In this quick overview, you'll learn how you can code and debug cross-platform mobile apps using web technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript. We'll take a whirlwind tour starting with setup where…

HP modernizes internal MyComp Sales compensation app and goes mobile. HP rapidly developed internal MyComp application for use across multiple mobile platforms using Visual Studio and Apache Cordova…

Skanska USA accelerates Jobsite Monitoring Innovation with Microsoft Visual Studio and Azure. Skanska USA, a large construction and development company whose portfolio includes both infrastructure and…

Dominion Enterprises revolutionizes dealer management platform using Visual Studio Online. DX1 from Dominion Enterprises is a revolutionary cloud-based dealer management platform for powersports and…

National Instruments delivers modern user experience and extends to new audiences with .NET at the core. To improve the productivity of the engineers and scientists who use its technology, National…

The Kinect debuted as an accessory for Xbox, but now it's helping developers create new types of experiences beyond the living room. This video introduces the new Kinect v2 sensor and its…

Continuous integration builds with unit testing is a hallmark of any good development process. Your Visual Studio Online account comes pre-provisioned with a Hosted Build Controller that has the most…

With Visual Studio 2015, you can use the power and productivity you've come to love to build rich mobile applications across iOS, Android, and Windows devices. This video covers trends and common…

Azure SDK and tools provide the tools developers need to build apps for the cloud, diagnose cloud apps, and integrate with the cloud application lifecycle. In this session, we'll look at the top new…

Increasing engagement with your mobile apps helps you retain users and decrease acquisition costs. This video demonstrates how easy it is for developers and marketers to use this powerful tool to…

Modeling your application's infrastructure and configuration data as code which can be versioned alongside your application's code-base is an important tenet of DevOps. In this video, Brian Keller…

Azure Search makes it easy to add powerful and sophisticated search capabilities to websites and applications. With Azure Search, you can quickly and easily tune search results to construct rich,…

Team Explorer Everywhere brings the power of Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Online to Linux, Mac and other developers who don't use Visual Studio. It includes a plug-in for Eclipse that…

Azure DocumentDB is a fully-managed NoSQL document database service. This video demonstrates how Azure DocumentDB can integrate with your modern applications to provide a highly-scalable, queryable,…

Performance sometimes takes a back seat when you're developing an app or service. PerfTips make it easier to evaluate the performance of your app during normal debugging so that you can measure…

Visual Studio 2015 integrates with two new package managers: Bower and NPM (Node Packaged Modules). Developers can now use modern web tools such as Grunt and Gulp to execute tasks like bunding,…

When developing for any platform, every developer needs a fast and reliable edit-compile-debug cycle. With Visual Studio 2015 Preview you can target Android and edit-compile-debug regardless of your…

Developing software solutions that work across several devices and platforms is becoming increasingly important. With that in mind, Visual Studio 2015 attempts to streamline sharing code across…

In an increasingly connected world, the "New Normal" is for applications to integrate with one or more cloud services. Whether you are creating web applications or native client…

Targeting the screen most people keep in their pocket is critical to the modern business. This video shows how to build mobile experiences for any platform using Azure, with capabilities like data…

Visual Studio Community 2013 is a new, full-featured, and FREE addition to the Visual Studio product lineup. View demos that highlight multi-device apps across Windows, Android, and iOS, and that show…

ASP.NET 5 has been re-imagined from the ground up to provide a faster development experience, best in class performance, full side-by-side support, and cross platform support for Linux and Mac. In…

The .NET Micro Framework is an open source platform that enables you to write applications on resource constrained devices that run on a microcontroller with just a few hundred kilobytes of RAM and…

You've probably heard about the extensive software downloads included with MSDN subscriptions, but did you know that as a subscriber you can also receive cloud services, training, and support…

Application Insights for Visual Studio Online lets you monitor your deployed live application and gives you visibility into customer usage patterns. See what kind of data you can expect and learn how…

Azure Websites allows developers to quickly develop, deploy, and maintain Web applications. It delivers a differentiated developer experience on a scalable, secure, and maintenance-free…

Azure enables you to develop and test applications faster, at reduced cost, and with the flexibility to deploy in the cloud or on-premises. This video provides an overview of the preconfigured…

In this video, Ankit Asthana shows you how to use Visual Studio 2015 to share, reuse, build, deploy, and debug your cross-platform mobile C/C++ code, including how to: Create projects from…

Python Tools for Visual Studio is a free extension that lets you develop with Python as if it had always been a part of Visual Studio. With debugging, IntelliSense, package management, and Microsoft…

Pluralsight - the world's largest tech training library, providing online courses for professional developers and IT admins - is one of the latest benefits available to MSDN subscribers. In this video…

Azure HDInsight brings the power of Hadoop to Azure to process Big Data. In this session, we'll start with a basic overview of HDInsight, and then show some of the new tools in Azure SDK 2.5 that we…

Developers need to see the overall design of their code to investigate issues, add new capabilities, on-board a new colleague, or improve the structure of their code. Code map is a tool in Visual…

CodeLens helps you track programming activity in .NET apps by surfacing information about changes to specific code elements, including when they happened and who made them. It helps to keep your dev…

Live Code Analyzers are used to add custom error messages and warnings that appear live as you're typing, along with automatic code fixes to help you clean them up. They are available as NuGet…

Smart Unit Tests help you find bugs earlier in the development cycle. See how this Microsoft Research project walks through code paths of existing applications to create these new unit tests.

Learn how you can take advantage of Git workflows inside Visual Studio Online. Aaron Bjork demonstrates how to view and manage repos and branches, track commits to your codebase, understand branch…

.NET 2015 is the next generation of .NET. This release includes several innovations that improve developer productivity and enhance application performance. .NET 2015 builds on the advances in .NET…

ASP.NET Web Forms 4.6 brings in new features such as HTTP 2, Async Model binding and CodeDOM Providers for .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn"). Pranav Rastogi demonstrates some of these new…

With cycle times often measured in hour and days instead of weeks and months, a common question is how testers fit into a DevOps world. In this session, Charles Sterling looks at test case management…

Teams need effective tools to help them capture, assign, and prioritize their work. Watch Aaron Bjork demonstrate how to create and prioritize a backlog, assign work to team members, and track and…

The C++ team has made a goal to achieve C++11 and C++14 conformance in the Visual C++ compiler for Visual Studio 2015's final release. But there's more: Visual Studio…

Release Management helps your teams deploy applications faster and with less risk. Learn how to set up a multi-stage automated pipeline to deploy and validate your applications on their way to…

The GPU Usage tool in Visual Studio can be used to understand the GPU usage of DirectX applications. Frame Time, Frame Rate, and GPU Utilization graphs are available while the application is running…

Visual Studio Tools for Unity (VSTU) is Microsoft's free Visual Studio add-on that enables a rich programming and debugging experience for working with the Unity game development platform. The 2.0…

ASP.NET 5 introduces support for a new flavor of .NET called .NET Core, but it also runs on the .NET Framework you use today. .NET Core offers some unique advantages over .NET Framework, which this…

Azure Active Directory is a modern identity management solution spanning on-premises and cloud, providing you with all the capabilities you need to secure your solutions: application access control,…

C# 6.0 adds about a dozen bite-sized new features to C#, all aimed at making your code cleaner and clearer. Instead of introducing new concepts, each feature makes a common coding pattern simpler, and…

Visual Studio 2015 is a great productivity tool and modern code editing environment that works with your favorite devices, roams your settings, and simplifies your interactions with developer services…

Blend for Visual Studio 2015 has been redesigned to remain the preferred tool for creating beautiful user interfaces for XAML apps. Blend has a sleek new look consistent with Visual Studio to improve…

.NET Native is a compiler technology that allows you to compile your .NET code directly to native code, taking advantage of the Visual C++ optimizer for code generation. Apps that are built…

Most development teams realize that they should do load testing but can't because of time or resource constraints.  Now, with Visual Studio Online, load testing has never been easier. We've introduced…

The C++ team is focusing on continual incremental improvements in the build times during the development (Edit/Build/Debug) workflow. In this video, Sridhar Madhugiri shows how these…

James Montemagno walks you through how the Xamarin Platform enables developers to leverage their C# and .NET skills to create native mobile apps for iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows. With Xamarin, you…

Have you looked at F# for your projects recently? F# is a mature .NET language that's functional-first, cross-platform, open source, and enterprise-ready. You can find the beginnings of Visual F#…

As developer teams begin to use a wide variety of tools and platforms, including cloud based ALM tools, Visual Studio partners have more opportunities to bring value into the developer ecosystem. …

Breakpoints are a daily part of your debugging experience, so in Visual Studio 2015 we've improved the way you configure breakpoint conditions and actions. In this video we show the conditions and…

Entity Framework (EF) is a popular data access technology for .NET applications. EF7 is a lightweight and extensible version of EF that enables new platforms and new data stores. In this new version…

Mobile device developers can now access Office 365 services including Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Files, and Users and Groups using simple REST-based API calls and authenticating users with Azure Active…

The Office 365 Development model allows web developers to extend Office client products like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, using standard client-side HTML and JavaScript. In this video Jeremy…

VB14 has a host of improvements across the board. In the IDE, it now includes refactoring, the ability to organize imports, better cref support, and more. Visual Basic 14 projects show metadata as…

With Visual Studio 2015, we reimagined the project system for ASP.NET from the ground up, making it lighter-weight and more robust. Developers can make changes to their source and see it reflected in…

Building beautiful websites that scale to all devices and screen sizes is challenging. Thankfully, using HTML5, CSS3, and various JavaScript and CSS libraries it's now easier than ever. This video…

Come and join us for a recap of the fist day announcements at Connect(), an overview of today's agenda and how you can participate.

Dan Fernandez talks with Scott Hanselman about cloud development and ASP.NET vNext..

Developers working on C++ projects know how important the language is to their organization, Microsoft is no different with many of our core tools and services created using C++, with…

Visual Studio is the most productive IDE in the industry, with many features to help you understand your projects code, avoid coding mistakes early, and do it all while being a great tool itself that…

As a developer you know how fundamental debugging, diagnostics and profiling is to any real software project, and a daily part of any developers life. Join us for a panel discussion on how in Visual…

No matter if you're in development, IT or operations, today's business demands that you get through the complexity of software delivery and deployment while ensuring your project is also an overall…

With Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio, you get cutting-edge cloud services and infrastructure support, tightly integrated with the world's best IDE. Join us for a panel discussion with the product…

Today's developers need to meet their users where they are by building cross-platform apps and Visual Studio is a great tool for the task, enabling you to build apps with the technology and skillset…

As a Web Developer today you have many opportunities to create some amazing websites and services. Weather its updating an existing site to support responsive design, creating a new single page…

If you're a developer you know that Programming languages and frameworks are at the core of any software project. Join us for a panel discussion with the managed languages and .NET product teams on…

Brian Keller talks with technical fellow Brian Harry about software engineering practices and running software projects in a DevOps world

Dan Fernandez talks with Soma about upcoming news and features for the next version of Visual Studio.

Dan Fernandez sits down with Scott Guthrie to discuss what's next for developers in the mobile-first, cloud-first era.

Software is eating the world and being Agile is becoming a requirement just to stay in business regardless of the industry you are in. The agility gained by development needs to be extended to IT Ops…

Learn how to extend your applications with Azure and ASP.NET vNext to take advantage of the cloud, and embrace new scenarios that unlock unlimited possibilities for your applications.

Get a deeper look on the next version of Visual Studio, and the innovation delivered to help you modernize existing applications faster and create new ones targeting multiple devices.

Learn about Microsoft's vision for developer platforms, tools and technologies that brings developers to the center of the mobile-first, cloud-first era.