Announcing The MVP Reconnect Program & The 2016 MVP Global Summit
Once again, it is the time of the year when we have the privilege to host thousands of passionate technical leaders for our MVP Global Summit. This is far from a traditional technical conference. Next...
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The “Internet of Stranger Things” Wall, Part 2 – Wall Construction and Music
OverviewI do a lot of woodworking and carpentry at home. Much to my family’s chagrin, our house is in a constant state of flux. I tend to subscribe to the Norm Abram school of woodworking, where there...
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Getting personal – speech and inking (App Dev on Xbox series)
The way users interact with apps on different devices has gotten much more personal lately, thanks to a variety of new Natural User Interface features in the Universal Windows Platform. These UWP...
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The “Internet of Stranger Things” Wall, Part 3 – Voice Recognition and...
OverviewI called this project the “Internet of Stranger Things,” but so far, there hasn’t been an internet piece. In addition, there really hasn’t been anything that couldn’t be easily accomplished on...
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Kinect demo code and new driver for UWP now available
Here’s a little memory test: Do you recall this blog, which posted back in May and promised to soon begin integrating Kinect for Windows into the Universal Windows Platform? Of course you do! Now we...
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In Case You Missed it – This Week in Windows Developer
Happy (belated) Halloween, Windows Devs! This past week gave 80s kids, pop culture fans and Windows Devs alike all a chance to celebrate the internet of things.Our very own IoT master, Pete Brown,...
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Issue with using Application Insights with load tests
If you use Application Insights to collect app side metrics during load tests, you will find that it currently doesn’t work as expected.When configuring applications to collect app side metrics in the...
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Developing Linux C++ applications with Azure Docker containers
In recent years, Visual Studio has added new features and experiences to allow developers to develop their C++ applications for non-Windows platforms such as Android, iOS and more recently Linux. One...
View ArticleTypeScript 2.1 RC: Better Inference, Async Functions, and More
Today we’re happy to announce our release candidate for TypeScript 2.1! If you aren’t familiar with it, TypeScript is a language that adds optional static types to JavaScript, and brings new features...
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The week in .NET – On .NET on CoreRT & .NET Native – Enums.NET – Ylands –...
To read last week’s post, see The week in .NET – .NET Foundation – Serilog – Super Dungeon Bros.On .NETLast week, Mei-Chin Tsai and Jan Kotas were on the show:This week, we won’t be streaming live, but...
View ArticleVisual C++ docs: the future is… soon!
We on the Visual C++ documentation team are pleased to announce some changes to the API reference content in the following Visual C++ libraries: STL, MFC, ATL, AMP, and ConcRT.Since the beginning of...
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Get Real-time Election Day Results with Bing
Today is the day! A year of campaigning candidates, debates and a whirlwind of news stories all comes to a head today as we learn who will be the next President of the United States. Knowing millions...
View ArticleVS Team Services Update – Nov 7
This week we are rolling out our sprint 108 work to Team Services. You can read the release notes for details.It’s another comparatively “light” sprint. It’s the last sprint that should be...
View Article.NET Core Data Access
.NET Core was released a few months ago, and data access libraries for most databases, both relational and NoSQL are now available. In this post, I’ll detail what client libraries are available, as...
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Extensibility in Visual Studio “15”: Increasing Reliability and Performance
If you’ve been following this blog, you know that in Visual Studio “15” we’ve been focused on making our developer tools easier to install, increasing performance, and enhancing developer productivity....
View ArticleBest of Both Worlds
Back in February of 2015, I wrote a blog asking a very simple question: how many vendors does it take to implement DevOps? At the time I wrote the post, I felt the answer was one. Almost two years...
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Stateless 3.0 - A State Machine library for .NET Core
State Machines and business processes that describe a series of states seem like they'll be easy to code but you'll eventually regret trying to do it yourself. Sure, you'll start with a boolean, then...
View ArticleIn Case You Missed It – This Week in Windows Developer
While most of the world froze in place to follow the endless stream of U.S. presidential election coverage, we continued to push forward in the world of Windows Developer. And by push forward, we...
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Connect(); // 2016 starts Nov 16th
As hundreds of people across Microsoft head towards New York City we wanted to take this opportunity to write a short blog post to remind our community that we’re almost ready to unveil Connect(); //...
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Visual Studio Code just keeps getting better - with extensions
I've been a fan of Visual Studio Code (the free code editor) since it was released. But even though it continues to update itself as I use it, I didn't really grok how much cool stuff has been going on...
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