Issue: 2024 - July/August

Sometimes, you’re just about on top of an elusive solution. Stepping away can help you find it, but so can making slight adjustments to the project’s trajectory.

Markus continues his reflection on what the CODE Group company, the magazine, and the industry have been up to since around 2008, the period of modern development.

Sahil looks at how Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s free open-source workhorse, lets you work on any platform, any operating system, and nearly any language. In this article he covers productivity tips including alternate ways to select text, Outline view, Timeline view, sticky headers, import/export profiles using extensions, and improved search.

This is Paul D. Sheriff's first article in a series on .NET MAUI, which provides a single framework for building the UIs and business logic and create applications for either mobile or desktop. Paul shows you how to develop apps that run across all platforms.

Edward Charbeneau describes that as head-mounted display (HMD) technologies advance, they offer new opportunities for developers. Meta Quest 3 platform's use of Android OS and support for .NET stacks making it particularly accessible for deploying flat applications in spatial computing.

Joydip explores programming paradigms (object-oriented, procedural, and aspect-oriented programming) and looks at how AOP (aspect-oriented programming) can help you optimize performance and store performance metadata in a database.