Month: February 2017

Come learn the top 7 new things in Visual Studio 2017 that should excite you as a C++ developer, regardless of whether you are already using the product and are looking to upgrade, or whether you never used the product but are considering Visual Studio.

DevOps is about people, process and products. Getting it all right requires effort but the benefits to your organization and customers can be huge. Microsoft has a fantastic set of products that can adapt to any language on any platform. In this demo-heavy keynote, Donovan Brown will show you how to go from “zero to DevOps” like a pro. Starting from just a blank desktop, he will create a new team project and a complete pipeline. He will also deploy an ASP.NET MVC application into Azure all live and hands on.

Visual Studio 2017 makes it easier than ever to build modern web applications using the latest JavaScript technologies. Join Bowden and Mads for a demo of how these new technologies make you more productive writing ASP.NET web applications with improve…

Visual Studio 2017 aims to make C# development more pleasant and productive than ever. Kasey and Mads take you on a tour of new refactorings, improved navigation, and code style enforcement and configuration. Live Unit Testing runs your tests as you co…

Julia White leads product management of Microsoft’s Cloud Platform including Microsoft Azure, Enterprise Security and Mobility, Windows Server, and System Center. In this function, Julia is responsible for the value proposition of the Cloud Platform, g…

It’s an exciting time for the ID@Xbox self-publishing program for independent developers and this week, we’re on the ground in San Francisco for our fourth Game Developers Conference. Since ID@Xbox’s inception, we’ve seen more than 450 titles launch through the program, with incredible engagement from fans. In fact, in 2016 alone, tens of million gamers played an ID@Xbox title on Xbox One or Windows 10, totaling more than one billion hours of gameplay. Between the GDC Lobby Bar and a press preview event being hosted today, the team has even more in store for 2017 and beyond. Here’s a quick…

Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Microsoft Azure Compute team is solo this week – showing off the new preview functionality of Azure Network Watcher.Check out the announcement blog post for details on Azure Network Watcher…

Hello! We’re super excited to announce that our new game Wargroove is coming this year to Xbox One and Windows 10 with Xbox Play Anywhere support. Wargroove is a modern take on the simple-but-complex turn-based tactical gameplay popularized in the 2000s by handheld games such as Advance Wars. Like many of you, we grew up with these games and we’re filled with nostalgia for this era. Having come up short in finding something similar to play, we saw a lot of interest out there for a new game in the same vein. So with that in mind, we’re utilizing the…