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Microsoft is issuing a stark reminder to the developer community: support for Visual Studio 2015 is drawing to a close, marking the end of an era for one of the company’s most influential software development platforms. As the deadline looms on October 14—coinciding with the retirement of...

Microsoft's flagship integrated development environment (IDE), Visual Studio, is poised for a significant transformation with the upcoming release of Visual Studio 18. This major upgrade, as reported by Business Insider, is expected to be "packed with AI features," signaling a strategic shift to...

Gitk, a popular graphical repository browser bundled with Git, has long served developers as an intuitive and powerful way to inspect version history, review changes, and visualize branching workflows. However, in recent months, a significant vulnerability—CVE-2025-27614—has been disclosed...

The AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 "Strix Halo" represents a significant advancement in AMD's processor lineup, integrating cutting-edge AI capabilities with robust performance metrics. As users consider this processor for their computing needs, a critical question arises: which operating...

For seasoned Windows users, the allure of constructing a tailored development environment is irresistible—especially in an age where applications, libraries, and containers sprawl unchecked, threatening the stability and cleanliness of one's daily driver system. This desire for isolation and...

In a move emblematic of the evolving relationship between Microsoft and the open-source community, Fedora Linux has officially joined the array of distributions available through the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Windows. This noteworthy milestone, widely reported and confirmed by trusted...

Few topics in the world of personal computing elicit such a dedicated following—and provoke as much curiosity from the uninitiated—as the subject of configuration files, known affectionately as "dotfiles." For many users, especially those rooted in the Linux or developer ecosystems, dotfiles are...

The arrival of Docker Desktop on the Microsoft Store signals a critical evolution in software deployment and management for Windows developers and IT administrators. Traditionally, Docker Desktop—a mainstay for developers working with containerized applications—required a manual download from...

Containerizing core programs with Docker on Windows might sound like an advanced DevOps trick best left for cloud professionals, but the tangible workflow improvements are immediate—fracturing assumptions about desktop app management and system stability. For years, personal computers have...

If you’ve ever found yourself staring at a screen cluttered with half a dozen shell windows—juggling Command Prompt, Windows PowerShell, and WSL just to get through your daily to-do list—congratulations, you’re officially living the classic techie struggle. There’s nothing like that tangle of...

In a surprising turn of events, Microsoft's Windows 11 Development Environment virtual machines (VMs) have essentially ghosted their users. Yes, you read that right—the highly sought-after VMs have disappeared from Microsoft's download page as of October 23, 2024. This abrupt vanish act has left...

Creating accessible products means most of all being aware of the usability issues your designs and code can cause. When creating new products, Microsoft follows a strict workflow of accessibility reviews of designs, code reviews and mandatory audits before a new feature can leave experimental...

We are excited to announce two new online resources for developers using Windows: A new docs landing-page for developers building and deploying apps and systems running on non-Microsoft operating systems like Linux and Android A new GitHub issues repo for filing developer-oriented issues with...

Hello fellas, i'm new to windows server i've made a simple inventory control app using vb. net and sql server 2005 as dbms so far it's working fine but i want to run it on more than 1 pc i know that i need 1 more pc installed with windows server i've installed windows server 2008 on server pc...

I sit down with Steve Teixeira and get the low-down on all of the latest developments with Windows 10 IoT Core, Raspberry Pi 2, and much more! [00:00] Introduction [00:53] Custom Raspberry Pi 2 case for Windows 10 IoT Core [01:30] New IoT stuff announced at Maker Faire [01:44] Adafruit Starter...

I've been blogging about Visual Studio Extensions here for about, well, forever. During that time I've found a few that I can't live without. A few that I always have to find and install again, and again on every new dev machine. Visual Studio 2013 introduced roaming settings (Synchronized...

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This video covers the basics of reading audio data from the Kinect microphone array, a demo adapted from the built in audio recorder. The video also covers speech recognition using Kinect. For the built in example this was based on and the speech demo in C#, check out your "My...

Google has announced that they plan to release a Chrome based OS. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Google plans to open-source its code later this year and offer Google powered netbooks in 2010. Company officials...