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Today, we released a new Windows 10 SDK Preview and the associated Windows 10 Mobile emulators (Build 10563), to be used in conjunction with Link Removed(Build 10565). The Preview SDK is a pre-release and cannot be used in a production environment. Please only install the SDK on your test...

Our last Windows 10 Theme Week post, we turn to Friend of the Blog, Mike Taulty and his two recent posts about Windows 10, Sphero 2 and Raspberry PI 2 (and Windows 8.1 Lib, WinPhone and PC) Link Removed It’s been a while since I played with my Sphero device and so I thought I’d see if I could...

An Add-In for OneNote that allows users to send their content to Sway Link Removed

A new add-in, currently in preview, allows you to create Sways from OneNote. read more Continue reading...

the word documents icon shows properly, but when I tried to open it, it gave me a message: â¬SFile conversion⬝ Select the encoding that makes your document readable. Text encoding: (then I have 3 choices with the circles beside them to select ) (1st choice) Windows (Default) (2nd...

The Data Warehouse Migration Utility is designed to ease migrations from SQL Server and Azure SQL Database to Azure SQL Data Warehouse and help users identify incompatibilities before moving. Link Removed

Late last week Microsoft released a new build of Windows 10 for Insiders to test and so I take a look at some of the changes in this build. read more Continue reading...

Today marks the initial release of Mobilize.NET’s Silverlight bridge, which helps Windows Phone Silverlight app developers bring their WP Silverlight 8.x apps to the Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform (UWP). Announced at Build 2015, the Moblize.NET bridge is free and directly integrates into...

Use Office Online Server to provide browser-based file viewing and editing services for Office files. Link Removed

Windows 10 preview will not update due to old version of preview. I had to do a clean install of my preview once I did windows updates quit working I found I had installed an older version that had no updates installed so I installed the upgrade you would use for windows 7 or 8.1 and it worked I...

Hi everyone, We’re rolling out Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 10536 right now to Windows Insiders on the Fast ring. You may have noticed it’s taken us a little longer than we would have liked to get a new build out to you – Link Removed on the delay. I am happy to say this build has...

Hi everyone, Many of you have been asking me Link Removed when we’ll release a new Windows 10 Mobile Insider build, and I know that you’re anxious for an update. The team is working hard to get a fresh build out, and we’re treating it with high priority. We are pushing hard to get a build out...

Just a couple months ago I highlighted one of our favorite refactoring/analyzer projects, Refactoring Essentials - Open Source, Cross Platform Refactoring and Analyzers. Well the team is on a tear, with Andreas Weizel announcing that Refactoring Essentials v2 is now available in preview...

The Microsoft SQL Server Data-Tier Application Framework (August 2015 Preview) provides application lifecycle services for database development and management. Link Removed

A new tool for annotating and sharing screenshots has been made available as a beta preview for Windows users. read more Continue reading...

I have installed Windows Inside Preview, I am on Build 10162 and only port 80 seems to be working. My computer refuses to work with any other port, even internal ports. Firewalls are not interfering, I have tried disabling Windows Firewall and avast. It didn't work. It seems that I can only...

So I upgraded from windows 8.1 to the Windows 10 Home Insider Preview on my HP Stream laptop when it was available about 2 months ago expecting that when the full version of Windows 10 would come out It would just be an update I install, Flash forward to 17/08/15 and there is still nothing...

Link Removed 0 Sign in to vote I have been using the Windows 10 preview for about 2 months now and everything is running fine except for the network. First I installed the preview on my laptop as a dual boot, with Windows 7 Home on the C: drive and Windows 10 Preview on the D: drive. If I am...

I have been running the preview as a virtual machine on my daily driver (Win 8.1). Should I delete the virtual machine and uninstall Hyper-V Manager before the upgrade? My fear is I will orphan or not be able to find the space allocated to the virtual machine and loose valuable drive space...

SQL Server 2016 Upgrade Advisor Preview is a standalone tool that enables users of prior versions to run a set of upgrade rules against their SQL Server database to pinpoint breaking and behavior changes and deprecated features as well as providing help with the adoption of new features such as...