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Visual Studio 2022 Launch Event Agenda

We’re excited to host the Visual Studio 2022 launch event on November 8th. This release is unique: it brings together, the move to 64-bit, new capabilities, and improvements to reliability and performance across your entire developer workflow. The launch event is a celebration of that work, and all the work, our community, and extension ...


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Testing RPC ports with PowerShell (and yes, it's as much fun as it sounds!) New and Improved!!

Summary: Using PowerShell to identify RPC ports in use by capturing content from PowerShell We'd like to introduce you today to one of our newest bloggers!  It's a froopingly awesome friend of ours, Joel Vickery, PFE.  (did I mention Dr. Scripto is a big fan of books written by Douglas Adams?....oops!) Take it away Joel! Thanks Doc!  So ...


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Time-of-flight camera characterization with functional modeling for synthetic scene generation

Staying at the forefront of 3D sensing technology development requires continuous investment and innovation. Microsoft's paper : “Time-of-flight camera characterization with functional modeling for synthetic scene generation”, which was recently published in "Optics express" is a clear demonstration of the depth (pun intended) we go to ...


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Type | Treat – Wrap-up

Type | Treat Challenge Wrap-up That's all the challenges done! If you missed any of the challenges they're all available in the Playground here. Let's talk through the final answers to day 5's challenges. Yesterday's Solution Beginner/Learner Challenge In this challenge we were working with an existing object literal which had been as ...


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Type | Treat - Day 5

Type | Treat Challenge 5 Welcome to the fifth, and last, Type | Treat challenge! These challenges are a series of blog posts which have 2 code challenges in, one for beginners and one for intermediate TypeScript programmers. We're on day five, which means going over the answers from yesterday and have 2 new challenges. Yesterday's Solution ...