For Java-based programs such as Maven, Jenkins, Gradle or Tomcat to run, they need to know that Java's JDK is installed. That's the purpose of the JAVA_HOME environment variable. It tells programs ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The latest long-term support (LTS) release of the JDK is Java 21, which was released in ...

What’s the difference between versions of Minecraft? That’s not as simple a question to answer as you might think. Most current players will be used to whatever version they’ve started on, whether ...

Create a class for a test context, and refine it with a nested subclass. Be sure to declare the nested subclass as public, and each constructor as public. C#'s inheritance rules allow private methods ...

C# Dev Kit, a Visual Studio Code extension for “editor first” C# development, has reached general availability, Microsoft announced on October 4. The extension leverages C# language services and helps ...

Unit testing is how we ensure that the blocks of code we write do what we intended them to do. There are some open-source frameworks available to unit test .NET applications, namely, NUnit and ...

As with the other testing frameworks that are part of Visual Studio, your first step in creating xUnit tests is to use Add > New Project to add a testing project (you can do that either from Visual ...