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Roaming Extension Manager: Control and Consistency down to the last Extension
[UPDATED 7/31] On 7/31 we released an update to the extension. This update includes notifications for extensions, and a change in the UI where the status icons (installed / roaming) are on the...
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Top News from July 2015
Hello everyone! Every month we share some top stories from the previous month, and here’s our round-up for July.Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download. Within the Visual Studio team,...
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Introduction to Debugging
Whenever those of us in Visual Studio give talks or write blog posts about debugging, we typically focus on tips and tricks and new features that take for granted you already know the basics of...
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A Day in the Life of Visual Studio Send a Smile Feedback
Last time we talked about the Feedback Tools in Visual Studio 2015 RTM and I shared how you can send us feedback. In this post, I am going to share what happens to the feedback after you send it to...
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Top Azure News for Visual Studio Developers – August 2015
A lot has happened on the Azure side of the house in the last couple of months. We wanted to give you some of the highlights in case you aren’t already following the Azure blog, focusing especially on...
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WinTools 1.1, TypeScript 1.6 RTM, and Tools for Apache Cordova Updates
We’ve just released updates to several tools, along with something new for developers working with the Apache Cordova CLI.Tools for Universal Windows apps (v1.1). This update addresses a number of key...
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A Summer of ASP.NET: Catching up with .NET Web Developments
Summer 2015 has come and gone (in the northern hemisphere at least!), and four releases of ASP.NET have hit the internet in that time. With the Visual Studio 2015 release in July the team released...
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Introducing U-SQL – A Language that makes Big Data Processing Easy
Microsoft announced the new Azure Data Lake services for analytics in the cloud that includes a hyper-scale repository, a new analytics service built on YARN that allows data developers and data...
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IntelliTest for .NET - Test More with Less (effort)
Writing a suit of unit tests that exhaustively exercise and validate the logic of the code under test is not easy. It can even be considered too expensive to do at all. Fortunately, the IntelliTest...
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Announcing Tools for Apache Cordova (aka TACO) v1.0.0
We are excited to announce the first official (aka 1.0.0) release of the TACO CLI today!Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO, for short) provides number of utilities for Mac and Windows users to develop with...
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How Visual Studio gives Halfbrick ninja powers
For this post we welcome Nicholas Cornelius and Miguel Pastor from Halfbrick as guest authors on the Visual Studio Blog.Halfbrick games, including Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride, are released on multi...
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Update News: Tools for Universal Windows Apps 1.1.1, Visual Studio Emulator...
Tools for Universal Windows Apps 1.1.1: This update, which is what you’ll get with a new installation, fixes a bug in Tools for Universal Windows Apps 1.1 where Visual Studio failed to create a...
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Now available: Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Update 3
Three weeks ago, we released Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Update 2. Last week, we introduced you to a new TACO CLI. Now we’re back with Update 3, which is automatically included when you...
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Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 CTP
Today we released Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 CTP. Included, you’ll find:Edit and Continue support for /BigObj in C++, which means you can now Edit and Continue while debugging Windows Store C++...
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The Road Ahead for the Feedback Channels
In two earlier posts (Visual Studio Customer Feedback Channels and A Day in the Life of Visual Studio Send a Smile Feedback) we talked about the different ways you could send us feedback for Visual...
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New Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Documentation Site and Beginner’s...
Earlier this summer, the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova moved to an open documentation model to engage developers like you to help create an amazing hybrid mobile app development experience. We...
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Microsoft Connect (); // 2015 Developer Event Set for November 18-19
Microsoft is a developer company, so there’s nothing we love more than connecting with developers to share our latest tools, technologies and plans for the future. I therefore invite you to set your...
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Apache Cordova Customer Spotlight: WeatherPerfect
In this blog we typically share updates and improvements to Visual Studio itself. We also want to highlight examples of how developers use these tools to build compelling mobile apps.Meet Sverre...
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Top News for September 2015
Hello everyone! Every month we share some top stories from the previous month, and here’s our round-up for September.Open-source, cross-platform MSBuild: Continuing the open-source, cross-platform .NET...
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Writing and Using Custom Code in U-SQL – User-Defined Functions
In my last blog post, I introduced U-SQL as the new Big Data query language for the Azure Data Lake that unifies the benefits of SQL with the expressive power of your own code. Today we are announcing...
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