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The command line still has a reputation problem on Windows, but in 2026 that reputation is increasingly out of date. A few carefully chosen tools can turn the terminal from a developer-only space into a practical, everyday control center for installing apps, reading files, tracking changes, and...

Source code management is no longer a niche developer convenience — it is the central nervous system of modern software delivery, and choosing the right system in 2025 determines how fast teams ship, how well they secure supply chains, and how easily they scale across distributed workforces and...

Source code management remains the backbone of modern software delivery — and in 2025 the landscape reflects both continuity and rapid evolution as teams balance Git’s ubiquity with specialized tools for scale, binary assets, security, and integrated DevSecOps workflows. The Analytics Insight...

Files v4.0 arrives as a major rework of one of the most polished third‑party File Explorer replacements for Windows 11, introducing a unified Omnibar, a refined Dual Pane workflow, expanded cloud drive support, and built‑in cryptographic verification tools — changes that push Files from a...

The Git project has shipped version 2.51, a substantial maintenance-and-performance release that packs several storage-layer improvements aimed squarely at large repositories and monorepos, a new on-disk stash interchange format that finally makes stashes portable between machines, and...

In the ever-evolving landscape of digital note-taking, users today are faced with an abundance of choices tailored to different priorities—some are drawn to open-source (FOSS) solutions for privacy and control, while others gravitate toward the simplicity and polish of commercial offerings. But...

I do not know from the online tutorial if I am properly establishing a connection with a git repository that is on a network. All I have learned from a tutorial is how to set up a local repository, but getting data off of a network repository is knowledge I have yet to stumble upon or learn...

I'm having a hell of a time getting php to return a string. I don't know where they are going to install my batch file so I set the file location via %~dp0. there are 2 functions in my .php file, one to process color another to process Joomla's Version. The joomla one worked fine until I made...

Overview Symlinks, or symbolic links, are “virtual” files or folders which reference a physical file or folder located elsewhere, and are an important feature built in to many operating systems, including Linux and Windows. The Windows’ NTFS file system has supported symlinks since Windows...

At Build 2016, Microsoft introduced to the world the Windows Subsystem for Linux (Beta) [WSL], which enables developers to run native Ubuntu user-mode console binaries through the Bash shell in Windows 10. If you’re in the Windows Insider program, you’ve had the opportunity to try out this...

It's getting harder and harder to select just a few of the videos posted in the previous week, there's just so much great content! So, while I try to keep this lists under control, here are a select 31 shows, episodes and posts from last week... Link Removed The Truth About Microsoft Azure...

Instead of extending Visual Studio, today I'm going to highlight a new extensibility target, extending Visual Studio Online (VSO). Link Removed, Visual Studio ALM Microsoft MVP has written up a great Hello VSO World tutorial, taking you from New Project through deployment of your new VSO...

With Microsoft’s latest open source code contribution to the Cocos2d-x project [https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-x/pull/12107], Microsoft has enabled Cocos2d-x to run on Windows 10 on the Universal Windows Platform. The Universal Windows Platform (UWP) makes it possible to target all Windows...

I know, I know... I've been highlighting a number of Git related extensions recently. And I know all of YOU are using Git already (just like I am... um... errr.... um... kind of... yeah). Okay, fine, so I'm a Git noob. Right now Git continues to gain support, mindshare and seems to one of those...

This week on Channel 9, Jeremy and guest host Jason Short discuss the week's top developer news, including; Link Removed Link Removed [Michał Moskal], https://github.com/Microsoft/TouchDevelop, Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed [Gianugo Rabellino] Link Removed The Developer’s Guide to the...

First, sorry for the long post. (I could have literally written a novel on this.) I made this comment on another thread: To which I received this reply: OK. I am giving some examples here. I also apologize for the above comment. However, Vista has proven to be a nightmarish migraine...