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On the Road to Release: Redesigning Visual Studio Installation
For those of you who have been closely tracking the progress of our next release of Visual Studio (codenamed Visual Studio “15”), you’ll know that one of our big product release themes is installation...
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States customization on Team Services
The first milestone in bringing states customization to Team Services is here. With the latest deployment, you can customize the states on your inherited work item types. Let’s jump into the new...
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VSTS Process Customization futures (June 2016)
The first wave of work for process customization is complete: allowing you to modify fields, layout and states of existing work item types. While it’s taken longer than we had anticipated, we’ve...
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General availability of Azure DevTest Labs – VSTS extension
A couple of weeks ago, we announced the general availability of Azure DevTest Labs. As part of the announcement we introduced the preview of Azure DevTest Labs – VSTS extension. Today, we are delighted...
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Stop saying learning to code is easy.
I saw this tweet after the Apple WWDC keynote and had thought the same thing. Hang on, programming is hard. Rewarding, sure. Interesting, totally. But "easy" sets folks up for failure and a lifetime of...
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Making Image Graph Richer
Over the past few months Bing shopping and recipes experiences have benefitted from multiple enhancements impacting visual richness and overall quality. In the last multimedia post (The Image Graph -...
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Imperia Online Brings MMO Strategy Gaming to Windows 10
Imperia Online, the massively multiplayer online (MMO) strategy game, released a Windows Store version of their app in March and are currently working on a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) release....
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Forgotten (but Awesome) Windows Command Prompt Features
It's always the little throwaway tweets that go picked up. Not the ones that we agonize over. I was doing some work at the command line and typed "dotnet --version | clip" to copy the .NET Core version...
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Remote testing – Distributing tests based on number of machines
With Sprint 102 deployment on Visual Studio Team Services, we have enabled tests from within an assembly to be distributed to remote machines using the Run Functional Tests task. This has been one of...
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Bing Predicts: Pro Basketball Draft
Bing Predicts returns to estimate where the best amateur basketball players will call home next season. Three of the largest market teams, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Boston, won the drawing for the...
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The week in .NET – 6/21/2016
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 6/14/2016.On .NETLast week, we spoke with Pratap Lakshman about MS Test, and about running tests for .NET Core in general.This week, we’ll speak with...
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FamilyNotes: Introducing a Windows UWP sample using ink, speech, and face...
If you watched the Build 2016 keynote talks, you may have noticed how Microsoft is focusing more and more on improving how we humans interact with computers, by means of ink, speech, and other “more...
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Bing Maps V8 Web Control Released
Two and a half months ago, at the Microsoft //Build/ Conference, the Bing Maps team announced the preview release of the Bing Maps V8 web control. Since then, the team has been working hard fixing...
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What is mobile marketing automation?
Mobile Marketing Automation (MMA) encompasses a wide range of technologies and approaches with the intent of increasing customer engagement. MMA provides understanding into the user, allowing for the...
View ArticleNotes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – June 21, 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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Adding a Custom Inline Route Constraint in ASP.NET Core 1.0
ASP.NET supports both attribute routing as well as centralized routes. That means that you can decorate your Controller Methods with your routes if you like, or you can map routes all in one...
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Codeless game engine Buildbox adds Universal Windows Platform (UWP) support
Buildbox—which allows users to create games without needing to code or program—has been used to create a number of Top 100 games. Developers like David Riechelt who created the hit game Color Switch...
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Effective Patterns for Feature Flags
Today, we are inviting Edith Harbaugh from LaunchDarkly as a guest writer for the ALM Blog to talk a little bit about the different patterns of Feature Flag implementations which has been a common...
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Git & TFVC updates plus improved test traceability … – June 20
Note: The improvements discussed in this post will be rolling out throughout the week. Please follow progress of the deployment at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsoservice/.Git & TFVC – Browsing...
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A New Team Services build task to easily extract files
Team Services sprint 101 introduces a new build task, Extract Files. Use it to easily extract archives during your Team Foundation Server (TFS) build process. The Extract Files task is cross platform...
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