Visual Studio 2013 Preview Now Available!
Soma announced availability of the Visual Studio 2013 Preview.The experience for Visual C++ developers was improved with enhancements in the following areas: ISO C/C++ standards, Visual C++ library,...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Preview Available Now!
Today in the keynote at BUILD we announced the availability of Visual Studio 2013 Preview that can be downloaded here. Make sure to visit Somasegar's blog for a look at what's new in this release of...
View ArticleAnnouncing the .NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview
Today, we are announcing the .NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview, which includes new features and improvements across the product. We’ve made it easier to build .NET apps in Visual Studio, with convenient and...
View ArticleWhat’s New for Visual C++ Developers in VS2013 Preview
Since the newer Visual C++ content is not yet live on MSDN, I copied the key bits from the "What's New for Visual C++ Developers" and replicated it below. Note that this post may be removed after the...
View ArticleBusiness Apps, Cloud Apps, and More at Build 2013
Today is another exciting day at the Build 2013 conference in San Francisco. While I normally refrain from blogging multiple times in the same week, I’m breaking with my pattern in order to share...
View ArticleAnnouncing LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2013 Preview
Fresh off the back of our recent April release of the LightSwitch HTML Client in VS2012 Update 2, the team is proud to follow up with more incremental value with the availability of Visual Studio 2013...
View ArticleAnnouncing a pre-release of F# 3.1 and the Visual F# tools in Visual Studio 2013
We are pleased to announce the availability of a preview release of version 3.1 of the F# language, with matching Visual F# tooling. These are included with the Visual Studio 2013 Preview Release...
View ArticleInRelease for Visual Studio 2013 Preview Now Available
Last month at TechEd 2013, we announced Microsoft’s agreement to acquire InCycle’s InRelease Business Unit, a leading release management solution for .NET and Windows Server applications.Today, I’m...
View ArticleResponsible for a million dollar software project, but don’t know where to...
This post was written by Cesar De la Torre Llorente, a member of the .NET Marketing team. Cesar provides guidance on .NET to customers and to sales, marketing, and support professionals at Microsoft.We...
View ArticleHttpClient 2.2 is now stable
As promised, we’ve just pushed the RTM version of HttpClient 2.2 to NuGet. This version adds support for automatic decompression. As announced here, this doesn’t require a dependency on...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine with...
While i hate simply echoing other blog posts…This one was too important to not cover. The ALM Virtual Machine (which most people refer to as the “Keller VM”) is probably the single most important...
View ArticleVisual Studio Unit Test Generator is feature complete – v1 Release Candidate...
The ALM Rangers are pleased to announce the landing of the Release Candidate for the Visual Studio Unit Test Generator. OverviewOnce you’ve moved to Visual Studio 2012, what’s a developer to do without...
View ArticleALM Readiness Treasure Map – Release 2 available in the Windows Store
The ALM Rangers are pleased to announce the landing of the second release of the ALM Readiness Treasure Map Windows Store App, which was certified and released on August 1st and is now featured in the...
View ArticleReleasing a Planning Poker Application and multi sprint burn down chart
The ALM MVPs were busy today as they released two different tools designed to help agile teams work better. Sprint Burndown+The first tool is a visual studio gallery extension called Sprint Burndown+....
View ArticleAnnouncing TraceEvent – Monitoring and Diagnostics for the Cloud
In this post, Vance Morrison, software developer on the .NET Runtime team, will talk about the TraceEvent NuGet library we just shipped. -- ImmoI am happy to report that we have just released the...
View ArticleImproved Package Restore
As we’ve previously explained we receive various reports on how our NuGet packages don’t play nicely with NuGet’s package restore feature. In this blog post I’ll talk about an update we shipped to our...
View ArticlePortable Compression is now stable
Today we are happy to announce that our portable compression library is now available as a stable NuGet package.Microsoft.Bcl.CompressionMicrosoft.Bcl.Compression provides the following APIs in a...
View ArticleVisual Studio Unit Test Generator v1 “lands”
The ALM Rangers are pleased to announce the landing of the Visual Studio Unit Test Generator v1. Looking for unit test code generation?The Visual Studio Unit Test Generator helps to increase developer...
View ArticleUpdated NuGet Support in Visual Studio 2012.4
As Brian Harry recently announced, there will be a Visual Studio 2012 Update 4. With RC2, we’ve updated the NuGet support. In this blog post, I’ll summarize those improvements.Updated NuGet ClientThe...
View ArticleAnnouncing the .NET Framework 4.5.1 RC
The .NET Framework 4.5.1 RC is now available. It comes with a go-live license, enabling you to deploy 4.5.1 apps in production. Here are the RC bits. Download them. Try them out. Tell us what you...
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