software development

This is a release candidate (RC) for Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 (2013.5). Link Removed

Today, I had the honor of speaking to thousands of our development partners at the Build conference about our plans to make Windows 10 the most attractive development platform ever. It is always thrilling to see so many developers excited about Microsoft – and this year, about Windows 10. If you...

Join your guide Link Removed as he talks to the product teams in Redmond as well as the web community. This is the first of a number of shows that I've been wanting to do for a while which shows the level of passion and commitment that many people at Microsoft have around their areas of...

In this episode Chris Risner and Haishi Bai are joined by Lara Rubbelke and James Baker, both Principle Software Development Engineers focusing on Microsoft Azure. This episode wraps up our 5 part series focusing on Big Data. In this show, walk through a solution Lara and James worked on with...

Tango Chen, Friend of the Galley, provides an amazing inspirational post... I don't think I've seen anything like this! Motion Server – One Kinect v2 on Multiple Devices One day I felt that using one Kinect on one PC isn’t enough. There could be more interesting things to do with multiple...

This week on Channel 9, Jeremy and guest host Chris Kinsman discuss the week's top developer news, including; Link Removed Link Removed [Terry Myerson] Link Removed Windows 10 developer tooling preview now available to Windows Insiders [Cliff Simpkins] Link Removed Link Removed [S. Somasegar]...

Scott Hanselman talks with Scott Hunter about the new Azure App Service API Apps. Scott Hunter will share how this new service helps developers build and consume Cloud APIs and participate in the API economy as well as leverage APIs and connectors as a building block for creating integrated web...

Microsoft today made a software developer kit available to developers interested in creating apps for the forthcoming Windows 10 platform. The SDK requires users to be a member of the Windows Insider Program and have the latest build of the Windows 10 Technical Preview, as well as a handful of...

Ok guys this is not a direct head to head pro and cons question. I want the best solution for my needs. I have a pretty basic hardware Core 2 Duo E4700, 4 Gigs DDR2 Ram, Nvidia En 8400Gs..Running with Windows 8.1 And i want run Visual Studio in a virtual machine to code(As it installs a crap...

Today we've got two posts about the new Unity 5 and the Kinect for Windows v2 and how, "it just works"... (I love those words ;) Link Removed During Global Developer Conference there were many announcements like Unity 5 availability for free. Of course, Unity has been offering a free version...

So, I decided to experiment with my game programs with target commands, to learn a little about what each does. However I am unsure about a few things, and I'm looking for some answers. Here they are: Are there a list of global target commands? Do all Target commands work with all programs...

This week on Channel 9, Vlad and guest host Ben Lower discuss the week's top developer news, including; Link Removed Ben Lower Link Removed Pop Quiz Link Removed Kinect Hackathon – Austin, TX Link Removed MWC and GDC 2015, Link Removed Link Removed A look at the history of Xbox Live [Larry...

I don't care if you call it windows-8.2, windows-9, or windows-10. Decide.... and move on. ALL the software people need to know is what OS they are trying to write drivers for. The 10 version sounds good. Please make it as good as it sounfs...!

Paul DeCarlo, Kinect4NES (Yes, Kinect to a Classic NES), is back and continues to push forward on his cool project, Kinect4NES... Training Kinect4NES to Control Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out! In a previous post, I talked about how to create an interface to send controller commands to an NES based...

Are you build Visual Studio extensions? Will you do me a favor? Please consider your user's DPI. My primary machine runs at 3K (2880x1620) and since my eyes are old, the DPI is at 200%. If you're not running a High DPI machine you may be wondering what's the problem? If you are, like Scott...

In this episode, Robert is joined by Dan Taylor, Angelos Petropoulos and Charles Willis to explore some of the enhancements to the diagnostic tooling in Visual Studio 2015. You'll see how these tools are now brought into the debugging process to make them easier to discover and use [01:20], what...

Unpicking the past is a messy business for Microsoft Review Microsoft does not have long to fix Windows 10. The company plans to release it this year, and if that implies hardware on the shelves, the operating system will need to be completed in the summer – and most features will need to be...

Today we're highlighting more Mads Visual Studio Extensions, one that's simple but could be one that you end up wonder where it's been all your dev life and another that's just fun (well boy humor fun) Here's a couple other recent times we've highlighted Mads' Extensions... Lots of VS...

How do I upgrade to this new operating system? They are no longer creating Windows operating systems with boring names (numbers) such as "Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10." I heard that they are now onto a new and supreme operating system that has an actual name now rather than numbers...

. . . and I don't mean the next build of Windows 10! http://rosetta.esa.int/