VSM Web columnist Eric Vogel kicks off his first C# Corner installment with a walk through creating an application using asynchronous programming. Asynchronous programming is a means of parallel ...

When a company like Microsoft talks about the future of computing, you can expect a fair bit of self-serving market positioning - public software companies need to be careful to sell a vision of the ...

Asynchronous programming enables you to perform resource-intensive I/O operations without having to block on the main or the executing thread of the application. Though beneficial and seemingly easy ...

Among the .NET news out of Microsoft Build 2020 is a new preview of C#, Microsoft's programming language from the .NET team, plus a fully supported release of Blazor WebAssembly. According to ...

Blazor United combines server-side and client-side rendering in a full-stack web programming model in ASP.NET Core 8, now available in a first preview. ASP.NET Core, Microsoft’s cross-platform ...

Microsoft has quietly released the first key components of its .NET Reactive Framework (Rx), which allows developers to write LINQ (Language Integrated Query) expressions against events. Components of ...

Salaries for in-demand programming skills including Java and PHP are rising rapidly. Advertised tech salaries have grown for the third year in a row, up 1.7% in 2018, with pay for specialised tech ...

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft’s pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces, brackets ...

Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a programming language first shipped in 1991 as one of the tech titan's first major efforts in making ...

Programmers in Silicon Valley may get to work on a lot of sexy products, but most developers are working in the bowels of big businesses. Here's a map that shows what we mean. Programmer ...