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Apache Cordova Face-to-Face Meeting, Fall 2015
Microsoft hosted an in-person meeting in mid-October for Apache Cordova committers and developers. The goal was to two-fold: (1) advance conversations around Apache Cordova's future road map and (2)...
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Using the Surface Pro 4 Type Cover with Fingerprint Reader on a Surface Pro 3
Last year in August I went and bought a Surface Pro 3 with my own money (it's not machine that work paid for) and I've been very happy with it. Now the Surface Pro 4 came out, and well, it's silly to...
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Visual Studio Online Update – Oct 30
As usual, you can read the release notes for this update on visualstudio.com.One of the most popular improvements released this sprint are our new dashboards. We’ve been dogfooding them internally for...
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Bing Predicts goes 13-1 in Week 8, now 80-39 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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VS 2015 Update 1 RC & TFS 2015 Update 1 RC2 Released
We just released our final “pre-release” of Update 1 for Team Foundation Server 2015 and Visual Studio 2015. Lots of useful links are available here:Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 RC Release NotesTeam...
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Introducing C++ Experimental Editor Tools!
Hello C++ World! At various times during our development cycle here in the C++ IDE, our developers start working on features that we believe can bring a lot of value to customers, but sometimes we just...
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What about Async/Await?
We’ve heard your feedback that you’re excited about async/await in TypeScript. Async/await allows developers to write to asynchronous code flows as if they were synchronous, removing the need for...
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MSBuild.SonarQube.Runner v1.0.2 released (and renamed)
Yesterday, SonarSource officially released SonarQube C# Plugin 4.3 and version 1.0.2 of the MSBuild.SonarQube.Runner. An updated version of the MSBuild.SonarQube.Runner documentation has also been...
View ArticleSHA-1 Deprecation Update
In a previous update on TechNet, we announced that Windows will block SHA-1 signed TLS certificates starting on January 1, 2017. In light of recent advances in attacks on the SHA-1 algorithm, we are...
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Extending Office everywhere
Today more than 1 billion people use Microsoft Office, spending on average 2-3 hours a day in Office apps. Developers are reaching this global Office customer base by extending the familiar Office...
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Developer update for Microsoft Band
It’s been a year since we launched Microsoft Band and Microsoft Health. We’ve made a commitment to the developer community to make our ecosystem open and accessible on every platform. Since then, we...
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Talk with our Apache Cordova Tooling team, live!
In the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova team, we’re always looking for ways to connect with developers using our tools to create mobile apps. Starting next week, we’re taking a cue from the...
View ArticleWindow Store app submission deadlines for the upcoming holidays
Every year the Windows Store, similar to all major retailers, sees a large increase in user downloads and purchases. Last year the holiday months of November, December and January generated 40% more...
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Using Redis as a Service in Azure to speed up ASP.NET applications
Microsoft Azure has a Redis Cache as a Service. There's two tiers. Basic is a single cache node, and Standard is as a complete replicated Cache (two nodes, with automatic failover). Microsoft manages...
View ArticleAdd video interstitial ads to your Windows Store apps
This past August we announced the Microsoft Universal Ad Client SDK with support for video interstitial ads and ad mediation. Video interstitials are full screen video ads, 20-30 seconds, that...
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Java debugging and language support in Visual Studio for Android
As part of our continued efforts to make Visual Studio a productive environment for developing mobile applications we’re pleased to announce that Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 RC adds support for...
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Marshmallow (API 23) now available in the Visual Studio Emulator for Android
Today we’re excited to announce the availability of Marshmallow images in the Visual Studio Emulator for Android. Marshmallow (Android version 6.0, API Level 23) is the latest release of Android, and...
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Visual Studio Emulator for Android Release Notes
This post will be updated each release of the Visual Studio Emulator for Android as a changelog and complete listing of new features.Release NotesNovember 2015Version 1.0.51106.3Includes:Marshmallow...
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Updates to Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks Preview
We just released Beta4 of ASP.NET WebHooks Preview with a nice set of new features based on feedback and help from the community! Always let us know what you think – either by raising a issue on GitHub...
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Team Foundation Server 2015 Management Pack is available
It’s been a painfully and embarrassingly long time coming but the SCOM Management Pack for TFS 2015 is finally available. Give it a spin and let us know if you have any feedback.Download TFS 2015...
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