Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.0
Last week we announced the release of the Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.0. VSTU is Microsoft’s free Visual Studio add-on that enables a rich programming and debugging experience for working with the...
View ArticleWorking on an Internet of Things Project? Take Our Survey!
Survey! The Visual C++ team wants to learn more about how developers create Internet of Things devices and applications. If you are currently or have recently been part of an IoT project and can spare...
View ArticleEF7 Beta 6 Available
Today we are making Entity Framework 7 Beta 6 available. EF7 will be the next major release of Entity Framework and it is currently in pre-release. Still very much a previewEF7 introduces some...
View ArticleGetting Started with Windows 10
I've been making Windows 10 videos at night to help out friends and family, and because it's fun. NOTE: Please share my videos with your family, friends, and social networks with this easy to remember...
View ArticleAnnouncing Availability of ASP.NET 5 beta 6
It feels like we just did this… we just announced an ASP.NET release, and here comes another one. The development team has been hard at work right through the release of Visual Studio 2015 to deliver...
View ArticleCreate and Edit DocumentDB Server Side Scripts in the Azure Preview Portal
The DocumentDB Script Explorer now supports creating, editing, and deleting stored procedures, user-defined functions, and triggers! You can read more about DocumentDB server side programming here.Now,...
View ArticleHybrid Management in Azure Automation
In the latest release of Azure Automation, we introduced the ability to connect into on-premises systems using Hybrid Runbook Workers. With the new Hybrid Runbook Worker feature, you can now manage...
View Article.NET Networking APIs for UWP Apps
This post was written by Sidharth Nabar, Program Manager on the Windows networking team.At Build 2015, we announced that .NET Core 5 is the new version of .NET for developers writing Universal Windows...
View ArticleRyuJIT Bug Advisory in the .NET Framework 4.6
A code generation (AKA "codegen") issue in RyuJIT in the .NET Framework 4.6 has been discovered that affects a calling pattern called Tail Call Optimization. The RyuJIT team has fixed the issue and has...
View ArticleOpening the Windows 10 Store for Developers
Today we’re making Windows 10 available to customers in over 190 markets and providing developers the tools they need to submit Universal Windows Platform apps and games to a single unified Windows...
View ArticleVisual Studio Online Process Customization - Update
Back in May, we began explaining our roadmap for process customization on Visual Studio Online (VSO). In this post, I want to share the progress we’ve made and give an update on our overall...
View ArticleMSBuild and Team Foundation Server integration with SonarQube: version 1.0...
Release of MSBuild.SonarQube.Runner 1.0As you might recall, we announced back in April at the //build conference that we were working with SonarSource to provide a better integration of SonarQube with...
View ArticleEnterprise Grade Disaster Recovery with Azure Site Recovery, EMC VMAX, VMAX3...
Earlier this year, we announced the general availability of SAN replication support in Azure Site Recovery (ASR). With ASR, SCVMM and Hyper-V customers can extend their investments in Storage Area...
View ArticleTargeting Windows 10 with your Apache Cordova app
This April, in concert with Windows 10 Technical Preview 2, we debuted support for the Windows 10 platform for Apache Cordova. Now, with the availability of Windows 10, full Windows 10 support is part...
View ArticleBuilding Apps for Windows 10 with Visual Studio 2015
Today is an exciting day for Windows users and developers alike with the launch of Windows 10. For developers, Windows 10 represents the culmination of our platform convergence journey with Windows...
View ArticleIt’s time to upgrade your world, and your apps
Today marks a huge milestone for Windows developers – Windows 10 and the related developer tools are now both available for download and for use in a production environment. Today, you can officially...
View ArticleDebugging .NET Native Windows Universal Apps
With the release of Windows 10 we also shipped Visual Studio Tools for Windows 10. As you will have heard Universal Windows apps written in .NET (either C# or VB) will be compiled to native machine...
View ArticleDeveloping for Windows 10 with Visual C++ 2015
Getting Started Windows 10 introduces the new Universal Windows App platform, which allows a single codebase to be reused across multiple Windows 10 devices. An earlier blog post described the...
View ArticleIntelliTrace, method call information, and Edit and Continue
In this blog post I’m going to talk about IntelliTrace’s default configuration and the ability to opt-in to capture method call information. If you haven’t done so already, check out the announcement...
View ArticleGetting Application Insights counters with Cloud-based Load Testing
Cloud-based Load Testing with Visual Studio Online helps to identify the application performance issues under a certain user load. You can configure the load test with Application Insights counters in...
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