A Windows 10 preview build now has some basic Bash shell capabilities that only Windows Insider members can check out in a test environment.
SpecFlow 2 makes sure developers deliver what businesses say they want. In this first of a two-part series, Jason looks at how to automate the process of communication through business-readable tests.
- By Jason Roberts
- 04/06/2016
Write code destined for Linux servers, desktops and devices right from the Visual C++ as if it were native code.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/06/2016
Best practices and principles aren't rules. They're guides to the judgement of the programmer. Sometimes we forget that.
The second day of Build highlighted the "cloud-first" part of Microsoft's mission. Plus: Xamarin is set free and is open sourced.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/31/2016
Visual Studio Team Foundation Services Exension for VSC allows management of pull requests, work items directly from Git repos.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/28/2016
Here's a roundup of simple yet incredibly useful free extensions for Visual Studio 2015 that will keep you coding instead of fussing, and five of them are from Mads Kristensen!
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 03/24/2016
Newest version of Typemock's unit testing framework uses a patented isolation technology to simplify unit testing of C/C++ code.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/24/2016
An MVP is not some Microsoft award, but the acronym for a term, "minimum viable product," that loosely defines what you're trying to provide as far as features -- at a bare minimum -- to get your app to market. Let's look at the considerations for making sure your app achieves MVP status.
- By Wallace McClure
- 03/22/2016
A number of tools are slowly being open sourced onto the Github repository, with all of them being available over time.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/21/2016
Here's a nifty tool that can help you get to the heart of issues in your mobile apps that aren't easy to track down.
- By Wallace McClure
- 03/16/2016
When it's important to know what path your application took when processing data, a log of that path can be helpful. And, when you need to make a decision in your code based on an earlier decision, that internal path can make your code both simpler and easier to understand.
The latest Web preview of the VSTS rounds up a number of new features -- Agile planning, testing, Git, release management, Office 365 integration, more -- that the Visual Studio Team will be refining over the next few months.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/09/2016
Announced at EclipseCon: More tools and support for open source Eclipse platform coming in Microsoft's Azure and Visual Studio tools.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/08/2016
Reliability and performance improvements rule on this release candidate, and there are a bevy of new features being tested out with Team Foundation Server 2015 U2 RC as well.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/04/2016
Microsoft's Visual Studio Team is trying out a new process for delivering preview code via NuGet that will make the process of testing then unloading software in development a bit easier.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/16/2016
Learn to measure the performance of your apps and ensure a great UX.
- By Greg Shackles
- 12/18/2015
You want to use a DLL in multiple projects (it's even possible that other developers at your company might find your DLL helpful). The easiest way to distribute and deploy that DLL, or any other combination of files, is with NuGet. Really.
From Live! 360: A move to DevOps requires several key changes, including the idea that end product delivered to customers will have its imperfections. So, it's key that developers get in front of that with continuous app testing, debugging and delivery to keep the IT machine running smoothly.
Microsoft packages a handful of developer-related services into an Essentials-style pack, and submits Visual Studio Code to beta testing. Oh yeah, and it's also being open sourced.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/18/2015