Get your libraries ready for Windows Phone 8.1
Two weeks ago, we released the Windows Phone preview for developers. In this post, I’ll cover what this means for library and app developers.What this means for library developersAs a .NET developer...
View ArticleAnnouncing the .NET Framework 4.5.2
We are happy to announce the availability of the .NET Framework 4.5.2. It is a highly compatible, in-place update to the.NET Framework 4, 4.5 and 4.5.1. You can download the releases now,.NET Framework...
View Article.NET at MonkeySpace Europe, June 9-11
This post was written by Daniel Plaisted, a member of the .NET Framework team who will be at MonkeySpace.MonkeySpace is the “official cross platform and open-source .NET conference.” This year,...
View ArticleDebugging, Profiling, IntelliTrace in VS2013 Update 2 and Tech Ed
Those of you following this blog, and in particular the diagnostics tag, know about the wealth of new value we have shipped in VS2013 RTM and the VS2013 Update 2 RC. I wanted to remind you of all the...
View ArticleAnnouncing new Web Features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RTM
Today, the Visual Studio team announced the release of RTM version of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 . Our team added a few useful features and did some bug fixing in this update to improve the web...
View ArticleThe Next Generation of .NET – ASP.NET vNext
Today at TechEd North America, we announced the latest set of innovations that are part of the next generation of .NET. The biggest of those is ASP.NET vNext, which is an updated version of ASP.NET...
View ArticleAnnouncing ASP.NET Session State Provider for Redis Preview Release
Today, we are pleased to announce a preview release of ASP.NET Session State Provider for Redis. You can use it with your own Redis server or the newly announce Microsoft Azure Redis Cache...
View ArticleASP.NET vNext: the future of .NET on the Server
At TechEd we announced our plans and vision for ASP.NET vNext. ASP.NET vNext is being designed from the bottom up to be a lean and composable .NET stack for building web and cloud based applications....
View ArticleUpdate to SIMD Support
A month ago we announced support for SIMD. Today, we're announcing an update to "RyuJIT" and our NuGet package that exposes the SIMD programming model.Updates to the Microsoft.Bcl.Simd NuGet...
View ArticleTop things a new Visual Studio Online account owner should know
With Visual Studio Online, I realized I have not installed an On-premise Team Foundation Server in a while. The convenience of these online accounts always being available, having the server...
View ArticleRelease Candidates for ASP.NET MVC 5.2, Web API 2.2 and Web Pages 3.2
The release candidate NuGet packages for ASP.NET MVC 5.2, ASP.NET Web API 2.2 and ASP.NET Web Pages 3.2 are now live on the NuGet gallery!Download this releaseYou can install or update the release...
View ArticleLatest Microsoft Monitoring Agent
The Application Insights team has released a new agent for Application Performance Management scenarios. This updated agent is version 7.1.11196.0 and is available here. If you are already using...
View ArticleAnnouncing the New Application Insights Alerts Page
(Posting for one of the PMs on the Application Insights team Soubhagya Dash or just “Dash” as we call him in the hallways) We are excited to announce the new Alerts page user experience! This...
View ArticleAnnouncing web features in Visual Studio “14” CTP
Today, the Visual Studio team announced the release of Visual Studio “14” CTP version 14.0.21730.1 DP. Our team added features to support ASP.NET vNext development. We will have future blogs to talk...
View ArticleVisual Studio “14” CTP now available in the Virtual Machine Azure Gallery
As recently as a year ago i couldn’t imagine what i would need cloud based resources for…i had my solid state drives and the process of updating my Team Foundation Server instances down to an art...
View ArticleGet your libraries ready for Windows Phone 8.1
Two weeks ago, we released the Windows Phone preview for developers. In this post, I’ll cover what this means for library and app developers.What this means for library developersAs a .NET developer...
View ArticlePerformance & Load Testing and other great free Webcasts by Northwest Cadence
This summer is destined to be EPIC! National Marine Fisheries have predicted this is going to be the best Salmon fishing in 38 years AND Steve Borg and Rennie Araucto have put an entire series of web...
View ArticleWould you like a MultiDictionary?
We’ve recently shipped new collection types on NuGet with our Immutable Collections package. NuGet allows us to ship prerelease and experimental versions of libraries to gather feedback from the...
View ArticledotnetConf is on! Free virtual conference.
The free, virtual and community-driven dotnetConf is on. Point your web-browser to dotnetConf. No registration, manager approval or anything required! The virtual conference is two days long. Day 1:...
View ArticleCodeLens for Git improvements in Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate Update 3 RC
In Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 CTP1, we introduced some CodeLens for Git indicators. In this RC update we are completing the work by:Automatically refreshing the CodeLens for git team indicators to...
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