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Microsoft releases new Edge browser based on Chrome
Wednesday, 15th January 2020
Announced around a year ago, Microsoft today released their brand-new version of Edge – the default web browser since the Windows 10 release.The new Edge browser is based on Google’s Chromium project. Chromium is the “base” software that Google builds the Chrome browser on.Chrome easily has the biggest market share of all browsers. You can see this in 2019 browser statistics – Stat Counter (63%) and W3 Counter(56%) for example. Microsoft want a piece of that. Satya Nadella identified…
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Variable declaration can be inlined – C#
Thursday, 25th October 2018
It’s almost two years since I published the post on the Visual Studio IDE information message: “delegate invocation can be simplified.”It is now the second most visited article on my blog!While reviewing some error messages in a new MVC project, I recently learnt something equally as simple and eye-opening. This time, the suggestion is:IDE0018 Variable declaration can be inlinedAs a software developer, you’ll likely recognise the following pattern to declare and initialise a variable:int…
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Delegate invocation can be simplified – C#
Wednesday, 16th November 2016
When you have worked with the same technology day-in, day-out for almost 15 years, it’s easy to miss some of the “under-the-radar” changes that are made without any fan-fare. This, for me, is one of those in C#.I couldn’t tell you how many times a day I write code similar to the following, which is a staple of object-oriented, event-driven programming – used to fire an event if something is listening to…
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OneDrive storage is no longer unlimited
Wednesday, 4th November 2015
… after some people upload too much.“Today, storage limits just became a thing of the past with Office 365.”Julia White, general manager of Office 365 Technical Product Management. 27th October, 2014Fast forward to November 2015 and storage limits have just become present again. A little over a year after Microsoft announced that Office 365 subscribers would get unlimited storage on OneDrive – Microsoft’s cloud storage solution – the offer has been revoked and…
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Microsoft launch Windows 10 developer qualification
Thursday, 8th October 2015
Microsoft Learning today announced a new Windows 10 developer qualification aimed at software developers who want to target the recently-released Windows 10 universal platform.The qualification is an MCSD (Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer) entitled “MCSD: Universal Windows Platform” and is earned by passing 3 exams.These exams are:70-483: Programming in C#70-354: Universal Windows Platform – App Architecture and UX/UI70-355: Universal Windows Platform – App Data, Services, and…