Announcing the General Availability of Azure Bot Service and Language Understanding

by bill-s, 2017-12-14T19:50:01.000Z

Conversational AI, or making human and computer interactions more natural, has been a goal since technology became ubiquitous in our society. Our mission is to bring conversational AI tools and capabilities to every developer and every organization on the planet, and help businesses augment human ingenuity in unique and differentiated ways.

Hangfire: Task Scheduler for .NET

by bill-s, 2017-12-16T07:00:36.000Z

Hangfire is a multi-threaded and scalable task scheduler built on client-server architecture on .NET stack (Task Parallel Library and Reflection) with the intermediate storage in a database. There is a free LGPL v3 version with open source. In this article, we are going to explore how to use Hangfire.

How does .NET JIT a method?

by bill-s, 2017-12-16T18:09:44.000Z

The .NET runtime (CLR) has predominantly used a just-in-time (JIT) compiler to convert your executable into machine code. But how does it actually work?

Introducing the SmartHotel360 Reference Mobile Apps

by bill-s, 2017-12-16T18:09:09.000Z

If you managed to catch any of Microsoft Connect(); 2017, you probably saw a beautiful suite of apps for a fictitious smart hospitality company called SmartHotel360 that showcases the future of connected travel.

Jeremy Bytes: How Does Task in C# Affect Performance?

by bill-s, 2017-12-17T05:57:27.000Z

When I talk about using Task (and await -- which is a wrapper around Task), often there's a question about performance. The concurrent nature of Task means that there is some overhead. We don't get these things for free.

Progressive Web Apps made easy with ASP.NET Core

by bill-s, 2017-12-17T06:00:28.000Z

Earlier this week I wrote about some experiments I was doing with Service Workers in ASP.NET Core. This is an update to that.

Service Workers: Going beyond the page

by bill-s, 2017-12-17T05:58:02.000Z

Windows Insider build enables Service Workers by default in Microsoft Edge for the first time! #pwa #edge

Support Multiple Versions of ASP.NET Core Web API

by bill-s, 2017-12-17T06:02:25.000Z

Now a days REST APIs are quite commonly used in web applications. At times you may need to provide multiple versions of your API to the clients. This could be because of enhanced functionality exposed by the API or it could for the sake of offering multiple sets of functionality (basic, advanced, free, paid etc.).

What is Nethereum?

by bill-s, 2017-12-16T20:55:29.000Z

Nethereum is the.Net integration library for Ethereum, simplifying the access and smart contract interaction with Ethereum nodes both public or permissioned like Geth, Parity or Quorum.