Editorial|Feb 26, 2015

Top 5 AngularJS Frustrations

AngularJS may be the latest JavaScript framework darling of the web world, but like all technologies it comes with its share of frustrations. AngularJS has exploded onto the web world with no small help from Google such that its hard to imagine doing a web based application without giving it at least a passing consideration.…
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visual-studio-alm-tfs-and-scrum|Feb 24, 2015

Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 Overview: Big Features and Hidden Gems

The latest Community Technology Preview of Visual Studio 2015 contains a dizzying array of changes, some of which include whole new features as well as several harder-to-see bits of awesomeness. Microsoft unleashed a whirlwind of new capabilities to the public at large with CTP 6 for Visual Studio 2015 as well as the first CTP…
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Video|Feb 23, 2015

Interview with Matthew Gertz

Kathleen Dollard talks to Matthew Gertz, Principal Development Manager of Visual Studio Managed Languages at Microsoft about how they are becoming more transparent, ways in which the open source developer community helps Microsoft make better products, and the future of Roslyn.  
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editorial|Feb 20, 2015

Keep Your Software Off Our Hardware!

No, this isn’t a cleverly disguised double entendre, we really mean it.  Keep your software off our hardware!  The recent reports of Lenovo preloading Adware Superfish onto their laptops is only one of several recent indications that hardware suppliers may not have our best interests at heart. Earlier this week it was announced that Lenovo…
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Video|Feb 18, 2015

Interview with John Robbins

In this video we interview John Robbins about a new and open Microsoft, the potential of Roslyn, and how debugging has changed over the years. John Robbins is a cofounder of Wintellect, where he heads up the consulting and debugging services side of the business. He also travels the world teaching his Mastering .NET Debugging…
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Editorial|Feb 12, 2015

The Rosetta Stone of Cloud Services: Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services

Want to know if Amazon has a service similar to Azure Active Directory?  Maybe you’re looking to replace your Amazon RDS with Azure SQL Server?  Here’s a rough list of the two cloud vendor services and how they relate to each other. While Microsoft Azure services are named somewhat intuitively, their Amazon counterparts can be…
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news|Feb 11, 2015

Wintellect Announces Live Virtual Training

Wintellect is adding a new resource to their training toolbelt by offering Virtual Instructor-Led courses to their catalog of On-Site and WintellectNOW On-Demand training courses. Ever wish you could attend a real training class led by the industry’s best trainers without leaving your desk or even having to get out of your pajamas?  Well now you can…
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video|Feb 4, 2015

5 Questions with Daniel Egan and Adam Tuliper

Daniel Egan and Adam Tuliper talk to us about why gaming is popular on mobile devices, virtual reality in gaming, and programming the Unity game engine. Daniel is a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft, he has been in the technology field for 20 years doing everything from Enterprise Development, to a Start Up, to running his…
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News|Feb 3, 2015

Microsoft Releases CoreCLR Source Code on GitHub

Microsoft has released more of it’s .NET stack into the open source world today as it makes the core .NET execution engine available on its GitHub repository. Microsoft has made a substantial contribution to its .NET open source repository today adding the CoreCLR source code to the existing CoreFX libraries.  This contribution represents nearly 2.5M lines…
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azure-and-cloud-computing|Feb 3, 2015

Microsoft’s Most Popular Mobile Apps Aren’t Necessarily on Windows Phone

You may have heard that Microsoft has released mobile versions of their Office apps for Android and iOS, but that’s only scratching the surface of what they’ve published.  What’s more some of their apps are more popular on Android and iOS than Windows Phone. Microsoft’s recent move to open up the Office platform to Android…
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