What's new for .NET and UWP in Win10 Tools 1.1
This post was written by Lucian Wischik, Program Manager on the Managed Languages team.Last week we updated the Visual Studio tools for Universal Windows Apps. The easiest way to get the update is...
View ArticleBing predicts the most popular fall TV shows and releases new entertainment...
Autumn has arrived and we’re ringing in the season with a new round of Bing Predicts for fall TV shows. These forecasts include which series will be the biggest hits and predictions for who will reign...
View ArticleDebug Visualizers in Visual C++ 2015
When debugging your native applications, it is often useful to view the values of the objects in memory in a specific way, whether that be with custom string formatting, or even performing an operation...
View ArticleQuickstart: Analyzing .NET projects with SonarQube, MSBuild or Visual Studio...
[Previous posts]: Build Tasks for SonarQube Analysis, MSBuild.SonarQube.Runner 1.0.1 ReleasedThis post provides a quick-start guide to using SonarQube to analyze .NET managed code. It covers installing...
View ArticleBing Predicts goes 11-5 in Week 3, predicts upsets by Dallas, Pittsburgh and...
Each week, Bing Predicts chooses the winners of every professional football game. Every Tuesday for the rest of the season, we’ll update our prior week’s results, share our upcoming week’s predictions...
View ArticleLumia Imaging SDK 3.0 now available with UWP support
Lumia Imaging SDK, a popular toolset that Microsoft also internally uses to implement some of its imaging apps, has been updated to version 3.0. Previous versions of the SDK have already powered...
View ArticleReview: TP-Link AC3200 (Archer C3200) Wireless Router
I've always been a Linksys or NetGear router person. I loved the legendary Linksys WRT54G and ran DD-WRT on it for years. A while back I updated my router to the Linksys WRT1900AC. This router was...
View ArticleVS Online Update – Sept 18
Sorry for being so late on this one. The last couple of weeks have been very hectic for me and I’ve mostly had to ignore my blog.Last week we finished rolling out our sprint 88 work. You can read...
View ArticleAnnouncing the ASP.NET WebHooks Visual Studio Extension Preview
After a few days of work, I’m excited to introduce you to the ASP.NET WebHooks preview support we’ve put together for Visual Studio developers. This tool bootstraps your ASP.NET project with the NuGet...
View ArticleIntelliTest for .NET - Test More with Less (effort)
Writing a suit of unit tests that exhaustively exercise and validate the logic of the code under test is not easy. It can even be considered too expensive to do at all. Fortunately, the IntelliTest...
View ArticleWindows 10 development for absolute beginners
The absolute beginners series is back for Windows 10. It doesn’t matter if you’re a pro dev or just starting out, there’s valuable content for everyone. If you’re looking for a faster pace content...
View ArticleAsynchronous code gets easier with ES2016 Async Function support in Chakra...
While we work on rounding out our ES6/ES2015 support, the Chakra team is already looking ahead to ES2016 and, especially, to Async Functions. Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Async...
View ArticleAnnouncing Git-LFS on all VSO Git repos
All Visual Studio Online Git repos now support Git-LFS, with unlimited free storage! Git-LFS is an extension to Git that replaces large files in your repo with placeholder files, and stores the...
View ArticleApplication Insights retiring on VSO Portal & blogging on Azure Blogs
If you’re still using the older version of Application Insights in the Visual Studio Online portal, you’ll have to update your application to use the new version hosted in the Azure Preview portal by...
View ArticleAnnouncing Tools for Apache Cordova (aka TACO) v1.0.0
We are excited to announce the first official (aka 1.0.0) release of the TACO CLI today!Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO, for short) provides number of utilities for Mac and Windows users to develop with...
View ArticleAdding polish to improve the look and feel of your app (10×10)
Designing an app isn’t about patterns or controls—it’s about creating a great experience for your users, every time. While you’re designing with the optimal user experience (UX) in mind, you also have...
View ArticleAnnouncing Visual Studio Debug Engine Extensibility Samples
In Visual Studio 2012, the we introduced a new debug engine code-named “Concord”. In Visual Studio 2012, Concord was used only for native debugging. Starting with Visual Studio 2013, Concord is used...
View ArticleIntroducing ASP.NET WebHooks Receivers - WebHooks made easy.
There's been a lot of enthusiasm lately about the direction that ASP.NET is going lately, and rightfully so. Support for running ASP.NET on Mac, Linux, and Windows, all happening on GitHub at...
View ArticleHow we use User Voice to make a better product
To increase our engagement with our customers, we created the Visual Studio User Voice site to capture your feedback for Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Visual Studio Online (VSO). Since then more...
View ArticleProcess Template changes to TFS 2015 RTM
With the release of TFS 2015, we have also updated the process templates. All of these changes were done to:Add support for SAFeAdd an additional portfolio level called “Epic”Respond to user...
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