Category: .NET/Visual Studio

So you want to advance and become an IT leader – I applaud your goal, whether it to be a CIO or CISO one day, or a CTO, or perhaps a respected technical expert working as an individual contributor. Leadership is not about having your name at the top of an organization chart, but rather […]

We leave evidence of where we’ve been and what we’ve done all over the place. From footprints to DNA, we seldom act without a trace. Our keyboards are no exception. I’m not talking just about fingerprints, DNA, food particles, or skin oils. I’m talking about heat. I saw a movie or maybe a television show […]

Microsoft recently released a preview of a machine learning framework for .NET developers—ML.NET. I needed to perform a clustering analysis from existing data in one of my applications. This is a pretty common machine learning task, so I decided to document the basic approach in this article. We’ll use the well-worn iris data set from […]

One of the products Microsoft introduced at their 2018 Build conference was an open source, cross-platform machine learning framework for .NET developers. ML.NET will …allow .NET developers to develop their own models and infuse custom ML into their applications without prior expertise in developing or tuning machine learning models. Democratisation of machine learning—-i.e. enabling people […]

Part 2: Controlling Parameter Optimization with Plan Guides For Part 1 of this series, see LINQ: The Good, The Bad, and The Poorly Optimized. T-SQL supports a variety of “hints”. They are hints in the same sense that your mother used to hint that it’s time to wash up and come to dinner. In other […]