At the Build 2018 developer conference that's taking place these days in Seattle, USA, Microsoft announced support for custom JavaScript functions in Excel. What this means is that Excel users ...

Perhaps the most interesting is JavaScript Custom Functions. Obviously written in JavaScript - rather than the classic Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) - they're meant to allow developers to ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

Promises, handlers, and chains are foundations of modern JavaScript, but they can be tricky. Here are four common traps to ...

Consider a simple function called parrot that takes an argument ... While he specializes in JavaScript, both browser and server side, he also takes a keen interest in modern data stores ...

Among the new features is support for Azure Machine Learning and custom JavaScript functions to Excel to extend its capabilities. Excel now also allows Power BI developers to bring the custom ...

Strings are objects within the JavaScript language. They are not stored as character arrays, so built-in functions must be used to manipulate their values. The functions provide various ways to ...

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 ...

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 ...