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Inside the Windows Console

Welcome to the third post in the Windows Command-Line series. In this post, we'll start to dig into the internals of the Windows Console and Command-Line, what it is, what it does ... and what it doesn't do!

New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store

We're REALLY excited about this announcement and think many of you will be too ;) On May 11th 2017, during Microsoft's Build conference keynote, Terry

Visual C++ for Linux Development

Happy 15th Birthday .NET

Today marks the 15th anniversary since .NET debuted to the world. On February 13th, 2002, the first version of .NET was released as part of Visual Studio.NET. It seems just like yesterday when Microsoft was building its “Next Generation Windows Services” and unleashed a new level of productivity with Visual…

Neuron, a new VS Code extension for data science

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Announcing .NET Core 2.1

We’re excited to announce the release of .NET Core 2.1. It includes improvements to performance, to the runtime and tools. It also includes a new way to deploy tools as NuGet packages. We’ve added a new primitive type called Span<T> that operates on data without allocations. There are many other new APIs, focused on…

Performance Improvements in .NET Core

Update (2017/06/12): Added BenchmarkDotNet blog post link. There are many exciting aspects to .NET Core (open source, cross platform, x-copy deployable, etc.) that have been covered in posts on this blog before. To me, though, one of the most exciting aspects of .NET Core is performance. There’s been a lot of…

Learning how to write a 3D engine from scratch in C#, TypeScript or JavaScript (2013)

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Can I Talk to that William Fellow? He was so Helpful (2009)

Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.

What's the difference between the com and exe extensions? (2008)

Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.

Why are all Windows drivers dated June 21, 2006?

Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.

Windows file system compression had to be dumbed down

Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.

Ubuntu now available from the Windows store

Today, we’re excited to announce that Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux Distro is now available in the Windows Store and can be downloaded and installed on any

Supercharging the Git Commit Graph

Have you ever run gitk and waited a few seconds before the window appears? Have you struggled to visualize your commit history into a sane order of

.NET Framework 4.6.2

Updated (4/2017): See .NET Framework Releases for newer releases. Today we are excited to announce the availability of the .NET Framework 4.6.2! Many of the changes are based on your feedback, including those submitted on UserVoice and Connect. Thanks for your continued help and engagement! The release is packed with…

Introducing a new, advanced Visual C++ code optimizer

We are excited to announce the preview release of a new, advanced code optimizer for the Visual C++ compiler backend. It provides many improvements for

File System Improvements to the Windows Subsystem for Linux

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Supercharging the Git Commit Graph IV: Bloom Filters

We've been discussing the commit-graph feature in Git 2.18 and how we can use generation numbers to accelerate commit walks. One area where we can get

Microsoft Joins the Eclipse Foundation

At Microsoft, our developer mission is to deliver experiences that empower any developer, building any application, on any OS. And this mission requires

Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta

We're excited to announce that in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (FCU) due to ship in fall 2017, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) will no longer be a

LaTeX Math in MS Office

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TypeScript 2.4

Today we're excited to announce the release of TypeScript 2.4! If you haven't yet heard of TypeScript, it's a superset of JavaScript that brings static

Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux

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Announcing TypeScript 2.7

Today we're proud to announce the release of TypeScript 2.7! If you're not familiar with TypeScript, it's a language that brings optional static types to

Windows Subsystem for Linux Architectural Overview

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What’s up with the Beep driver in Windows 7? (2010)

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Introducing the Python Language Server

Visual Studio has long been recognized for the quality of its IntelliSense (code analysis and suggestions) across all languages, and has had support for

Visual Basic Turns 25

That’s right! Today marks the 25th (“Silver Anniversary”) since VB first debuted to the world. It seems like just yesterday I’d only been at Microsoft a little over a year when VB turned 20. Looking back at the progress of 5 years—a complete revamp of the IDE and debugger, a trove of new language features, […]

F# 4.1 and Visual F# Tools for Visual Studio 2017

Announcing F# 4.1 and the Visual F# Tools for Visual Studio 2017 Last year, we announced F# 4.1 via a Peek in F# 4.1. As a recap, we mentioned: Alpha support for .NET Core and .NET Standard Language features for F# 4.1 A big update to the Visual F# tools for Visual Studio 2017 (called […]

.NET Core Image Processing

Image processing, and in particular image resizing, is a common requirement for web applications. As such, I wanted to paint a panorama of the options that exist for .NET Core to process images. For each option, I’ll give a code sample for image resizing, and I’ll outline interesting features. I’ll conclude with a…