Next best thing to being at Build (Build Application)
I am getting ready for Build and realized I wanted an easy way to view, search and add sessions to my schedule…Luckily the the folks at BlueFragments have created this Application!Of course this...
View ArticleBuilding Better Input Experience for East Asian Users with the IME API in IE11
During the development of Internet Explorer 11, we proposed and implemented a new set of IME APIs to the Web Applications Working Group for a better input experience for East Asian users. These...
View ArticleApplication Insights at the Danish Developer Conference April 30th
If you happen to be in Denmark April 30th and looking for some great content one of the XAML MVPs will be doing a session on Application Insights…including best practices on how they instrumented the...
View ArticleAt BUILD 2014? Join the F# Bay Area Group for Drinks on Thursday
For those attending BUILD 2014 in San Francisco, the F# Bay Area Group will be hosting drinks at the Thirsty Bear Brewery at 6:00pm on Thursday, April 3, 2014. Come along and discsus how F# works as a...
View ArticleAt BUILD 2014? Head to Silicon Valley for Coding Dojo: a gentle introduction...
At BUILD 2014? Take an evening out to join the F# Bay Area Meetup Group in Silicon Valley for their Coding Dojo - A gentle introduction to Machine Learning with F#.Machine Learning is the art of...
View ArticleAt BUILD 2014? Join Miguel de Icaza for his C#+F# Mobile Session on Android...
At BUILD 2014 in San Francisco? Join Miguel de Icaza for his Mobile session:
View ArticleVisual Studio Online Update – Mar 18th
Wow, this post is late. It’s been a pretty tough month for me personally. Probably the highlight was an ice storm that hit central North Carolina and crushed us. My house was without power for 4...
View ArticleExtending platform commonality through universal Windows apps
Today during our BUILD conference in San Francisco we unveiled the latest Windows software for phones, tablets, and PCs. Windows Phone 8.1 further establishes Windows Phone as the world’s most personal...
View ArticleTFS 2013.2 (Update 2) Released
And VS 2013.2 RC released…OK, this is weird, I admit, so I’ll explain. Today we officially released the final version of TFS 2013 Update 2 and we released a Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2013...
View ArticleLink your app to search results with new Bing feature
Bing just released a new app-linking feature that allows you to link your Windows and Windows Phone apps to web search results. By surfacing app links alongside web search results, app linking helps...
View ArticleWindows Store universal Windows app opportunity
Greetings from the 2014 //build/ conference! Platform commonality and consistency across devices and services has been a major theme of the start of the event. For the past several months, the Store...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC: Windows Phone 8.1 Tools, Shared Projects and...
Earlier today we announced the availability of the release candidate of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2. This update includes support for today's new platform releases of Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1...
View ArticleAnnouncing new web features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC
Today, the Visual Studio team announced the release of RC version of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 . Our team added a few useful features and did some bug fixing in this update to improve the web...
View ArticleDiagnosing memory issues with the new Memory Usage Tool in Visual Studio
As part of our continued effort to provide great diagnostic tools for developers, Visual Studio 2013 introduces a new Memory Usage tool as a part of the Performance and Diagnostics hub. The Memory...
View ArticleDid you uninstall Release Management Server and lose access to the Release...
It can happen. If you uninstall the RM server and a client is still pointing to that server (one that is now no longer available, because you just uninstalled it), you will get this error message the...
View ArticleBringing WinJS cross-platform and open source
This post was authored by Maria Kang, Program Manager, Windows Ecosystem & Frameworks Team Today the source code of the Windows Library for JavaScript (WinJS) is being released under the Apache 2.0...
View ArticleVisual Studio/Team Foundation Server Release Notes
For well over a year now, we’ve been posting release notes for Visual Studio Online roughly every 3 weeks describing the enhancements we deploy each sprint. In our last redesign of the...
View ArticleBuild 2014: Enabling Developers to Embrace Cloud First/Mobile First experiences
Today, John Shewchuk and I delivered the concluding keynote at Build 2014 in San Francisco. Our keynote focused on hands-on demos that demonstrate Microsoft’s commitment to helping developers achieve...
View ArticleCase study: Application Performance Monitoring with Application Insights
James Beeson, Alan WillsOur group runs about 20 web applications, serving a community of about 100k users spread around the world. Typically, our apps deal with a few requests per second, but of course...
View ArticleVisual Studio Online “General Availability”
Today is a monumental day for VS Online. It’s the culmination of a long journey from a glimmer of an idea to prototype, private preview, limited preview, public preview, “go-live” and now, finally...
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