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In this episode, Link Removed guest hosts and is joined by Link Removed, who shows off many of the improvements in XAML tooling in both Visual Studio 2015 and Blend for Visual Studio 2015. Some of these improvements are specific to Windows Universal Apps, but many are available to all XAML...

One of cooler libraries we've highlighted over the years is OpenCV, Open Source Computer Vision. Link Removed OpenCV is; OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) is an open source computer vision and machine learning software library. OpenCV was built to provide a common infrastructure...

Today we revisit the Visual Studio 2015 Extensibility story that was started covering in The Future of Visual Studio Extensions is Bright (and easier :), talking about more of the extension goodness that's available and then about the new Common Project System. First Heather Brown, Principal...

The Master Data Services Add-in for Excel gives multiple users the ability to update master data in a familiar tool without compromising the data’s integrity in Master Data Services. Link Removed

In this episode of Data Exposed, Scott Welcomes Ken Van Hyning, a Principle Software Engineer in the SQL Server team. Today Ken introduces us to the SQL Server 2016 Upgrade Advisor, code named DBA Workbench, a tool that consists of a suite of advisors for upgrading to SQL Server 2016. Ken begins...

Hello everyone I have used this website: http://www.fileformat.info/convert/image/metadata.htm To view the metadata of PNG file. Is there any software or website that can show more data than the website above? When Windows gives a PNG file a "stamp" in form of dates (created, accessed...

Download the MPR Test Tool for SQL Server 2014 Link Removed

Power Suite for Windows Embedded Compact Platforms is a group of tools to help developers debugging and testing their code on Windows Embedded Compact Platforms. Link Removed

Skype for Business Server 2015, Debugging Tools are provided to help IT Administrators with troubleshooting deployments of Skype for Business Server 2015. Link Removed

A new SSD benchmarking tool is available. AS SSD Benchmark is a small, free application avalable to download here: Link Removed Ref: AS SSD Benchmark Download

Read how Microsoft IT applied a unique development paradigm from their toolset to design an integrated productivity solution. This toolset design provides sales and marketing teams a dashboard view of essential apps, tools, and data sources to make decisions, to meet targets, and to improve the...

Practices, the tools and culture that the organization needed to evolve as it transformed to the second decade of Agile. Link Removed

Hi I just ran across this while browsing around tonight. Neosmart (the people who make EasyBCD) are offering a boot recovery DVD .ISO for Windows 10. https://neosmart.net/EasyRE/ While they charge for all the other OSes, the one for Windows 10 is free for now. I just downloaded it, I'll make...

The Visual Studio 2015 Tools for Docker Preview enables developers to build and publish an ASP.NET 5 Web or console application to a Docker container running on a Linux virtual machine. Link Removed

The Visual Studio 2015 RC SDK includes project templates, tools, tests, and reference assemblies that are required to build extensions for Visual Studio 2015 RC. Link Removed

Visual Studio Express 2015 RC for Windows Desktop supports the creation of desktop apps for Windows using powerful tools with a variety of programming languages. Link Removed

Visual Studio Express 2015 RC for Windows 10 provides the core tools for building compelling, innovative apps for Windows universal apps. Windows 10 is required to install Visual Studio Express 2015 for Windows. Note that Visual Studio 2015 RC is not supported in a production environment for...

Microsoft Build Tools 2015 RC provides the essential tools for building managed applications. Link Removed

This page is intended for advanced manual installation of the Windows Azure SDK for .NET, which include SDKs, basic tools, and extended tools for VS 2012, VS 2013 and VS 2015. You can install everything you need for Microsoft Azure development using the Web Platform Installer. Link Removed

The Office App Compatibility Kit is a tool to check your app before submission to the Apps for Office Store. Link Removed