Using NuGet and Local Files to Import Code into Notebooks — We’ve seen that Polyglot Notebooks allow you to mix together markdown and code (including C# code) in an interactive notebook and these notebooks allow you to share data between cells and between languages. …

Interactive Data Visualization Alongside your dotnet Notebooks — As I’ve been doing more and more dotnet development in notebooks with Polyglot Notebooks I’ve found myself wanting more options to create rich data visualizations inside of VS Code the same way I could use Plotly for data visualization using Python and Jupyter Notebooks. Thankfully, Microsoft SandDance exists and fills…

Showing the process of sharing data between C# and F# Notebook Cells — While Polyglot Notebooks certainly brings the dream of notebook development to dotnet, Polyglot is at its finest when you work with one language and then hand off data to the next language for additional processing. In this article we’ll talk about sharing variables between kernels using Polyglot Notebooks and VS…

Answering the most common question I get about Polyglot Notebooks — I’ve been talking more and more about Polyglot Notebooks and as people try it out, they tend to ask me one common question: should I create a .dib file or an .ipynb file? What's the difference anyways?

Mixing together documentation and dotnet into an analytics notebook — I’ve loved dotnet development since beta 2 of dotnet back in 2001. One of the things I love about being a dotnet developer is that dotnet continues to grow and evolve over the years. …

Installing a dotnet notebook environment for experimentation — Polyglot Notebooks is a powerful new interactive notebook technology that lets you run experiments in your editor, mix together code and rich documentation, and write code in a variety of languages to accomplish your tasks. This article will guide you through the setup process to get Polyglot Notebooks running on…

Creating UML State Diagrams with markdown to illustrate FSMs and HFSMs — In this article we’ll take a look at how Mermaid.js can help you transform simple markdown into state diagrams suitable for illustrating a finite state machine, hierarchical state machine, or the standard complexities of software systems. What are Finite State Machines (FSMs)? A year or two ago I built a small game prototype that featured a…

Modelling complex SysML requirement relationships using Mermaid.js markdown — Mermaid.js is a powerful diagramming library built on JavaScript that can convert simple markdown into full diagrams. While it supports many common diagram types such as sequence diagrams, mind maps, entity relationship diagrams, and sequence diagrams, it also supports a few I’ve rarely seen before, including the SysML Requirement Diagram.

Using markdown to create high-level project or product timelines — Earlier this week I wrote about using Mermaid.js to create Gantt charts that help you visualize tasks or major phases in a larger project. This can be great for detailed task analysis, but sometimes you just want to look at a high-level view of what’s going on in a time…