Watch the Diagnostics Sessions From //Build and Ignite
The diagnostics team delivered a total of five talks at Microsoft’s //Build and Ignite conferences. If you were unable to view or attend them here are the links to watch them now!Note: If you are...
View Articleconstexpr Complete For VS 2015 RTM: C++11 compiler, C++17 STL
We've finished implementing constexpr for VS 2015 RTM, and we've updated the online compiler at webcompiler.cloudapp.net with our latest development build. As I previously mentioned , the compiler...
View ArticleMicrosoft MPI v6 release
We are happy to announce the release of the newest version of Microsoft MPI (MS-MPI). MS-MPI v6 is the successor to the Microsoft MPI v5 redistributable package (released in November 2014). You can...
View ArticleVisual Studio Online Update – June 3rd
Today, we begin the process of rolling out our sprint 83 results. You can read the release notes to see the highlights of the new features.The kanban and task boards are making great progress towards...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Ultimate Bing Experience III
How does Bing select the photographs for its homepage each day? How does Microsoft envision the future? Where can I see a demonstration of HoloLens, Microsoft’s new hologram-based technology, and learn...
View ArticleSwim lanes, #mention, Build test steps – Jun 3
Note: The improvements discussed in this post will be rolling out throughout the week. Please follow progress of the deployment at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsoservice/.Kanban swim lanesToday’s update...
View ArticleAuto-update your Azure Site Extension
With Azure Site Extensions, you are able to extend any Azure Web App pretty easily and enhance the site’s functionality. For example, there are extensions which integrate New Relic and Visual Studio...
View ArticleWeb Vulnerability Scanning for Azure App Service powered by Tinfoil Security
We’re excited to announce that web vulnerability scanning powered by Tinfoil Security is now available for Azure App Services! This will enable you to scan your Azure Web Apps and help secure your web...
View ArticleJelastic on Azure
At /build this year, Azure announced support for Jelastic PaaS on Azure IaaS. This is yet another PaaS solution that can now run seamlessly on Azure! Today Jelastic is available in Azure in two modes–...
View ArticleTeam Foundation Server and VS Online adoption at Microsoft
Someone asked me in a blog comment recently to post an update on internal adoption – the last one was almost a year ago. I’m going to keep it reasonably short.The best summary is adoption continues to...
View ArticleBing on the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup!
The 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup kicks off June 6 in Canada. With 24 teams competing, this is the largest Women’s tournament yet and Bing has gone big to bring you all the answers you need – from scores...
View ArticleNew Titan DB offering from ClearDB
The new Titan DB tier is intended to give MySQL users on Azure a more powerful alternative to the free Mercury DB tier but at a fraction of the cost of the Venus DB Tier.The new Titan DB tier includes...
View ArticleBusinesses are driving increased sales and delivering improved customer...
The needs of businesses and their app development teams are changing. It’s a mobile-first, cloud-first world driven by digital business. Companies are moving away from their reliance on custom legacy...
View ArticleWhat's the deal with Windows 10 for the Non-Technical Friend
The calls are starting to come in, as I, like you, Dear Reader, am the head of IT Support for my friends and family. You'd think my cell phone was an IT helpline, and my email is filled with Word...
View ArticleAnnouncing Custom Origin Support for Azure CDN
Custom Origins SupportedAzure CDN can now be used with any origin. Previously, Azure CDN only supported a limited set of Azure Services (i.e. Web Apps, Storage, Cloud Services and Media Services) and...
View ArticleDeveloping cross-platform iOS applications using Visual Studio
C++ is a popular high-level programming language available for all mobile devices running iOS, Android and or Windows. There are many factors driving the use of C++ for these mobile platforms ranging...
View ArticleDeveloping for iOS using the Tools for Apache Cordova
Most developers are already familiar with Xamarin and C++ for iOS development, but Visual Studio 2015 also delivers a quick and easy way for developers to build iOS, Android, and Windows apps using...
View ArticleDev Center account migration begins next week
Next week we will begin the migration of accounts to the new Windows Dev Center dashboard.You can expect account migration to take place in waves – starting next week and extending into July. The...
View ArticleDeveloping in TypeScript on a Mac with Sublime
Within the TypeScript team, many of us have Macs that we use for development. We’ve also heard from some of you that you’d like to use your OS X machines to build TypeScript projects. So recently,...
View ArticleUsing FFmpeg in Windows Applications
It is important to Microsoft that developers can leverage open-source software when building apps for Windows. As part of this effort we’re very pleased to announce FFmpeg support for Window 8.1,...
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