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.
Computers Today
This post is part 1 (out of 6) in a series of blog posts: Computers Today (this blog post) Where...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 01/16/2016
Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURES: 4 Great Debug Improvements! (Text Wrapping, Breakpoints Visuals, Extension Debugging, & Debug Adapter Development)
The 0.10.5 December release features a plethora of improvements, including... Debug Console Wraps...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 01/14/2016
Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURES: Git Services, Git Status, & GitHub!!!
The 0.10.5 December release features a plethora of improvements, including... Scoped Git Services It...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 01/13/2016
Applied Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services: Tabular Modeling
This book is a few years old, but it remains as a good resource people are using, so I wanted to...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 01/13/2016
Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURES: 3 Big Improvements (File Picker, Fuzzy Search, & Persisted Zoom Level)
The 0.10.5 December release features a plethora of improvements, including... File Picker...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 01/12/2016
Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURES: 4 Language Improvements (JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, & TSX)
The 0.10.5 December release features a plethora of improvements, including... ES6 is the new default...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 01/11/2016
Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURES: 7 Big Extension Improvements!!! (Debugging, Outdated Extensions, Installation Issues, Proxy Support, Deactivation, JSON Schema, and Language Server)
The 0.10.5 December release features a plethora of improvements. Let's get started! But first... Do...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 01/10/2016
Visual Studio Team Services - NEW FEATURES: Keyboard Shortcuts & On-Prem Support!
These features were included in the December update... Keyboard shortcuts Continuing on with the...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 01/06/2016
Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURES: Improvements for non US standard keyboard layouts
Don't use a standard US English keyboard? Booya! We've got you covered! The 0.10.5 December release...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 01/01/2016
NEW BOOK: Applied Power BI by Teo Lachev (Microsoft MVP)
This book is available on Amazon here. You can also view Teo's book on his site here:...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/29/2015
Visual Studio Team Services - NEW FEATURES: Dashboards edit mode!
These features were included in the December update... Dashboards edit mode We’ve added a new...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/24/2015
Visual Studio Code - NEW RELEASE: v0.10.6 (fixes OSX crash on startup)
0.10.6 (December 2015) The 0.10.6 release fixes a crash on startup that happens on OSX when using...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/23/2015
Lego Mindstorms Development - Get better handling of Variables!!!
[View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myFKfOA4XbQ] Better Handling of Variables Small Basic was...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/22/2015
Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURES: 4 Editor Improvements (Find/Replace, Cursor Blinking, Select Current Line, & Scroll Viewport)
The 0.10.5 December release features a plethora of improvements, including... Editor Improvement #1...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/21/2015
Visual Studio Team Services - NEW FEATURES: 3 Work Item Improvements (Discussion, History, Deleting)
These features were included in the December update... Work item discussion One of the most common...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/21/2015
Visual Studio Code - NEW RELEASE: v0.10.5 - New Insider's Channel + 32 New Features/Updates!!!
We have a new December release! First, the Visual Studio Code team would like to thank you with a...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/18/2015
Visual Studio Team Services - NEW FEATURE: Custom work item fields!
This is a December 10 update... Custom work item fields We're happy to announce that, with our...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/18/2015
Lego Mindstorms EV3 Basic - SPECIAL FEATURES: the Sound & Speaker Objects
[View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myFKfOA4XbQ] Small Basic's Sound Object & EV3's Speaker...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/17/2015
Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURE: PHP Language Improvements
The 0.10.1 November release features a plethora of improvements, including... Language - PHP VS Code...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/16/2015
Where Did BASIC Come From?
This post is part 6 (out of 6) in a series of blog posts: Computers Today Where Computers Came From...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/16/2015
Why Are There so Many Programming Languages?
This post is part 5 (out of 6) in a series of blog posts: Computers Today Where Computers Came From...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/16/2015
Demystifying CPU Speed; About Os and 1s
This blog post digs deeper from this one: Computer Hardware Demystifying CPU Speed The CPU’s...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/15/2015
Where Computers Came From
This post is part 2 (out of 6) in a series of blog posts: Computers Today Where Computers Came From...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/15/2015
DO YOU TEACH LEGO MINDSTORMS? Get free products, training, and support!
Teachers, School Staff, Curriculum Providers, Home School Staff, and Other Student Trainers, Do you...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/14/2015
Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURE: Yo Code Generator - TextMate Snippets
The 0.10.1 November release features a plethora of improvements, including... Add TextMate Snippets...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/12/2015
DO YOU TEACH MINECRAFT? Want to collaborate with us?
Teachers, School Staff, Curriculum Providers, Home School Staff, and Other Student Trainers, Do you...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/11/2015
Visual Studio Code - Batman themed Syntax Coloring!
The 0.10.1 November release features a plethora of improvements, including... Improved Syntax...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/11/2015
How QR Codes will change BI Forever
What's BI? BI is Business Intelligence, or essentially getting intelligence and visualizations like...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/11/2015
Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURE: Improved Syntax Highlighting
The 0.10.1 November release features a plethora of improvements, including... Improved Syntax...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/10/2015
TEACHERS: Get free Visual Studio products, training, and support!
Teachers, Are you teaching coding on Visual Studio? Are you teaching C#, C++, or Visual Basic? Are...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/08/2015
Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURES: 7 Debugging Improvements!
The 0.10.1 November release features a plethora of debugging improvements... Debugging - Debug...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/07/2015
How to program games and UI applications for your Lego Mindstorms EV3 Robots!!
[View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myFKfOA4XbQ] Small Basic Graphics Window Leveraging Small...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/04/2015
Visual Studio Code - NEW RELEASE: v0.10.3 (big performance fix)
v0.10.3 (November 2015) The 0.10.3 release includes a fix for a severe startup performance...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/03/2015
Lego Mindstorms EV3 Basic - Leveraging the Small Basic Graphics Window
[View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myFKfOA4XbQ] Small Basic Graphics Window Leveraging Small...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/02/2015
Visual Studio Code - NEW UPDATE: VS Code is now Open Source!
VS Code is Open Source! New in version v0.10.1! You spoke and we listened. With this release, VS...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 11/30/2015
Lego Mindstorms EV3 Basic - What are the social collaboration features?
[View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myFKfOA4XbQ] Small Basic Social Features! Share programs...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 11/29/2015
Visual Studio Code - NEW RELEASE: v0.10.2 (6 bug fixes)
v0.10.2 (November 2015) The 0.10.2 release includes some critical fixes for the Beta release that...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 11/29/2015
Lego Mindstorms EV3 Basic - Small Basic teaches you as you type!
[View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myFKfOA4XbQ] Small Basic teaches you as you type! With the...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 11/26/2015
Small Basic - File Error Example: Writing to a Read-Only File
File Error Example: Writing to a Read-Only File NOTE: This article points back to the "Learn to...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 11/23/2015
Are you a teacher?
Then you might want to read this. Microsoft wants to help you. We want to help you a lot. We want to...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 11/20/2015
Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURE: VS Code Supports Extensions!
This feature was added in November in Visual Studio Code v0.10.1. With this release, we mark our...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 11/20/2015
Lego Mindstorms - EV3 Basic is the Easiest Installation!!
[View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myFKfOA4XbQ] EV3 Basic is the Easiest Installation!! It's an...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 11/18/2015
Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURE: Yo Code - Streamlined Customizations for VS Code
This feature was added in October in Visual Studio Code v0.9.1. 12/14/15 NOTE: VS Code is already up...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 11/17/2015
Teach Kids to Code with Minecraft and Code.org!
Microsoft and Code.org team up again! You know, I'm just going to let the Minecraft team and...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 11/17/2015
Lego Mindstorms EV3 Basic - Small Basic is in 20 Languages!!!
[View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myFKfOA4XbQ] Small Basic is in 20 languages! How can anything...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 11/06/2015
DigiGirlz try out HoloLens at developer education session
Nearly 30 high school girls at a Holographic Academy developer education session on Microsoft's...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 11/05/2015
Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURE: Persistent (update to update) location for Customizations
This feature was added in October in Visual Studio Code v0.9.1. Previously we did not have a...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 11/04/2015
Small Basic - The Settings File
The Settings File If you create a program that’s used by different people, you might want to let the...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 11/02/2015