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Winter ISO C++ Meeting Trip Report
Herb Sutter posted highlights from the Winter ISO C++ meeting held last week in sunny Issaquah, WA: The major work of this meeting was to complete processing of the national body comments received in...
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A new look for .NET Reference Source
This post was written by Alok Shriram, Program Manager on the .NET Framework team. He will show you a significantly improved experience around .NET Reference Source.Today I'm very excited to announce...
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Try the Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP 2
The Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP 2 is ready for you to download and try. Our team remains committed to delivering regular improvements to Visual Studio 2013 through new capabilities and bug...
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RyuJIT CTP2: Getting Ready for Prime-time
This post announces an updated preview of the .NET team’s new 64-bit Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler. It was written by Mani Ramaswamy, Program Manager for the .NET Dynamic Code Execution Team.The...
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Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – March 2014 Update
Today at SharePoint Conference 2014, the Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – March 2014 Update was made available to download. This update contains a ton of new features that improves...
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Announcing Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – March 2014 Update
Today at SharePoint Conference 2014, we are thrilled to announce that Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – March 2014 Update is available to download! The March 2014 Update ships with a ton...
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March 6th Quality Enablement Webinar: Testing Lean from Planning to Production
In San Francisco last week i was able to chat with our director for Test in the ALM team, Mark Mydland, about how we changed our testing teams and behaviors to work with today's faster release cadences...
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Sample Chapter: “Scrum, Agile Practices, and Visual Studio” from the book...
I am lucky enough to get to work with the authors of, Adopting Agile Software Practices: From Backlog to Continuous Feedback, Sam Guckenheimer and Neno Loje on a regular basis. So when they mentioned...
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cppcon registration open!
From cppcon : Registration is now open for CppCon 2014 to be held September 7–12, 2014 at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Washington, USA. The conference will start with the keynote by Bjarne...
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Announcing Team Foundation Server Administration Tool
We are pleased to announce that the TFS Administration Tool 2.3 has been updated support Team Foundation Server 2013 and the Team Foundation Server 2013 object model so it can be installed on machines...
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BUILD 2014, Talks for Thursday
While I am not attending the Build conference myself, I did tune in for the keynote and bits and pieces of other live-streamed talks and look forward to catching many of the sessions over on Channel 9...
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Available Now: Preview of Project “Orleans” – Cloud Services at Scale
This post was written by Niklas Gustafsson, Principal Program Manager on the Cloud Platform Tooling TeamToday, at Build 2014, we are announcing the preview release of a cloud programming model under...
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CppCon – The C++ Conference
In 2012 and 2013, Microsoft put on the GoingNative conference which is all about portable C++ on all compilers and platforms. The two GoingNative events were wildly popular and have been two of the...
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Taking a tour of Roslyn
It’s a big day for us on the Managed Languages team! As announced at the //BUILD conference earlier today, and as posted by Soma on his blog, we are not just delivering a new preview of Roslyn to all...
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The Next Generation of .NET
At Build 2014 this week, we announced the next generation of .NET. The next generation will focus and deliver on two main themes: Core Innovation and cross-platform apps. These themes are a direct...
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Cloud Load testing with Visual Studio Online - Launching General Availability
As announced with the build conference we are launching the General Availability for cloud load testing using Visual Studio Online. With the integration of the Application Insights and Cloud Load...
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The JIT finally proposed. JIT and SIMD are getting married.
Processor speed no longer follows Moore’s law. So in order to optimize the performance of your applications, it’s increasingly important to embrace parallelization. Or, as Herb Sutter phrased it, the...
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VSTO Runtime Update to Address Slow Shutdown and “Unknown Publisher” for...
We are pleased to announce a new version of the VSTO Runtime (10.0.50325) that addresses two important issues reported to us by customers. For VSTO add-ins using WPF controls, customers using...
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New agent for Application Insights available
We are excited to announce that there is an updated version of Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA) available now. Performance counter collection frequency was reduced from 5 minutes to 1 minute for...
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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...
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