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The .NET Foundation and .NET Platform Innovation
.NET has been a bedrock of the Microsoft developer ecosystem ever since its initial release more than 12 years ago. The over 6 million professional developers using .NET have built some of the most...
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Taking a tour of Roslyn
It’s a big day for us on the Managed Languages team! As announced at the //BUILD conference earlier today, and as posted by Soma on his blog, we are not just delivering a new preview of Roslyn to all...
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Visual Studio Online Integration in the Azure portal
Today, at Build, we unveiled a new Azure Portal experience we are building. I want to give you some insights into the work that VS Online team is doing to help with it. I’m not on the Azure team and...
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Performance Profiling on Windows Phone 8.1 with Visual Studio
We are very excited to announce that we have added support for performance profiling of Windows Phone XAML and JavaScript apps to the Performance and Diagnostics hub. You can transfer your existing...
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Windows App Studio Beta: Build a Windows Phone AND Windows app in one...
Eight months ago we launched Windows Phone App Studio Beta. Over 400,000 of you have used it, including novice developers who have built and published their first app, college professors, who’ve used...
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Video Tutorial and Screenshots: Windows 8.1 Update 1
I have a personal MSDN account so I download and installed the Windows 8.1 Update as soon as I could. It'll roll out to the rest of the world slowly in the coming weeks.The verdict? It's a significant...
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Facilitating Open Contributions for the F# Compiler, Library and Visual F# Tools
The Visual F# Team are very happy to announce that, through our participation in Microsoft Open Technologies (MSOpenTech) and in conjunction with the F# community, we are now able to accept...
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New features for side-loaded apps in Windows 8.1 update
With Windows 8.1 Update, we’re pleased to introduce two features for side-loaded Windows Store apps that make it possible to interoperate with desktop processes (apps or local services) outside of the...
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Delight and engage your users with these new Windows Phone 8.1 capabilities
This week at Build, we announced Windows Phone 8.1 and the Visual Studio tooling to build apps for it. With this release, the team brings platform convergence to the Windows developer platform,...
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Creating a Custom Scaffolder for Visual Studio
With the release of Visual Studio 2013 last October, we introduced the concept of Scaffolding to Web Application projects. Scaffolding is the framework on which code generation for MVC and WebAPI is...
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Diagnosing Mobile Website Issues on Windows Phone 8.1 with Visual Studio
If you have spent time trying to make a compelling mobile version of your website you have likely hit issues with it not looking or working correctly on mobile browsers. To help with this on Windows...
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Windows-compatible hardware development boards available soon
Viraf Gandhi is a Senior Program Manager in the Engineering Partner Experience team in the Operating Systems Group. Â Windows is a compelling platform in part because it delivers a single development...
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The Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2
Release candidate of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2Â is now available to download. This update supports TFS 2013 Update 2 RTM as well as the Windows 8.1 Update 1 and Windows Phone 8.1 platform releases...
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Node.js Tools for Visual Studio 1.0 Beta
Over the last few years, Node.js has become a popular JavaScript-based server-side development language. We've had great support for Node.js in Azure via Azure Web Sites and Azure Mobile Services for...
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Cloud Load testing with Visual Studio Online - Launching General Availability
As announced with the build conference we are launching the General Availability for cloud load testing using Visual Studio Online. With the integration of the Application Insights and Cloud Load...
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Build 2014: TabTale Brings Popular Kids Apps to Windows 8 Platform
Israel-based TabTale is a world leader in children’s mobile entertainment and education and has repeatedly been featured among the Top 10 on Apple’s iOS global publisher rankings. Serving over 25...
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Release Management - Continuous Deployment with Visual Studio Online and any...
Visual Studio Release Management 2013 Update 2 RC release ships an with an updated Release command line tool.The new options of that command line tool opens new possibilities in terms of continuous...
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Phone Debugging in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2
Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 introduced several exciting changes for mobile development. You are now able to use the same programming model that you use to build Windows Store apps for Windows 8.1, to...
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Using Coded UI to test XAML-based Windows Phone apps
In order to ship a great quality app to the Store, it is essential that you test it and flush out the bugs. End to end scenario tests when automated can help you ensure that any regressions in the app...
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Towards Publish-to-Web Project Support in the Visual F# Tools
As part of our open engineering efforts, we are working with the F# community to enable better Web Project support in the Visual F# Tools, including "publish to web".If you would like to contribute to...
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