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RyuJIT .NET JIT compiler CTP1 FAQ
This post shares more details about our new .NET 64-bit Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler. It was written by Kevin Frei, Development Lead for the CLR JIT team.RyuJIT received a great response with its...
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In Your Own Words: Try-and-buy yields repeated success for veteran game...
Finnish game studio, 10tons, has published 32 games on a dozen platforms over the last decade. The studio has monetized its games in part because of its rich, compelling content, its multi-platform...
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Announcing release of ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.1 for Visual Studio 2012
We have released ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.1 for Visual Studio 2012. This release brings a ton of great improvements, and include some fantastic enhancements to ASP.NET MVC 5, Web API 2, Scaffolding...
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Now that’s creative power: 1000+ Unity apps across Windows Store and Windows...
This past June, we announced collaboration with Unity, through which Unity developers can publish their apps on Windows platforms. In porting Unity apps to both Windows Store and Windows Phone Store,...
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1000+ Unity apps across Windows Store and Windows Phone
This past June, we announced a collaboration with Unity, through which Unity developers can publish their apps on Windows platforms. Since the release of Unity 4.2, we’ve seen exponential growth of...
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Browser Link APIs in Visual Studio 2013 RTM
Browser Link feature in Visual Studio 2013 provides APIs for you to write your own Browser Link Extension. To take a look at some of the extensions, you can download Web Essentials for Visual Studio...
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Announcing the Visual C++ Compiler November 2013 CTP
Last year in November, we released an out-of-band customer technology preview (CTP) of the Visual C++ compiler. It contained preview versions of C++11 features which we subsequently fully released in...
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Application Insights going fast
Overall, tire kicking on Application Insights is going well and the invitation codes continue to get used up pretty quickly. We’ve now got many hundreds of accounts enabled so I’m probably going to...
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Run more apps and show more tiles on your Surface 2 or high-dpi Windows 8.1...
I did a blog post a little while ago about getting real work done on a Surface 2 (ARM & RT) and I've learned a few interesting things since then. The Surface 2 has a great screen. Having 1920x1080p...
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SharePoint Conference 2014 – Cloud Developer Skills Jumpstart
This year, an MVP will conduct an all-day pre-conference training focusing on the key developer skills necessary to get ahead with building apps for both Office and SharePoint. Since the technologies...
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Visual Studio Rename Refactor Helper for Visual Studio 2013
The C++ language is large and complex with context-sensitive syntax subtleties that make it difficult to create a reliable and fast rename refactoring tool. For years we wanted to include rename...
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Visual Studio 2013 Survey
On October 17th 2013, we announced the General Availability (GA) of Visual Studio 2013. We would like to thank everyone who took the time to share their thoughts while testing the pre-releases of...
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What’s new for XAML and DirectX interop in Windows 8.1
In Windows 8 we enabled combining the high level UI capabilities of XAML and the low-level rendering power of DirectX within the same app using the three XAML-DirectX interop...
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How much data can you put on VSOnline?
I don’t get asked that question too often but I do occasionally and, as the service matures, I know I’ll get asked it more and more so it’s been on my mind. I was looking at some data yesterday about...
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App Showcase: My SharePoint Sites from QuePort
Sometimes, a simple tweak can make navigating a website so much easier. Thomas Herbst, a developer at QuePort, realized this when creating the My SharePoint Sites app. This app for SharePoint adds...
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Curah! - Curate the web and share what you know
Searching for great technical information is tough – and finding the right place to contribute and show off great content that you’ve either written or discovered is also challenging. With our new...
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Network API cheat sheets available now in the download center
The network APIs have tremendous depth and enable your app to work in many ways. But it can be hard to figure out how and when to use the different APIs. To help you out, the Windows Networking Team...
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Introducing node.js Tools for Visual Studio
Just when you thought it couldn't be crazier in Redmond, today they bring are introducing node.js Tools for Visual Studio! NTVS runs inside VS2012 or VS2013. Some node.js enthusiasts had forked PTVS...
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C++ AMP to target Khronos SPIR and HSAIL
The Parallel Programming in Native Code blog recently announced Clang support for C++ AMP via LLVM backend. This is a key milestone in our commitment (as mentioned in Somasegar's blog) to share the C++...
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EtchMark Under the Hood: Building a Website that Handles Touch, Mouse, and...
EtchMark is a new take on the classic Etch-A-Sketch drawing toy, showcasing IE11’s improved support for touch and emerging Web standards (including Pointer Events and Device Orientation). In this post,...
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