Visual Studio / .NET
- Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 RTM – John Montgomery announces the RTM Release of Visual Studio 2015 Update 2, which focuses on Performance and responsiveness as well as adding a few new features, and updates to supported versions
- Visual Studio "15" Preview Now Available – John Montgomery also announces the first preview release of Visual Studio 15, the next version of Visual Studio, with an improved installer and numerous new features
- Announcing the .NET Framework 4.6.2 Preview – Stacey Haffner announces the preview of the .NET Framework 4.6.2, which includes improvements for Click Once, conversion tools for Desktop Apps to UWP, along with new cryptography features
- Xamarin for Everyone – Nat Friedman announces the inclusion of Xamarin for free in all editions of Visual Studio as part of the Microsoft acquisition of Xamarin
- Updates for Debugging Installed App Packages in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 – Kaycee Anderson shares a look at one of the improvements in VS 2015 Update 2 for debugging App Packages when working with XBox, Hololens and IoT devices.
Azure
- Introducing Azure Functions – Nir Mashkowski announces new Azure Functionality which provides event driven cloud computing functionality triggered by events either from inside Azure or outside
- Announcing the Visual Studio Azure Tools and SDK 2.9 | Blog | Microsoft Azure – Brady Gaster announces the release of the Visual Studio Azure Tools and SDK 2.9, available for Visual Studio 2013, 2015 and also the ’15’ preview
- New features for Azure Alerts and Autoscale – Ashwin Kamath announces improvements to Azure AutoScale which allow you to receive notification via email and Webhooks for events occurring in AutoScale, and many more aspects of the Azure platform
- Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer preview: March update – Cristy Gonzalez shares the details of the new features included in the March update to the Azure Storage Explorer, including the much requested Table and Query support
Information
- Refactoring Essentials 4.0 Comes With Roslyn Code Converter – Christoph Wille – Christoph Wille highlights the release of Refactoring Essentials 4.0, a Visual Studio extension from the ICSharpCode team. This version updates it to support Roslyn 1.2 and includes over 250 refactoring, analyzers and fixes for both C# and VB.NET Code.
- Bash on Windows – What it Means for Chocolatey – Rob Reynolds discusses the Windows support for Bash and ELF binaries on Windows, and what this means for the Chocolatey project
- How To Mimic Azure Web Sites Deployment Slots In A Basic Plan – Chris Love takes a look at how you can gain the benefits of Azure Website Deployment Slots using a more basic Windows Azure account and the corresponding features
- Implementing SQL Elastic Pools for affordable SQL Azure databases – Kendall Miller discusses further aspects of the migration of Loupe to the cloud, discussing the use of SQL Elastic Pools to create a cost effective way of them getting the performance and capability that their software required.
- Visualization and comparison of sorting algorithms in C# – Mark Monnin discusses various sorting algorithms, showing how they operate in a visual way.