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Ignite is coming up fast and we are super excited to share all the cool stuff that is coming to the product. So before you go, you need to know…what session should I be attending? Here are some recommendations.
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BRK2184- Ac… Continue reading Microsoft Ignite OneDrive Session Primer
In this episode Dmitry Lyalin is joined by Jeremy Likness, a Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft and the coder behind Sterling DB, an open source project originally created for Silverlight data storage. Jeremy will cover what recently inspired him to… Continue reading .NET Core 2.0 – Ready for library developers (with Sterling DB) | Visual Studio Toolbox
Welcome to The Xamarin Show Snack Pack Edition. A Snack Pack is bite sized episode that is focused on a specific topic and covered in just a few minutes. Today, we take a look at look at how to optimize complex cells in a ListView using … Continue reading Snack Pack 20: Optimized Lists with DataTemplate Selectors in Xamarin.Forms | The Xamarin Show
In April, we outlined significant enhancements made to the Windows 10 Creators Update that gives you more control to make informed decisions about your privacy. Those enhancements included improving in-product information about your privacy, updates to the Microsoft privacy statement, and improving transparency by publishing more information about the diagnostic data we collect. For consumers, […] Continue reading Privacy enhancements coming to the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
Today’s project from HeadMelted (Jay Rodgers) is simply cool. It takes the new shiny that is Visual Studio Code, taking advantage of its open source’ness and cross platform capabilities, and ports it to a number of ARM platforms, including Chromebooks and the Raspberry Pi.
Yes, you can run VSCode on the Pi!
Platforms
The primary focus of this site is to provide builds of the open-source edition of VS Code for less common platforms (those that might not otherwise receive them). You can find details below of the architectures, operating systems and packaging formats these builds support.
- Architectures
- amd64, armhf
- Packages
- DEB, RPM
Operating Systems
Linux, Chrome OS*
(* uses embedded Linux)…
Frequently asked questions
- What is this?
- These are automated builds of the open-source edition of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code.
- How does this work?
- The latest code is pulled on a nightly basis from Microsoft’s official repository. If there are updates, the code is built, packaged and deployed.
- Which devices are supported?
- Please refer to the Platforms section.
- Do these releases support extensions?
- The extensions you want should work. Any dependencies that are not local to your architecture (e.g. x86 binary code on an ARM chromebook) will be emulated to ensure compatibility, but there is no guarantee of compatibility.
- Will Visual Studio Code run on my device?
- The best way to find out if your device is compatible is to go to the Instructions section and try it for yourself.
- Are these releases provided by Microsoft?
- No. These releases are an independent community effort. For clarity, this website (and the releases here) are not affiliated with Microsoft.
- …
- Why make these builds?
- The intention of these builds is to get Visual Studio Code into the hands of as many developers (and aspiring developers) as possible. Doing this means reaching out to those users on the most cost-conscious machines, and therefore supporting lower-end devices based on ARM that may be more complicated for Microsoft to support in an official capacity.
- Why Visual Studio Code?
- I personally wanted to use the tool on my own ARM single-board computers for teaching purposes, and on my Chromebook for daily use, so this is really a case of “scratch your own itch” software.
- This is really cool. Can I help with this?
- Yes you can! Any and all help is appreciated, but you’ll need to digitally sign the Microsoft CLA first, so that we can contribute any fixes back upstream to the core repository.
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Hey Excel Insiders,
Here are some specific examples of slow, high CPU or out of memory performance issues we have learnt about from our customers:
Slow copying and pasting one column, in a sheet comprising lots of rows of data with many… Continue reading Excel O365 performance improvements in September
Greetings from Zen Studios! Pinball FX3 is the biggest, most community-driven pinball game ever created, with new features like multiplayer matchups and user-generated tournaments that will bring the community together like never before. We have enabled cross-platform play, so the community will include players from Xbox One, Windows 10 and Steam! If you have never played Pinball FX, now is a great time to jump in. Pinball FX3 will be a free download and comes with the Sorcerer’s Lair table at no cost. All of the new game modes and tournament play is available for you to check out. Please, download… Continue reading Pinball FX3 Coming to Xbox One and Windows 10 on September 26 as XPA Title
Hello Windows Insiders! Today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16288 for PC to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring only (not Skip Ahead). As we mentioned previously, we are now at the point of the development cycle for the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update where our focus is now on stabilization for […] Continue reading Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16288 for PC & Build 15250 for Mobile
