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The Excel Formula Language Is Now Turing-Complete

The Excel team announced LAMBDA, a new feature that lets users define and name formula functions. LAMBDA functions admit parameters, can call other LAMBDA functions and recursively call themselves. With LAMBDA, the Excel formula language is Turing-complete: user-defined functions can thus compute anything without resorting to imperative languages (e.g., VBA, JavaScript).

Bruno Couriol
on Aug 02, 2021
.NET

Building a Source Generator for C#

In this article we’ll be writing a Source Generator for C#. Along the way we’ll explain some of the key technologies you’re going to need to learn in order to build your own and some of the pitfalls you might encounter on the way.

Jonathan Allen
on May 27, 2021
Architecture & Design

Case Study: a Decade of Microservices at a Financial Firm

Microservices are the hot new architectural pattern, but the problem with “hot” and “new” is that it can take years for the real costs of an architectural pattern to be revealed. Fortunately, the pattern isn’t new, just the name is. So, we can learn from companies that have been doing this for a decade or more.

Jonathan Allen
on May 21, 2021
.NET

The Future of Windows (and Other Platforms) Development

Microsoft is looking to address the fragmentation in the Windows developer ecosystem through Windows UI and Project Reunion. In this article, we’ll see how different groups of Windows developers will be able to adopt Project Reunion. We’ll also look at how Project Reunion, coupled with the Uno Platform, can be used to extend a Windows application across iOS, macOS, Android, Web, and even Linux.

Nick Randolph
on May 18, 2021
.NET

Deep Diving into EF Core: Q&A with Jeremy Likness

Entity Framework (EF) Core is a cross-platform, extensible, open-source object-database mapper for .NET. Since its first release in 2016, EF Core evolved until reaching its current form: a powerful and lightweight .NET ORM. InfoQ interviewed Jeremy Likness, program manager for .NET Data at Microsoft, to understand more about EF Core and what we should expect for its next release later this year.

Jeremy Likness Arthur Casals
on May 12, 2021
.NET

Uno Platform and Xamarin.Forms: Choosing Your Next UI Framework

In this article, Matt Lacey, Microsoft MVP, talks about his recent experience helping a company choose between Uno Platform and Xamarin.Forms. He explains the differences, similarities, and relationships between the two, considering what the future holds for both these platforms and how to choose between them.

Matt Lacey
on Apr 26, 2021
.NET

Introducing .NET Multi-Platform App UI: Q&A with David Ortinau

InfoQ interviewed David Ortinau, currently principal program manager for Mobile Developer Tools at Microsoft focused on Xamarin.Forms and now on .NET MAUI, to talk about .NET MAUI, the goals behind it, its future, and the migration path from Xamarin.Forms.

David Ortinau Almir Vuk
on Apr 21, 2021
Architecture & Design

Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report—April 2021

An overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2021, with a focus on what architects are designing for today.

Thomas Betts Holly Cummins Daniel Bryant Eran Stiller
on Apr 19, 2021
.NET

C# 9 and .NET 5: Book Review and Q&A

The book C# 9 and .NET 5 by Mark Price is a practical guide on developing .NET cross-platform applications. The book is concise, implementation-oriented, and each subject is presented with a hands-on walkthrough. The author covers the main types of applications that can be built with C# 9 and .NET 5. InfoQ reviewed the book and interviewed Price on the goals and contents of the book.

Arthur Casals Mark Price
on Dec 21, 2020
.NET

Microsoft and the State of Quantum: Q&A with Mariia Mykhailova

Quantum computing can be used to solve large compute problems on small data in areas such as chemistry and materials science. InfoQ interviewed Mariia Mykhailova, a senior software engineer in the Quantum Systems group at Microsoft, to better understand quantum computing, quantum software development, and Microsoft's latest efforts towards this area.

Arthur Casals Mariia Mykhailova
on Dec 15, 2020
.NET

What’s New on F#: Q&A With Phillip Carter

Last month, at the 2020 edition of .NET Conf, Microsoft released the latest version of F#. F# is as functional-first, cross-platform, open-source .NET programming language, and it’s developed by Microsoft and several open source partners and contributors. InfoQ interviewed Phillip Carter, program manager at Microsoft, to talk about functional programming, F#, and the new features of F# 5.

Arthur Casals Phillip Carter
on Dec 08, 2020
Java

Azure + Spring Boot = Serverless - Q&A with Julien Dubois

Microsoft seems to prove over and over again its focus on cloud and the Java ecosystem is the new normal. Even though Java has been amongst the supported languages for Azure functions for some time now, Julien Dubois experimented with Spring Boot and Azure to see what this combination means for Azure serverless computing. InfoQ reached out to him to explore further his experience on this topic.

Olimpiu Pop Julien Dubois
on Sep 16, 2020