In this post I’m going to visualize what exactly happens during Garbage Collection (GC) and how different GC modes can significantly affect application performance. I assume that the reader is familiar with garbage collection basics. If this isn’t the case I encourage you to spend 15 minutes to fill this gap, for instance from the following article – “Fundamentals of Garbage Collection” or from a
Last update: 11/22/2017 Getting started During Build 2015, we announced the Desktop Bridge (formerly called Project Centennial) to bring your desktop apps to UWP. With the Desktop App Converter, you can package your desktop application as an appx package that can be deployed to a Windows 10 Desktop. See this link to learn more about the Desktop Bridge. If you want to convert your C++ desktop appli
Updated (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. We are happy to announce that the .NET Framework 4.6.1 and its language packs are now available on Windows Update (WU) and WSUS for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. An offline installer is available here for Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows Server 2012. Additionally, the .NET Framework 4.6.1 is i
[UPDATED 8/7] The final release of TFS 2015 is now available. Brian Harry’s post highlights some key capabilities like Agile Project Management, Continuous Delivery, Git improvements, and Extensibility. He also has links for download and release notes. [UPDATED 7/29] Windows 10, Tools for Windows 10, and Windows 10 support in Apache Cordova Platform are all available today. Check out Soma’s post t
In Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 and also in the earlier CTP releases of Visual Studio 2015, we released a memory diagnostic tool that allowed developers to take heap snapshots of their application and then examine the heap contents upon terminating their application. The initial release supported viewing managed and native objects in the heap, and an update in the first Visual Studio 2015 CTP adde
.NET 10 is now available: the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. With Visual Studio Update 3, the Web Tools Extensions team added a number of great features to make it easier for ASP.NET developers publishing web applications to Azure Websites to enable background processing using Azure WebJobs. Since the Update 3 release, Azure WebJobs has reached ge
As part of providing pre-release versions of Visual Studio running as Azure Virtual Machines (VMs), we now provide you with an easy way to test drive the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova. If you didn’t already know, we announced earlier this year that we are going to integrate Apache Cordova into Visual Studio. This will help developers use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build, debug, and depl
No trial. No credit card required. Just your GitHub account. Today we are happy to announce the alpha release of the .NET Portability Analyzer extension for Visual Studio. Please try it out. This add-in was created by our software developer intern Charles Lowell. Over the last few years, consumers and enterprise employees are using more devices than before which run different operating systems lik
A while ago we posted about how the distribution and deployment of C++ Runtime as a dependency was handled through the Windows Store. That mechanism works for apps that are themselves distributed through the Store. However, there are cases in which you need to build apps that don’t ship through the Windows Store, for example enterprise apps that are deployed only within your company. For such scen
Hello again! Three months have passed since we talked about what’s new for Graphics Development in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2. Since then the team has been working to bring even more Graphics Diagnostics features into Visual Studio. I’m very excited to share with you what we have put in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RC that just shipped! (Download VS 2013 Update 3 RC, Brian Harry’s announcement blo
Multibyte character sets (MBCSs) are an older approach to the need to support character sets, like Japanese and Chinese, that cannot be represented in a single byte. If you are doing new development, you should use Unicode for all text strings except perhaps system strings that are not seen by end users. MBCS is a legacy technology and is not recommended for new development. The most common MBCS i
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