The week in .NET - 1/12/2015
To read last week's post, see The week in .NET - 1/5/2015.On.NETLast week, we had Mads Torgersen on the show to talk about language design in general, and C# in particular. This week, we'll talk to...
View ArticleVisual Studio keeps showing suggested extensions
In Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 we introduced a mechanism that would analyze a web project and suggest helpful Visual Studio extensions based on what it could find. For instance, if the project was...
View ArticleBing Predicts: No place like home, especially for those coming off of byes
Dorothy said there’s no place like home, and despite a perfect run by the road teams wild card weekend, the Bing Predicts models project that the aggregate of home field, better record (and hence the...
View ArticleWallabyJS is a slick and powerful test runner for JavaScript in your IDE or...
I was reminded by a friend to explore WallabyJS this week. I had looked at WallabyJS a while back when it was less mature but I hadn't installed a more recent version. WOW. It's coming along nicely and...
View ArticleCollege Basketball Fans, Are We In? Bing Predicts Your Team’s Fate
This following blog post was guest written by ESPN College Basketball Analyst, Jay Williams.Two months from today is the most critical day of the college basketball season, Selection Sunday. Dozens of...
View ArticleBuild 2016 Registration Opens Jan. 19
Microsoft continues to focus on enabling developers to do amazing work as businesses and industries transform in support of the shift to a cloud-first, mobile-first world. As we kick off 2016 our...
View ArticleUnit Testing Apache Cordova Apps with Visual Studio, Part 2
Part 1 of this post provided some background on unit testing with a basic example in Visual Studio for an app written with Apache Cordova. In this post we’ll make many improvements to that example...
View ArticleThe Basics of Background Audio
Background audio in a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app is a powerful way to provide a more seamless audio experience to your users. This post will walk you through setting up background audio,...
View ArticleIdentities and Work Item Tracking in TFS 2015
In Team Foundation Server 2015 we introduced identity fields which made significant changes to how the Work Item Tracking (WIT) system handles identity values. These changes help modernize the...
View ArticleGive your apps more visibility – six recommendations for 2016
We are often asked what criteria the Windows Store uses to determine which apps to feature, as well as what developers can do to make their app more visible in the Store. Below I describe six...
View ArticleIdentities and Work Item Tracking in TFS 2015
In Team Foundation Server 2015 we introduced identity fields which made significant changes to how the Work Item Tracking (WIT) system handles identity values. These changes help modernize the...
View ArticleMy Next Adventure
After 8 years in Visual Studio engineering helping .NET developers build awesome software and learn from each other, I’ve decided to take a new role at Microsoft as Product Marketing Manager for .NET....
View ArticleBing Predicts: New England, Carolina still on track for title game showdown
Bing Predicts was 4-0 over a Divisional Round weekend, which saw all four home teams victorious by exactly a touchdown – Arizona just didn’t need to kick the extra point to make it a 7 point margin as...
View ArticleASP.NET 5 is dead - Introducing ASP.NET Core 1.0 and .NET Core 1.0
Naming is hard.There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. - Phil KarltonIt's very easy to armchair quarterback and say that "they should have named it Foo...
View ArticleASP.NET 5 is dead - Introducing ASP.NET Core 1.0 and .NET Core 1.0
This post originally appeared on Scott Hanselman's blog at: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ASPNET5IsDeadIntroducingASPNETCore10AndNETCore10.aspxNaming is hard.There are only two hard things in Computer...
View ArticleVisual Studio Marketplace hits a major milestone – 1 million page views and...
At Connect() we announced the Public Preview of Visual Studio Marketplace– the one place to discover and acquire extensions, integrations and subscriptions for the Visual Studio family of products.On...
View ArticlePull Request Improvements in Visual Studio Team Services
Code Review with pull request is a central part of every git developer's inner loop. Over the past few months, we've added a number of improvements to the pull request web experience for Visual Studio...
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