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The Butterfly Effect of Technology Community
The Butterfly Effect is everywhere, truly. The best part is, due to confirmation bias, once you start looking for it you'll see it everywhere. ;)The Butterfly Effect: This effect grants the power to...
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Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks Preview
We are very pleased to announce ASP.NET WebHooks preview as a new addition to the ASP.NET family. WebHooks is a lightweight HTTP pattern providing a simple pub/sub model for wiring together Web APIs...
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Supplying Run Time Parameters to Tests
Tests broadly classified as integration tests or functional tests are often in need to connect to external app resource (web application, API front end, or a DB tier) to drive validations. Maintaining...
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General Availability of Work Item Trend and Rollup Reporting in Power BI
Today, a few short weeks after our initial release of the work item reporting capabilities in the Visual Studio Online Power BI Connector, we are happy to announce the general availability of trend and...
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GCC / LLVM edit/build/debug survey
You, blog readers, are kind enough to answer our surveys and often provide extended feedback through individual conversations. Continuing to depend on your feedback and kindness, we are sharing another...
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Integrating with Slack Using ASP.NET WebHooks Preview
In the blog Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks Preview, we gave an overview of how to work with Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks. Slack provides an interesting model where you can set up a WebHook to be...
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Integrating with Salesforce using ASP.NET WebHooks Preview
In the blog Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks Preview, we gave an overview of how to work with Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks. Out of the box we provide support for a variety of existing WebHooks...
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Unity 5.2 and Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.1
A few months back we announced a partnership with Unity. This makes it easier for game developers to use the rich capabilities of the Visual Studio IDE for building Unity games and to discover the...
View ArticleAnnouncing VP9 support coming to Microsoft Edge
Today, we’re excited to announce that WebM/VP9 support is now in development in Microsoft Edge. VP9 is an open source codec that offers efficient compression to stream HD content at lower bitrates, and...
View ArticleUnity Support for Windows 10
Today, Unity announced the release of Unity 5.2 which includes support for Windows 10 and the Universal Windows Platform (UWP).With UWP support in Unity 5.2, developers can build a single game for...
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Going beyond keyboard, mouse and touch with natural input (10 by 10)
With Windows 10, it’s now easier than ever to support natural input in your apps and today we’d like to highlight using inking and speech to interact more naturally with your users.Digital inking with...
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Review: Dremel 3D Printer and initial impressions of the HP Sprout
I've been having a blast with my new hobby - 3D Printing. I've only been printing for about 9 months but my kids and I are having fun which is what matters.I've been using an HP Sprout PC (full review...
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We’re on the road to self-driving business applications
About a year ago, Unit4’s CEO, Jose Duarte first introduced me to the idea of self-driving ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning software) during an ideation session on the Microsoft campus. We concluded...
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New in VS 2015: Expanded PGO Options
We’ve blogged before about the benefits of Profile Guided Optimization. One of the biggest pieces of feedback we’ve received is that the instrumented binaries are too slow – making it very difficult to...
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ASP.NET Community Standup - September 8, 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...
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Managing hidden apps, beta apps and visibility of in-app purchases in Dev Center
The unified Dev Center introduced several new options to manage the visibility of apps and in-app purchase. We have seen developers start to use these new capabilities and have sent us questions on how...
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MSBuild.SonarQube.Runner 1.0.1 Released
[Previous posts]: Build Tasks for SonarQube Analysis, MSBuild and Team Foundation Server integration with SonarQube: version 1.0 released_Today, SonarSource released the MSBuild.SonarQube.Runner 1.0.1,...
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Not Using Visual Studio 2015?
We would love to know more . (Yes, it is a survey and no, it should not take more than 15 minutes and yes, we would love for you to opt-in and share your experiences!)...(read more)
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Supplying Run Time Parameters to Tests
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Optimize for Tiny Victories
I was talking with Dawn C. Hayes, a maker and occasional adjunct processor in NYC earlier this week. We were talking about things like motivation and things like biting off more than we can chew when...
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