At Microsoft's Ignite 2017 conference today, the company announced a range of new features that will be coming to its Excel application, such as JavaScript Custom Functions and more. Today at ...

Microsoft is launching a couple of features to Excel today that make the ubiquitous spreadsheet software a bit more powerful. Among the new features is support for Azure Machine Learning and custom ...

‘Higher-order functions’ is a fancy term for functions that take other functions as arguments or that return functions. Very powerful! Last week, I casually dropped the term “higher-order function” ...

While JavaScript has many applications, working with string values is one of the most popular. Strings are objects within the JavaScript language. They are not stored as character arrays, so built-in ...

Peter looks at how to call a JavaScript function from your TypeScript code and do it in a type-safe way. Along the way, he dramatically simplifies a Backbone application by integrating Knockout. I ...

JavaScript doesn't have a native namespace facility so how are you supposed to keep utility and helper functions private? The solution is to use inner functions but this is just the start of the story ...

When you first meet it closure seems like the craziest of ideas. However once you realize that JavaScript functions are objects and what this implies then it seems like a natural consequence. Most ...

In the past two columns, we’ve looked at higher-order functions and talked a little bit about the power of functional programming. So far, the concepts we’ve covered do little to indicate how powerful ...

In a previous column, I showed how to create a "Hello, World" application that integrated JavaScript functions and C# Blazor methods. However, my Blazor-world and JavaScript-world code didn't interact ...

Many business websites use forms to capture user data. These forms use HTML markup and optionally JavaScript functions. Your website may use URL variables, which allow you to pass data items as part ...