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Application Insights tools for Visual Studio included in Visual Studio 2013...
Today, as part of the Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 Release Candidate, projects enabled for Application Insights will result in an Application Insights resource being provisioned in an Azure subscription...
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ODataLib 6.5.0 Release
We are happy to announce that the ODL 6.5.0 is released and available on nuget along with the source code oncodeplex (please read the git history for the v6.5.0 code info and all previous version)....
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Office 365 API Tools for Visual Studio - Users and Files
The Office 365 APIs allow you to easily integrate Office 365 services into your apps in a consistent way. You can access user data like calendars, documents and more using REST APIs and standard OAuth...
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View Source in the CPU Usage tool
In Update 2 of Visual Studio 2013, we added the CPU Usage tool into the Performance and Diagnostics hub which allows you to see where the CPU is spending time executing your code. In Update 3 of Visual...
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TFS Upgrade Improvements in TFS 2013.3
I’ve talked about this before but something happened today that got me thinking about it again. One of the necessary components of the rapid release cycle we are on for VS and TFS is an easy and...
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Catch up on all the videos from DotNetConf Spring 2014
Did you miss out on DotNetConf when it streamed LIVE just a few weeks ago? Don't you worry, it's all recorded and online for you to stream or download! We are happy happy to announce that we’re...
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Using ODataUriParser for OData V4
BackgroundThis post is intended to guide you through the UriParser for OData V4, which is released within ODataLib V6.0 and later.You may have already read the following posts about OData UriParser in...
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Review: Logitech ConferenceCam CC3000e - A fantastic pan tilt zoom camera and...
I'm forever looking for tools that can make me a more effective remote worker. I'm still working remotely from Portland, Oregon for folks in Redmond, Washington. You might think that a nice standard HD...
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How to deploy to Standard or Azure environments in Release Management 2013...
With Microsoft Release Management 2013 Update 3 RC, you can now use Windows PowerShell or Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) for deploying and managing configuration data. We now...
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Mobile device testing with Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server and Perfecto...
Today's mobile-first development requires testing on the wide variety of devices that are in common use by consumers and business users. To deliver high-quality mobile apps, development teams need...
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TFS Adoption at Microsoft – July 2014
Years ago, I used to do monthly updates on TFS adoption at Microsoft. Eventually, the numbers got so astronomical that it just seemed silly so I stopped doing them. It’s been long enough and there’s...
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VC++ Bytes on Channel 9
If you’d like to get an idea of what new features are in store for you in the Visual Studio “14” CTP, be sure to check out the VC++ Bytes series on Channel 9! The series is dedicated to showcasing new...
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Visual Studio Web Development Survey
A lot of Visual Studio customers use Visual Studio to do web development. We’d like to know more about your experiences using UI frameworks, so we’ve created an anonymous survey. It should take as...
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Get Application Performance Counters of your choice during load runs with...
Goal of a load testing activity is to identify and fix performance bottlenecks. Visual Studio Online integrates Cloud Load Testing with Application Insights to give deep insights into performance and...
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How to trigger deployments to Chef managed environments from Release...
Pre-requisites for triggering Chef deployments using RM: Target node must already be bootstrapped and registered with Chef serverRelevant cookbooks uploaded to Chef Server. Cookbook should have an...
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ASP.NET vNext in Visual Studio “14” CTP 2
Today we released various runtime and tooling updates for ASP.NET vNext in the Visual Studio “14” CTP 2. This CTP includes our alpha2 runtime packages for ASP.NET vNext. You can find all the details on...
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Visual Studio “14” CTP 2 Available
I’m not going to make too big a deal about this because there’s going to be tons of them between now and when VS “14” ships. But we shipped another CTP today and you can learn more about it here:...
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Where is the field on the work item form to order the backlog?
In our latest deployment to Visual Studio Online on July 1, we have removed the Stack Rank (Agile / CMMI) or Backlog Priority (Scrum) field from the work item form. The backlog uses that field to order...
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DEVELOPER SPEAK: Jani Tietäväinen aims to increase user base and engagement...
Jani Tietäväinen, CEO and lead producer of Finland-based Seepia Games, received funding from AppCampus to build a strategy game called Permia Duels. Since he released the app to Windows Phone six...
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How to enter and use Emoji on Windows 8.1
I have an iPhone 5s and every once in a while my wife and would be texting and I would send her a and she would be like "why you sending me a square?" Then later she got a Nokia 1020 and then we could...
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