A new book on Team Foundation Server 2015
One of our MVPs, Tarun Arora just published a book on TFS 2015. It covers TFS up to TFS 2015 Update 2. Check it out…http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784391050.Brian
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Last-Minute Valentine’s Day Reservations and Gift Ideas
Valentine’s Day is one more great excuse to shower others with love, whether that’s a significant other, your kids or a close friend. At Bing, we see the largest spike in Valentine’s Day related...
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Adding App Intelligence Tools: Apteligent for Windows 10 App Development
In an effort to expand their user base and brand, developers are deploying on more devices and more platforms every day. This can expose more issues in your apps and more complexity in resolving them....
View ArticleThank you for inspiring us!
With Valentine’s Day this Sunday, now seems like the perfect time to share our appreciation for you, our Bing users. You inspire us to create great experiences, and we have you to thank for our...
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UWP Tile Generator Extension for Visual Studio
Windows 10 comes on a variety of form factors, which means so do your Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps. It’s important to make sure that your app looks great on whatever device the users are...
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Search extensions on Marketplace, Flexible build policy for Git, SCVMM...
We have lot to cover with this week’s deployment. So let’s jump right in ...Package management is now available in Europe and AustraliaYou can download the Package management extension from the Visual...
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Leveraging existing code for Yahoo Mail with Hosted Web Apps
Creating a Hosted Web App (HWA) is a great way to fast track an app into the Windows Store when you already have an existing web app. Yahoo found this out firsthand when they realized they could use...
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Natvis for C++/CLI Available to Preview in VS2015 Update 2
In Visual Studio 2012 the native debugger significantly improved with the addition of native visualizers (natvis) as part of a major debug engine overhaul. Adding C++/CLI code to your project would...
View ArticleDo You Develop Games?
Or have you worked on a game recently?If so, please share some details about your experience. The Microsoft Visual Studio team would like to learn more about your current game development experience....
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Analyze CPU and Memory while Debugging
Would you like to learn how to make your code run faster, use less memory, or just find out whether your code has a CPU or memory issue? Of course you would—you’re a developer! But then, memory and...
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Try out the latest C++ compiler toolset without waiting for the next update...
Last November we announced a prerelease of the Visual C++ Build Tools, a standalone C++ installer for build environments. We asked you for feedback on the experience and truly appreciate the great...
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Node.js: From Zero to Bobble with Visual Studio Code
Node.js is a platform for building fast, scalable applications using JavaScript. It’s making its way just about everywhere – from servers, to Internet of Things devices, to desktop applications, to who...
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The Joy of Live Coding - CodePen, REPLs, TOPLAP, Alive, and more
A few weeks ago I talked about Interactive Coding with C# and F# REPLs. There's a whole generation that seemingly missed out on LIVE CODING. By that, I mean, writing and running code at the same time....
View ArticleThe week in .NET – 2/17/2016
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET 2/11/2016.On.NETLast week, we had Aaron Stannard on the show, to talk about Akka.NET. This week, I’m looking forward to a chat with Joe Duffy about...
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10 things you should try on the leap day
It’s February 2016 and so those of us on the Gregorian calendar get to enjoy an extra day in the month! What will you do in those 24 bonus hours? How about learning some new tools and technologies?...
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Building a Great Hosted Web App
Hosted Web Apps, the Windows bridge for web applications, have become a popular choice among developers for building Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps. It’s no surprise that some of the top apps in...
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Bing Presents Your Guide to the Academy Awards
With the 2016 Academy Awards® less than two weeks away, the Bing team debuts a new and exciting experience with everything you need to fully prepare yourself for the biggest night in Hollywood. As the...
View ArticleOn .NET 2/12/2016 – Aaron Stannard
Our guest for this week is Aaron Stannard, to talk about Akka.NET, the actor framework for .NET, and about Aaron’s other projectsNBench and DotNetty.
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Using the iOS Bridge to Bring Storyboards and Auto Layout to Windows 10
In part one of the Windows Bridge for iOS series, we created a simple to-do list app in Xcode and used the Windows Bridge for iOS to bring it over to Windows 10. In part two of the series, we went on a...
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SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild v2.0 released: support for third-party Roslyn...
We are pleased to announce that SonarSource has officially released version 2.0 of the SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild and version 4.5 of the SonarQube C# Plugin. The release notes for the scanner and...
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