Table of contents for Jul/Aug 2024 in CODE Magazine

EDITORIAL Adam Tepedelen’s book “Mud Ride: A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion,” is a statement so powerful that it refuses to leave my head-space. The simplicity that we may be only a minor change away from harmony is profound. Early in my consulting career, I began teaching developers for a company called ADTC. Before an instructor was allowed to teach their first public class, they had to shadow another instructor. As luck would have it, my instructor was a fellow named David Anderson. David was an amazing instructor (and good friend) and I borrowed (some may say stole, LOL) many of his teaching techniques. One technique I learned from David I’m still using some 30 years later. I learned this lesson from a question a student asked and how…

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. and there were things like Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), that’s when Visual Studio started taking off. Before that, we had IDEs built into DOS. They would take over your entire screen and they were text-based. IDEs such as Turbo C++, or Turbo, by a company called Borland, were the rage. Visual Studio has gone through some twists and turns as well. We’ve had specialized IDEs, such as Visual Interdev for web-based scenarios or FrontPage Express for lightweight web page editing. There…

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. like logging, performance management, exception handling, configuration management, and security. Aspects can be used to combine similar concerns into a single unit and applied to an application’s core logic via weaving. This article compares AOP to OOP and Procedural Programing, and provides a deep dive into AOP, explaining why it’s useful, and illustrating how you can optimize performance of an ASP.NET Core application using AOP and then store the captured performance metadata in a database. If you’re to work with…

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. The “Cloud” was in its infancy (but already there). .NET Core wasn’t quite a thing yet, but as we started developing Cloud apps, the early building blocks of Microsoft’s re-imagined .NET…

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 conferences around the world. Paul has multiple courses in the www.pluralsight.com library (https://bit.ly/3gvXgvj) and on Udemy.com (https://bit.ly/3WOK8kX) on topics ranging from C#, LINQ, JavaScript, Angular, MVC, WPF, XML, jQuery, and Bootstrap. Contact Paul at psheriff@pdsa.com. of articles, I’ll guide you through the process of building a complete business application from scratch, step by step. Starting with the fundamentals of XAML, you’ll learn how to create your first .NET MAUI application. From there, you’ll dive into constructing various screens,…

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! Our Mission CODE Staffing delivers unparalleled contingent technical staffing solutions to our clients. We empower their businesses with the talent and expertise they need…

Ed is a Microsoft MVP and an international speaker, writer, online influencer, a Pr. Developer Advocate for Progress, and expert on all things Web development. Ed enjoys geeking out to cool new tech, brainstorming about future technology, and admiring great design. Ed has shared his insights and experiences through training, live streaming, and podcasting at many industry events around the world including Microsoft Build, DevReach, Oredev, and Codemash. He’s a community builder who regularly live streams on Twitch and shares knowledge at meetups. Ed has defined, architected, and implemented line-of-business solutions with a touch of style and UX best practices. He continues to bring this level of detail to the Telerik UI products. This article will guide you through the rising popularity of HMDs, demonstrate how to use your existing…