Supporting developers: how could Microsoft improve?
Microsoft invests substantial resources in supporting developers; yet the last two topics I have explored in earnest – the Azure blob storage service, and ASP.NET MVC with Azure Active Directory...
View ArticleMicrosoft completes Visual Studio 2015
Microsoft has completed Visual Studio 2015, the latest version of its all-encompassing development tool. You can download it here. Today is also the release day for TypeScript 1.5 (a language which...
View ArticleMicrosoft sets Visual Studio LightSwitch to off
Microsoft has officially announced the end of development of LightSwitch, a rapid application builder for desktop and mobile applications. LightSwitch was introduced in July 2011 as a tool to build...
View ArticleXamarin Challenge shows bumps in Microsoft’s path to cross-platform mobile
Microsoft ran a Xamarin Challenge over on Paul Thurrott’s site. The idea was to demo how to build a cross-platform mobile app with Microsoft’s cross-platform mobile toolkit. The challenge was in three...
View ArticleWhat the Blazor! After Silverlight, .NET in the browser reappears by another...
Silverlight, Microsoft’s browser plug-in which included a cut-down .NET runtime, once seemed full of promise for developers looking for an end-to-end .NET solution, cross-platform on Windows and Mac,...
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Microsoft introduces new feedback system for technical documentation, will...
Microsoft is introducing a new feedback system for https://docs.microsoft.com, used for its technical documentation. The new system, which you can already see for certain topics such as the Visual...
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Should you go to Microsoft Build?
In the beginning there was the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) – the first was in 1992. They were fantastic events, with deep dives into the innards of Windows and how to develop applications...
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Configuring the Android emulator for Hyper-V
Great news that the Android emulator now supports Hyper-V, but how do you enable it? Pretty simple. First, you have to be running at least Windows 10 1803 (April 2018 update). Then, go into Control...
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Stack Overflow survey shows leap in popularity for Visual Studio Code
Stack Overflow has released the results of its annual developer survey. I took a quick look, comparing the figures to those for 2018. The survey is based on results from 88,883 developers from 179...
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StackOverflow survey 2020
The StackOverflow developer survey 2020 is out – surveys come out constantly but this one is worth more than most because of the huge reach of StackOverflow among developers. This one has 65,000...
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