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This update is the latest in a cumulative series of feature additions and bug fixes for Visual Studio 2015 with Update 1. Link Removed

Let's take two of our favorite teach, and just all around fun, tools, Lego Mindstorm EV3 and Small Basic and combine them into one awesome project! Link Removed shares EV3 Basic! Link Removed Using the EV3 extension for Small Basic 1.2, you can use Small Basic to program your Lego Mindstorm...

This is a release candidate (RC) for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Extensions for Project Server 2015 with Update 1 (2015.2). Link Removed

This is a release candidate (RC) for Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 (2015.1). Link Removed

Ever wish there were a way to condense the entire CppCon 2015 into less than an hour? Well, realistically speaking, there may not be a way to really do that, but we hope this month's episode comes close! CppCon 2015 was packed to the brim with all sorts of great content, great people, and great...

The .NET Framework 4.6 Targeting Pack is a package that enables developers to build applications targeting the .NET Framework 4.6 using either Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2012 or third party IDEs. You need to download and install the .NET Framework 4.6 prior to installing the targeting...

Watch yourselves boys and girls because Link Removed has created something special (scary?) here! Learn how you can perform your own Lie Detection tests by capturing EEG (brainwave) data and then feeding that info into Azure Machine Learning to determine when people are telling you the truth and...

In this on-location special for Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder invade Raymond Chen's office. Raymond is a 23yr veteran of Microsoft, who's worked on everything from MS-DOS to the Windows 10 UI. We talk about his Blog and Link Removed Old New Thing, Security Reports on the wrong...

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While we work on rounding out our ES6/ES2015 support, the Chakra team is already looking ahead to ES2016 and, especially, to Link Removed. Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Async Functions in Microsoft Edge as an experimental feature, available to preview starting in Link...

In Windows 10, we've made it exceedingly easy to add "Drag and Drop" functionality to your UWP application. As you're probably aware, "drag and drop" is by no means a new feature for Windows applications. For a very long time, the notion for the user to able to move objects within a single...

Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2015 enables remote debugging, remote testing, and unit testing on computers that don't have Visual Studio installed. This set of tools also enables the installation of a developer license, and the deployment and performance profiling of Windows apps on computers...

One of the questions I hear allot is how do you convert your Windows phone 8/8.1 Silverlight app into a Windows 10 UWP app? Is there a simple converter? No. But one is the works! Mobilize.NET, the company that brought us the cool WinForm to Web App product, WebMAP2 have just released a new...

This update fixes the issue in which devenv.com process freezes after executing devenv.com /build command in Visual Studio 2015 Link Removed

Brent Rector, a principal program manager on Windows helped write this post. The Universal Windows Platform (UWP) allows you to write your app once and target multiple device families, while also taking advantage of new APIs introduced on later versions of the OS as well as using unique APIs...

One of our most prolific Kinect Developers and Kinect MVP, Friend of the Gallery Tango Chen (Jingzhou Chen) is back with another take on Minecrafting with the Kinect Minecraft in Real Life using Kinect v2 Hey guys, I just developed this Kinect v2 application a few days ago. It lets you be...

This week on Channel 9, Nikola and returning guest host Petri discuss the week's top developer news, including; Link Removed Link Removed, Link Removed, Link Removed, Lenovo ideapad MIIX 700 is a Skylake-powered, Surface-like, Windows 10 tablet [Brian Fagioli], Link Removed Link Removed Link...

In this video Sachin Patney and Nico Cristache describe the process of creating custom visualizations for Power BI. It is remarkable how easy it is to create any kind of visualization given the framework that's been set up. The best part of their explanation is where they detail the fact that...

This blog was written by Rinku Sreedhar, Senior Program Manager In Windows 10 we added a multiple new sensor features, innovations and changes. In my previous blog, I talked about the new contextual sensing features like activity sensors, pedometers, barometer and proximity sensors. In this...

Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2012 enables remote debugging, remote testing, and performance unit testing on computers that don't have Visual Studio installed. This set of tools also enables the installation of a developer license, deployment, and performance profiling of Windows apps to...