C++14/17 Features and STL Fixes in VS “15” Preview 4
Visual Studio “15” Preview 4 is now available, with a new installer. (VS “15” is an IDE version number, not a year. It’s the next major version after VS 2015, which was IDE version 14. VS has...
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Upcoming Changes to How You Log into Visual Studio Team Services
In order to make it easier for you to sign into Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), we will soon be updating the steps that you will take when you log into your account. After we’ve made these...
View ArticleWhat’s New in C# 7.0
What follows is a description of all the planned language features in C# 7.0. With the release of Visual Studio “15” Preview 4, most of these features are coming alive. Now is a great time to take them...
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New requirement when updating Team Services extensions on the Marketplace
If you develop extensions for Visual Studio Team Services or Team Foundation Server, there is a new requirement during publishing that you should be aware of: when updating an extension on the...
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Continuous Delivery of iOS Applications with Team Services
We are happy to announce an Apple App Store extension that allows deploying iOS applications to the Apple App Store via Team Services or Team Foundation Server (2015 Update 3 or later). Along with the...
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Install Visual Studio Marketplace extensions directly to Team Foundation Server
You can now install Visual Studio Marketplace Extensions to Team Foundation Server “15” RC1 seamlessly. When you browse the Marketplace from TFS, you’ll now see a new connected experience.Install a...
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Interop between XAML and the Visual Layer
The Composition APIs empower Universal Windows Platform (UWP) developers to do beautiful and powerful things when they drop down to the Visual Layer (as in the sample below). One of the remarkable...
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What is Serverless Computing? Exploring Azure Functions
There's a lot of confusing terms in the Cloud space. And that's not counting the term "Cloud." ;)IaaS (Infrastructure as a Services) - Virtual Machines and stuff on demand. PaaS (Platform as a Service)...
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New Dev Center Capabilities
Dev Center continuously adds more options to enable you to monetize and promote your apps and games, and to streamline new submissions or analyze app performance.This month, Dev Center adds new...
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August Update for the Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension
At //Build this year we launched the C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code. Keeping with the monthly release cadence and goal to continuously respond to your feedback, this August update introduces...
View ArticleAnnouncing TypeScript 2.0 RC
TypeScript 2.0 is almost out, and today we’re happy to show just how close we are with our release candidate! If you haven’t used TypeScript yet, check out the intro tutorial on our website to get...
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New C# 7.0 features in Visual Studio “15” Preview 4
Over the past couple of previews, new C# language features have been trickling in, but Preview 4 marks a point where the majority of C# 7.0 are now available.Here’s a code sample that uses a good...
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The week in .NET – 8/30/2016
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – 8/23/2016.On .NETLast week, Phillip Carter was on the show and gave some pretty neat intro-level F# demos:This week, we’ll talk to Ayende Rahien from...
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Sell Team Services extensions
Publishers can now sell any Team Services extension in the Visual Studio Marketplace. Earlier, only Microsoft extensions such as Test Manager, Visual Studio, and HockeyApp subscriptions could be sold...
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Paid extensions in the Visual Studio marketplace
It’s hard to believe it but it’s been almost a year since we introduced the Visual Studio Marketplace. It provides a single point of entry for finding extensions for Visual Studio, VS Team Services...
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Helpshift releases Windows SDK
In-app customer service provider Helpshift just announced a Windows version of their SDK. Helpshift has reinvented the customer service industry by deflecting customer service requests away from...
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Publishing an ASP.NET Core website to a cheap Linux VM host
A little Linux VM on Azure is like $13 a month. You can get little Linux machines all over for between $10-15 a month. On Linode they are about $10 a month so I figured it would be interesting to setup...
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Announcing MSTest V2 Framework support for .NET Core 1.0 RTM
MSTest V2 is now supported on .NET Core 1.0 RTM. API changes in .NET Core 1.0 leading up to RTM (see #7754), were blocking users of the MSTest V2 packages we had released for .NET Core 1.0 RC2. Not any...
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Announcing Intel® Joule™ support in Windows 10 IoT Core Anniversary Edition
Two weeks ago I was excited to see us unveil Windows 10 IoT Core Anniversary Edition running on the new Intel® Joule™, built on the new Intel® Atom™ T5700 SOC. It took us a little over 6 weeks to bring...
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Custom work item types and stakeholder support for exploratory testing – Sept 2
Note: The improvements discussed in this post will be rolling out throughout the next week.We have some exciting new features this sprint!Custom work item typesI’m very happy to roll out in this latest...
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