Announcing new Web Features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RTM
Today, the Visual Studio team announced the release of RTM version of Visual Studio 2013 Update 3. Our team added a few useful features and did some bug fixing in this update to improve the web...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Update 3 released
Earlier today, Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 was released. This update offers a number of small but useful enhancements for VSTO developers: #1: Support for .NET 4.5.2 and beyond, and the de-coupling...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s journey to Cloud Cadence
Last week the Visual Studio product owner Sam Guckenheimer keynoted the Agile 2014 Conference. In his presentation he went through our teams changes/learning's to adopt a DevOps workflow....
View ArticleBugs Fixed in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3
Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 includes a number of fixes filed through Connect: Calling dispose on a WinRT object could cause a crash. Using uniform initialization with an overloaded equality operator...
View ArticleUse a Microsoft Account to Create Web Apps Protected by Azure AD - With...
Back in December I have posted an article which described a limitation of the organizational identities support in the ASP.NET project templates in Visual Studio 2013.In a nutshell. The ASP.NET project...
View ArticleYou aren't using Resource Monitor enough
Most folks learn how to use Task Manager pretty quickly. We've all been on the phone with non-technical-relative and ask them to open up Task Manager.As we move from user to technical-user we are...
View ArticleAzure: Virtual Machine, Machine Learning, IoT Event Ingestion, Mobile, SQL,...
This past month we’ve released a number of great enhancements to Microsoft Azure. These include: Virtual Machines: Preview Portal Support as well as SharePoint Farm Creation Machine Learning: Public...
View ArticleWork-items tracking using Release Management
Tracing what is new in a given release for a product is often tiresome and time taking task. With Microsoft Release Management 2013 Update 3 RC/RTM, you can achieve this easily through its “Change...
View ArticleOffice 365 API Tools for Visual Studio– Building Office 365 Android Apps with...
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...
View ArticleMultiDictionary becomes MultiValueDictionary
We just shipped an update to our experimental implementation of a multi value dictionary. In this post, our software developer intern Ian Hays talks about the changes. -- ImmoGoodbye MultiDictionaryIn...
View ArticleAnnouncing RTM of ASP.NET Identity 2.1.0
We are releasing RTM of ASP.NET Identity 2.1.0. The main focus in this release was to fix bugs and add SignInManager to make it easier to use security features such as Account Lockout, Two-Factor...
View ArticleInternet Explorer begins blocking out-of-date ActiveX controls
As part of our ongoing commitment to delivering a more secure browser, starting August 12th Internet Explorer will block out-of-date ActiveX controls. ActiveX controls are small apps that let Web sites...
View ArticleAward-winning GamePho app and Windows 8.1 empower gamers with multi-screen,...
Emre Taş recently received support from App Campus to develop and launch the two-match puzzle game, Witch Potion, in the Windows Phone Store. Taş is the CEO of the Turkish development firm Alictus....
View ArticleSurvey for You :)
We know a lot of you C++ developers also use other frameworks like .NET and Xamarin. If so, do you mind taking a brief survey at http://aka.ms/vsmdd ? Look for us to share highlights from the last...
View ArticleLeveraging existing code across .NET platforms
Today we are happy to announce the alpha release of the .NET Portability Analyzer extension for Visual Studio. Please try it out. This add-in was created by our software developer intern Charles...
View ArticleRestrict Team Foundation Build permissions
Do you have code that should be seen by only a subset of members of your on-premises team project collection? Do you use Team Foundation Build (TFBuild)? If so, you must create some custom groups to...
View ArticleIntelliTrace standalone collector is back!
As you probably already know, Visual Studio Ultimate offers an enhanced live debugging experience (F5 or Attach) through the use of IntelliTrace. Your application’s execution is recorded by...
View ArticleStay up-to-date with Internet Explorer
As we shared in May, Microsoft is prioritizing helping users stay up-to-date with the latest version of Internet Explorer. Today we would like to share important information on migration resources,...
View ArticleMoving to the .NET Framework 4.5.2
A few months ago we announced the availability of the .NET Framework 4.5.2, a highly compatible, in-place update to the .NET 4.x family (.NET 4, 4.5, and 4.5.1). The .NET Framework 4.5.2 was released...
View ArticleFixing the Touch Screen in Windows 8.1 on my old HP TouchSmart with...
We've got an older HP TouchSmart all in one computer that we use as the "Kitchen PC." It's basically a browsing, emails, YouTube, and recipes machine. It's lovely machine, really. I've actually seen...
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