The next step in learning how to create games in C# using Unity is to add extensions to get custom functionality. Lance Talbert shows you how to create an extension that changes the properties of many objects at once.… Read more
Sharing and reusing large objects between components and services can save time and computing resources. Tom Fischer explains how to take advantage of the Memory Mapped Files feature of .NET to help boost performance.… Read more
Azure, Microsoft's cloud, provides dozens of services to make cloud development fast without the need to worry about infrastructure such as hardware. In this article, Jakub Kaczmarek explains the benefits and challenges of creating a bot using the Microsoft Bot Framework found on Azure. He also walks you through creating a simple bot.… Read more
SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) is a great tool for managing SQL Server. Darko Martinovic demonstrates how to use SMO within a C# solution to create tables, backup the database, and more.… Read more
VS Code is a cross platform lightweight development environment from Microsoft. TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript. Ed Elliott shows you how to create a VS Code extension using TypeScript in this article.… Read more
Git stands out among source control systems as providing great support for branching and merging. However, as with any complex tool, there are productive ways and not so productive ways to use it. This article shares Michael Sorens' perspective on best practices and biggest pitfalls related to branching.… Read more
Bootstrap is a popular open source tool for developing HTML and CSS. Version 4 has recently been released. Dino Esposito explains some of the differences between Bootstrap 3 and Bootstrap 4 when developing navigation bars.… Read more
Unity makes it simple to create an object that follows a path. In this article, game programmer Lance Talbert shows how to use C# to control the object's path.… Read more
T-SQL does not have an easy way to transpose a row and a column. Of course, there is the PIVOT statement, but it doesn’t quite accomplish the task. In this article, Darko Martinovic shares another method using a SQLCLR stored prodedure.… Read more
Azure Active Directory is a service that provides an authorization layer for different kinds of web applications easily. It is possible to implement it with many programming languages. Jakub Kaczmarek describes the development of an authorization procedure used in an Angular-based Chrome extension project.
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Most techniques used to develop enterprise applications may also be used to develop games. In this article, Mircea Oprea explains how to use a RESTful API to call a web service from a game using C# and Unity.… Read more
With the release of .NET Core, developers must learn what has changed over classic ASP.NET programming. In this article, Dino Esposito explains that the skills you have will carry over well as he shows how to work with Action Control in ASP.NET Core. … Read more
Have you ever wondered how game developers create the worlds in which the game lives? In this article, Lance demonstrates the basics of creating a map using a procedure in C#.… Read more
Comparing URLs in C# code is a common task and seems simple. Camilo Reyes shows us that there are many pitfalls to avoid since people can come up with several ways to type the same URL. He then demonstrates how to solve several URL comparison problems.… Read more
As software development evolves to service-oriented architectures, the underlying frameworks and methods used must change as well. Mircea Oprea demonstrates how to create a service to manage authentication across components and servers.… Read more
Animation is a very important feature of games. In this article, Lance Talbert shows you how to add animations to your Unity project that take advantage of C# functions.… Read more
ASP.NET Core has the flexibility to add HTTP response headers anywhere in the middleware pipeline. Dino Esposito explains what you need to know to handle the headers in ASP.NET Core.… Read more
The easiest technologies to use are often the most difficult to create. Take video games. Objects in games must obey the laws of physics among countless other details. Developers can spend their time with details like these, or take advantage of game engines so they can concentrate on what the game does instead. Lance Talbert explains how to get started developing games in C# with the game engine Unity.… Read more
Creating web pages with images that look good on all devices and screen sizes is not an easy task. Dino Esposito describes how to manually prepare images and explains the currently available technology for automatic resizing.… Read more
Problems that are not addressed up front are harder and more expensive to fix later. This is true for just about anything, but especially so for software. In this article, Pawel Lukasik explains technical debt and describes three tools that can help your team find issues in code while they are still easy to correct.… Read more
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