Ride Search Wave into Election Data and See Super Tuesday Bing Predictions
Tomorrow is Super Tuesday and a big day for presidential candidates, with each party holding 11 state primaries and caucuses– the most on a single day during this campaign. This also concludes the...
View ArticleWindows 10 IoT Core support for Raspberry Pi 3
This morning, the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced availability of their new board—the Raspberry Pi 3. We’re excited to have Windows 10 support the new board via a new Windows 10 IoT Core Insider...
View ArticleDeveloping C++ cross-platform projects with CMake?
Do you develop cross-platform C++ applications or libraries? In this short survey, the Microsoft Visual Studio team would like to learn more about your current edit-build-debug experience.This survey...
View ArticleThe week in .NET – 3/1/2016
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 2/23/2016.On.NETLast week, we had a fun, slightly chaotic discussion with Scott Hanselman. This week, our guest is Rachel Reese, and we’ll talk about...
View ArticleOn .NET 2/26/2016 – Scott Hanselman
This week, our guest was Scott Hanselman. The topic was highly volatile and subject to complete improvisation.
View ArticleWorld’s Largest Arduino Maker Challenge
Makers have a passion for building things from things they just find interesting to solutions that make our lives easier. In support of that ideal we’d like to call all inventors, artists, hardware...
View ArticleBuilding a media-centric Hosted Web App
In our previous post, we kicked off our series on Hosted Web Apps (also known as Project Westminster) by publishing Building a Great Hosted Web App. Today, we’ll show how an existing website that uses...
View ArticleWindows Store analytics API now available
Today Dev Center released the Windows Store analytics API, which provides analytics information for your Windows Store apps without requiring logging into Dev Center. Using a REST API you can retrieve...
View ArticleNotes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – March 1, 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 ArticleThe Importance of the LED Moment - I DID THAT
Last March my friend Saron and I created MarchIsForMakers.com and spent the whole month creating and learning with hardware. It's March again! We're going to spend the whole month of March adding to...
View ArticleLearn Windows Holographic Today
The day we’ve all been waiting for has arrived. After a year of building excitement, Alex Kipman has announced that invitations to preorder the Microsoft HoloLens Development Edition are starting to go...
View ArticlefsharpConf 2016
Join us this Friday, March 4th on Channel 9 for the first ever fsharpConf! Tune in starting at 8:30am PST (16:30 GMT).Inspired by dotNetConf, fsharpConf is a free, online-only, day-long conference...
View ArticleNew and Noteworthy Visual Studio Extensions – Feburary 2016
Last month I showed you a few of my favorite Visual Studio extensions that give great examples of how developers add new features to Visual Studio. With such a vibrant ecosystem around Visual Studio,...
View ArticleHockeyApp available through the Visual Studio marketplace
HockeyApp is a fantastic tool for managing mobile devops. It includes capabilities to publish apps to a select group of “beta testers”, to collect feedback from those testers and to gather and analyze...
View ArticleLinking Work Items to Git Branches, Commits, and Pull Requests
If you’re a developer working on a team that uses Git, you’re probably using some form of topic branching to isolate your work. If you’re using any of the Agile tools in Visual Studio Team Services,...
View ArticleMicrosoft and the NCAA Announce 2016 NCAA Tournament Game Plan
Since we began Bing Predicts in 2014, we’ve made lots of predictions around some of the most important cultural moments.Today, we’re announcing that we’ll be partnering once again with the NCAA to...
View ArticleConnect your Windows app to Azure IoT Hub with Visual Studio
Hello, Makers!A key part of being productive is having great tools. For developers, this can make the difference between a successful app that delights our users and a project that never got off the...
View ArticleTFS 2015 RC2 and VS 2015 Update 2 RC are available
Today we released release candidate 2 of TFS 2015 Update 2 and the release candidate of Visual Studio 2015 Update 2.Download TFS 2015 Update 2 RC 2TFS Release notesDownload VS 2015 Update 2 RCVS...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2015 Update 2 RC
Today we released the next set of reliability and performance improvements in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 RC, which also addresses issues that we hear from your continued feedback.Building on what we...
View Article.NET Framework Compatibility Diagnostics
This post was written by Taylor Southwick, a software engineer on the .NET team.IntroductionUpdates to the .NET Framework 4 are delivered as highly-compatible in-place updates, which helps keep users’...
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