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First Hand Account of SignalR Core

SignalR Core is designed to make it easy for developers to add real-time (server-side push) functionality to their web applications. The latest alpha release is reviewed by SignalR Core contributor Giovany Alzate Sandoval, providing a first look at the new features of SignalR Core and what to expect when migrating an existing SignalR Core application.

Geovanny Alzate Sandoval
on Mar 04, 2018
Development

InfoQ’s Top Software Developer Stories, Videos and Podcasts from 2017

Charles Humble compiles a list of this year’s most interesting and popular content on InfoQ and chats to QCon chair Wesley Reisz about 2017 and how the next 12 months are shaping up.

Charles Humble
on Dec 29, 2017
Mobile

Mobile Cross-Platform Development with Xamarin

Xamarin is becoming a popular tool for mobile app development. There are a number of very good reasons for this as well as a few drawbacks that make it unsuitable for certain kinds of apps. This article will dwell upon them as well as weigh up the pros and cons of cross-platform versus native development.

Adriana Blum
on Dec 13, 2017
Development

InfoQ Call for Articles

InfoQ provides software engineers with the opportunity to share experiences gained using innovator and early adopter stage techniques and technologies with the wider industry. We are always on the lookout for quality articles and we encourage practitioners and domain experts to submit feature-length (2,000 to 3,000 word) papers that are timely, educational and practical.

InfoQ.com
on Dec 01, 2017
Mobile

Challenges in HoloLens Application Development

This article discusses the lessons we learned developing new UWP apps and updating existing UWP applications to make them work on the HoloLens. We present UWP application design considerations to be taken into account early in the development lifecycle to support the HoloLens device family. Finally, we provide plausible solutions and suggestions to make the upgrade process less complex.

Vinothkumar Arputharaj
on Nov 20, 2017
DevOps

Q&A with Elton Stoneman on Migrating Workloads and Running Docker on Windows

These are still early days for Docker on Windows but the possibilities in terms of workloads keeps growing. InfoQ spoke with Elton Stoneman, author of the book Docker on Windows, and speaker at the recent WinOps conference, to understand how to run containers on Windows and which kind of workloads are a good choice for migration.

Manuel Pais
on Oct 13, 2017
.NET

Detecting and Analyzing Redundant Code

As software development projects grow in scope, it is very easy for them to add redundant layers of code. By analyzing several large open source projects on GitHub, the author presents his findings as to the amount of redundant code each project has and shares some recommendations as to how all projects can improve their own code management.

Zebedee Mason
on Oct 02, 2017
DevOps

The Top 10 Adages in Continuous Deployment

On the basis of discussions at the Continuous Deployment Summit, researchers derived 10 adages about continuous-deployment practices. These adages represent a working set of approaches and beliefs that guide current practice and establish a tangible target for empirical validation.

Chris Atlee Michael Stumm Laurie Williams James Holman Tony Savor Mark Ghattas Brendan Murphy Chris Parnin Andy Glover Eric Helms Shari Whitaker Harley Boughton John Micco
on Sep 19, 2017
.NET

Unleashing the Power of .NET Big Memory and Memory Mapped Files

In continuation of the Big Memory topic on the .NET platform, this article describes the benefits of utilization of large data sets in-process on the managed CLR server environments using Agincore’s Big Memory Pile.

Dmitriy Khmaladze
on Jul 12, 2017
.NET

Virtual Panel: High Performance Application in .NET

The panelists discuss high performance computing in .NET. The topics range from the main challenges they faced, to .NET Native and high performance in unconventional platforms. Memory allocation and thus garbage collection are at the center of the conversation, from both users' and implementers' point of view.

Pierre-Luc Maheu
on Jul 06, 2017
.NET

Patterns and Practices in C# 7

C# 7 is a major update with a lot of interesting new capabilities. And while there are plenty of articles on what you can do with it, there’s not quite as many on what you should do with it. Using the principles found in the .NET Framework Design Guidelines, we’re going to take a first pass at laying down strategies for getting the most from these new features.

Jonathan Allen
on Apr 13, 2017
.NET

A Comprehensive Look at F# 4.1

Semantic versioning can be misleading. While F# 4.1 is backwards compatible with F# 4.0, it is by no means a minor release. With both Microsoft and the larger community contributing, several more features were introduced since the F# 4.1 preview in the areas of performance, interoperability, and convenience.

Jonathan Allen
on Mar 30, 2017