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Assessing extension reliability and safety
With 3rd party extensions now being available for Team Foundation Server as well on the Marketplace, there have been a number of queries around evaluating extension reliability and safety. With this...
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WebForms can Gulp too – Using Node Tools with ASP.NET WebForms
Visual Studio 2015 brought a set of tools into the IDE from the Node environment that are great for web developers to use. Many folks who build JavaScript applications or single-page-applications were...
View ArticleIntroduction to .NET Framework Compatibility
This post was written by Mike Rousos, a software engineer on the .NET team.IntroductionBeginning with the .NET Framework 4.0, all versions of the .NET Framework with a major version number of 4 (called...
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New and Noteworthy Extensions for Visual Studio – April 2016
In April the community added another 100 new Visual Studio extensions to the Visual Studio Gallery. To help you enjoy this creativity from the community, every month or two I’ll be introducing some of...
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Versioning NuGet packages in a continuous delivery world: part 1
On the Package Management team, we’re frequently asked how to think about versioning packages. Conceptually, it’s simple: NuGet (like many package managers) prefers semantic versioning (SemVer), which...
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Building accessible websites just got a lot easier
When building websites it is important that it is accessible for everyone that needs to use it. Implementing web accessibility features greatly helps to achieve that. Here’s what the W3C has to say...
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Visual Studio TACO Update 9
Update 9 of the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO) is ready for you! You’ll soon see a notification in Visual Studio to install the update or you can download and install it directly, now....
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Getting Started with Roaming App Data
Users today are mobile, transitioning from one device to the next throughout the day. Increasingly, these same users expect (or even demand) to take their data with them. Fortunately for us, roaming...
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The week in .NET – 5/3/2016
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 4/27/2016.Evolve conferenceXamarin Evolve, the largest cross-platform mobile event in the world, happened last week. The .NET team was there to...
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Data Access in Universal Windows Platform (UWP) Apps
SQLite version 3.11.2 is shipping with the Windows 10 Anniversary edition as part of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and is recommended for all UWP local data storage needs. This represents the...
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Bing adds your state's view to its Political Index
The presidential race is getting more intense, with an increasing focus on state-by-state delegates. As the candidates woo voters in the remaining primaries, it becomes even more important to...
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Top New from March 2016
Yes, it might seem a bit odd to have a post with “March” in the title now that it’s already May, but it does take a few weeks for the data to show what you’ve all been reading about lately. So with no...
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Roaming app data and the user experience
The user experience for roaming app data is similar to a magic trick. Work is done behind the scenes to create the illusion that data is moving from place to place when, in fact, all that really...
View ArticleVisual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server Java Capabilities...
To share and explain our current Java feature set and capabilities with Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server (TFS), we have produced and published two new 30-minute videos available...
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We are excited to announce the preview release of a new, advanced code optimizer for the Visual C++ compiler backend. It provides many improvements for both code size and performance, bringing the...
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Tooling to Facilitate Framework Migrations
This post was written by Mike Rousos, a software engineer on the .NET team.IntroductionIn this recent post, Taylor introduced the .NET Framework Compatibility Diagnostics, a set of Roslyn-based code...
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Kickstart UWP app creation with Windows App Studio’s open source UWP...
Windows App Studio is all about making it as easy as possible to build apps for Windows. The online tool helps you build apps with no coding required, so you can either start your project there and...
View ArticleSell apps to organizations through Windows Store for Business
Windows Store for Business is a web-based portal that IT decision makers, purchasers and administrators use to find, acquire, manage, and distribute Windows Store apps across their organization’s...
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Bing Predicts: Off to the races with the Kentucky Derby
Today, we are launching a new Predicts experience for the upcoming spring trio of major horse races, starting with the Kentucky Derby this Saturday.The Most Exciting Two Minutes in SportsThoroughbred...
View ArticleTFS 2015 Update 2.1 is available
We have released Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 2.1.Update 2.1 web installerUpdate 2.1 ISO imageUpdate 2.1 KB articleThe KB article has a full list of included bugs fixed (updated from the list I...
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