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8 more React hooks you need to know about

useState is the most well-known hook for using functional components in React, but it's just a start. Here are eight more React hooks, and how to use them.

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Microsoft improves F# language hints in Visual Studio

Microsoft is previewing inline type hints, inline parameter name hints, and return type hints for the F# programming language in Visual Studio.

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How to use API keys to secure web APIs in ASP.NET Core

Take advantage of API key authentication to control the access of applications and services to your Web APIs in ASP.NET Core.

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3 Python web frameworks for beautiful front ends

Want to generate interactive websites with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript while programming in nothing but Python? One of these frameworks could do the trick.

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Reactive JavaScript with Stable Diffusion

Use React and the Stable Diffusion API to build a reactive application that generates images from user-submitted text.

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Build accelerated AI apps for NPUs with Olive

Microsoft’s open-source, hardware-aware optimization tool for ONNX models is an essential part of its AI application development tool chain.

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Wasm: 5 things developers should be tracking

We know Wasm works well in the browser. Now it’s time to get excited about the possibilities for Wasm on the server side.

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How to work with Azure Key Vault in .NET Core

Azure Key Vault is a safe and secure place to store the tokens, keys, passwords, certificates, and other sensitive data used in your .NET Core applications. Here’s how to work with it in C#.

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Svelte 4 shrinks code footprint, compiled output

Upgrade reduces Svelte package size by 75%, produces smaller and faster hydration code, and lays the groundwork for Svelte 5.

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How to use EventCounters in .NET Core

Take advantage of EventCounters in .NET Core to gain insights into your application’s performance in real time.

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How to avoid spaghetti code in C#

Spaghetti is good eating but bad programming. Follow these 10 best practices to keep your C# code clean, lean, and easy to maintain.

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Composition vs. inheritance in OOP and C#

Understand the key concepts behind composition and inheritance that allow you to build reusable and flexible types in your .NET applications.

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Apple SwiftData framework manages app data

The platform allows developers to add persistence and concurrency capabilities to apps.

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Bootstrap 5.3.0 emphasizes dark mode, custom colors

Bootstrap 5.3.0 mobile-first web framework features a revamped core, improving support for dark mode and color mode features.

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How to use advanced Dapper features in ASP.NET Core

Take advantage of stored procedures, query pagination, query caching, and other advanced Dapper feature to simplify data access and ensure high performance.

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Wasmer melds WebAssembly, Posix with WASIX spec

The superset of WASI can be used for apps and runtimes, offering a high-performance JavaScript alternative that runs in browsers and servers.

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Latest Deno release supports NPM packages

Deno 1.34 improves NPM and Node.js compatibility and adds support for Globs, TLS certificates, and more.

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Angular users want better server-side rendering

Angular Developer Survey 2022 marks server-side rendering, testing, debugging and profiling, component authoring format, and initial load performance as key areas for improvement.

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How to use factory-based middleware activation in ASP.NET Core

Factory-based middleware activation is a more flexible and dynamic approach to configuring and activating middleware components. Here’s how to take advantage of it in ASP.NET Core 7.

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Microsoft .NET 8 boosts Blazor, WebAssembly

Microsoft works to improve web app performance with Blazor server-side rendering and streaming rendering, Blazor WebAssembly runtime improvements.

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