Bing Developer Assistant takes code searching to another level, searching well over 19M code samples, and adds contextual help and better error resolution from within Visual Studio.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/18/2014
The developers building new applications are very nice people, of course. But the real heroes of the programming world are the developers maintaining and extending existing applications.
Recent acquisition to bolster performance and monitoring of applications through Application Insights service that will be included in forthcoming Visual Studio releases.
To accommodate an influx of year-end work, Guillaume's employer does what many stores do -- hire on temporary help. However, when you're desperate, beggars can't always be choosers.
The Visual Studio ALM product manager leads the crowd at Live! 360 through some of the market forces driving cloud development.
Integrating unit testing into your coding practices can have some positive psychological effects on your programming career.
- By Patrick Steele
- 11/18/2014
It’s crunch time for Ben and his team. After a long journey, their project to uplift their biggest client’s application code is nearly at an end. Hopefully they didn’t miss anything ...
A release candidate that rolls up the most recent features -- work item tracking improvements, addition of the Stakeholder license, Git-based pull requests/code reviews -- bug fixes, and issues is a prelude to the final version expected in the coming months.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/17/2014
Here's a grab bag of what you might find useful in the next version of the .NET Framework. It's good news for everyone but ASP.NET Web Form developers.
Visual Studio team offers a slew of new, untested features into an update to Visual Studio Online, mainly consisting of Work Item query improvements and incremental changes to displayed information.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/09/2014
First preview of VS 2013.4 introduces a web-based pull request option for Git and enhancements mainly to TFS and Visual C++.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/04/2014
After Wayne's employer decided to bring some outsourced code back in house, he discovered that developers in Kerbleckistan were doing some serious innovating in the science of passing parameters.
It includes updates to F12 developer tools and, for the first time, support for the WebDriver standard.
The feature, which is for code stored in Git, will eventually be added to local copies of Visual Studio.
The tool was entirely rebuilt for better monitoring of applications.
It currently only works with new Visual Studio Online accounts, but that will soon change.
Data from TFS versions as far back as 2010 can be transferred.
Microsoft's Craig Kitterman demonstrated cloud-based load testing and monitoring for applications.
It may look like a simple point upgrade, but it isn't. Examine more closely, and you'll see why the latest iteration of Windows Phone is a big deal.
- By Nick Randolph
- 05/02/2014
To train a neural network you need some measure of error between computed outputs and the desired target outputs of the training data. The most common measure of error is called mean squared error. However, there are some research results that suggest using a different measure, called cross entropy error, is sometimes preferable to using mean squared error.
- By James McCaffrey
- 04/22/2014