Using the Microsoft Affiliate Program to earn additional 7% on Windows Store...
Windows Store offers several ways to earn revenue, including paid apps, in-app purchases, and in-app advertising. New with Windows 10 is one additional option that not all developers are taking...
View ArticleNotes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – March 15, 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 ArticleBind a Visual Studio solution to a SonarQube project provisions and...
A few weeks ago, we announced the SonarQube scanner for MSBuild 2.0 supports 3rd party Roslyn analyzers. This has been working for the continuous integration build. In this blog post we are announcing...
View ArticleSonarQube: SDK to build plugins for Roslyn Analyzers released
Last month we announced the pre-release version of the SDK for SonarQube Roslyn Analyzer Plugins, the purpose of which is to create a SonarQube plugin for a Roslyn analyzer. We are pleased to announce...
View ArticleOpen Sourcing the Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools
We’re excited to announce that we’re open-sourcing the Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools on GitHub.Productivity Power Tools, first released in 2010, is a pack of powerful extensions to improve...
View ArticleUWP, Azure App Services, and DocumentDB Soup: A photo-sharing app
SnapGold is a photo-sharing UWP code sample that runs on Azure App Services and uses Azure DocumentDB and Azure Blob Storage for its data storage. You should be able to get this sample running locally...
View Article10th anniversary of Team Foundation Server
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the day we shipped the first version of TFS – TFS 2005. It doesn’t seem that long ago but we sure have come a long way. The other day I recorded a Radio TFS...
View ArticleCloud-load testing: rich reports in the web
As perf. engineers run load tests, they not only want to analyze a load test run, but also obtain a quick overview of the key metrics, identify problem areas to focus on, view diagnostic information to...
View ArticleWin an epic trip and a chance to be featured on the Bing Homepage
Calling all outdoor lovers and photo enthusiasts! Bing is partnering with the U.S. National Park Service for their centennial, and we want you to be part of the celebration. Now through March 30 you...
View ArticleSOC compliance certification for VS Team Services
We take the protection of customer data very seriously and work hard to ensure your data is safe and that we comply with expected policies in all the regions in which we operate. Earlier this month we...
View ArticleRemote Debug ASP.NET Core RC1 on Azure App Service
ASP.NET developers who deploy their code to Azure App Service have remote debugging features available from the Visual Studio Server and Cloud Explorer windows. ASP.NET 4x projects can be debugged live...
View ArticleOn .NET 3/10/2016 – Nick Craver on StackOverflow Performance
This week, our guest is Nick Craver, to talk about StackOverflow performance.You can also read Nick’s report on 2016 perf.
View ArticleThe week in .NET – 3/22/2016
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 3/15/2016.BuildNext week, many of us will be in San Francisco for the Build conference. This is a very exciting opportunity for us to present our latest...
View ArticleIntroducing R Tools for Visual Studio
R is a programming language that is widely used by data scientists, and developers seeking a more powerful tool to work with data. While data scientists use R to write programs, their work product is...
View ArticleKeeping your Hosted Web App secure
Hosted Web Apps running on Windows 10 benefit from the web platform improvements and updates implemented in Microsoft Edge, the default bowser of Windows 10. That same web platform and its new...
View ArticleNotes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – March 22, 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 ArticleUsing parallel environments and release promotion in test automation
I had earlier blogged about how we use Release Management to run our test automation in the RM team. Since then, RMO has added support for parallel environments (with the S94 payload), and we have...
View ArticleHow to set up a Raspberry Pi 3 from scratch (with video)!
MarchIsForMakers continues! It's my month-long collaboration with Saron from CodeNewbie. We've had some amazing guests on our respective podcasts and some great technical content. Please do check it...
View ArticleGet Started with ASP.NET Core Authorization – Part 2 of 2
After learning about the new Authorization Policy model in ASP.NET Core, our intrepid reporter Seth Juarez wanted to learn about more complicated ASP.NET Authorization policies. In the following...
View ArticleNow Rate and Review extensions on Marketplace!
As the number of extensions on the Visual Studio Marketplace grew, we felt the need to have a mechanism to provide feedback and easily differentiate extensions. Today we are glad to announce a Rating...
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