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When to use an abstract class vs. interface in C#

Understanding the differences between an abstract class and interface is key to designing loosely coupled and extensible applications.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jun 20, 202410 mins

C#Microsoft .NETSmall and Medium Business

Apple readies AI for iPhone, Mac, iPad

Jun 11, 20242 mins

Generative AISmall and Medium BusinessTechnology Industry

Copilot Runtime: Building AI into Windows

By Simon Bisson

May 30, 20248 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AISmall and Medium Business

Bun 1.1 JavaScript toolkit backs Windows 10

Apr 2, 20242 mins

JavaScriptLibraries and FrameworksSmall and Medium Business

How SMBs can take advantage of the cloud—and avoid common mistakes

By Claire Gribbin

Nov 28, 20238 mins

Cloud ComputingSmall and Medium Business

3 big challenges of commercial LLMs

Nov 27, 20237 mins

Generative AIOpen SourceSmall and Medium Business

Using Swift with WinUI on Windows

By Simon Bisson

Nov 9, 20237 mins

Microsoft .NETSmall and Medium BusinessSwift

Visual Studio Code update emphasizes audio cues, Activity Bar

Nov 2, 20233 mins

Development ToolsSmall and Medium BusinessSoftware Development

Microsoft ships Java 21 builds

Oct 3, 20232 mins

JavaSmall and Medium BusinessTechnology Industry

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Building for Linux and Android on Windows

Updates to Windows Subsystem for Linux and Windows Subsystem for Android make cross-platform development on Windows easy.

By Simon Bisson

Sep 28, 2023 6 mins

Small and Medium BusinessSoftware DevelopmentTechnology Industry

Intro to WinGet: Microsoft's package manager for Windows

Add, remove, and manage Windows applications from the command line using WinGet, Microsoft's open source package manager.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Sep 20, 2023 6 mins

Development ToolsSmall and Medium BusinessSoftware Development

How to use Python’s py launcher for Windows

Take control of multiple Python installations in Windows with the py launcher, available as part of a standard Python installation.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 19, 2023 5 mins

Development ToolsPythonSmall and Medium Business

IT career roadmap: Mobile app developer

Looking for an IT job for all seasons? The demand for mobile app developers is steady and growing.

Feb 7, 2023 6 mins

Mobile DevelopmentSmall and Medium BusinessTechnology Industry

Huawei and Partners Stride Towards a Fully Connected, Intelligent World

By Huawei Press Release

Mar 1, 2018 4 mins

Small and Medium BusinessTechnology Industry

Architecting for SaaSification

The day is coming when companies will be loose combinations of software services with loose coalitions of people delivering on digital promises. Are you ready?

By Andrew C. Oliver

Jan 16, 2023 7 mins

Cloud ComputingSaaSSmall and Medium Business

Lift and shift Windows applications to containers

Microsoft’s own experience with Microsoft 365 shows that moving to cloud-native is possible, even when you have a lot of code to move.

By Simon Bisson

Aug 17, 2022 7 mins

Cloud ComputingMicrosoft AzureSmall and Medium Business

Manage your tasks with the Microsoft To Do API

A desktop task manager built on top of the Microsoft Graph lets you share tasks with groups and seamlessly link tasks to applications.

By Simon Bisson

Aug 10, 2022 7 mins

APIsCareersSmall and Medium Business

5G is important to cloud computing (but not that important)

It’s a good time to understand how 5G impacts cloud computing. Specific use cases will benefit the most, but for many, it won't make much difference.

By David Linthicum

Apr 26, 2022 3 mins

Cloud ComputingSmall and Medium BusinessTechnology Industry

Using PWA Studio in Visual Studio Code

Build, test, and deploy progressive web applications inside your development editor.

By Simon Bisson

Feb 9, 2022 7 mins

Development ToolsSmall and Medium BusinessWeb Development

Google Flutter 2.10 intros stable support for Windows

With the latest Flutter update, Windows joins iOS and Android as Flutter targets for production-ready apps. MacOS and Linux desktop support are still in beta.

Feb 8, 2022 2 mins

Libraries and FrameworksMobile DevelopmentSmall and Medium Business

Microsoft .NET MAUI Preview 11 updates Windows UI styling

Latest preview of the successor to Xamarin.Forms introduces support for Windows 11 UI styles and multi-window applications on MacOS, iPadOS, and Windows.

Jan 11, 2022 2 mins

C#Microsoft .NETSmall and Medium Business

Using WiX to build Windows installers

With a little bit of XML you can automate creating Windows installers for your code, right from your CI/CD pipeline.

By Simon Bisson

Dec 1, 2021 6 mins

Build AutomationMicrosoft .NETSmall and Medium Business