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ASP.NET Community Standup – February 16, 2016
This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of...
View ArticleBook on Continuous Deployment
Another good book recently hit the virtual shelves – this one on Continuous Deployment with TFS and VS Team Services. The book covers both the principles and practices around continuous delivery, as...
View ArticleOn .NET 2/19/2016 – Joe Duffy
On today’s show, we’re speaking with Joe Duffy about Midori.Joe’s posts about Midori are a great complement to this video.
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Windows App Studio February 2016 update – agenda layout, searching in apps,...
The Windows App Studio team is excited to announce a new update to the service that went live this morning, and this update is packed with robust new features. This update is the first of 2016 and...
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Develop ReactNative apps in Visual Studio Code
ReactNative is a great way to build native, cross platform app for iOS and Android using JavaScript. We recently announced the launch of a Visual Studio Code Extension that enables you to build, debug...
View ArticleAnnouncing TypeScript 1.8
Today we are thrilled to announce the release of TypeScript 1.8. In the TypeScript 1.8 Beta release blog post, we highlighted some of the key features that are now available to TypeScript users – how...
View ArticleNew Options for Managing Character Sets in the Microsoft C/C++ Compiler
The Microsoft C/C++ compiler has evolved along with DOS, 16-bit Windows, and 32/64-bit Windows. Its support for different characters sets, code pages, and Unicode has also changed during this time....
View ArticleImprovements to Windows Store apps and games visibility
Windows Store has received feedback from some developers who were not able to find their apps in the Store and we’ve been working hard to improve app visibility. In addition to improving app...
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Porting MSBuild to .NET Core
This post was written by Daniel Plaisted, a software engineer on the .NET Team.It’s an exciting time for .NET. With .NET Core, we’re moving full speed ahead into an open source, cross-platform world....
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Find Your Oscar Nominee Look-Alike
Do you know which celebrity you most resemble? We do! Even better, we know which Oscar nominated celebrity you look most like based on our new Bing image search experience, CelebsLike.me. This fun...
View ArticleThe week in .NET – 2/23/2016
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 2/17/2016.On.NETLast week, Joe Duffy was on the show to talk about Midori. This week, we had to move the show to Friday at 1:30PM Pacific Time, but...
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Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – Feb. 23, 2016
This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of...
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Stuck on an older toolset version? Move to Visual Studio 2015 without...
Are you currently developing your C++ projects in an older version of Visual Studio? If your reasons for avoiding the all-new features in VS 2015 are covered next, then read on: this post may have good...
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Pull Request integration in IntelliJ and Android Studio
The Visual Studio Team Services plugin for IntelliJ and Android Studio now has support for pull requests.This feature is part of a series of essential developer workflows our Java teams are planning to...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 14267 Released
Today, we released a new Windows 10 SDK Preview to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 14267 or greater). The Preview SDK is a pre-release and cannot be used in a production...
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Welcoming the Xamarin team to Microsoft
As the role of mobile devices in people's lives expands even further, mobile app developers have become a driving force for software innovation. At Microsoft, we are working to enable even greater...
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Benchmarking .NET code
A while back I did a post called Proper benchmarking to diagnose and solve a .NET serialization bottleneck. I also had Matt Warren on my podcast and we did an episode called Performance as a...
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Top news from January 2016
The year has gotten off to a great start and it seems that .NET, the web, and TypeScript get the prize for the most popular topics!ASP.NET 5 is dead: Did we get your attention with that heading? Well,...
View ArticleAn Update on the Developer Opportunity and Windows 10
At Build last year, we unveiled our Bridges strategy and our commitment to provide developers with tools to accelerate bringing their apps to Windows 10 devices. Our goal is to make it easy for...
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Running Apache JMeter based load tests in the cloud – how to
Sometime ago, we announced that the cloud-based load testing service in Visual Studio Team Services could be used to run Apache JMeter based load tests. We are happy to let you know that this feature...
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