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The new work item form
It's been a long journey, but I'm excited to let you know that the new work item form for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is finally here! In this post, I want to walk you through the reasoning...
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Cloud Load Test Build Task information
We are updating the Visual Studio Team Services Build Steps and thought these topics would be of interest: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/Library/vs/alm/Build/steps/index. If you want to create your...
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Did You See: Improve Your Build Times With IncrediBuild and Visual Studio 2015
Did you see this post Improving your build times with IncrediBuild and Visual Studio 2015 on the Visual Studio blog? IncrediBuild is a software acceleration technology that allows builds, tests, and...
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Asset creation for holographic apps
We’re now a week into the Share Your Idea and the community has suggested over 3,000 ideas. Keep the ideas coming, and don’t forget to tell us which ideas are your favorite by voting for ideas (click...
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6 Great Webinars including: Building Building a DevOps practice step-by-step
Northwest Cadence and Rennie Araucto are offering a bunch of great webinars to bring in the Holidays and your New Year.Unleash your DevOps potential with Visual Studio Enterprise! Dec. 15 | 9am |...
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Azure Helps Browser-based Startup Grow Exponentially and Affordably
Dealing with the challenges of scaling a small startup from 10,000 to 400,000 users is a great problem to have. But that doesn’t make the problem simple to solve, especially in an efficient and...
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The week in .NET - 12/15/2015
We have some great content and news for you this week. I can't emphasize enough that this weekly post couldn't exist without community contributions, and I'd like to thank all those who sent links and...
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Installing the Unreal Engine in Visual Studio
As previously announced, Visual Studio has partnered with some of the most popular game engines to bring you an easy acquisition experience for game development tools. Today we are pleased to confirm...
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Your Bing Guide for the Holidays
‘Tis the season to be jolly and the Bing team is excited to help spread the holiday cheer! From movies to music to baked goods and more, there’s something for everyone. But before you dive into our...
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The Official Wall Street Journal App for Windows 10 is Available Today
Microsoft is excited to announce the official Wall Street Journal app for Windows 10 is available today. We couldn’t be happier bringing the winner of 36 Pulitzer Prizes for outstanding journalism to...
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Bing Predicts goes 9-7 in Week 14, now 131-77 for the year
Our latest predicted playoff positioning has New England still in 1st place with Denver 2nd as our models still have Denver beating Cincinnati in Week 16. Green Bay, holding a one game lead, could lose...
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PHP Build Task from Cory Fowler’s DevOps PHPWorld Presentation
As you may have seen from the DevOps presentation I have been hanging out with Cory lately…For his PHPWorld Presentation we teamed up to see how hard it would be to get our DevOps demo working with...
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Release Management Workflow Migrator
Looking to export a Release Management agent based deployment pipeline so that it can be reused in the Release Management service in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)?We have released a migration tool...
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Building an app for a 3rd party? How to package their Store app
(This article is specific to Windows 10 UWP application packaging although it does generally apply to the packaging of Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 UAP apps.)If you’re a publisher developing your...
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Developer Division’s transformation to DevOps by Sam Guckenheimer
Good friend and coworker, Sam Guckenheimer presented at a recent Gartner conference how we changed the developer division from shipping a box product ~every year to delivering value every week with...
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WCF Connected Service Visual Studio Extension Preview for ASP.NET 5 Projects
Over the years, many Visual Studio developers have enjoyed the productivity that Add Service Reference Dialog Box provided when their projects need to access Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)...
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Support for Android CMake projects in Visual Studio
CMake is a cross-platform project generator that enables reuse of shared C++ code across multiple IDE and project systems. We made a change to CMake to support our Android toolchain in Visual Studio ....
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Bing shares insights from response to the GOP debates
Last week we released a new Bing Elections experience that provides a simple but powerful view of the candidates and issues. As a complement to this, we want to share additional analysis on the...
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NPR One on the Universal Windows Platform
Earlier this year, NPR released a Windows 8 version of NPR One for Windows, and recently, a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) version. They were eager to share their challenges and developer experiences...
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Failure when upgrading from VS2015 RTM to VS2015 with Update 1
If you have Visual Studio 2015 RTM installed and attempt to install Visual Studio 2015 with Update 1, you may see a failure like the screenshot that reads,KB3022398 This action is only valid for...
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