Month: June 2017

Editor’s note: The following post was written by Visual Studio and Development Technologies MVP Dino Esposito as part of our Technical Tuesday series. Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan of the MVP Award Blog Technical Committee served as the technical reviewer for this piece. In version 5.x of Visual Studio, the File|New Project menu item enables you… Continue reading Teach Them How To Do ASP.NET MVC Right (And Let Them Figure Out the Rest)→

Sports ignite peoples’ passion like nothing else. Standout athletes become legends through their performance on the field. But what sets them apart often comes down to decisions made off the field, such as diet, mental and physical preparation and the frequency or intensity of practice. The difference between a win or a loss can be…

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Understanding free-form text is hard, be it bug reports or trouble tickets written by engineers or feedback/complaints from customers. We have built SysSieve, a learning system to do automated analysis of these important unstructured (yet incredibly no… Continue reading SysSieve: Extracting Actionable Insights from Unstructured Text→

Security is a hot-button issue in the IoT space; IoT developers should be thinking about implementing hardware and software security features from the start of development. Windows 10 IoT Core provides several of these features to help protect your devices from network attacks as well as physical tampering. In this video, we discuss these features, how to turn them on, and why IoT device security is so important.

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Read how Mellicia Marx transforms clients and her business with Office 365.

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I’m pleased to share with you that our popular robot building game Robocraft will head to Xbox One and Windows 10 in an enhanced form in Robocraft Infinity next year. Robocraft is already a PC phenomenon with over 10 million registered players worldwide and empowers players with the freedom to build the robot of their dreams, block-by-block, and then take those creations into battle online! Robocraft Infinity will feature that same compelling gameplay mix, enhanced with an all-new progression system, massive combat balance redux, full controller support, achievements, 4k visuals optimized for Xbox One X and more features to be revealed… Continue reading Robocraft Infinity Coming Exclusively to Xbox One and Windows 10 in 2018→

Today, we are rolling out updates for the OneNote Class Notebook add-in.

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In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad Beeder and Andrew Richards are joined by Paresh Maisuria from the Windows Kernel Power team and Zach Holmes from the Fundamentals team to talk about System Power Report, a new feature in Windows 10 Creators Update.

Related links:
Defrag Tools #168 – Powercfg Sleep Study (older version of this tool)
Defrag Tools #157 – Energy Estimation Engine (E3) (the framework used for estimating power usage)

Timeline:

[00:00] Welcome and introductions
[00:30] This is an updated and expanded version of a feature previously called Sleep Study. Now it covers everything related to power, not just details of modern standby states.
[02:55] You can still run it with powercfg /sleepstudy (for backwards compatibility) – but the new command is powercfg /systempowerreport, or powercfg /spr
[04:08] Opening up the generated report – lots more data than in the old Sleep Study report.
[05:32] Looking an active session: How much battery power was used, and by what? What was the screen brightness? Which apps used the most power?
[09:40] Why some power usage gets attributed to “Unknown”
[15:00] Unlike the old Sleep Study report, the System Power Report even gives useful info on traditional standby (S3) systems.
[16:40] Looking at a standby session: You can tell why a system went into standby, and why it woke up. Also lots of other stats, like how long it took to hibernate, etc.
[20:27] The report also contains an “expert tab” which contains data about the battery design capacity, current capacity, and health
[23:18] Bugchecks are also logged in the report (including the parameters).
[24:35] Still has all the details on a modern standby system (like in the old Sleep Study report). But enhanced. Now we have better instrumentation to track why a system got woken from standby.
[27:58] Of interest to OEMs and hardware engineers: We track power usage data for the SoC (System on a Chip) subsystems. Can give you the first indication of where to look further if power usage is too high.

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