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Faster, Leaner, Focused on Your Development Needs: The New Visual Studio...
Visual Studio continues to grow in power and capability with each release. Our objective is to provide every developer with the tools you need to be successful whether you’re building mobile, cloud, or...
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A Vision For Visual Studio 2015: Take on Dependencies. Stay Productive.
When it comes to leveraging OSS and other reusable components, developers have more options today than ever before. Productivity gains from taking on external dependencies can evaporate quickly though,...
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Lightweight C++ Installation in Visual Studio “15”
Recently at the //build conference, we announced a preview of a new installation experience for Visual Studio that gives you a more focused subset of the tools you need, and minimizes the impact to...
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What’s New for C# and VB in Visual Studio
This week at Build 2016, we released Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 and Visual Studio “15” Preview. Both releases include many new language features that you can try today. It’s safe to install both...
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What’s New for C# and VB in Visual Studio
This week at Build 2016, we released Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 and Visual Studio “15” Preview. Both releases include many new language features that you can try today. It’s safe to install both...
View ArticleThe Most Searched Moments of NCAA® March Madness®
Is March NOT the best month of the year for basketball? Every year college hoops fans go into the NCAA® tournament with the high hope of creating a perfect bracket, and the more realistic aspiration...
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Best of Build 2016
This year’s //build/ is focused on the many things you can do with Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps. You can deploy to more devices than ever before, from the Xbox to the HoloLens. You can even...
View ArticleBuild 2016 Wrap up
We had an amazing time at the Build 2016 conference last week. We learned a lot from you our customers and we hope you learned a lot in our sessions. However, we don’t want to limit the Build content...
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Visual Studio TACO Update 8 and new Ionic templates
Last week we announced many new Visual Studio updates, including Ionic support in the Cordova Extension for Visual Studio Code, and Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO) Update 8. In this post,...
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Deploy artifacts from OnPrem TFS server with Release Management Service
[Update on 5 Apr 2016: This feature is not available again. You’ll need to install the External TFS Tools extension for it to work now. It is recommended to update any Release definitions that have...
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Azure Active Directory (AAD) Authentication Plug-in for SonarQube
The AAD OAuth2 provider for SonarQube enables AAD users to automatically be sign up and authenticated on a SonarQube server.Depending on the OAuth 2.0 providers you have enabled on the SonarQube...
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Using C++ Coroutines to simplify async UWP code
The Universal Windows Platform (UWP) introduced many async APIs; there are now almost 1700 of them. In fact, the team switched every API that could take 50ms or more to complete to async mode.Coding...
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Visual Studio 15: Installing Just What You Need
Over the past year, we’ve had the opportunity to chat with hundreds of you (developers), from those who use Visual Studio every day to those who have never used it. We observed how you setup your...
View ArticleThe week in .NET – 4/5/2016
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 3/29/2016.On.NETLast week was a thrilling one for the .NET community, with lots of exciting announcements made at the Build conference. We decided to...
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Announcing Bing Maps V8 control for the Web
It is with great pleasure that we announce the preview release of the Bing Maps V8 control, Microsoft modern web mapping platform. The Bing Maps V8 control reduces development time by requiring less...
View ArticleOpen Translators to Things: An Open Approach for Accessing Similar Things
To help application developers more easily interact with the “Things” (e.g. light bulbs) around them, I am delighted today to introduce an alpha version of our new open source project Open Translators...
View ArticleWindows 10 IoT @ //Build 2016
At //Build 2016 last week, we had great engagement with our Windows developers and want to share that experience with you. All of this started in February, when we were honored to be part of the...
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New and updated DevLabs extensions in the Visual Studio Team Services...
Microsoft DevLabs is an outlet for experiments from Microsoft, experiments that represent some of the latest ideas around developer tools. Solutions in this category are designed for broad usage, and...
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Visual C++ for Linux and Raspberry Pi Development
It's bananas over at Microsoft. Last week they announced you can run Bash on Ubuntu on Windows 10, and now I'm seeing I missed an announcement of an extension to Visual Studio that enables Visual C++...
View ArticleNotes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – April 5, 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 the...
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