Heads up: TFS 2015.2.1 coming
By now, I suspect, everyone is pretty used to our cadence for shipping Team Foundation Server. We ship a “major” release every year or so and then we ship “Updates” about once a quarter. We just...
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Intel’s contributions to the Windows Bridge for iOS: The Accelerate Framework
Intel® is committed to ensuring that developers have the best experience on Intel platforms to meet the diverse needs of our customers. We want to make sure that developers who have invested in...
View ArticleConstexpr: we need your input!
We’ve had a great response to the Clang/C2 survey that we posted a few weeks ago. Over 150 of you left comments and suggestions, and we’ve sent mail back to the 80% of responders who left a contact...
View ArticleAuthoring VS Team Services extension with Build/Release Tasks
BackgroundBuild and Release services are available with Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server 2015. Both these services rely on a set of tasks that are used to define build steps or...
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Stay up-to-date with the Visual C++ tools on NuGet
Do you want to try out the newest C++ compiler from Microsoft? Last February we announced a new way to install the Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC) toolset. Instead of waiting for the next update of Visual...
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The Latest of Microsoft Office Developer Tools: Office Add-in Commands and...
Office’s message at Build was loud and clear: Office is an open market for developers who want to reinvent productivity, backed by a consumer base of 1.2 billion users. Qi Lu welcomed developers to the...
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The week in .NET – 4/27/2016
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 4/19/2016.On.NETLast week on the show, we had Burke Holland and Sam Basu from Telerik. This week, we’ll speak with Benjamin Fistein and Jakub Míšek...
View ArticleTeam Services in India
Today, we opened up an instance of Visual Studio Team Services in India (Chennai). This builds on the instances we already have in the US, Europe and Australia and is the next step in our journey to...
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Open Source Show and Tell (#OSSAT) 2016
Friday afternoon was OSSAT at the the Microsoft Reactor. I had the pleasure of hosting it with the main organizer, Justin Johnson (@elof) from Keen.io. I met Justin at last year’s Open Source Show And...
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Open Source Show and Tell (#OSSAT) 2016
Friday afternoon was OSSAT at the the Microsoft Reactor. I had the pleasure of hosting it with the main organizer, Justin Johnson (@elof) from Keen.io. I met Justin at last year’s Open Source Show And...
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News from Xamarin Evolve: What’s next for Visual Studio and Xamarin
Less than a month ago, at //BUILD, we announced the integration of Xamarin technology into our Visual Studio product line, furthering our Any Developer, Any App, Any Platform approach and bringing even...
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Viewing Your Work Items in IntelliJ and Android Studio
To build upon the work item functionality we added to our Team Services plugin a few sprints back, we have now created a Work Items tab that allows you to view the work items that are assigned to you....
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Bing Predicts the Pro Football Draft
The annual football ‘job fair’ is upon us. So Bing Predicts is weighing in on which pro teams the elite college football players might sign on with.The Bing Predicts models use web and social data to...
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Spring cleaning: Package management updates
Since we launched Package Management Public Preview last November, your response has been fantastic. Thank you to everyone who’s installed our extension, published a NuGet package, or sent us...
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Design thinking: finding your inspiration
One of the biggest differences between developers and designers is that development is something developers do while design is something creatives are. To think like a designer means constantly honing...
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How CPU Sampling Works
In this blog post, I’ll cover some of the basics of CPU Sampling, the method the Visual Studio profiler uses to capture CPU performance data in your applications. If you’re interested in performance...
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Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – April 26, 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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The Lifecycle of a UWP App
Lifecycle management in a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app is critical for the efficient use of battery power and memory. When done correctly, it allows the user to multitask between apps without...
View ArticleWindows 10 Anniversary SDK Preview Build 14332 Released
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Anniversary SDK Preview to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 14332 or greater). The Preview SDK is a pre-release and cannot be used in a...
View ArticleUpdate on TFS 2015 Update 2.1
Hmm, it’s been a few days of reflection. I don’t think I expected my post on the bugs we were fixing in Update 2.1 to generate so many comments about other bugs that people are hitting. Let me share...
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