Windows Azure is Microsoft’s cloud platform, providing Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service and Web site hosting. In this video, we will give an overview of Windows Azure, walk through…

Brian Keller talks with Soma, Corp VP of Microsoft's Developer Division, about the Visual Studio 2013 Launch. Soma talks about some of his favorite features from Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation…

Cloud hosting and geo-distribution take the problems that cause the "it works on my machine" phenomenon to a whole new level. In this video, we'll show you how to set up Visual Studio…

Visual Studio Online Application Insights solves the age-old problem of collecting enough data to enable developers to diagnose their issues but not so much as to impact production capacity. In this…

Visual Studio 2013 includes numerous improvements for debugging C++ applications. In this video we'll demo two of these features: Just My Code and JavaScript/Native Interop Debugging.

Code Map Debugger Integration enables developers to debug complex software problems, without getting lost, by providing simple, easy-to-use visualization tools that keep the developer oriented. In…

ISO C++ received a major upgrade with the latest standard, adding many features that make the language both simpler and more powerful. Visual C++ 2010 and 2012 have already implemented…

In Visual Studio 2013, you can sign into the IDE with a Microsoft account, enabling features like synchronized settings that roam with you to all your devices running Visual Studio. In this video…

With the release of Productivity Power Tools 2013 for Visual Studio 2013 come eleven new powerful features. Some of these features are brand new extensions, while others are improvements to…

Visual Studio 2013 introduces a host of new features that boost productivity for developers as they write code in the IDE. In this video you'll see demos of some of these features, including auto…

The Code Map feature in Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate enables developers to work with unfamiliar code through visualization of the complex relationships within it. In this video, we show how you can…

SharePoint's cloud app model offers many new and powerful customization capabilities. In this video, you'll see how the SharePoint developer tools in Visual Studio 2013 help you build custom apps for…

By using the NuGet package manager, .NET Framework libraries are being released more quickly, across more platforms. In this video, you’ll learn about two such libraries – the Immutable Collections…

The Bing Maps platform is a combination of controls and services for any device and platform, that provides sophisticated search and routing, along with cloud storage and controls for beautiful data…

Do you want your app to talk to your users? With Visual Studio 2013 and Windows 8.1 you can now incorporate Bing Speech Synthesis (a.k.a. text-to-speech) functionality into your Windows Store app,…

Kinect for Windows allows you to use the magic of the Kinect sensor with desktop and Web applications on the PC. In this video we’ll take a stroll through two new features in the recently-released…

Windows Store apps are expected to run on a variety of devices and/or in different orientations – large and small, high- and low-res, portrait and landscape...you get the picture. In this video we'll…

This year, Microsoft made a huge investment in user interface development tools for JavaScript applications, including new tools for creating CSS animations, page layout, custom fonts,…

Visual Studio 2013 introduces significant improvements to the JavaScript Memory Analyzer (originally released in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1), including its integration into the new Performance and…

Visual Studio 2013 introduces significant improvements to the HTML UI Responsiveness tool (originally released in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2), including its integration into the new Performance and…

Visual Studio 2013’s UI Responsiveness tool helps you analyze activities – like parsing and layout – in your XAML-based Windows Store apps for Windows 8.1. In this video we will cover this tool in…

Visual Studio 2013’s new Energy Consumption Tool helps you analyze your application’s energy consumption and isolate activities that impact it. In this video, we will show you how this tool in Visual…

Familiar with Web development? Want to use your HTML/JS/CSS skills to build Windows Store apps? We’ll show you the updates in Visual Studio 2013 that make this even easier than before. In this video…

Visual Studio Online “Monaco” is a new lightweight coding environment that works in any modern browser. Edit C#, VB, PHP, or JavaScript code, work on CSS files, or even push changes to Git source code…

Windows Azure makes Visual Studio 2013 available to MSDN subscribers through its virtual machine catalog to help accelerate development and test scenarios. In this video we'll explore what virtual…

Visual Studio 2013 provides you with the best tools to build and diagnose cloud applications that run on Windows Azure. In this video, you will see the latest tools for Windows Azure developers inside…

Windows Azure Service Bus allows developers to create connected applications easily, using Queues and Topics to decouple Web and Worker tiers. Publish and Subscribe (a.k.a. “pub/sub”) patterns can be…

TypeScript is a new, open source programming language from Microsoft that makes developing large-scale JavaScript applications easier. TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that includes modern…

Visual Studio 2013 introduces many improvements for Web developers, both in terms of ASP.NET platforms and Visual Studio tooling. In this video we'll walk you through an overview of the changes,…

Status feeds and chat aren’t just for social media and IM – they work really well in ALM too. In this video, we show how the Team Room feature in Team Foundation Server 2013 can enable better…

Delivering high-quality, modern applications requires modern application lifecycle management tools and processes. In this video you will learn about updates to Microsoft’s application lifecycle…

With Visual Studio Online you can plan, develop and manage your applications in the cloud. In this video, you’ll see how to work with the different Application Lifecycle Management services in Visual…

Visual Studio Online is Microsoft's platform of cloud-based services for developers and development teams, handling management and monitoring of your code and applications. In this video, you’ll learn…

With Visual Studio 2013 and Windows 8.1, you can now create automated tests for your XAML-based Windows Store apps. You can perform all of your testing from the integrated Test Explorer in Visual…

Creating quality Web sites and services involves ensuring they perform well and handle the load expected of them in real-world scenarios. In this video you will be introduced to the load testing…

Creating defect free software is never an easy task, but Visual Studio 2013 with Team Foundation Server 2013 provide the capabilities developers need to help them reach their quality goals. In this…

Insight into how your customers are using your application, their environment, their workflows, the UI they spend time in, where on the planet they are using your application from, and the performance…

Visual Studio Online Application Insights delivers a set of services to provide in-depth and actionable insight into your application. The services include global availability and performance,…

System Center (SC) 2012 R2 and Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 build on previous SC integration with Team Foundation Server (TFS) and IntelliTrace. In this video, we’ll show you how the System Center…

System Center 2012 R2 monitors your application in production and connects to Team Foundation Server (TFS) to provide engineering teams with actionable data to resolve bugs. Visual Studio Ultimate…

C++ developers will find many improvements in Visual Studio 2013 including a new version of the compiler, linker and tools that make code run faster. In this video we'll cover these…

Visual Studio’s Code Analysis window lets you find shortcomings in your applications, through the evaluation of standards and best practice compliance in your source code. In this video, we provide an…

Edit and Continue has been a hallmark feature of Microsoft development since the early days of Visual Basic, but this dev feature has been unavailable with 64-bit code…until now. This video provides…

Visual Studio 2013 provides new tools to debug asynchronous code across .NET, JavaScript, and C++. This video will show you how to use these tools to understand better what is happening in…

The new .NET memory analysis feature in Visual Studio 2013 helps you diagnose .NET memory issues in production. In this video, we’ll cover the tool’s features and quickly walk through how to use them…

Making fast and efficient apps is important to developers and their users, and the Performance and Diagnostics hub in Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio 2013 Express helps you do just that. In this…

Almost every modern application relies on or interacts with a database in one form or another, making databases a critical component of the modern application development lifecycle. Visual Studio 2013…

Visual Studio 2013 has raised the bar for working with XAML in many types of applications including Windows Store, Windows Phone, Silverlight and WPF projects. In this video we'll demo improvements in…

Visual Studio 2013 includes many great new features for C++ developers. In this video, you’ll learn about the improvements to IntelliSense and the brand new code formatting feature, as well as…

Database developers can use the schema and data comparison features in Visual Studio 2013 to view and reconcile differences between physical SQL Server databases and SQL Server Database projects. In…

Peek Definition is an amazing new feature in Visual Studio 2013 that allows you to view and edit definitions inside the code editor, without losing your context. Watch this video to see how Peek…

CodeLens provides deep insights into your code as you work on it, right in the editor, via fighter pilot-style head-up displays. In this video, we provide an overview of CodeLens, examples of its use,…

With Cloud Business App projects, Visual Studio 2013 streamlines the process of building modern business applications for Office 365. In this video, you will see how developers can build social,…

Built with Web technologies, Apps for Office are a new class of add-in customization for Office 2013 and Office 365. In this video, we will go through the full workflow of building an app for Office…

Visual Studio LightSwitch provides the easiest way to create modern, data-centric, line of business applications for the enterprise. In this video, we will build and deploy from end-to-end, a…

SQL Server connections in cloud scenarios – including with Windows Azure SQL Database – have an inherent degree of unreliability when compared to local SQL Server client/server connections. These…

ASP.NET App Suspend is a feature of Windows Server 2012 R2 and the .NET Framework 4.5.1 that brings a mobile app “tombstoning”-style feature to ASP.NET Web sites. App Suspend enables developers to use…

Since its release in 2002, .NET has become one of the premier developer platforms for building applications for devices and services. In this video we'll go over the new .NET 4.5.1 which builds on…

Version 6 of the Entity Framework (EF), .NET’s data access and object-relational layer, is included with Visual Studio 2013. Features such as async query/save, connection resiliency, command…

Windows Store developers building apps using JavaScript and HTML get two new features in Visual Studio 2013 that enable the creation of rich apps that come to life. In this video we'll show you new…

Graphically intensive user interfaces are growing increasingly more common in modern apps, and on the Windows platform, DirectX is a key enabler for this trend. Whether you use DirectX to create an…

Windows Azure Mobile Services provides an easy-to-use back-end, allowing mobile developers to store data in the cloud, easily authenticate users, and send push notifications to mobile devices. In this…

Windows 8.0 introduced an HTML/JavaScript model for building immersive, native applications. Now that Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013 are out, there are important enhancements to this WinJS…

Windows 8.1 provides new APIs geared to high-performance list scenarios in XAML apps. In this video, Tim Heuer will provide an overview of the APIs and explain how the platform and Visual Studio…

In Visual Studio 2013 and Blend for Visual Studio 2013, we have added a lot of highly anticipated productivity features for building XAML apps. In this video, you’ll see how the new XAML editor…

Visual C++ in Visual Studio 2013 includes improvements for Windows App developers in the core language and libraries, as well in tooling, debugging and designers. This video will provide an…

Visual Studio 2013, along with Blend for Visual Studio, provides a host of XAML Windows Store app development improvements. In this video, we will demo some of these new features, including template,…

Visual Studio 2013 and the Windows Azure 2.2 SDK provide a rich set of features for diagnosing and troubleshooting Windows Azure Applications. In this video you'll see how to use this new debugging…

Windows Azure SQL Database is a fully managed relational database service based on SQL Server technologies. In this video, we will take a brief tour of Windows Azure SQL Database, and show how SQL…

Windows Azure Media Services (WAMS) provides a cloud-based platform for media encoding, transcoding and content protection as well as on-demand and live streaming capabilities. In this video, we’ll…

Windows Azure Web Sites provide a simple and economical means of deploying your Web applications to Windows Azure, with the ability to upgrade to Azure Cloud Services when and if you’re ready. In this…

Windows Azure enables you to develop and test applications faster, at reduced cost, and with the flexibility to deploy in the cloud or on-premises. Visual Studio 2013 is the best IDE for cloud…

Windows Azure Mobile Services supplies a scalable and secure cloud backend for your Windows Store, Windows Phone, iOS and Android apps. Use Mobile Services to structure storage, authenticate users,…

ASP.NET templates let you build a responsive Web site that looks good on mobile devices, tablets and PCs. The templates use the Bootstrap CSS Framework, which makes it really easy to build a…

Web sites and Web Applications can often benefit from integration with existing identity providers that make it easier for users to authenticate with a system while not recreating their credentials.…

ASP.NET MVC 5 introduces new features such as attribute routing, a modern identity system, filter overrides, and a brand new scaffolding system. In this video we'll use Visual Studio 2013 to create a…

The first version of ASP.NET SignalR was released earlier this year and with it, ASP.NET developers have been adding amazing real-time Web functionality to their applications. In this video we’ll take…

ASP.NET Web API 2 makes it easier than ever to build secure HTTP services that can be used from any client, including browsers and mobile devices. In this video, we’ll show you how you can secure…

With the introduction of One ASP.NET in Visual Studio 2013 working with multiple frameworks in a single project is made significantly easier, enabling developers to combine Web Forms, MVC, Web API and…

Browser Link creates a bi-directional WebSocket connection between Visual Studio 2013 and any open browser and/or emulators. This allows for some brand new scenarios that help boost Web development…

Both Visual Studio Online and Team Foundation Server 2013 include full support for Git-based source control projects. In this video you will see a demonstration of how Git support in Team Foundation…

Team Foundation Server 2013 makes collaborating on changesets or Git commits easier through a new web-based feature called code comments. In this video we’ll show you how easy it is to create…

In Team Foundation Server 2013 we introduce a new feature to help organize and easily filter various types of work items by using Tags. In this video we'll show you how tags are created and managed,…

Work items in Team Foundation Server (TFS) can be very text-heavy. That works fine at the granular level, but tracking overall project progress begs for data visualization. In this video, we’ll look…

With Agile Portfolio Management, organizations can manage goals and requirements that can span multiple teams and sprints. In this video, we demonstrate new Agile Portfolio Management features in Team…

Kanban support, while present in Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012, is taken to the next level in TFS 2013. In this video, we demonstrate just how true that is by showing how teams can customize their…

Unit testing is a core fundamental aspect of application development. But unit testing can and should be utilized when developing databases as well, to verify that changes have not regressed database…

Developer testing is a crucial part of modern application development. The Test Explorer in Visual Studio 2013 has been designed to let you focus on code and maintain fast test cycle times. In this…

Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) 2013 helps developers and testers to product quality applications. In this video you’ll learn about how Microsoft Test Manager enables software testers to manage their…

The new Microsoft Monitoring Agent enables monitoring of Web applications and can be used either in a standalone mode or in conjunction with System Center. This video will examine the standalone mode…

The Visual Studio Integrated Developer Environment (IDE) just keeps getting better. Visual Studio 2013 offers new roaming support, notifications and a new Visual Studio Updates experience that gets…

A recap of the news and activities coming out of the Visual Studio 2013 launch.

In this live Q&A session, you will learn about the latest tools for Windows Azure developers inside Visual Studio 2013 using Windows Azure SDK 2.2. You'll learn about new features that help you…

Visual C++ language architect Herb Sutter, Lead PM Tarek Madkour, and Dev Lead Ale Contenti join us to answer your questions – live - about Visual C++ 2013's ISO C++ language…

In this live Q&A session, you will learn how .NET delivers a number of new innovations while maintaining a high compatibility bar. You'll hear about developer productivity features like 64-bit…

Whether you are a XAML or JavaScript developer, Visual Studio 2013 and Blend are your tools for building apps for Windows 8.1. We'll be joined by product team members who will tell us what's new in…

Team Foundation Server 2013 provides improved support for planning projects in an agile manner. We'll sit down with members of the team responsible for building Team Foundation Server to get best…

There are a number of enhancements to the Visual Studio 2013 development environment that offer improved productivity and better understanding of your code. We'll chat with members of the Visual…

There is a wide variety of new features in Visual Studio 2013 for Web developers. In this interview we'll talk to members of the team responsible for MVC, Web Forms, Web API, SignalR and much more.

Visual Studio 2013 comes with a wide range of tools to help you diagnose pesky bugs, troubleshoot performance problems, or just better understand how your users are utilizing your applications. In…

During this interview we will chat with members of the Team Foundation Service team. Team Foundation Service provides development teams with everything they need to host their software development…

Please join Microsoft executives, S. Somasegar, Scott Guthrie, and Brian Harry to see how Visual Studio and Windows Azure support you in the transformational journey of software development driven by…