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AutoMapper makes life easy, but has its limits. Learn how to implement a custom mapper to handle complex data structures or incompatible types. When working on applications, you will often need to ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...

IDEs are essential tools for software development. Here is a list of the top IDEs for programming. Software developers have battled with text editors and command-line tools that offered little or ...