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Location consent prompts and settings improvements in Windows 10 Mobile
This blog was written by Jon Kay, Program Manager, Location Team.We have made big investments in Windows 10 to unify the Windows and Windows Phone app platform. Based on user and developer feedback,...
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Bring Kindness back to Open Source
When you're rude/crisp/sharp/whatever to someone in a PR or Issue, your meanness may have turned off the next generation of open source committer. It's that simple. When folks are just starting out as...
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ASP.NET Community Standup - July 21, 2015
This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of...
View ArticleBuild a Mobile Data Sync Experience for Dynamics CRM with Azure App Service
Today, we’re excited to announce the Azure Mobile Connector SDK for Dynamics CRM Online in partnership with the CRM team. Using this integrated solution, developers can:build native and cross-platform...
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Thank you Bing users, we are listening to you
Back in March we launched a new site called Bing Listens. The site gives our customers a direct line of communication to the team developing Bing features.Bing Listens is a place to contribute your...
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Visual Studio 2015 Diagnostics Investments
When we wrapped up the last release of Visual Studio, I wrote a blog post titled: Visual Studio 2013 Diagnostics Investments, which gathered all the links to our blog posts and other content into a...
View ArticleAzure SQL Database Web and Business edition retirement September 12th, 2015
In September 2014, we announced the retirement of the Azure SQL Database Web and Business editions in favor of our new Basic, Standard, and Premium service tiers. The new tiers are designed to provide...
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Bringing automated testing to Microsoft Edge through WebDriver
Today we’re announcing support for automated testing of Microsoft Edge through the W3C WebDriver standard. To use WebDriver with Microsoft Edge, you need the MicrosoftWebDriver server on a Windows...
View ArticleCan’t recover VMs in Azure with volumes greater than 1TB? Use Storage Spaces!
The expense of building and maintaining a secondary datacenter is one of the primary roadblocks for disaster recovery. Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is simple for any user to protect Azure applications and...
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Self forming teams at scale
I want to share with you all a strange thing that we do. It’s unorthodox but has been very successful for us.Teams change. People come. People go. People move around. Reorgs happen. This is a...
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Setup Changes in Visual Studio 2015 Affecting C++ Developers
As mentioned in the Visual Studio 2015 IDE blog post , the setup experience of the product now provides more control to the user, for what does and doesn’t get installed. That blog post also talks...
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The Visual Studio Partner Ecosystem
One of the unique values Visual Studio provides is that over and above the built-in features we have a multitude of extensions to address various niche development scenarios. These extensions are...
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Changes to Store listings and search algorithms
As we near the launch of Windows 10, I want to share with you some changes coming in the new Windows Store: lists and search algorithms, a new web Store, changes to the app listings and updates to...
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Code Metrics PowerTool for Visual Studio 2015 Available on Microsoft Download...
Visual Studio offers the ability to measure your code’s complexity and maintainability with the Code Metrics window. See the MSDN documentation for more information. In 2011, we introduced a PowerTool...
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Code Map: From Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate to Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise
When you want to understand specific dependencies in your code, visualize them by creating code maps. You can then navigate these relationships by using the map, which appears next to your code. Code...
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Visual Studio 2015 and CodeLens
What a release it has been for CodeLens!!! After it was launched in Visual Studio 2013 to rave reviews, we continued to enhance it and delivered a bunch of features in the VS 2015 wave. Here is a...
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“No such interface supported” in Visual Studio 2015 on Windows 10
If you upgraded your Windows 10 machine from an earlier version of Windows 10, and are running Visual Studio 2015, this post describes a workaround to a known issue. If you installed Windows 10...
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Unit Test Generators Extensibility - hats off to our community
It was the early feedback and support from the community that encouraged us to ship IntelliTest and the Create Unit Test method stubs features. That feedback continued as we got clear asks to support...
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Introducing TypeScript npm nightlies
To make it easier to try out the very latest in TypeScript, we're now publishing the TypeScript nightly npm package. You can try this out using:npm install -g typescript@nextWe've set this to update...
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Included CALs and Tiered Pricing
I have to say that when I wrote my post last week on TFS and VSO related licensing and packaging changes, I didn’t think I’d be writing another one quite so soon. But I found out that we’re disclosing...
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