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Network 3D Printing with Windows 10 IoT Core!
Since Windows 8.1, Microsoft has been providing native support for 3D printers with most popular printers already enabled via USB plug and play (see this full list of supported printers).Today, we have...
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Happy 25th Birthday, VB!
That’s right! Today marks the 25th (“Silver Anniversary”) since VB first debuted to the world. It seems like just yesterday I’d only been at Microsoft a little over a year when VB turned 20. Looking...
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Multiple URL performance testing support for Azure Web Applications
Performance/load testing of Azure web applications is supported for a while, today we are announcing support for multiple URLs performance testing using Visual Studio web test formatTypically web...
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Developer Tools Benchmarking 2016 survey
Windows is proud to once again sponsor the latest VisionMobile Developer Economics survey , and want to ask our readers to spend 15 minutes on it. This is VisionMobile’s 11th developer survey and...
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Publishing hidden apps (Dev Center Tip #5)
Sometimes you need to publish apps to a limited audience. To do so, you should select the option to hide your app when you distribute it. Hidden apps will not show up in store searches and cannot be...
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Using speech in your UWP apps: From talking to conversing
In the previous article, we introduced the idea of recognizing speech inside of a Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app and took a look at the SpeechRecognizer class and some of what it can...
View ArticleChanges to Project.json
This post was written by Scott Hunter.Last week we announced the schedule for RC2 / RTM of .NET Core and ASP.NET. Now that we have shipped RC2 I want to give more details on the .NET Core tooling...
View Article[Announcement] RESTier v0.5.0 Release
We are happy to announce that the RESTier 0.5.0-beta is released and available on NuGet.0.5.0-beta is a big release, it adopts dependency injection to provide lots of flexibility to consumers, it also...
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Creating Better User Experiences with Microsoft Cognitive Services
Computer scientists have been captivated by the potential of artificial intelligence to create human like experiences with computers for decades. Although we are not at the point of true human...
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The week in .NET – 5/24/2016
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 5/16/2016.On.NETLast week on the show, we had Miguel de Icaza:This week, we’ll speak with Maoni Stephens, who works on .NET’s GC.Package of the week:...
View ArticleHow to prevent screen locks in your UWP apps
After a certain amount of idle time, Windows 10 devices may dim the display, activate the lock screen, or power down the display in order to conserve power. The amount of idle time required before this...
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Sharing your local app data
In the first installment of this blog series we looked at the various options at your disposal to store your app’s local data. In this post we will be looking at how that local data can be shared, both...
View ArticleI’m speaking at a Free AzureCraft event in London on June 3rd
I’ll be in the UK next week presenting at the free AzureCraft event being held on June 3rd and 4th. This event was created by the UK Azure User Group and is a great way to learn about Azure as well as...
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White House Visit - Foster Care and Technology Hackathon
Hey friends! I am so proud to be a technology advisor for the the White House Foster Care and Technology Hackathon this week! Here is a brief statement about the Microsoft team's involvement in this...
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Announcing General Availability of Azure DevTest Labs
Today, we are very excited to announce the general availability of Azure DevTest Labs: your self-service sandbox environment in Azure to quickly create Dev/Test environments while minimizing waste and...
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Notes about confidentiality and purchasing (Dev Center Tip #6)
At the beginning of the Windows Dev Center Tips series, you were introduced to the flowchart below to help you identify the best way to publish your app. The posts that followed went deeper into each...
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Custom ETW Heap Events in Visual Studio 15 Preview 2
BackgroundVisual Studio 2015 introduced the Diagnostic Tools window including the native memory profiler. The native memory profiler collects Windows ETW events from the heap provider and analyzes...
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Publisher responses to reviews is now live on Marketplace!
In the two months since the launch of Ratings and Reviews on the Visual Studio Marketplace, we’ve seen great participation from our community. Well over 1000 reviews have been posted on the Marketplace...
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Versioning NuGet packages in a continuous delivery world: part 3
This is the third and final post in a series covering strategies for versioning a NuGet package. If you missed part 1 or part 2, you should read those first. Today’s post walks through a specific...
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