Category: Tools

Microsoft brings 8,000 royalty-free images and icons to Office for Windows users

Enrico
Microsoft Office stock pictures

Microsoft yesterday released the new Version 2004 update (Build 12730.20024) for Office for Windows Desktop Insiders in the Fast Ring. This new update brings high quality, curated images, stickers, and icons to Office 365 subscribers. Over 8,000 royalty-free images and icons will be available in Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint apps for users. In the coming months, Microsoft will be adding more premium content for Office 365 subscribers. Here’s how this feature works: Select Insert > Pictures > Stock Images. Select the content type you want to explore: Stock Images, Cutout People, Icons, or Stickers. Enter some keywords in the Search box.…

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A guide to remote development with Visual Studio Live Share

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Visual Studio Live Share

Working in a fully distributed, remote team requires sophisticated collaboration technology, which needs to be both supercharged and frictionless. Visual Studio Live Share was built on the bold principle of making remote developer collaboration as powerful and natural as in-person collaboration. We knew that our paradigm: “share your context, not your screen,” was only feasible, if we allowed the power of the modern IDE translate to remote collaboration sessions. Just then the world changed drastically and everyone was forced to be remote. It wasn’t just professional developers who needed Live Share; there were students, teachers, and interview candidates who needed a real-time collaboration service. So the Live…

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Microsoft Editor, an alternative to Grammarly

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Microsoft Editor Explain

Last week Microsoft announced a new service called Microsoft Editor, an AI-powered writing assistant that takes on Grammarly, available for Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome. Microsoft Editor helps you write with confidence in 20+ languages. Since it is a browser add-on, it will help you whenever you are on the web, right from writing emails to posting your story on Facebook. Microsoft Editor tiers Microsoft Editor has two different tiers. The free edition includes basic features such as spelling and basic grammar across Word, Outlook.com and the web. But with…

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A successful Git branching model

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In this post I present the development model that I’ve introduced for some of my projects (both at work and private) about a year ago, and which has turned out to be very successful. I’ve been meaning to write about it for a while now, but I’ve never really found the time to do so thoroughly, until now. I won’t talk about any of the projects’ details, merely about the branching strategy and release management. Why git? For a thorough discussion on the pros and cons of Git compared to centralized…

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Android required permissions

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In Visual Studio 2015 if you checked same permissions on your project properties and when reopen it, your checks are disappeared, you have two ways: Is the manifest file marked as ‘read only’ in Windows Explorer? You have to select the Properties directory and un-tick ‘read only’ for the entire folder. Add manually in AndroidManifest.xml file same new rows: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <manifest xmlns:android=”https://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android”> <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion=”15″ /> <application android:label=”$safename$”> <meta-data android:name=”com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY” android:value=”yourcode” /> </application> <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.INTERNET” /> <uses-permission android:name=”com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES” /> <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE” /> <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION” /> <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION” /> <uses-permission…

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