Transforming a dataset into one with fewer columns is more complicated than it might seem, explains Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research in this full-code, step-by-step machine learning tutorial.

Benefits of Web-based apps include a lower cost of ownership due to central deployment and maintenance, as well as client/operating system independence. At the same time, Web interfaces are becoming ...

.NET makes threading easy, especially compared to implementing threading in either VB6 or C++. But threading in .NET doesn't require that you use a structured implementation, which can lead to ...

What's new in HTML5-related technologies is direct support for features that developers take for granted in other environments -- there's more that can be done declaratively without having to drag in ...

Suppose a salesperson on the other side of the world says he needs your enterprise application to support another culture by tomorrow morning so he can demonstrate it to prospective customers in a ...

Security is an important consideration when building any ASP.NET application, not least because these apps typically interface with the Internet and all of its inherent dangers while managing vital ...

Microsoft's Mads Kristensen took to social media to ask developers about their "pet peeves" with Visual Studio and got an earful in reply. The principal program manager on the Visual Studio team is ...

Code First is a new development approach in the Entity Framework stack that can simplify the understanding and maintenance of your domain model. In the middle of 2008, Microsoft published the first ...

Compiling your applications frequently can help you save time, effort, and sleepless nights down the road. Learn how to implement this system using the open source tool, Draco.NET. Every developer ...

Technology Toolbox: VB.NET, SQL Server 2005 SP2, Note: This article uses VB.NET for its samples, but you can find C# and VB.NET versions of the code for this article online. Some programming issues ...

Developers at Microsoft have been busy revolutionizing how we program of late. Nowhere are these changes more evident today than when creating user interfaces (UIs), where, instead of CodeDOM ...