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Clickteam Fusion 2.5 Adds New UWP Exporter
New developers – bring your app to various devices on Windows 10 with a simple mouse click.Clickteam has joined the Universal Windows Platform revolution with the release of its new UWP Exporter for...
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Two tools for quick and easy web application load testing during development
I was on the ASP.NET Community Standup this morning and Jon mentioned a new tool for load testing called "Netling." This got me to thinking about simple lightweight load testing in general. I've used...
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Bing Maps V8 July 2016 Update
It’s been just over a month ago since Bing Maps Version 8 (V8) was released, and today we are happy to announce the first of our regular updates to the main release branch of V8. For those not familiar...
View ArticleBing To Use Location for RTBF
Bing has expanded the scope of our Right to be Forgotten (RTBF) filtering in Europe. In the past, when Bing accepted an RTBF request, the URL would be delisted from all applicable European versions of...
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Summer Games: Bing Predicts Must-Watch Events For This Weekend
Every four years, fans from all over the world tune into the Summer Games and watch in awe as athletes from around the globe challenge the limits of what the human body can do. From Usain Bolt’s...
View ArticleSTL Fixes In VS 2015 Update 3
VS 2015 Update 3 was released over a month ago. While its release notes mentioned some STL fixes, here’s a comprehensive list. (Previous changelogs: RTM Part 1, RTM Part 2, Update 1, Update 2...
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Visual Studio 2015 - Fixing "Dependencies npm not installed" from fsevents...
Maria and I were doing some work together on Thursday and I did a clone of one of her ASP.NET Core repositories and opened it in Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition on my local machine. Some of the...
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Fewer Visual Studio Sign-in Prompts
You’ve told us that Visual Studio makes you sign in WAY too often. Over the last year, we’ve released several improvements to help address your feedback. The keychain we released with Visual Studio...
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Learn what every PC game dev should know about Windows 10
Reposted with permission from GamasutraIntroduction: Building the best place… to buildAt GDC Europe 2016, the Microsoft developer platform team is excited to showcase the technologies we’ve been...
View ArticleIntroducing the .NET Framework Monthly Rollup
We are making an important change to .NET Framework updates to align with the Windows Monthly Rollup, also announced today. Beginning October 2016, you will be able to install a new update release...
View ArticleThe week in .NET – 8/16/2016
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 8/9/2016.On .NETLast week, we had Pablo Santos and Francisco Monteverde to talk about PlasticSCM, a version control system with interesting features...
View ArticleRecap: The Future of Gaming on UWP – GDC Europe Twitter Chat
This year’s Game Developers Conference Europe (GDC Europe) proved that there’s a lot to be excited about if you’re a Windows game developer.Play Anywhere, Xbox’s Project Scorpio, ID@Xbox – those are...
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Creating a Custom Ruler with DirectInk
The Windows 10 Anniversary Update comes with a great set of enhancements to digital ink for both the user and developer. Along with gaining knowledge from general inking resources, you will finish this...
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Visual Studio's most useful (and underused) tips
There was a cool comment in my last blog post (one of many, as always, the comments > the content). Btw, "until I realized that the Solution Explorer tree nodes are searchable." This one is a...
View ArticleCustomer segmentation and push notifications: a new Windows Dev Center...
We’re excited to announce that we’ve added a new customer segmentation and push notifications feature to the Windows Dev Center Insider Program. To try it out, you’ll need to join the Dev Center...
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Introducing the UWP Community Toolkit
Recently, we released the Windows Anniversary Update and a new Windows Software Developer Kit (SDK) for Windows 10 containing tools, app templates, platform controls, Windows Runtime APIs, emulators...
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Pull Requests refresh and much, much more – Aug 17
Note: The improvements discussed in this post will be rolling out throughout the week.Lots of stuff this sprint, lets jump in…Pull requestsThe pull request experience has some major updates this...
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Team Services Integration with Jenkins Jobs, Pipelines, and Artifacts
Team Services now integrates even better with Jenkins. The “Jenkins Queue Job” and “Jenkins Download Artifacts” tasks are useful for blending Team Services and Jenkins build and release steps. Why...
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Upload Files from Team Services Builds and Releases with FTP/FTPS
Team Services includes a new build and release task, FTP Upload. Now your Team Services build or release can upload files using FTP or FTPS. The FTP Upload task is cross-platform and does not require...
View ArticleTeam Services Update – Aug 17
I missed a few updates while I was out over the summer but, hopefully, now I’m back on my normal cadence.This week, we are deploying our sprint 104 work to VS Team Services. It looks to me like it’s a...
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