After the Internet Explorer browser had reigned supreme for more than two decades, in 2015, Microsoft introduced Microsoft Edge as the new default internet browser on Windows PCs.
The browser has been well-received but, according to user figures from Microsoft itself, there are just 330 million active Microsoft Edge users, which is a far cry from the more than one billion people who use the leading web browser, Google Chrome.
Microsoft releases Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 Update 5. This build fixes numerous issues identified by developers/customers in previous builds. If you are running Visual Studio 2017, update to the latest version 15.7.5 to resolve a bunch of issues that have been fixed by Microsoft.
To grab the latest version of the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7.5 and to see the issues fixed with this build, continue reading.
You might be aware of the
Along with Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17711, Microsoft added additional themes in reader view to make your browsing eye-comfortable.
Tired of remembering and writing the complete path of the registry key? In latest Windows 10 Insiders Preview Build 17711, Microsoft introduces a new feature to
In this quick blog post, we are going to see how this feature would ease our work. A video demonstration has been included.
Microsoft released Windows 10 Insiders Preview Build 17711 to the insiders in the Fast Ring and also to those who opted for Skip Ahead. This build focuses key improvements to Microsoft Edge, Fluent Design, Display and Registry Editor.
Continue reading to know what's new in Windows 10 insiders preview build 17711. Before upgrading, make sure to read the known issues.
Do you know that you can logically organize your Azure resources by category? Once you login to Microsoft Azure portal, you can categorize them by using Tags. Tags enable you to retrieve related resources from different Resource Groups.
To know how to organize Azure resources using tags, let's discuss this in today's post as part of my Azure Tips and Tricks series.
Microsoft announced a new feature for OneDrive client that will allow Windows Users and IT Admins to easily migrate their most important files present in
IT Admins can set this up in user system after taking user consent or silently perform this migration in the background.
Microsoft is planning to ship many new features and enhancements in the next major version of Windows 10, that includes a lot of improvements to Microsoft Edge. One of them is the ability to control the media autoplay feature on the browser.
If you want to know how to turn off or disable autoplay media in Microsoft Edge on Windows 10, here's the simple mentioned steps.
After two weeks of wait, Microsoft released a new Windows 10 insiders preview build 17704 for PC from the Redstone 5 development branch. If you are a Windows Insider in the fast ring or have opted for the Skip Ahead, you can now get this build.
The new insiders preview build includes many new improvements to Microsoft Edge, Skype and other areas. Continue reading to know what has been changed in this build.
Have you heard about Global Directory and Subscription Filter on the Microsoft Azure Portal? This filter allows you to select a set of Azure Subscriptions and save them as default Azure subscriptions. Using this, you will be able to better manage your resources online.
If you didn't hear about this subscription filtering yet, we are going to quickly discuss about it in today's Azure Tips and Tricks post.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7.4 (latest version: 15.7 Update 4) is a new servicing update for Visual Studio 2017 installation. If you are running Visual Studio 2017, update to the latest version 15.7.4 to resolve a bunch of issues that has been fixed by Microsoft.
To get the updates, either check for update notification within the IDE or launch the Visual Studio Installer. Check out this blog post to know what has been fixed in this update build.
Microsoft has released a new update to Windows Template Studio. The latest version of
To know more about the new changes and improvements part of this release, and to learn how to install this update, continue reading the post.
After downgrading your Microsoft Office installation, you may encounter the following error while opening/working in Outlook: "Unable to cast COM object of type 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.ApplicationClass' to interface type 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook._Application'.". If you faced this issue, here's a simple solution you will have to follow to resolve this error.
The recent Cambridge Analytica scandal made people realize how much information about themselves they share online. For those of you unfamiliar with the scandal, a company used a Facebook quiz to profile its users, collecting information - mostly limited to what people chose to share on their public profiles but sometimes, the private messages of Facebook users, too. Let's learn three common sense tips to protect your privacy online.
Microsoft today announced that the next version of Visual Studio will be named as
An interface in TypeScript contains only the declaration of the methods and properties, but not the implementation. It is the responsibility of the class that implements the interface by providing implementation for all the members of the interface.
Today, in this TypeScript Tutorial, we will learn how to work with Interfaces in TypeScript. Continue reading to learn more.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7.3 (latest version: 15.7 Update 3) is a new servicing update for Visual Studio 2017 installation. If you are running Visual Studio 2017, update to the latest version 15.7.3 to resolve a bunch of issues that has been fixed by Microsoft.
To get the updates, either check for update notification within the IDE or launch the Visual Studio Installer. Check out this blog post to know what has been fixed in this update build.
ASP.NET Core is an open-source, cross platform, .NET centric web development framework. The latest version of .NET Core and ASP.NET Core has been released by Microsoft, as
Continue reading to know what has been changed in ASP.NET Core 2.1 and Entity Framework Core 2.1, along with the links to download.
.NET Core is a free, open-source, cross platformed, managed software framework for Windows, Mac and Linux. The
If you want to know what's new in .NET Core 2.1 and from where to download the latest .NET Core SDK, checkout this post.
While their sole aim is to trick people into giving personal information or make payments, Phishing, Vishing and Smishing can be done in different ways. Let's discuss these in details.
Just like any other OOPs supported languages, TypeScript also allows you to inherit a base class. In the last article, we learned how to create class in TypeScript. We have also learned how to create a constructor and how to instantiate a class object.
In this article of the TypeScript Tutorial for beginners series, we will learn how to inherit a TypeScript class. Continue reading to learn it today.
Microsoft releases a new servicing update for its Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 installation. If you are running Visual Studio 2017, update to the latest version 15.7.2 to resolve a bunch of issues that has been already identified and fixed.
Check for update notification or launch the Visual Studio Installer to get the updates. If you are willing to know what has been fixed in this update build, check out this blog post.
Earlier in the TypeScript Tutorial series (Getting started with TypeScript) we learnt about the TypeScript configuration file, variable declaration and basic data types. I hope that was neat and clear to understand the very basics of TypeScript.
Today in this article, we will learn how to define a class and instantiate class object. Continue reading to learn about it today.
In the Windows 10 latest build, i.e. Windows 10 April 2018 Update (version 1803), Microsoft added a new settings page to control the Startup items that start along with Windows OS. Apart from the
In this quick tip on Windows 10, we are going to see how to change the startup settings in latest version of Windows 10.
Like JavaScript and any other languages, TypeScript also provides basic data types to handle numbers, strings etc. Some common data types in TypeScript are: number, string, boolean, enum, void, null, undefined, any, never, Array and tuple.
Let's learn more about these basic data types of TypeScript, which you will need to use always. Let's learn with suitable examples.
In the previous few chapters of the TypeScript Tutorial series we have learned how to install TypeScript and then begin with creating a simple HelloWorld application. We have also learned about TypeScript configuration file (tsconfig.json).
In this chapter we will learn various ways to declare variables in TypeScript. Continue reading to learn more about it.
The tsconfig.json file allows you to specify the root level files and the compiler options that requires to compile a TypeScript project. The presence of this file in a directory specifies that the said directory is the TypeScript project root.
In this chapter of the TypeScript Tutorial series we will learn about tsconfig.json, it's various properties and how to extend it.
Microsoft released a new preview build to Windows Insiders in the fast ring. The new Windows 10 insiders preview build 17666 focuses on cloud-powered clipboard functionality, dark theme support to File Explorer, Search with Bing support in Notepad and many more.
If you are a Windows Insider and running preview build in the fast ring, check for updates and try out the new improvements that's currently rolling out.
To know more about Visual Studio Live Share and to grab the links to download this extension, continue reading this post.
Microsoft releases Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7.0 minor release update to all the editions of Visual Studio 2017 with many new features and enhancements. The new update also includes C# 7.3, TypeScript 2.8 and Windows 10 April 2018 Update SDK - Build 17134 update.
Check for update notification or launch the Visual Studio Installer to get the updates. Continue reading to know about the new features and enhancements.
If you have read the previous chapter of the TypeScript Tutorial series, you have already learned how to install Node.js and TypeScript and might have already installed those. Now, it's the time to go a step further to learn how to write code in TpeScript.
In this article, we will learn how to create a simple HelloWorld application, compile it and run it. Continue reading to know more.
TypeScript is an open-source programming language, developed and maintained by Microsoft, and hosted in GitHub.
This post will cover how to install Node.js and then proceed with installation of TypeScript using the Node Package Manager.
Microsoft started rolling out the next major upgrade release of Windows 10. They named it as
In this blog article, we will learn how to upgrade your system to the latest version of Windows 10. You can follow either of the three possible ways.
Microsoft Office 2019 Commercial Preview Suite, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, Access, Project, Visio, OneNote for Windows 10, is now available for download. This preview program is intended for organizations who plan to deploy it when it gets released.
Follow the simple mentioned steps to register to this preview program, in order to download the deployment package.
Microsoft announced the availability of
If you are not a Office 365 subscriber, you may want to download Office 2019 Preview and give it a try to submit feedback to Microsoft in it's early development stage.
A new service update for Visual Studio 2017 is now available. The new build version 15.6.7, released on 26th April 2018 contains a set of bug fixes reported by customers. If you are using Visual Studio 2017, check for updates to get the new build.
Alternatively, you can also download the latest version of Visual Studio 2017 by visiting this link. Continue reading to know what has been fixed with this service update.
While working with Azure Resources, you may ask the question: "Can I move an Azure Resource from one Resource Group to another Resource Group?". If that's your question, the answer is 'Yes, you can change the Resource Group'.
In this quick tip, we will learn how to achieve this from the Microsoft Azure Portal. Continue reading to know more.
If you are using Microsoft Azure Portal, you may already know how to change the theme of the portal. This can be done from the Azure Portal Settings itself, which provides you four different themes at this moment.
But, do you know that you can easily switch from one theme to the other without navigating to the portal settings? In this quick tip, we are going to discuss about it.
Microsoft Azure allows you to easily move Azure Resources from one Subscription to the other, if they are under the same account. You can use the Azure Portal to quickly perform this operation. Today, in this article we will learn how to do this.
Just follow the step-by-step process mentioned in this article to move Azure Resources from one subscription to the other.
In case you are facing the following error MSB4017: Could not run the "GenerateResource" task because MSBuild could not create or connect, while building your project/solution in Visual Studio, this could be because the build system is running out of the build process.
To resolve this error, there could be two different approaches. In this quick note, sharing both the solutions for your easy reference.
A new update for Visual Studio 2017 is now available. The new build version 15.6.5, released on 4th April 2018 contains a set of bug fixes reported by customers. If you are using Visual Studio 2017, check for updates to get the new build.
With the advent of the mass-marketed smartphone, the iPhone, in 2007, small-functionality native apps were a logical functionality solution. Small, compact pieces of software providing everything from weather reports to mobile games were available at a tap of our screen for 99 cents (or free) from an online store.
Android-based mobile devices followed Apple’s example, and the native app reigned supreme for several years, providing a more tailored experience that appeared much safer than the terrifying primordial, virus-riddled soup of web-based applications.
