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Open Any Folder with Visual Studio “15” Preview
For developers to be truly productive in Visual Studio their code needs to be organized into Solutions and projects, right?For a long time, that was a core expectation of how Visual Studio works....
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The week in .NET – 4/12/2016
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 4/5/2016.On.NETWe had to reschedule last week’s show, but we’ll be back this week with a new episode with PlayFab to talk about how the cloud can help...
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Git Experience Futures (April 2016)
Some exciting new features are coming to the Git experience over the next few months. In January, I wrote about upcoming features and many of them are available now, but a few have taken longer than we...
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Marmalade makes it easy to create games that run cross-platform
At //build 2016, developers were shown how to create cross-platform games for iOS, Android, and Windows 10 using Visual Studio and the Marmalade Platform, the leading cross-platform solution for game...
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How to host your own NuGet Server and Package Feed
Hosting your own NuGet Server, particularly when you're a company or even a small workgroup is a super useful thing. It's a great way to ensure that the build artifacts of each team are NuGet Packages...
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Release Management planning update – 2016 H2
Now that we are done with a majority of items listed in our 2016 H1 plan, it is time to talk about our plans for 2016 H2. Most of the features listed below will first be available in VS Team Services,...
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Improving the C++ Developer Experience in Visual Studio 2015
Harness the speed, performance and portability of modern C++ with the power of Visual Studio 2015 Update 2. This release includes remote debugging on Linux devices, additional support for targeting...
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React Native on the Universal Windows Platform
Today, Microsoft and Facebook announced at Facebook’s developer conference, F8 2016, that we’re adding Universal Windows Platform (UWP) support to React Native. This is provided as an open source,...
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Windows App Studio Update: Installer companion app
If you’ve used Windows App Studio before, you know that it’s an easy-to-use tool for building Windows apps. You also know that that the sideloading and installation process has been a bit complex by...
View ArticleTeam Services and TFS Roadmap update – Apr 2016
Today, we refreshed the roadmap for Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server. We’ve retired the items that were scheduled for Q1/Update 2, updated the items scheduled for Q2 and added...
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Work item follow, move & change type - April 13
Note: The improvements discussed in this post will be rolling out throughout the week. Please follow progress of the deployment at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsoservice/.Let’s start by walking through...
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VS Team Services Update – April 13
This week we are deploying our sprint 98 work to Visual Studio Team Services. You can read the release notes for details of what’s included.From time to time, I like to cross reference the work we are...
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Give yourself permission to have work-life balance
I was having a chat with a new friend today and we were exchanging stories about being working parents. I struggle with kids' schedules, days off school I failed to plan for, expected things (cars...
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An update on ASP.NET Core 1.0 RC2
What's going on with ASP.NET Core 1.0 RC2? Why is RC2 taking so long over RC1 and what's going to happen between now and the final release? I talked to architect David Fowler about this and tried to...
View ArticleWinners of Microsoft Office Hackathon breaking through old paradigms of...
The developer community is always driving to solve today’s problems with creativity, and engaging with this community is one of the favorite parts of my job. These days, we are seeing developers apply...
View ArticleRecap: Bing at //Build 2016
Since Microsoft Build wrapped up in early April, we wanted to touch base with those of you who may have missed the news from the Bing team. We were there to officially launch a set of Bing Search APIs...
View ArticleSTL Fixes In VS 2015 Update 2
In addition to 10 new features (and 16 Library Issue resolutions), the STL in VS 2015 Update 2 contains numerous improvements for correctness and performance. (Previous bugfix changelogs: RTM Part 1,...
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Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – April 12, 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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Tips for porting apps from Windows Phone Silverlight to UWP
Windows Store has always had a healthy community of Windows Phone Silverlight developers. Because Windows Store has over 270 million active Windows 10 devices today, we’d like to help our developer...
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.NET Goodness at BUILD 2016 – .NET ALL THE THINGS!
BUILD 2016 was two weeks ago in my favorite city, San Francisco. There was a TON of .NET content & announcements delivered. Here’s a recap of all the big .NET sessions, announcements, downloads and...
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