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Speeding up Unit Test Execution in TFS
Users of TFS can do a few simple things to speed up Unit Test execution and improve the overall Build time.Maximize hardware resource utilizationIn most likelihood, you run your tests run on a hardware...
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Consistent use of tags on Compute, Network, and Storage resources created through the Azure Resource Manager allows organizations to track their usage in a new way. By analyzing your tagged Azure...
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Cross-platform code sharing with Visual C++
With Visual Studio 2015 , Visual C++ supports three new platforms: Universal Windows Platform ( just announced ), Android and iOS ( more info ). This is in addition to its continued support for...
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Visual Studio Customer Feedback Channels
We’ve shipped Visual Studio 2015 RTM and you have all been a key part of this with your feedback and great ideas, Thank you! But wait, that doesn’t mean your job is over :). We still need to hear from...
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Dev Center open for Windows 10 app submissions, adds new features
The new unified Windows Dev Center is now open for Windows 10 app submissions. Dev Center launched a number of new features yesterday, summarized by Todd Brix. In this post I’ll share more details...
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Universal Windows apps in .NET
This post was written by Lucian Wischik, a Program Manager on the Managed Languages team.We just released the Universal Windows app development tools for writing Windows 10 apps in Visual Studio 2015....
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July update for Web apps and App Service environments in the Azure preview...
It’s been a busy past couple of weeks! We’ve rolled out some improvements worth noting to the Web app and App Service environment experiences in the Azure preview portal.New create experience for Web...
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Continuous Deployment: Dev/Test in Azure and Deploy to Production On-premises
Easily provision the required resources in Azure using the Azure Resource Manager templates, and deploy Web applications and SQL Server Databases to the Azure VMs using PowerShell scripts or...
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Roaming Extension Manager: Control and Consistency down to the last Extension
On July 28th, we released Roaming Extension Manager, an extension that will help you better manage your Visual Studio extensions across multiple machines. Hold the applause! For those of you who are...
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Collecting Advanced Agent Diagnostics Data in Cloud-based Load Test
With Visual Studio Enterprise Edition 2015 RTM, you can now collect advanced diagnostics for your cloud-based load test as part of your run itself.It is often observed that debugging on cloud is a bit...
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Announcing support for Goal-based Load Pattern in Cloud-based Load Tests
Cloud-based Load Tests with Visual Studio Online now supports goal-based load patterns. Both Agent counters and Load test counters are supported.For those already familiar with goal-based load pattern...
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Azure Data Factory: Live in North Europe
We are happy to announce that Azure Data Factory is now live in the North Europe region! You can now go to Azure portal and create your data factory in North Europe in addition to West US. As we...
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Recapping the July 2015 TC39 Committee meeting in Redmond
For most of Microsoft, the end of July means the excitement of our //OneWeek celebration and welcoming tens of millions of new users to Windows 10 and Microsoft Edge! Some who follow JavaScript closely...
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Why write Python in Visual Studio?
Recently, Visual Studio 2015 was released with support for Python. Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) are available to help throughout Visual Studio in all the places you’d expect, from editing and...
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Securing your pre-production environment in the cloud
stagingOne of my all-time favorite features of Azure App Service is deployment slots because of all the great time saving scenarios they offer developers. In a nutshell, site slots allow a developer to...
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Remote Profiling support in Azure App Service
Azure Web Apps as well as API Apps and WebJobs can now be remotely profiled. If your process is running slower than expected, or the latency of HTTP requests are higher than normal and the CPU usage of...
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ANGLE for Windows Now Available On NuGet
You have developed and/or published apps running on iOS and Android with OpenGL ES content. You want your app in the hands of the forecasted 1 billion Windows 10 users, but your graphics code will not...
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Apt-Get for Windows - OneGet and Chocolatey on Windows 10
In 2013 I asked the questions "Is the Windows user ready for apt-get?" As with nearly all my blog posts, the comments are better than the post itself. ;) Now it's 2015 and many of us are upgrading to...
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Scheduling Azure Automation Runbooks with Azure Scheduler
Having the ability to schedule a runbook is a key component to any IT organization’s automation strategy. Azure Automation allows you to schedule a runbook to either run one time or reoccurring every...
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[Guest post] Visual F# Power Tools: community-led tooling for F# in Visual...
This is a guest post by Anh-Dung Phan and Vasily Kirichenko, F# community developers and contributors to the superb Visual F# Power Tools extension for Visual Studio. – Visual F# TeamWe are pleased to...
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