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Moving beyond Beginner when 3D Printing and becoming a Handy Person
OK, let's just say it. I'm not that handy and I'll never be handy. I'm consistently impressed with all my friends and family members who put up pictures of their amazing dining room tables made from...
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Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 1 RC 1
Today we’ve released Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 1 RC 1 (Release Candidate 1). This is the newest version of Team Foundation Server (TFS), the collaboration platform at the core of...
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Windows Store Trends – September 2015
This blog is the latest in a recurring series about recent Store trends across categories, markets, and more. Understanding these trends can help you determine what types of apps to build or where to...
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Diabetes Technology: Dexcom G5 CGM Review - So much wasted potential
As you may know, I'm a Type 1 Diabetic and have been for well over 20 years. I wear a Medtronic Insulin Pump 24 hours a day and use a Dexcom CGM (Continuous Glucose Meter) to monitor my blood sugar,...
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Breaking change in TFS 2015 Update 1 for server-side plugins
Since Team Foundation Server 2010, TFS has supported extending its functionality using server-side plugins. These plugins are written against the server object model, and in particular the...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 10563 Released
Today, we released a new Windows 10 SDK Preview and the associated Windows 10 Mobile emulators (Build 10563), to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 10565). The Preview SDK is...
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The Road Ahead for the Feedback Channels
In two earlier posts (Visual Studio Customer Feedback Channels and A Day in the Life of Visual Studio Send a Smile Feedback) we talked about the different ways you could send us feedback for Visual...
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Create more secure apps with less effort (10 by 10)
In our final post of the Windows 10 by 10 development series, we’ll talk about the feature introductions and enhancements in Windows 10 that help you create more secure apps. When we think of security,...
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Bing Predicts goes 10-4 in Week 5, now 48-29 for the year
Each week Bing Predicts picks the winners of every professional football game. Every Wednesday, for the rest of the season, we’ll update our prior week’s results, share our upcoming week’s predictions...
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Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 1 pre-release available
I’m a bit late to this party because we released them about a week ago. I generally try to sync my blog posts but we had a death in the family last week and I just didn’t have the time to deal with...
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Visual Studio Online Update – Oct 8th
Another post I missed last week was an announcement about our sprint 89 deployment for VS Online. You can read the release notes for details.Probably the biggest thing is support for Active Directory...
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Bing makes it easier to find recipes
Food brings people together, whether it’s to celebrate a holiday, gather around the TV for a big game or enjoy an evening with family and friends. For culinary inspiration and support, we know many of...
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New Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Documentation Site and Beginner’s...
Earlier this summer, the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova moved to an open documentation model to engage developers like you to help create an amazing hybrid mobile app development experience. We...
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TFS Office Integration Installer
One of the things I forgot to mention in my post about TFS 2015 Update 1 RC is that we have also shipped a preview of our new TFS Office Integration Installer. This new installer addresses a couple of...
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New Windows 10 application usage in Dev Center
Recently, we released a new feature that provides app usage information to developers in Dev Center.This feature is included in all new Windows 10 (UWP) package submissions and allows developers to...
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Announcing Availability of ASP.NET 5 Beta8
ASP.NET 5 beta8 is now available both on NuGet and as a tooling update to Visual Studio 2015! This release greatly expands the supported surface area of .NET Core on OS X and Linux. You can now use...
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EF7 Beta 8 Available
Today we are making Entity Framework 7 Beta 8 available. EF7 will be the next major release of Entity Framework and is currently in pre-release. EF7 may not be for you… yetEF7 introduces some...
View ArticleBuilding sites and web apps for every device (guest series for npm)
We have talked often about our focus on building a browser that is interoperable with the modern web, and we’re excited to see great results as Windows 10 rolls out – now used on over 110 million...
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/Debug:FASTLINK for VS2015 Update 1
We have made some changes with respect to /DEBUG:FASTLINK starting with Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 CTP. /DEBUG:FASTLINK is aimed at improving link times for the incremental developer loop inside...
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Control how your bower packages are installed with a gulpfile in ASP.NET 5
ASP.NET 5 beta 8 is out. Yes, that's a lot of betas, but it's important to get things right when you're doing something new like this. You can find instructions in our documentation for installing...
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