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Bing Predicts Grammy and British Academy Film Awards Winners
A month into the new year means we’re already a month into award season. If you’ve been following along, last month the Bing Predicts team kicked things off with nominees and predictions for the Golden...
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The week in .NET – 2/2/2016
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 1/25/2016.On.NETOn .NET can now be enjoyed on Channel 9, in addition to our YouTube channel. A nice consequence of this, beyond the additional audience,...
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Free Visual Studio Dev Essentials Program now includes $300 in Azure credits...
In November, we introduced the Visual Studio Dev Essentials Program to give developers everything they need to get started building and deploying apps on any platform, for free.Over the past 75 days...
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Help Increase Your Windows App Usage, Retention, and Monetization with Azure...
Azure Mobile Engagement is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivered platform that enables app user analytics, fine-grain user segmentation and smart, contextually-aware, out-of-app and in-app push...
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Join the Java Tools Challenge – Help make Java great with Visual Studio Team...
Join the Java Tools Challenge and Help Make Java Great with Visual Studio Team Services – submit a winning entry and you or your team will walk away with valuable prizes (cash, hardware and...
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Scripts to import and export process templates from TFS
Have you ever create a project, customized, and then wondered, “how do I extract the entire process template from the project”? Need to update a bunch of projects with the most recent process template?...
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Scripts to import and export process templates from TFS
Have you ever create a project, customized, and then wondered, “how do I extract the entire process template from the project”? Need to update a bunch of projects with the most recent process template?...
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Bing iPhone and Android apps get major updates, new money saving tools
The Bing App for the iPhone is now available for Android phones. This new app brings together the information you need, connected to the apps you trust, to help you “find” and “do” faster and easier...
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Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.2
A few months back we released Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.1 (VSTU), the first release to be natively supported by Unity on Windows, making it much easier for game developers to use the rich...
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Windows Store Trends – February 2016
This blog is the latest in a recurring series highlighting recent Windows Store trends across categories, markets, and more. Understanding these trends can help you determine what types of apps to...
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What is Windows Remote Arduino and What Can It Do?
This post is an overview of the Windows Remote Arduino library, one of the technologies used in the World’s Largest Arduino Maker Challenge.Windows Remote Arduino is an open-source Windows library that...
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Bing analyzes the New Hampshire Democratic debate
Earlier this week, Bing launched the Primaries 2016 experience to provide users a timeline, real-time results and predictions for state primaries and caucuses. The primaries tracker joins the Bing...
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Math Beyond the Madness: Bing Predicts on AreWeIn.net
Three weeks ago, we launched the site Are We In?, which gives you the latest status for whether your favorite college basketball team will or won’t make the tournament. Early feedback has been...
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Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Windows 10
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is part of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), which means that it can be used in all apps targeting Windows 10. With OCR you can extract text and text layout...
View ArticlePackage Management now available in Europe and Australia
When we first released the Package Management preview in November, it was only available in the US – If your VS Team Services account was in some region other than the US, installing the Package...
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VS Team Services incidents on Feb 3 & 4
We had two serious availability incidents in the past 2 days. I’m incredibly sorry for the problems that these have caused. Increasingly we are bringing on more and more customers who rely on this...
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A bit more on the Feb 3 and 4 incidents
Please read my post from yesterday first. Unfortunately I had a family commitment and had to leave early Friday afternoon before the post was complete. I asked someone on my team to finish it and he...
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GitHub Activity Guilt and the Coder's FitBit
I got an interesting email today from Corey P., reprinted in part here, with permission.I’m curious, how you feel about GitHub’s activity graph? I’ve found myself getting increased levels of...
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Visual Studio Team Services Java Tools Challenge
We are committed to making VS Team Services a great solution for all developers – for any application on any platform. For several years now, we’ve had a concerted effort to build a great solution for...
View ArticleTeam Foundation Server 2015 Update 2 RC 1 is available
Today we released TFS 2015 Update 2 RC 1 and VS 2015 Update 2 CTP1. I’m going to talk about TFS here and you can go to the Visual Studio blog to learn more about VS.This release of TFS is a “go-live”...
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