Table of contents for Sep/Oct 2024 in CODE Magazine

I think the realm of the possible is what makes being a software developer so amazing. We take raw ideas, transform them into designs and code, and, with any luck, a functioning application. I love the phone calls from teammates or clients where they say, “Hey Rod we need to do X—how would you tackle this?” “Holy cool idea, Batman!” I answer in my Robin voice. “Let me take a look.” Many years ago, I was having a discussion with a client just like the one above. Here’s how it went: “Hey Rod we need to replace our call center scripting app with something more extendable and maintainable. Have any ideas?” My reply: “Oh cool, I just read about a feature in the latest .NET Framework. Here, we can take…

Sahil Malik is a Microsoft MVP, INETA speaker, a .NET author, consultant, and trainer. Sahil loves interacting with fellow geeks in real time. His talks and trainings are full of humor and practical nuggets. His areas of expertise are cross-platform Mobile app development, Microsoft anything, and security and identity. uses and are built into VS Code that can supercharge your development? I thought it might be nice to take a logical break and come back with those larger chunks of items. Git These days, if you’re a developer, you most likely use Git. It has sort of become the de facto source control mechanism, whether it’s GitHub, or Azure DevOps, or anything else, chances are you use the Git command quite a bit. It’s therefore natural that VS Code offers…

Markus, the dynamic founder of CODE Group and CODE Magazine’s publisher, is a celebrated Microsoft RD (Regional Director) and multi-award-winning MVP (Most Valuable Professional). A prolific coder, he’s influenced and advised top Fortune 500 companies and has been a Microsoft contractor, including on the Visual Studio team. Globally recognized as a speaker and author, Markus’s expertise spans Artificial Intelligence (AI), .NET, client-side web, and cloud development, focusing on user interfaces, productivity, and maintainable systems. Away from work, he’s an enthusiastic windsurfer, scuba diver, ice hockey player, golfer, and globetrotter, who loves gaming on PC or Xbox during rainy days. “just the other day.” I even still have some of the games and movies from 10 years ago on my “to be watched/ played” list. Wow! Operating Systems Let’s start our…

Paul has been working in the IT industry since 1985. In that time, he has successfully assisted hundreds of companies’architect software applications to solve their toughest business problems. Paul has been a teacher and mentor through various mediums such as video courses, blogs, articles and speaking engagements at user groups and conference around the world. Paul has multiple courses in the www.pluralsight.com library (https://bit.ly/3gvXgvj) and on YouTube.com (https://www.youtube.com/@pauldsheriff) on topics ranging from C#, LINQ, JavaScript, Angular, MVC, WPF, XML, jQuery, and Bootstrap. Contact Paul at psheriff@pdsa.com. In this article, you’ll learn to apply styles so all pages in your application look consistent. You’ll create several pages and learn how to use the built-in navigation to move from one page to another. Using a ContentView control, you’ll create a header with…

Wei-Meng Lee is a technologist and founder of Developer Learning Solutions (www.learn2develop.net), a technology company specializing in hands-on training on the Latest technologies. Wei-Meng has many years of training experiences and his training courses place special emphasis on the learning-by-doing approach. His hands-on approach to learning programming makes understanding the subject much easier than reading books, tutorials, and documentation. His name regularly appears in online and print publications such as DevX.com, MobiForge.com, and CODE Magazine. role by providing a consistent and isolated environment for each service. This isolation ensures that services don’t interfere with each other, thereby facilitating the development, testing, and deployment of independent application components. Docker’s containerization also simplifies scaling microservices, as containers can be easily replicated and orchestrated using tools like Kubernetes. For large-scale deployments, Kubernetes is…

Mike is the CEO of EPS’s Houston office and a skilled .NET developer. Mike excels at evaluating business requirements and turning them into results from development teams. He’s been the Project Lead on many projects at EPS and promotes the use of modern best practices, such as the Agile development paradigm, use of design patterns, and test-drive and test-first development. Before coming to EPS, Mike was a business owner developing a high-profile software business in the leisure industry. He grew the business from two employees to over 30 before selling the company and looking for new challenges. Implementation experience includes .NET, SQL Server, Windows Azure, Microsoft Surface, and Visual FoxPro. (https://codemag.com/Article/2403061/Semantic-Kernel-101-Part-2), I walked through hands-on examples of coding the basics with Semantic Kernal (SK). In this article, I’ll create a…

CODE Staffing is a high-tech, career development, and - for the lack of a better term “staffing company,” that provides a modern workplace with the number one goal being the development of talent and careers. CODE Staffing was started to disrupt the traditional staffing industry. We provide an environment that attracts top talent. We offer unrivaled benefits and a cool workplace culture with unlimited upward career development opportunities. Many companies think they cannot provide a work environment that rivals the “cool Silicon Valley startups,” and many employees think they won’t be able to find such a workplace outside “The Valley.” We have changed that equation! competitive compensation, a sense of ownership and pride, and continuous opportunities for growth in both their technical and interpersonal skills. Our Mission CODE Staffing delivers…

Nevio Medancic nevio@aurasoft.hr Nevio graduated from University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in IT and Electrical Engineering. Now he’s a Senior Software Developer and Product Designer, with a strong foundation in ERP and Accounting Software. He is CEO at Aura Soft in Croatia. Enzo Grubisa enzo@aurasoft.hr Enzo is a C# developer with experience in WPF, Xamarin. Forms, Xamarin.Android, React, and Node.js. He studied computer science at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Rijeka, Croatia. He currently works at Aura Soft as a main developer, Vassili Kaplan VassiliK@gmail.com Formerly a Microsoft Lync developer, Vassili has also worked on the Microsoft Maquette Mixed Reality Prototyping Tool and adapted the CSCS scripting Language to Microsoft Maquette. He has a Masters in Applied Mathematics with Specialization in Computer Science from Purdue University, in Indiana…

Joydip Kanjilal is an MVP (2007-2012), software architect, author, and speaker with more than 20 years of experience. He has more than 16 years of experience in Microsoft.NET and its related technologies. Joydip has authored eight books, more than 500 articles, and has reviewed more than a dozen books. article you need the following installed in your system: • Visual Studio 2022 • .NET 8.0 • ASP.NET Core 8.0 Runtime If you don’t already have Visual Studio 2022 installed on your computer, you can download it from here: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/. In this article, I’ll examine the following points: • An overview of the outbox pattern and its benefits and downsides • An introduction to Kafka as a message broker • How the transaction outbox pattern works • How to implement the…