world participate in this survey, so this is a chance to be part of something big and share your experience as a developer and your view of the future of the software industry. Take the survey now or first read answers to the questions below...

GC Perf Infrastructure – Part 1 (.NET)

December 19, 2019 Dec 19, 2019 12/19/19

Shikha Kaul

We open sourced our new GC Perf Infrastructure! It’s now part of the dotnet performance repo. I’ve been meaning to write about it ‘cause some curious minds had been asking when they could use it after I blogged about it last time but didn’t get around to it till now...

Multi-language identification and transcription in Video Indexer

December 19, 2019 Dec 19, 2019 12/19/19

Shikha Kaul

Multi-language speech transcription was recently introduced into Microsoft Video Indexer at the International Broadcasters Conference (IBC). It is available as a preview capability and customers can already start experiencing it in our portal. More details on all our IBC2019 enhancements can be found here...