Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Just Released
Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 have just gone general availability and are now available for download. Key feature improvements include: Unified debugging and profiling Proactive refactoring and code...
View ArticleMicrosoft is Consolidating Microsoft Account and Azure AD Authentication Models
In the current Microsoft cloud world, there are two core identity management systems – 1) the Microsoft account and 2) the Azure AD account. As a user, you are continually asked to choose whether you...
View ArticleVisio Stencil for Microsoft Azure, Cloud and Enterprise
Microsoft has published a visio stencil you can download here that contains symbols for Microsoft Azure, Cloud and Enterprise. The stencil has some neat things in including a colour chart to guide...
View ArticleConflict between Latest NUnit Framework and NUnitTestAdapter
I was working with Visual Studio 2015 today, and ran into an issue running NUnit tests. The basic process to integrate NUnit into Visual Studio is to use the NuGet package manager and install the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Acquires Cross-Platform Mobile Framework Xamarin
Xamarin is a cross-platform development framework for mobile applications. You write your applications in C# and the framework publishes your app to native IOS, Android or Windows Phone. Microsoft...
View ArticleMicrosoft Introduces new Virtual Assistant Bot Framework
Microsoft has announced a new “bot framework” for building virtual assistants available via text message, Skype, Slack, and other services. Bots are software driven virtual assistants that use natural...
View ArticleIntegrated Power BI Visualizations for Applications Coming Soon with Power BI...
Microsoft announced that they will provide a version of Power BI that allows for integration of the Power BI service with custom applications. The service will be called Power BI Embedded and will...
View ArticleNew Microsoft Integration Stencils Pack for Visio Available for Download
Microsoft has released a new set of Visio Stencils for creating diagrams in Visio 2013/2016. The symbols include services such as: BizTalk Azure App Service Flow Azure Infrastructure Power BI Power...
View ArticleMicrosoft Releases .NET Core for Windows, OSX and Linux
For the first time, Microsoft has released its .NET framework as open source with support for Windows, OS X and Linux. Microsoft first released a preview version of this version of the framework in...
View ArticleMicrosoft Driving to Cross Platform .NET Standard 2.0
Microsoft has had evolving variations of the .NET framework over the years targeting specific platforms. Even within Windows, there were multiple .NET framework platforms depending on whether you were...
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