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Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: Tools for Apache Cordova
In this post I want to discuss how to use Visual Studio Code in order to create cross-platform...
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 11/11/2015
Getting Started with Microsoft OSS
Welcome to our weekly MVP series where we discuss some of the most useful solutions, tips &...
Author: msdn.varty@outlook.com Date: 11/10/2015
On a Cloud: Config & Consumer Pattern
Configuration In this video I quickly go through how I set up configuration for the projects that I...
Author: Jef King Date: 11/09/2015
Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: How to deploy your site to Microsoft Azure
Using Visual Studio Community you can find some features that allow to make deployment to Azure...
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 11/06/2015
DocumentDB: The move towards NOSQL – Part 1
In the world of DataBases – words like Scale, Performance and Schema flexibility have almost gained...
Author: Adarsha Datta Date: 11/05/2015
On a Cloud: Deployment & MQC
Deployment Cadence During my last start-up our team started extremely lean. We utilized Azure Web...
Author: Jef King Date: 11/03/2015
Creating your first game with Touch Develop
This tutorial, created by Susan Ibach ( @hockeygeekgirl),  teaches how to code your first video...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 10/31/2015
On a Cloud: Entropy & Precision Scheduling
Cloud: High Entropy Systems A mad dash through computer history, and onto why high entropy systems...
Author: Jef King Date: 10/29/2015
Future of JavaScript – ECMAScript 6 (ES2015) Classes
This tutorial series will take a look at the future of JavaScript. It will take an in-depth look at...
Author: Rami Sayar Date: 10/28/2015
How can we find balance between writing the right thing (BDD) and writing things right (TDD)?
IMO, testing is a very important part of software development, but should we do black box testing or...
Author: msdn.barylko@outlook.com Date: 10/27/2015
Visual Studio Time Saver– Setting and creating themes
Do you prefer a light background and dark text? dark background light text? black and white? Green?...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 10/26/2015
Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: Visual Studio Online and Git
Last time we discussed how to install Git and use it locally. Of course, Git is just a platform and...
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 10/23/2015
Playing with Azure Connectors
Guest Post by Ivan Lukianchuk Ivan Lukianchuk is a seasoned startup founder and award winning pitch...
Author: Adarsha Datta Date: 10/22/2015
How to use Visual Studio Online to Streamline Your Application Development with Agile Methodology
Have you ever worked on a personal project with some cool people you met in class and then 6 months...
Author: Mansib Rahman Date: 10/21/2015
An Introduction to the new TFS/VSO Build System
Build services are foundational to a good DevOps strategy. TFS has had a scalable build...
Author: Lachezar Arabadzhiev Date: 10/20/2015
On a Cloud: Data & Secrets
Data Platform Choices Understanding what options you have to store your data is critical. At a high...
Author: Jef King Date: 10/19/2015
A better way to integrate Code and Unity
In the previous videos we discussed how to integrate Unity and Visual Studio Code from scratch. But...
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 10/16/2015
The Path to No Estimates
Estimating is part of (almost) every project. It takes a lot of effort and more often than not is...
Author: msdn.barylko@outlook.com Date: 10/15/2015
Automate SSRS Report Generation using PowerShell
This blog post is tested on SQL Server 2014 and PowerShell V5. PowerShell has become more...
Author: msdn.santos@outlook.com Date: 10/14/2015
On a Cloud: Projects & Advanced Dequeuing
General Project Layout My general thoughts that guide me in deciding which services to use and also...
Author: Jef King Date: 10/13/2015
Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: Git
Version Control is a “must” even for simple projects. That’s why in the next posts...
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 10/12/2015
Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: Code snippets
Visual Studio Code supports code snippets. This feature is very important at least for me because I...
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 10/09/2015
Docker: Containerize your Startup – Your journey from virtualization to Containerization (Part 4)
In the recent past how many times have you heard the buzz around DevOps and Docker? Ever wondered...
Author: Adarsha Datta Date: 10/08/2015
Discovering SSRS Report Parameters using PowerShell
We can use PowerShell to discover many SSRS properties, including the different parameters available...
Author: msdn.santos@outlook.com Date: 10/07/2015
5 Tips for Android Developers Transitioning to Windows Phone Using Unity
Harold Mintah, founder of Mintah, shares some tips for Android developers moving their apps to...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 10/06/2015
Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: Editor features
As I mentioned in the previous post, Visual Studio Code is a folder-based editor. So, in order to...
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 10/05/2015
Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: How to install
Today I am going to start a series of posts about Visual Studio Code for Mac developers. Visual...
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 10/02/2015
An Owner’s Journey
Not so long ago I celebrated five years of working as an independent consultant for my own company...
Author: msdn.barylko@outlook.com Date: 10/01/2015
On a Cloud: Data Processing
Image Processing This video should help you realize simple but powerful techniques in getting images...
Author: Jef King Date: 09/30/2015
How to make updates to a WordPress site
Students can host a basic WordPress site on Azure for free! So in this post we’ll share some common...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 09/29/2015
Get Thee, Developer, to Windows 10
How many Windows 8/8.1 apps have you already written? A bunch, a couple, one? ...
Author: Mark B Schramm (MVP) Date: 09/29/2015
Azure Mobile Services with Node
Guest Post by Guy Barrette Here’s an interesting scenario: you're using Azure Mobile Services...
Author: Lachezar Arabadzhiev Date: 09/28/2015
Visual Studio Tools for Unity
Lots of developers use Visual Studio like the default code editor for Unity engine for many years...
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 09/25/2015
Unity & Visual Studio Code for Linux
Unity Technologies recently announced the release of an experimental build of their amazing game...
Author: Mickey MacDonald Date: 09/23/2015
Writing Custom Commands for DNX with ASP.NET 5.0
If you are a developer on the .NET stack, you’ve now got access to a great new extension to...
Author: James Chambers (MVP) Date: 09/23/2015
Arduino shield for Raspberry Pi 2 or How to solve problems with PWM, analog input and not burn down the apartment with a soldering iron
I have already published some posts where I told about Raspberry, Arduino and other boards as about...
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 09/22/2015
Flying in the Dark? Add Instrumentation
So… Windows 10 has been out for a while now. Have you noticed an uptick in downloads? Where...
Author: Mark B Schramm (MVP) Date: 09/21/2015
UWP: Profiling and debugging tools in Visual Studio 2015
I have already published a post about Live Visual Tree but Visual Studio 2015 has lots of different...
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 09/18/2015
NavigationCacheMode: A property that can save you a headache!
Guest Post by Sebastien Lachance Windows 10 is here. There is no better time to start...
Author: Lachezar Arabadzhiev Date: 09/17/2015
How to Steal the Microsoft API Prize at Hack the North
It’s dangerous to go alone, take this all-in-one guide to winning our hackathon API prize! Follow...
Author: Mansib Rahman Date: 09/16/2015
Future of JavaScript – ECMAScript 6 (ES2015) Block Scoping
This tutorial series will take a look at the future of JavaScript. It will take an in-depth look at...
Author: Rami Sayar Date: 09/16/2015
On a Cloud: Queue Batches
Queue: Batch Sizes Building up on the queue fundamentals, in this video I cover the important of...
Author: Jef King Date: 09/15/2015
UWP: Application services
In this post I am going to talk about one more way to establish communication between different...
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 09/14/2015
UWP: Publisher Cache
One other way to make communications between applications of the same publisher is publisher cache...
Author: Sergiy Baydachnyy Date: 09/11/2015
Evolving ASP.NET Apps - Replacing the Mega Postback with Web Api
The Evolving ASP.NET Apps series + bonus content is being published as a book. Buy it here. There is...
Author: David Paquette (MVP) Date: 09/10/2015