New fields bring Kanban goodness to queries, and more
In VSO, the Kanban board is your control room. Like traditional switchboards and status indicators, the board empowers teams with mission critical information: which work items are in progress, where...
View ArticleMicrosoft Connect (); // 2015 Developer Event Set for November 18-19
Microsoft is a developer company, so there’s nothing we love more than connecting with developers to share our latest tools, technologies and plans for the future. I therefore invite you to set your...
View ArticleDo You Prefer Fast or Precise?
What is this Blog About? My name is Jim Hogg, a Program Manager in the Compilers team. We would like your feedback on a feature of the Visual C++ compiler that affects the code we generate for...
View ArticleMore Countries, More Languages, Improved targeting when buying ads to promote...
In June, we launched a feature in Dev Center that allows you to purchase ads to promote your app. This feature is one of several options available to promote your app, including Windows Store badges,...
View ArticleApplication Performance Analysis Survey
My name is Nikhil, and I'm a Program Manager on the Visual Studio team. Our team has been investing heavily in making it easier to solve performance problems in your applications.If you have two...
View Article.NET Core and ASP.NET Launches a Beta Bug Bounty Program.
A guest post from Barry Dorrans, the security lead for ASP.NETToday, with great excitement, we announce an introductory 3 month bug bounty program for .NET Core and ASP.NET, our new open source, cross...
View ArticleBing Predicts goes 9-5 in Week 6, now 57-34 for the year
Each week Bing Predicts picks the winners of every professional football game. By every Wednesday, for the rest of the season, we’ll update our prior week’s results, share our upcoming week’s...
View ArticleIntegrating Visual Studio Code with dnx-watch to develop ASP.NET 5 applications
Visual Studio Code is a great cross platform code editor that is also free. You can get it at code.visualstudio.com for Mac, Windows, or Linux. It's great for web development, and particularly shines...
View ArticleBing Maps imagery used in children’s book to make it more personal
Lost My Name, a publishing and technology start up that is revolutionizing story-driven personalized entertainment for kids, has launched a new children’s book call “The Incredible Intergalactic...
View ArticleMemory Profiling in Visual C++ 2015
As announced in an earlier blog post , Visual Studio 2015 hosts a new set of memory profiling tools to help address and fix memory issues within your applications. The new debug-time profiler runs...
View ArticleMSDN Magazine: Special Windows 10 Issue
MSDN magazine has released a special Windows 10 issue. The issue spans a large number of topics from Visual Studio tooling to game development to user experience to notifications.If you don’t get the...
View ArticleIt's happening - OpenSSH for Windows...from Microsoft
Back in June the folks over at the Microsoft PowerShell blog indicated they were going to support SSH in Windows soon. I read the post a few times and I must admit I read deeply between the lines and...
View ArticleNew Java documentation subsite for Visual Studio Online
Demonstrating Microsoft's continued commitment to enabling Java developers to fully utilize Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Visual Studio Online (VSO), we have launched a documentation subsite...
View ArticleApache Cordova Customer Spotlight: WeatherPerfect
In this blog we typically share updates and improvements to Visual Studio itself. We also want to highlight examples of how developers use these tools to build compelling mobile apps.Meet Sverre...
View ArticleTeam Foundation Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA
Expanding our support for Java IDEs and following in the footsteps of our Eclipse plugin, today we are announcing a preview of the Team Foundation Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA that works with IntelliJ IDEA...
View ArticleWindows 10 UWP app templates for Adobe Photoshop
Until now, Universal Windows Platform app design templates were only available in Adobe Illustrator and PowerPoint. Sparked by your feedback at Build 2015, the UWP design templates now include Adobe...
View ArticleCortana and Bing help get you in the Halloween spirit
Halloween is creeping up. Whether you need a terrifying costume for your dog, tips for carving the perfect pumpkin, or a recipe to concoct a bubbling potion for your party, Bing can help. Using the top...
View ArticleHappy Halloween from Bing Maps!
Boo!Halloween is around the corner, and it is one of our favorite holidays. This year, thanks to our customers and fans who contributed so many ideas, we released the new Bing Maps. As a way to show...
View ArticleNuGet Package of the Week: Microphone registers and discovers Web APIs and...
I'm sitting on a plane on the way back from a lovely time in Europe. I attended and spoke at some great conferences and met some cool people - some of which you'll hear on the podcast soon. Anyway, one...
View ArticleBing Predicts goes 10-4 in Week 7, now 67-38 for the year
Each week Bing Predicts picks the winners of every professional football game. By every Wednesday, for the rest of the season, we’ll update our prior week’s results, share our upcoming week’s...
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