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Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – June 2, 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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Using the App File Explorer to see your app data
The Universal Windows Platform (UWP) provides several ways to save data for your app on the device, both roaming and locally. Often, your app drives quite a bit of behavior off of this data, whether...
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Nexus build extension for Team Services
We are pleased to announce the new Integrate with Sonatype Nexus extension available from the Visual Studio Marketplace for Team Services and Team Foundation Server (TFS).This extension adds a build...
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Debugging a background task on a time trigger
The TimeTrigger class is extremely useful when your Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app has background tasks you want to run periodically. For instance, if you are writing a mail app, you will want...
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Thank you for watching dotnetConf 2016!
dotnetConf 2016 is a wrap! Thank you to all who tuned in live on Channel 9, asked questions, and participated in our twitter feed. We had a lot of awesome sessions from various product teams and...
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A Peek into .NET Open Source Contributions
During the dotNetConf virtual conference, Scott Hanselman shared a map and some charts that were constructed based on participation in Microsoft owned GitHub repositories. In the comments and social...
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Using Device Portal to view debug logs for UWP
On Windows desktops, if something went wrong, your first instinct for years may have been to open up the Event Viewer and see if anything red or yellow shows up. Those alerts are saved ETW events,...
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Build your Android applications in Visual Studio using Gradle
This blog post is going to talk about how you can use Gradle to build Android libraries (.AAR) and APK’s and leverage Maven dependencies all in Visual Studio so let’s get started! If you are new to...
View ArticleNew Pluralsight Courses for Visual Studio Subscribers Coming in July 2016
New Pluralsight Courses for Visual Studio Subscribers Coming in July 2016
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The week in .NET – 6/14/2016
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 06/07/2016.On .NETLast week, we spoke with Daniel Egloff from QuantAlea about their very cool GPU technology that enables C# and F# code to be compiled...
View ArticleThe Future of Declaration Files
Declaration files (.d.ts files) are a fundamental part of using existing JavaScript libraries in TypeScript, but getting them has always been a place where we’ve known there was room for improvement....
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The path from a desktop app to a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app
Last month, we provided an overview of the Desktop Bridge in this blog post. We are excited to announce that since then we’ve released a new version of the desktop app converter, adding support for...
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Improved Productivity with new Version Control Features in Visual Studio 2015
Whether you’re working on a side project with some friends or developing enterprise software, odds are you’re using source control. With the advent of open source software and collaboration, source...
View ArticleTeam Services ending support for Internet Explorer 9 and 10 in September
In September 2016, Team Services will be ending support for Internet Explorer 9 and 10. If you use Internet Explorer 9 or 10 to connect to Team Services, you will notice a new banner reminding you...
View ArticleNotes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – June 14, 2016
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Bing Predicts: Election Primaries Recap
Bing Predicts kicked off the 2016 elections with the goal of providing user insight, starting with the primary season across all states and territories. Through all primaries, the model’s accuracy was...
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Apache Cordova & the browser based workflow
Apache Cordova applications leverage HTML, CSS and JavaScript to create mobile applications that run across multiple device platforms including Android, iOS, and Windows. Today, the Visual Studio Tools...
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The Promising State of Diabetes Technology in 2016
I've been a Type 1 Diabetic now for nearly 25 years. The first thing that every techie does once they've been diagnosed with Diabetes is they try to solve the problem with software or hardware....
View ArticleWindows 10 Anniversary SDK Preview Build 14366 Released
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Anniversary SDK Preview to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 14366 or greater). The Preview SDK is a pre-release and cannot be used in a...
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Taking the MSTest Framework forward with “MSTest V2″
Recently, we announced MSTest Framework support for .NET Core RC2 / ASP.NET Core RC2– this is “MSTest V2″ as we fondly call it, and the release sets the direction for how we intend to evolve the MSTest...
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