Team Foundation Server (TFS) 15 RC2 is available and ready for production use
We have now released TFS “15” RC2. We are using it in production internally. It is fully supported for production use. You can upgrade from TFS 2012 or newer to RC2. You can also upgrade the RC1...
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Bing Enhances the Copyright Infringement Claims Process with New, Easy-to-Use...
Lack of communication is a leading cause of divorce. Communication is vital, and sharing the status of a copyright infringement notice is no exception. Which is why Bing just made this easier. A new...
View ArticleImplementing Seeding, Custom Conventions and Interceptors in EF Core 1.0
This post was written by Alina Popa, a software engineer on the .NET team.IntroductionEntity Framework Core (EF Core) is a lightweight and extensible version of the Entity Framework (EF) data access...
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Extend your reach with offline licensing in Windows Store for Business
Windows Store for Business was launched in November 2015 to extend opportunities for developers to offer their apps in volume to business and education organizations running Windows 10. Developers can...
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Cloud-load testing service is hyper-scale ready: lessons from generating 1M...
Every now and then we hear of a business-critical app failing during major promotional or seasonal events such as holiday sales. More often than not it turns out that the app is not ready for the...
View ArticleJust released – Windows developer virtual machines – September 2016 build
Today I’m happy to announce the first release of a developer ready, non-expiring (licensed) virtual machines. Last year, we released the evaluation VMs and we took the feedback to heart that you wanted...
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UWP Hosted Web App on Xbox One (App Dev on Xbox series)
For the fourth installment in the series, we are open sourcing yet another sample app: South Ridge Video, an open source video app developed as a hosted web application built with React.js and hosted...
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Lonely Coding
It's official. I'm a better programmer when I'm pairing with someone. Pair Programming (two people, one keyboard) has been around for at least 20+ years, if not much longer. Usually one person types...
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Work Item Visualization is one of many productivity extensions on the...
We are pleased to announce the latest update of the Work Item Visualization extension. It’s one of our first productivity extensions, enabling you to easily visualize work item relationships and...
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Sharing Authorization Cookies between ASP.NET 4.x and ASP.NET Core 1.0
ASP.NET Core 1.0 is out, as is .NET Core 1.0 and lots of folks are making great cross-platform web apps. These are Web Apps that are built on .NET Core 1.0 and run on Windows, Mac, or Linux. However,...
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Bing Predicts: eSport’s League of Legend™ winner
Bing delivers search experiences that match people’s passions, like sports and entertainment. And many of our users are passionate about one area in particular: the fascinating world of eSports. If...
View ArticleVisual Studio “15” Preview Compilers Feedback
There is a new Connect Form for reporting issues with Visual Studio “15” Preview 5 compilers. If you are not using the Visual Studio IDE, you can report issues using this form.If you are using the IDE,...
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Storing and using secrets in Azure
Most applications need access to secret information in order to function: it could be an API key, database credentials, or something else. In this post, we’ll create a simple service that will compare...
View ArticleFeature flags: How we control exposure in VS Team Services
One question that I often get from customers is how we manage exposing features in the service. Features may not be complete or need to be revealed at a particular time. We may want to get early...
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The week in .NET – On .NET on Cecil – NAudio – SpeechCentral – Hand of Fate
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET: On .NET on Orchard 2 – Mocking on Core – StoryTeller – Armello.On .NETLast week, JB Evain was on the show:This week, we’ll speak with Immo Landwerth from...
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Go to Bing to Livestream the Vice Presidential Debate
On October 4, candidates Tim Kaine and Mike Pence take center stage for the first and only vice presidential debate happening at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. If you can’t watch on TV,...
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Join us this November for Connect(); 2016
Today, I am excited to announce that our popular developer event Connect(); is back for a third year on November 16th and 17th and will be live-streamed globally from New York City. I encourage you to...
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Announcing UWP Community Toolkit 1.1
Today we are releasing the first update to the UWP Community Toolkit. To see the updates, first:Get started with UWP Community Toolkit 1.1Install the UWP Community Toolkit Sample App directly from the...
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Announcing Visual Studio “15” Preview 5
Today we released Visual Studio “15” Preview 5. With this Preview, I want to focus mostly on performance improvements, and in the coming days we’ll have some follow-up posts about the performance gains...
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Bring your C++ codebase to Visual Studio with “Open Folder”
Welcome to Visual Studio ’15’ Preview 5! Starting with this release, Visual Studio supports opening folders containing source code without the need to create any solutions or projects. This makes it a...
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