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UI development made easier with XAML Edit & Continue
Making UI is easy. Making GREAT UI can be a bit trickier. Visual Studio wants to be the best in class tool for designing good user experiences. We have been spending a lot of our time looking at the...
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Team Foundation Server Update 2 “Trial”
In Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2015 Update 2 we made some changes to the way the code deals with licensing. Note that we did not make any changes to the actual licensing requirements for Team...
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Create, ideate, and collaborate: Build apps powered by Windows Ink
Handheld tools have always been a key component of human communications and productivity. From the earliest stone carvings to the modern pen, handwriting is not only familiar to us, it is second...
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Be sure to try out the C++ Quick Fixes extension!
Hello C++ World!Our C++ Quick Fixes extension has gotten some pretty good initial feedback since we released it a few months ago. I wanted take some time to make sure that you are1. aware of its...
View ArticleClang/C2: We need your advice!
The Visual C++ team has shipped three releases of Clang with Microsoft CodeGen (Clang/C2). We’ve got a solid pre-production compiler that passes all of our STL tests and compiles a bunch of code into...
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WhereYouAt DemoBuild 2016: Demo Flow & UI
Where You At Demo was a cool little live demo that our team put together for Build 2016. This demo showed off ASP.NET Core applications running in any cloud. Here’s the video of Scott’s session from...
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New and Noteworthy Extensions for Visual Studio – March 2016
It was great to see the excitement around last month’s post and I heard from many of you that you have discovered some new extensions. March has been another great month for the Visual Studio...
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Recap: Bing Maps at //Build/ 2016
In case you missed it, the 2016 Microsoft Build conference was held last week in San Francisco. Bing Maps was present in many sessions throughout the conference. In addition to this, the Bing Maps team...
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Map APIs and controls: Location services
Smartphones and tablets use a complex network of satellites, maps, and constantly updated databases to provide highly accurate information about the location of each device and its surroundings. The...
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You’re the Expert: Teach Cortana When to Connect You to Users
The best real life personal assistants do a few things really well, but for everything else, they rely on a team of experts to get things done. In Cortana’s world, you—the developer—are the expert....
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Visual communication and visual cues
In our previous post of this series, we introduced the art of typography: how the formation of letters and words affect usability, readability, and beauty. In today’s post, we introduce you to the...
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Previewing Salsa – the New JavaScript Language Service in Visual Studio "15"
The new JavaScript language service, codenamed “Salsa”, is now available in Visual Studio “15” Preview. Language services are responsible for providing syntax highlighting, completion lists, signature...
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Merging the concepts of Account and Collection
We’re getting ready to roll out the first change outlined in Mario’s blog post on multiple collections per account to Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). This change will merge the Account and...
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Installing Fish Shell on Ubuntu on Windows 10
So hopefully by now you've heard that you can run Bash via Ubuntu on Windows...and not in a VM. You can run the Bash Shell and real ELF Linux Binaries (this is not emulation) on Windows 10.I've...
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Test execution improvements – Apr 2016
About a month ago, I published a blog detailing Testing tools roadmap and the value we have delivered over the last six months. If you have not seen it yet, I will encourage you to read and provide...
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WhereYouAt DemoBuild 2016: Building the Front-end
In my previous post, I went over the user interface and application requirements. Let’s quickly revisit the project requirements:Get coordinates of the users and identify which cloud the ASP.NET Core...
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What’s new in VS 2015 Update 2 for Universal Windows developers
At //BUILD/, we announced the availability of Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 that includes a significant update to the tools for building Universal Windows apps. These tools now support building apps for...
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How to leverage PubMatic’s Windows SDK to scale monetization across devices...
When developers and publishers work with Software Development Kits (SDKs), they typically think of mobile-specific applications. However, since the Windows 10 app is device-agnostic, PubMatic built a...
View ArticleOn .NET 3/31/2016 – John Kemnetz – C# Extension for VS Code
John Kemnetz gives us a demo of the experimental support for debugging C# in VS Code.The blog post on experimental debugger support in VS CodeComplete instructions to install and try out debuggingJoin...
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Bringing Pori Fashion Show to Windows Using Windows Bridge for iOS
The Windows Bridge for iOS is a great way for iOS developers to bring their existing apps to the Windows platform. The iOS bridge lets you re-use your existing code while also gaining the benefits of a...
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