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Announcing TypeScript 1.4
Today we're happy to announce TypeScript 1.4. With TypeScript 1.4, we've continued to build new features that help you work with more JavaScript patterns, create richer typings, and use new ES6...
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Diagnostic Tools debugger window in Visual Studio 2015
This blog post introduces the new Diagnostic Tools window in Visual Studio 2015. Everything you see in this blog post you can try out today by downloading Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5. First we’ll define...
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Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 Available
Today, we released Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 with new features in debugging, diagnostics, the XAML language service, and ASP.NET 5 that we added after the November Preview release. While not a major...
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Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 is available
Today released CTP 5 of Visual Studio 2015.Download it from the pre-release downloads pageRead more about it on the news pageThis is not a “go-live” build but is getting close to functionally complete....
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Code Analysis Survey
The Visual C++ team loves surveys , but maybe not for the reasons you think. Surveys are often used to collect data that is sliced, diced, aggregated and munged to provide objective audience insights....
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Reality TV for Developers - Where is Twitch.tv for Programmers?
Twitch.tv is basically YouTube where you can watch other folks play video games. It initially sounds ridiculous but it's actually surprisingly compelling. You can see how other people solve problems...
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Weekend Forecast: ‘Beast quake’ in Seattle
Odds of a Seattle Seahawks win vs. the GreenBay Packers this Sunday? 20-61. Potential for earthshaking reactions from Seattle fans, aka the 12th man? 110%.These chances look pretty good for the Pacific...
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Experiencing the Civil Rights Movement with Bing Maps
Imagery on Bing Maps enables you to interactively and naturally learn about history by exploring the places where events took place. Today is Martin Luther King Day in the United States. It is a day...
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Markdown in Visual Studio Online
Visual Studio Online supports common Markdown conventions and Github-flavored extensions. Daring Fireball describes Markdown syntax, and the GitHub-flavored extensions are described at GitHub. Here are...
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Search your logs instantly using property filters
Our latest improvements to Application Insights Diagnostic Search include a personal favorite of mine, Property filters. While it’s easy to setup logging from your application, we don’t want you and...
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Journey to cloud
Transforming a sizeable development organization from "classic" development practices to Agile cloud development is something I talk about a lot. Bhavik Shah, who used to work on our team, left...
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Performance Tips for Azure DocumentDB – Part 1
Performance Tips for Azure DocumentDB – Part 1Azure DocumentDB allows you to optimize the performance of your database to best meet the needs of your application. We’ve prepared a two part blog post...
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Azure Search – How to Add Suggestions (auto-complete) to your Search...
What are Search Suggestions?For many mobile applications and web sites, search is the primary means by which a user finds what they are looking for. As a result, the search box needs to be effective...
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Quake Mode Console for Visual Studio - Open a Command Prompt with a hotkey
Back in March of 2013 when Phil Haack was deep into GitHub for Windows development we were going back and forth in email about how to quickly get into a shell from a specific project. I hate always...
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Agile project management futures...
Last month we unveiled a new section of our features timeline that highlights items we're actively working on. As Brian described on his blog, we're laying out a rough timeline of when we expect new...
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Rollup: Microsoft HoloLens, Surface Hub, Windows 10, Xbox One game streaming...
Disclaimer: I currently work for Microsoft, but this blog, and the words within are all my opinion. Mistakes and dumb ideas are mine. My impartiality or lack thereof stands on its own.I just got done...
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Setting up Active Directory for a Disaster Recovery Environment
When you’re setting up your disaster recovery environment, you also need to think about how Active Directory needs to be setup. It should not come as an afterthought.Most applications depend on AD and...
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TypeScript Developer Survey
We have a short survey for TypeScript developers to help us better gauge the community and direct our efforts. If you're using TypeScript, you can help us out by filling out the survey and sharing the...
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Registration for Build is Open - Prepare for a Windows 10 Deep Dive!
Yesterday, we announced a new chapter for Windows, where we’ll be delivering a More Personal Computing Experience for end-users and a truly Universal Platform for developers. For users, Windows 10...
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Best Practices for Process Server Deployment when Protecting VMware and...
In summer of 2014, Microsoft acquired a company called InMage Systems that specialized in building enterprise-class Disaster Recovery (DR) products supporting a wide range of platforms and operating...
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