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Bing makes it easier than ever to check your winnings with lottery answers
Recent record-breaking Powerball jackpots have created a lot of excitement over the past few weeks. But frequent lottery related searches aren’t new for Bing. In fact, there are 13 times more...
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Top News from October-December 2015, Part 2
In Part 1 of this post I shared news from the fall on Visual Studio, .NET, ASP.NET, and languages. Here I’ll conclude the roll-up with news around Connect(); //2015, cross-platform development,. Visual...
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What is Windows Virtual Shields for Arduino and What Can It Do?
This post is a general overview of the Windows Virtual Shields for Arduino library, one of the technologies being used in the World’s Largest Arduino Maker Challenge. If you have not heard about the...
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VS Team Services Update – Jan 25th
This week we are deploying the changes from sprints 93 and 94 (they spanned Christmas/New Years so we combined them into a single deployment. You can read the release notes for all the details.As...
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Getting Started with Selenium Testing in a Continuous Integration Pipeline...
Leveraging Donovan’s great DevOps series on building his Ignite Demo here is a walk through for using Selenium with Visual Studio Team Services and the PartsUnlimited sample found at:...
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Visual Studio Walkthrough for iOS Developers
In the previous post in this series, we talked about using the Windows Bride for iOS to create Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps that can run on Windows 10 devices using existing Objective-C code....
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Adding Performance/load test to Azure Web and Mobile App Continuous Deployment
Back in September, we introduced a capability of Performance/Load testing with App Service Plan. You can measure the number of users your app can take before going into the production. You can access...
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Continuous Mobile Beta Distribution and Crash Reporting Using VS Team...
Visual Studio Team Services (formerly Visual Studio Online) and Team Foundation Services 2015 supports a cross-platform build system that allows you to easily configure builds that run on Windows,...
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Apache Cordova development lands on Visual Studio Code
Thousands of developers already use Visual Studio’s Tools for Apache Cordova—affectionately abbreviated as “TACO”—to build mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows using a shared JavaScript codebase....
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Announcing TypeScript 1.8 Beta
Today we are releasing a beta of TypeScript 1.8. There are quite a lot of changes coming in the 1.8 release, so please check them out and send us your feedback. TypeScript 1.8 beta is available for...
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Interactive Coding with C# and F# REPLs (ScriptCS or the Visual Studio...
REPLs are great! REPL stands for Read–eval–print loop and is pronounced "REP-L" quickly, like "battle." Lots of languages and environments have interactive coding and REPLS at their heart and have for...
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Bing analyzes the last GOP debate before Iowa
Since its launch on December 8, the Bing Elections experience has been providing a simple yet powerful view of the candidates and issues through the Bing Political Index (BPI), Candidate Trends, and...
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Insert GUIDs directly into Visual Studio Code
Let me preface this by stating I love Visual Studio Code! While I think its big, older brother Visual Studio is great for large solutions or even small projects where project files are managed...
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Sending ASP.NET WebHooks from Azure WebJobs
Azure WebJobs is a great way for running any kind of script or executable as a background process in connection with an App Service Web App. You can upload an executable or script as a WebJob and run...
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Bing Predicts: Carolina expected to win their first title
The pro football season comes to an end with a contest between the top seeds in the two conferences. In Sunday’s title game, the Bing Predicts models project 17-1 Carolina to win the Big Game with 64%...
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Your Version Control Experiences
The Visual C++ Team team would like to learn more about your source code management experiences across development tools, languages (especially C/C++), target platforms and project types. Please take a...
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On .NET 1/26/2016 - NATS with Brian Flannery and Colin Sullivan
This week, our guests are Brian Flannery and Colin Sullivan from Apcera. We're talking about NATS, a high performance messaging system with a great .NET client.The NATS web site can be found at...
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An Update on ASP.NET Core and .NET Core
Two weeks ago, the ASP.NET team announced during the weekly ASP.NET Community Standup and on our blogs it was decided to rename ASP.NET 5 to ASP.NET Core 1.0. This announcement generated great...
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Visual Studio Team Services (formerly Visual Studio Online) and Team Foundation Services 2015 supports a cross-platform build system that allows you to easily configure builds that run on Windows,...
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For months the team has been working on migrating our msdn blogs off of the “old” blogging system we used onto WordPress. In the last few days, my blog was migrated and is now running on WordPress....
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