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Updated Brokered Windows Runtime Components whitepaper and project templates...
Brokered Windows Runtime Components can help enterprise developers build apps with modern, touch-enabled user experiences while leveraging their long-term investments in existing business logic code....
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Announcing .NET Core 1.0
Announcing .NET Core 1.0We are excited to announce the release of .NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 1.0 and Entity Framework 1.0, available on Windows, OS X and Linux! .NET Core is a cross-platform, open...
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Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 and .NET Core 1.0 Available Now
Today we are sharing the final release of Visual Studio 2015 Update 3, Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 3, and .NET Core and ASP.NET Core 1.0.I’m going to start with .NET Core and ASP.NET Core. If...
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Scaling your phone app design to all UWP device families
Device Family resolution break pointsIn porting your phone app to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), one of the main challenges you’ll face is coming up with reasonable visual designs for the wide...
View ArticleTeam Foundation Server 2015 Update 3 is available
Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 3 is now available. You can find information on the new features and bugs that were fixed in the release notes and a few known issues in our known issues document....
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.NET Core 1.0 is now released!
I feel like it's the culmination of all these years of work in .NET and Open Source. This is why I came to work at Microsoft; we wanted to open source as much as we could and build a community around...
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FamilyNotes: Using the camera to detect a user
In our previous post in the FamilyNotes series, we introduced the FamilyNotes app, its features, and provided a brief history of the app’s development process. The FamilyNotes app is a sample app that...
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Webinar: Learn how to build cross-platform apps with Visual Studio and Xamarin
One of our goals at Microsoft is to give developers the tools they need to build native, cross-platform apps for Android, iOS and Windows. Our recent acquisition of Xamarin gives you 100% native API...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2015 Update 3 Available Now
Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 was released. Thanks to everyone who provided feedback on previous versions.You can read about the changes and additions in the release notes (lots of performance and...
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Browse Code Coverage reports
A new Code Coverage tab has been enabled on the Build summary page. Users uploading Code Coverage data in Jacoco or Cobertura formats to Visual Studio Team Services will be able to browse the html...
View ArticleThe IntelliTest Reference Manual
There is something to be said about having a good tool box – after all picking the right tool for a job is also as much about picking the right job for a tool, and the bigger your toolbox, the better...
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High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography and videography with Universal Windows...
High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDR) is a technique that uses multiple exposures of the same shot in order to reproduce a greater dynamic range of luminosity than is possible with standard digital imaging...
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Learn, earn, and have fun with three new experiences on Bing
Who doesn’t love a trivia challenge or a flash poll on a hot-button issue? According to Social Media Today's survey of 2016 content marketing trends, consumers love to engage with quizzes, games, and...
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VIDEO: How to run Linux with "Bash on Windows 10 Anniversary Update."
Ya, I'm not a fan of the name Windows 10 "Anniversary Edition" but it has been a year since Windows 10 came out. It's my daily driver and it gets better every month. This year it's gonna get better...
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Designing for Intuitive Navigation
In the past several posts, we have covered user interface (UI) design concepts such as typography, visual cues, and design thinking. In today’s blog, however, we will look at a topic that has much less...
View ArticleNew Bing Search API portfolio now available
Starting July 1, the new Bing Search API portfolio is available for purchase as a Microsoft Azure Marketplace offering. The Bing Search API portfolio includes the following three products as part of...
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Red Hat DevNation / Summit Trip Report– .NET Core 1.0 Releases!
What a week! If you didn’t hear, we released .NET Core 1.0 on Monday at Red Hat DevNation. .NET Core is a cross-platform, open source, and modular .NET platform for creating modern web apps,...
View ArticleC++ Edit and Continue in Visual Studio 2015 Update 3
We’ve been continuing to improve on C++ Edit and Continue (EnC) since we shipped it in Visual Studio 2015 with the default debug engine and the VC 140 toolset. We’ve addressed a fair bit of customer...
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FamilyNotes: (Spoken) words and pictures
FamilyNotes is a Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app that implements a group noticeboard. The goal of this app was to showcase the various Windows 10 input and interaction features that...
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Managing Technical Debt planning update – 2016Q3
Back in January, I shared with you our SonarQube integration Update and plans for the first half of 2016. I’ve just updated that blog post to ensure that all the links were added to the individual blog...
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