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Want to get started with Windows 10 development?
This video guides you through installing Visual Studio and the Windows 10 SDK so that you can start creating your own Universal Windows Platform apps.

The Kubernetes project plans to deprecate Docker Engine support in the kubelet and support for dockershim will be removed in a future release, probably late next year.  

As a refresher, the Windows code base is approximately 3.5M files and, when checked in to a Git repo, results in a repo of about 300GB .  

While we're waiting for the Windows 10 spring update - codenamed Redstone 4 - to arrive any day now, Insiders that chose the Skip Ahead subset of the Fast ring are already on Redstone 5 Today, Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider Preview build 17639 to those Insiders

How to use Diagnostic windows in Visual studio 2015 to check the execution time. 

November 12, 2014

Today, we are happy to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 4 Release to Manufacturing (RTM).
This update is the latest in a cumulative series of feature additions and bug fixes for Visual Studio 2013.

More information:
http://www.visualstudio.com/news/vs2013-update4-rtm-vs

Download full ISO:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=512594

SHA-1 Values:
http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/visual-studio-2013-iso-sha1-vs

They also released the new Visual Studio Community 2013:
http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community-vs

 

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