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Making YouTube videos look sharp and professional on a budget
My team is doing some videos to show off some features in Visual Studio. Most of my videos or YouTubes are screencasts so the video quality of the initial frame isn't a huge deal. I REALLY try to make...
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Evolving the Visual Studio Test Platform – Part 1
Three releases (VS 2015 Update 3, Visual Studio “15” Preview 3, MSTest V2) featuring Test Platform components in as many months indicate a path best traced by starting from the present.The Test...
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Offline Apps: what to do when your user disconnects
You’ve just boarded your airplane flight, found a free spot in the overhead to store your carry-on and settle in for the journey by pulling out your Windows 10 device to check for status updates on...
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Exploring a minimal WebAPI with ASP.NET Core
They are still working on the "dotnet new" templates, but you can also get cool templates from "yo aspnet" usingn Yeoman. The generator-aspnet package for Yeoman includes an empty web app, a console...
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SSH support for Git repos is now available
A few months ago, Jeremy mentioned that SSH support for Git repos was in private preview. I’m happy to announce that it is now available to everyone in both TFS and Team Services. You can now connect...
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July Update for the Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension
At //Build this year we launched the C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code, with this July update to the extension we would like to thank all of you who have tried out the C/C++ extension in Visual...
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Adding color to your design
What is your favorite color? Most of us have been asked this question for as long as we can remember. And for most of us, this decision probably marked our first and foundational experience with having...
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Node.js Tools 1.2 for Visual Studio 2015 released
What time is it?! Time to announce that our next stable release of Node.js Tools 1.2 for Visual Studio (NTVS) is available for download! NTVS 1.2 supports Visual Studio 2015 (including the free Visual...
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Where in the world is Brian?
I apologize for being away for so long. It’s been a weird summer. I was out of the office for almost a month and have spent the last week furiously trying to catch up. So I’ve been absent from my...
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Windows App Studio July ’16 release: Introducing a community-driven API gallery
Hope everyone is having an awesome summer now that we’re kicking into those late July days. We just released a very fun and impactful update to Windows App Studio that will allow you to incorporate a...
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SSH build task
On the request of our Linux customers, we have shipped a new SSH build task that allows running commands or scripts on a remote server. This task is available on Visual Studio Team Services and will be...
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Release, test and Git/TFVC history view improvements – Jul 29
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 – History view and...
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Exploring a minimal WebAPI with .NET Core and NancyFX
In my last blog post I was exploring a minimal WebAPI with ASP.NET Core. In this one I wanted to look at how NancyFX does it. Nancy is an open source framework that takes some inspiration from Ruby's...
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This post was written by Lee Coward.We’ve travelled many new roads in the process of releasing .NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 1.0 and Entity Framework Core 1.0. Developing the projects in the open and...
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Now that Entity Framework Core (EF Core) 1.0 is released, our team is beginning work on bug fixes and new features for the 1.1 release. Keep in mind that it’s early days for this release, we’re sharing...
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GitKraken Pro cit git client teaming up with NightScout to support Open...
There's a great new cross-platform Git client available now called GitKraken. It's totally free to download and but the optional Pro version includes some great features like a Merge Conflict editor,...
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Don’t Miss a Moment of the Summer Games with Bing
With so many events, athletes and participating nations, how do you decide which events to watch? How do you know what moments you should prioritize when so many activities are happening at once in...
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Battery awareness and background activity
The Windows platform targets all kinds of devices: desktops, laptops, tablets, phones, HoloLens, IoT and Xbox. As a developer you want your users to have a great user experience with your app across...
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Traceability with Continuous Testing
With the deployment of Sprint 103, we are enabling users to track the quality of their Requirements right on the Dashboard. We already have a solution for Requirements quality for our Planned testing...
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