User Ed - The blog of Ed Price, Customer Program Manager
User Ed is a Microsoft blog written by a Customer Program Manager, Ed Price. Ed enjoys Customer Engagement, Experience Design, TechNet Wiki, and general education around Microsoft products.
New Book: Building Microservices with .NET Core 2.0 - Second Edition: Transitioning monolithic architectures using microservices with .NET Core 2.0 using C# 7.0
I wrote the foreword on a new book from Gaurav Arora... Building Microservices with .NET Core 2.0 -...
Date: 01/19/2018
Learn Small Basic
Are you ready to keep learning about Small Basic? Here are lots of options! Curriculum Books: Learn...
Date: 02/22/2017
161 articles from Azure CAT, patterns & practices, and SQL CAT
I'm happy to announce my work with Azure CAT (CAT stands for Customer Advisory Team), which is my...
Date: 01/20/2017
Microsoft's Jeannette Wing - Champion of Computational Thinking
At Microsoft, we're proud to have one of the forefront researchers and authors/speakers of...
Date: 01/12/2017
Microsoft Coding Camps for Kids!
Did you know that Microsoft has had coding programs and camps for kids… for over 15 years??? Well,...
Date: 01/10/2017
Microsoft - Kids Can Code!!!
Did you know that Microsoft has had tools and programs to teach kids to code… for 8 years??? Well,...
Date: 01/07/2017
NEW BOOK: Microsoft Excel Data Analysis and Business Modeling (5th Edition)
Learn business modeling and analysis techniques with Microsoft Excel 2016, and transform data into...
Date: 01/04/2017
Technical Customer Profiles - Azure & SQL Server
This blog lists out the SQLCAT and AzureCAT technical customer profiles (TCPs). These are customer...
Date: 12/15/2016
What is a DAX Expression?
Basic DAX Syntax A DAX formula is comprised of an equal sign followed by a function or expression....
Date: 11/06/2016
Learn to Program with Small Basic - I added 5 more book reviews
I added 5 more book reviews to this article: Book Info + Reviews: “Learn to Program with Small...
Date: 08/09/2016
Microsoft Computational Thinking
At Microsoft, we're proud to have one of the forefront researchers and authors/speakers of...
Date: 07/15/2016
Book Info + Reviews: "Learn to Program with Small Basic: An Introduction to Programming with Games, Art, Science, and Math" by Dr. Majed Marji & Ed Price
"Learn to Program with Small Basic" launched on May 2nd, 2016! This blog post thoroughly covers the...
Date: 06/21/2016
EdSurge reviews "Learn to Program with Small Basic" by Dr. Majed Marji and Ed Price
This month, EdSurge published the online article: 6 Summer Reads That Will Teach You—and Your...
Date: 06/18/2016
Microsoft Small Basic
We'd love for you learn more about Microsoft Small Basic! Key Links: Download Microsoft Small Basic...
Date: 06/13/2016
Want to meet with the Azure Service Fabric engineering team?
We’re beginning a series of calls for all of the Service Fabric community to join in and ask the...
Date: 05/18/2016
Teaching a 9-year old
What should a 9-year old learn? This blog post is a work in progress. Math 1: Adapted Mind...
Date: 05/07/2016
Visual Studio Code – NEW FEATURES: 7 Editor Improvements (Code Folding, IntelliSense, Indentation, Ruler, & More!)
The Visual Studio Code 0.10.10 release features a fiesta of Editor improvements, including… Editor...
Date: 04/02/2016
BOOK GIVEAWAY: Win a free copy of Learn to Program with Small Basic: An Introduction to Programming with Games, Art, Science, and Math
Hello! I’m proud to announce that I’ve teamed up with Majed Marji, the author of Learn to Program...
Date: 03/14/2016
Visual Studio Team Services - NEW FEATURES: Test like you've never tested before!!! (6 Big Test Case Improvements)
The March release includes a cacophony of testing features... Exploratory testing directly from a...
Date: 03/14/2016
Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURES: 12 Language Improvements (JavaScript, TypeScript, & C#)
The Visual Studio Code 0.10.10 release features a fiesta of language improvements, including......
Date: 03/09/2016
Visual Studio Team Services - NEW MARCH RELEASE: 13 Improvements (Viewing Test Results, Triggers, Board Drill Down, Testing from a Work Item, & More!)
For the March 3 release, Visual Studio Team Services features 17 great improvements! Several of...
Date: 03/05/2016
Early Access Book: Learn to Program with Small Basic
I teamed with author Majed Marji (Learn to Program with Scratch) to write a fantastic new book from...
Date: 03/03/2016
Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURES: 14 Extension Authoring Improvements (API Consumption, Quick Pick, Octicons, Virtual Documents, Test Suite for Debug Adapters, JSON Mode Extension, & More!)
The Visual Studio Code 0.10.8 release features a palpable plethora of improvements, including......
Date: 02/28/2016
Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURES: 13 Big Debugging Updates (Rich Object Hover, Conditional Breakpoints, Node.js, Mono, & More!)
The Visual Studio Code 0.10.8 release features a palpable plethora of improvements, including......
Date: 02/27/2016
Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURES: 2 Workbench Improvements (The Horizontal Panel & Hiding the Menu Bar)
The 0.10.8 release features a myriad of improvements, including... Workbench Hide the Menu Bar...
Date: 02/27/2016
Small Basic: How to Publish Your Program
Sharing Your Program You can easily share your program with your friends or the Small Basic...
Date: 02/24/2016
Visual Studio Team Services - NEW FEBRUARY RELEASE: Marketplace Extensions +17 New Improvements!
For the February release, Visual Studio Team Services features 17 radical improvements! For...
Date: 02/23/2016
NEW BOOK: Microsoft OneNote 2016 Step by Step (by Curtis Frye)
I helped the author, Curtis Frye, and the editorial team as a Technical Reviewer and uncredited...
Date: 02/23/2016
Visual Studio Community - Free Node.js Development Tools!
I know what you're thinking! You're thinking, "Whaaat? Visual Studio Community does Node.js too?...
Date: 02/19/2016
Visual Studio Community - Free Python Development Tools!
But isn't all Python free? Yes! As it should be. But now you get the sweet Visual Studio features...
Date: 02/17/2016
Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURES: 11 Funtastic Editor Updates (New Themes, Keyboard Accessibility, Screen Reader, Localization, Ligatures, Find Widget, Input Handling, Cursor Style, Auto Save, File Picker, & IntelliSense Documentation)
The January release of Visual Studio Code 0.10.8 features 11 big Editor Improvements: New Default...
Date: 02/15/2016
Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURES: JavaScript - Salsa Preview
The 0.10.8 January release features a myriad of improvements, including... JavaScript - Salsa...
Date: 02/09/2016
Visual Studio Code - All the Git Features!!!
Visual Studio Code supports Git... like a BOSS!!! VS Code gets Git! Let's look at the features! Git...
Date: 02/08/2016
Visual Studio Team Services - NEW FEATURES: Dashboard Improvements (Auto-Refresh & Widgets)
These feature sets were included in the January update... Auto-refresh dashboards With today’s...
Date: 02/08/2016
Small Basic 1.2: Installation Guide
Installing Small Basic 1.2 Small Basic is free! And it teaches actual text/syntax-based programming...
Date: 02/06/2016
Why should I teach Java out of Visual Studio Code instead of out of Eclipse or NetBeans?
Why should I teach Java out of Visual Studio Code instead of out of Eclipse or NetBeans? 1....
Date: 02/05/2016
Lego Mindstorms EV3 Basic - "Ease-In, Ease-Out" Motions for Motors
So what's this EV3 Basic, anyway? [View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myFKfOA4XbQ] This awesome...
Date: 02/04/2016
Visual Studio Team Services - NEW FEATURES: 3 Build Summary Page Improvements (Richer Visualizations, View Passed Test Results, & File Bug on Test Failures)
These feature sets were included in the January update... Richer visualizations in the build summary...
Date: 02/02/2016
Visual Studio Team Services - NEW FEATURES: 2 Big Widget Improvements (building widgets & the markdown widget)
This feature set was included in the January update... Build widgets in the catalog As Karen wrote...
Date: 01/31/2016
Computational Thinking - Videos & Papers by Jeannette Wing
At Microsoft, we're proud to have one of the forefront researchers and authors/speakers of...
Date: 01/29/2016
Visual Studio Team Services - NEW FEATURE: Create branch and links to related artifacts
This feature set was included in the January update... Create branch and links to related artifacts...
Date: 01/27/2016
Visual Studio Team Services - NEW JANUARY RELEASE: Dashboard widget SDK (WE NEED YOUR FEEDBACK) + 25 New Improvements!
For the January release, Visual Studio Team Services features a plethora of 25 improvements! For...
Date: 01/26/2016
Visual Studio Team Services - NEW FEATURE: Scope code search using path filters
These features were included in the December update... Scope code search using path filters...
Date: 01/22/2016
Lego Mindstorms EV3 Basic - Unlock the Power of Text!!!!
I know what you're thinking. You're totally like, "Whhaaaat? When is text so powerful? Have you...
Date: 01/17/2016
Small Basic Compiler
Microsoft Small Basic Microsoft Small Basic is a high-level programming language. Here’s an...
Date: 01/16/2016
Computer Programs
This post is part 4 (out of 6) in a series of blog posts: Computers Today Where Computers Came From...
Date: 01/16/2016
Computer Hardware
This post is part 3 (out of 6) in a series of blog posts: Computers Today Where Computers Came From...
Date: 01/16/2016