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Developer Assistant now supports C++
Today we are happy to announce a major update to Developer Assistant! Developer Assistant now offers contextually aware web powered solutions for C++.Developer Assistant for Visual Studio is a...
View ArticleBing Developer Assistant, now with C++ support
Head over today to the Visual Studio blog for some exciting announcements coming from our friends in the Bing team: Bing Developer Assistant just released a new version that brings C++ supportFrom the...
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Introducing New Remote Sensing Features
In a previous blog, we discussed the new contextual sensing features and innovations we added to the sensor platform. In today’s blog, we will take a moment to understand remote sensing and then take a...
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Self-care matters: Pay yourself first
I was meeting with a mentee today and she was commenting how stressed out she was. Overwhelmed with work, email, home, life, dinners, the news, finances...you know. LIFE. I am too. You likely are as...
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Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.3
Today we’re releasing Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.3. The Visual Studio extension natively supported by Unity on Windows makes it easier for game developers to use the rich capabilities of the...
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Communicating with your users
While a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app should be visually appealing, it should also project the voice of the original app creators from time to time. After all, a good user experience is...
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7 Ways to Look at the Values of Variables While Debugging in Visual Studio
When you are running your code and something is behaving unexpectedly, how do you find out what is going wrong? When I was in school the first way I learned how to debug a wonky application was by...
View ArticleC++ Unit Testing Survey (Summer 2016)
Hi everyone! The Visual Studio C++ team is conducting a survey to learn more about your C++ unit testing experiences. We’ll use the feedback to make improvements to Visual Studio in the future. The...
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Choosing the path forward for existing desktop apps
Continuing in our series on using the Desktop Bridge to bring your existing desktop apps to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), let’s follow up last month’s post on the path from a desktop app to a...
View ArticleWindows Bridge for iOS: UIKit, meet XAML. XAML, meet UIKit.
One year ago this August, we released the Windows Bridge for iOS (“Project Islandwood”) as an open-source project on GitHub. For those of you just joining us, the goal of the iOS bridge is to make it...
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Exploring dotnet new with .NET Core
I'm very enjoying the "dotnet" command line. Mostly I do "dotnet new" and then add to the default Hello World app with the Visual Studio Code editor. Recently, though, I realized that the -t "type" and...
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Speed up cloud-load test execution by retaining resources for quick...
Validating application’s performance by running a load test typically follows a test->fix->test loop, often repeated several times. After you have run an initial load test and made some changes...
View ArticleImprovements to the advertising reports in Dev Center
We’ve heard your feedback to upgrade the advertising performance reporting capabilities in Dev Center and have made a few platform updates to get there. Below are some of the improvements we’ve made,...
View ArticleWe’ve Moved the Blog!
This blog has now moved to the .NET Blog here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/You can find F# blog posts with the F# tag as such: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/tag/visual-f/See you...
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Windows 10 "Developer Mode"
The new Windows 10 update coming in a few weeks. It's called Windows 10 "Anniversary Edition" (I would have just called it 10.1, because, I dunno, monotonically increasing numbers and all, but...
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Building Secure Apps for Windows IoT Core
Secure communication in the cloud normally involves the following:Data encryption: hiding what is sentData integrity: protecting data from being tampered withAuthentication: validating the identity of...
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What is app attribution?
Mobile app attribution, different from traditional online attribution which uses things like cookies or pixel tags, is the method of measuring a user’s activities on an app. These activities could be...
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Windows Bridge for iOS: App Analysis Tool Now Available
Today, we’re happy to announce the release of the iOS App Analysis tool as part of the Windows Bridge for iOS. To recap, the Windows Bridge for iOS is an open-source project that allows you to create...
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Fun with the Windows Subsystem for Linux
At Build 2016, Microsoft introduced to the world the Windows Subsystem for Linux (Beta) [WSL], which enables developers to run native Ubuntu user-mode console binaries through the Bash shell in Windows...
View ArticleUpdates in Dev Center analytics
Through our developer forums and our Dev Center feedback channels, we receive a ton of great ideas about what you’d like the engineering teams to prioritize with regard to feature development. Many of...
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