Microsoft recently announced a developer preview release supporting JavaScript to create custom functions directly in Excel. This addition moves beyond the existing Microsoft Office JavaScript API ...

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.

In functional programming, there are two varieties of functions: first-order functions and pure functions. First-order functions A first-order function takes standard data types (string, number, ...

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 ...

The Practical Client Integrating JavaScript with TypeScript (and Backbone and Knockout) Peter looks at how to call a JavaScript function from your TypeScript code and do it in a type-safe way. Along ...

‘Higher-order functions’ is a fancy term for functions that take other functions as arguments or that return functions. Very powerful!

Before passing a .NET object to a JavaScript function, your C# code must wrap it in a DotNetObjectRef object. As an example, the following code in my project's Index.cshtml OnInitAsync method ...

The following JavaScript functions provide developers with everything they need: concat () – Combines the text of two or more strings and returns a new string.

Unfortunately, this function immediately “forgets” the second value and never does anything with it. Our inner function, the one that currently just returns value1, also needs to be modified ...