(Ben Nadel) The other week, I was talking to Chesley Brown – one of our lead software engineers at InVision – about adding even more security to the Incident Commander app.

(James McCaffrey) Suppose you have a collection of digital photos you took on a trip to a zoo. You want to programmatically classify each photo as one of the 100 different kinds of animals you photographed: “aardvark,” “zebra” and so on.

(Prasad Kulkarni) Over the years .NET travelled a lot, There was a time when Applications are limited to .NET framework and server-desktop architecture only, but Mobile phones, smart devices played a huge role and bring evaluation in this field.

(Tapas Pal) Mock is an object to simulates the behavior of a real method/object in a controlled environment for unit testing. A developer learns mocking as a skillset and uses mock frameworks as a tool during unit testing.

(Raymond Chen) You may want to capture your this pointer into a C++ lambda, but that captures the raw pointer. If you need to extend the object’s lifetime, you will need to capture a strong reference.

(K. Scott Allen) Some software is easier to understand if you remove the software from it’s usual environment and try some experiments. ASP.NET Security components, for example.

(Ben Nadel) The other day, I ran into an issue within a drag-n-drop feature in an Angular 1.6 application in which the drag action kept interacting with other parts of the page.

(Peter Vogel) In a previous column, I talked about why you might want to switch to xUnit, the new testing framework that’s part of the .NET Core package (I also discussed why porting existing test code to xUnit probably isn’t an option).

(Damir Arh) There’s a large collection of operators available in C#.

(Hannes DuPreez) I love pictures, as some of my articles can attest to. I have just about done everything I could with images (drawing them, giving them special filter effects, manipulated them to become desktop wallpapers, and so on), or so I thought.