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May update for the C/C++ extension in Visual Studio Code
We would like to thank all of you who have tried out the C/C++ extension in Visual Studio Code and have already provided rich feedback on your experiences and filed issues and requests with us. We are...
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Continuous deployment/delivery with Jenkins and VS Team Services
Release Management (VS Team Services) lets you automate your deployments so that you could deliver your apps/services easily and deliver them often. You can setup the CI and CD process all on VS Team...
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Making it easier to port to .NET Core
In my last post, I talked about porting to .NET Core and requested feedback from our community on what their experience was and what we could improve.This sparked many great conversations with our...
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Announcing MSTest Framework support for .NET Core RC2 / ASP.NET Core RC2
.NET Core RC2 and ASP.NET Core RC2 released just a couple of weeks back. They feature the introduction of the .NET CLI, major changes to the .NET Core SDK (formerly called DNX), the rebranding of...
View ArticleTuple Tuesday!
One of the central features we’re trying to add to both VB and C# in the near future is tuples. If you’ve never heard of a tuple it’s a primitive data structure for combining values together that many...
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The week in .NET – 5/31/2016
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 5/24/2016.DotNetConf 7-9 JuneAre you ready to rediscover .NET? Well, dotnetConf is back!Immerse yourself in the world of .NET and join our live stream...
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Bringing Minecraft: Story Mode to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and...
Telltale Games has established itself as the master of the episodic adventure game with hits like The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, Game of Thrones, Tales from the Borderlands and, most recently,...
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Is technology killing curiosity?
I was talking with Kishau Rogers this week at a Hackathon we were helping with at The White House for ThinkOfUs. (See how I dropped The White House in there like it was nothing? It was everything. More...
View ArticleJune 2016 evaluation Windows developer virtual machines
We’re releasing the June 2016 edition of our evaluation Windows developer virtual machines (VM) on Windows Dev Center. The VMs come in Hyper-V, Parallels, VirtualBox, and VMWare flavors and will expire...
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SonarQube Code Analysis issues integration into Pull Requests
Goal: Let developers fix issues earlyTeam leads and managers spend time drilling into the SonarQube dashboard, setting up quality gates and monitoring technical debt. Have a look at the publicly...
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SSH connections to Git repos, Docker integration, and more – June 1
With this release we’re introducing new agile features as well as enhancements to dashboards, coding, package management, test, and build and release management.Note: The improvements discussed in this...
View ArticleBing Predicts: Pro Basketball Finals
While 28 of the 30 pro basketball teams are thinking about future draft needs and other off-season plans, the Golden State and Cleveland teams are thinking about tonight’s rematch and the set of games...
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Using iconography to enhance UX design
Iconography is a visual language used to represent features, functionality, or content. Icons are meant to be simple, visual elements that are recognized and understood immediately.In a previous post,...
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Using speech in your UWP apps: Look who’s talking
In our first and second posts in this series, we looked at some of the APIs available in the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) for using speech as an input and output mechanism within your application....
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Inside Visual Studio Team Services: Dashboards with Gino Buzzelli
Each month, we will bring you the insiders view into Visual Studio Team Services – how the product is developed, how we dogfood it and use it every day, who are the people behind it and tips and tricks...
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Worldwide Meetups featuring Visual Studio Team Services: Summer 2016
We’re super excited to announce that several meetups featuring Visual Studio Team Services are taking over the world in the next 2 months. Check the meetups out if they’re anywhere near you and meet...
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Warning! Bing now offers enhanced malware warnings!
Malware can be a confusing term. A survey of what is “malware” leads to a slew of incoherent answers. Microsoft uses malware as an umbrella term for threats listed in the following glossary, which, of...
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Bringing Pori Fashion Show to Windows Using Windows Bridge for iOS (Part 2)
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 reuse your existing code while also gaining the benefits of a...
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Clang 3.8 in the May release of Clang with Microsoft CodeGen
This blog post written by Dave Bartolomeo, Yuriy Solodkyy, and Andrew PardoeWe have just released our fifth out-of-band update of Clang/C2 toolset. As always, this release has been driven by your...
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Future Strategy for Contextual Sensing
Written by Rinku Sreedhar, Program Manager for Windows Contextual Sensing.Hello, I’m Rinku Sreedhar, Program Manager for Windows Contextual Sensing and this blog post will cover the following topics:1....
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