Clik here to view.
//build 2014 highlights #2: enterprise, XAML, and IE/JavaScript/web apps
Welcome to our next installment of //build 2014 highlights! This week we’ll start with relevant sessions for enterprise developers that are rich and diverse. As we mentioned in a brief post on April...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Parallel STL - Democratizing Parallelism in C++
Only a few years ago, writing parallel code in C++ was a domain of the experts. Nowadays, this field is becoming more and more accessible to regular developers thanks to the advances in libraries, such...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tonight at The F# Bay Area Meetup Group - Will Smith - A Journey to...
Tonight in San Francisco the F# Bay Area Meetup Group are getting together at ThoughtWorks for: Porting Quake III to F#: A Journey to Functional Programming with Will Smith ThoughtWorks315 Montgomery...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Scalar Properties and Collection Properties and Screens! Oh My! - An Overview...
In the beginning of The Wizard of Oz, the Munchkins urge Dorothy to “follow, follow, follow, follow, follow the Yellow Brick Road!”Y’know… Dorothy probably wouldn’t have been very happy if the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension
We have heard many customers express the desire that we bring back support for Visual Studio Installer projects. In fact this was one of the topmost voted on suggestions on User Voice for Visual Studio...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Respond to App Reviews: a phased rollout
At //build/ earlier this month, we announced that the option would be available for developers to respond to reviews, beginning in May. Today I want to share that we’ve taken the first step toward...
View ArticleClik here to view.
F# meetup starting in Los Angeles area
An F# meetup is starting up in the Los Angeles area!Tony Abell (@TonyAbell) has announced an informal "meet & greet" first meeting next Tuesday:If you would like to get involved, please register...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Visualizing Roslyn Syntax Trees
Hello everyone! I hope you had a chance to catch the recent announcements around the .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”). If not, I encourage you to view Anders’s presentation at Build 2014 (skip to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Visualizing Roslyn Syntax Trees
Hello everyone! I hope you had a chance to catch the recent announcements around the .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”). If not, I encourage you to view Anders’s presentation at Build 2014 (skip to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Error in installation log for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC can be misleading
Given many of the exciting announcements and features demonstrated recently at Build 2014, customers are downloading Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC. This update is quite a bit bigger than VS2013 Update...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Creating installers with Visual Studio
Some years ago we discontinued support for creating installer projects in Visual Studio and directed people to InstallShield for that functionality. There were a number of reasons for that decision...
View ArticleClik here to view.
WinJS on Windows Phone 8.1
This post was written by Josh Rennert, Program Manager, Windows Ecosystem & Frameworks teamThere were two big announcements involving Windows Library for JavaScript (“WinJS”) this year at //build...
View ArticleClik here to view.
//build/ –> //learn/-> //publish/: new resources to help you publish your...
You’ve heard announcements at //build/ around the launch of Windows Phone 8.1 and the converged development platform; now get the details and support from community experts to bring your universal...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Windows Phone 8.1 has my attention now
I've had an iPhone since the 3GS (I have a 5S right now) but I'm always flirting with the Windows Phone. It's just prettier than my iPhone, but my iPhone has a lot of apps...so I stay with it. Folks...
View ArticleClik here to view.
TypeScript 1.0 Released and Open for Contributions
Recently, we announced the release of TypeScript 1.0. In addition, we’re excited to say that TypeScript is now taking code contributions from the community. This is a significant milestone for the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sharing code across platforms
At Build we announced two great ways to re-use your code: the new Universal Windows apps, and the improved portable class libraries. They both help you reuse code across platforms.In this post, I’ll...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Performance and Diagnostics hub improvements in Update 2
MSDN hosts a number of excellent blogs including the .NET Framework Blog . They are not exclusively .NET: In VS2013 RTM we introduced the Performance and Diagnostics hub with a bunch of tools that help...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Monitoring Custom Performance Counters in Application Insights
I have had several folks ask me how to monitor custom performance counters in Application Insights. Since I hadn’t played with performance counters in a while I thought I would go through the MSDN...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Saving to Multiple Data Sources in the HTML Client (Stephen Provine)
One of the great features of Visual Studio LightSwitch and Cloud Business Apps (CBA) is its ability to perform what we call data mashup. You can connect to multiple data sources, configure virtual...
View ArticleClik here to view.
//build 2014 highlights #3: graphics, media, design, and the business of apps
We’re deep into our //build 2014 highlights, and this week we bring together some of the deepest technical sessions—those on graphics and media—with those at the opposite end of the spectrum, namely...
View Article