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Database Profiling with Visual Studio

Esteban Herrera July 27, 2020 Jul 27, 2020 07/27/20

Examine when database queries were executed and measure how long the take using Visual Studio's Performance Profiler.

Mobilizing Existing .NET Apps

Nish Anil April 16, 2018 Apr 16, 2018 04/16/18

Almost any .NET codebase, including Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, and Silverlight, has sharable code that can be ported to Mobile projects. In this blog post, You’ll learn how to port business logic from WPF and build a phone- and tablet-friendly mobile app for Android, iOS, and UWP. 

Connect(); 2017: SmartHotel360 Demo Apps and Architecture

Visual Studio Blog December 13, 2017 Dec 13, 2017 12/13/17

Last month we hosted Microsoft Connect(); in New York City. Connect(); is a three-day, in-person and online developer event. If you missed it, no worries! You can watch our keynotes, sessions, and on-demand videos on Channel 9. For the past five months our keynote demo team worked on a new set of reference apps. We used most of these apps ...

Sky’s the limit with Azure, ASP.NET Core, and Visual Studio for Mac

Visual Studio Blog December 11, 2017 Dec 11, 2017 12/11/17

[Hello, we are looking to improve your experience on the Visual Studio Blog. It will be very helpful if you could share your feedback via this short survey that should take less than 2 minutes to fill out. Thanks!] Cloud services represent a huge leap in functionality, performance, and management simplicity for web apps, APIs, mobile ...

Post-Connect(); 2017 Visual Studio Partner Webinar Series

Visual Studio Blog December 7, 2017 Dec 7, 2017 12/7/17

[Hello, we are looking to improve your experience on the Visual Studio Blog. It will be very helpful if you could share your feedback via this short survey that should take less than 2 minutes to fill out. Thanks!] Earlier this week, we released 13 Visual Studio partner webinars that build off of some of the major announcement areas of ...

Managing Secrets Securely in the Cloud

Visual Studio Blog November 17, 2017 Nov 17, 2017 11/17/17

You’ve probably heard some version of the story about a developer who mistakenly checked in his AWS S3 key to Github. He pulled the key within 5 minutes but still racked up a multi-thousand dollar bill from bots that crawl open source sites looking for secrets. As developers we all understand and care about keeping dev and production secrets...

Spend more time working on the interesting stuff

Visual Studio Blog November 16, 2017 Nov 16, 2017 11/16/17

There’s a reason that each day thousands of developers take advantage of the rich set of extensions offered by our growing family of VS and VSTS Partners and the broader VS community. Collectively these offerings can save you and your team time in many different ways, from helping find bugs faster, to making it easier to work with data, to ...

Keep Your Skills Up to Date: New Training and Azure Resources

Shawn Nandi November 15, 2017 Nov 15, 2017 11/15/17

Finding better ways to upskill is a consistent topic that comes up when we talk to you about what’s top of mind. It’s no wonder when the one constant in our industry is change with new techniques, frameworks, tools, and languages emerging all the time. Developers by nature are extremely self-reliant when it comes to dealing with this ...

7 Hidden Gems in Visual Studio 2017

Anson Horton October 5, 2017 Oct 5, 2017 10/5/17

I’ve been working on developer tooling for over 16 years, and I still love it when I find a new tip or trick that shaves seconds off a repetitive task. The set below are features that I see infrequently used but can save loads of time! Gem #1 - Expression Evaluator Format Specifiers The part of the debugger that processes the language ...

Take your web app to Azure

Visual Studio Blog June 14, 2017 Jun 14, 2017 06/14/17

You’ve built your web app. It’s running, and getting good traffic. Now you need to move on to solving the ‘good problems’ to have. You want to scale your app to support more users, but only at peak times. Or you need better hardware and simply don’t want to manage that hardware… or software, or even the network. What if you just ...

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