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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.

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2018 1

  1. 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

2017 6

  1. Learn Small Basic
  2. 161 articles from Azure CAT, patterns & practices, and SQL CAT
  3. Microsoft's Jeannette Wing - Champion of Computational Thinking
  4. Microsoft Coding Camps for Kids!
  5. Microsoft - Kids Can Code!!!
  6. NEW BOOK: Microsoft Excel Data Analysis and Business Modeling (5th Edition)

2016 49

  1. Technical Customer Profiles - Azure & SQL Server
  2. What is a DAX Expression?
  3. Learn to Program with Small Basic - I added 5 more book reviews
  4. Microsoft Computational Thinking
  5. 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
  6. EdSurge reviews "Learn to Program with Small Basic" by Dr. Majed Marji and Ed Price
  7. Microsoft Small Basic
  8. Want to meet with the Azure Service Fabric engineering team?
  9. Teaching a 9-year old
  10. Visual Studio Code – NEW FEATURES: 7 Editor Improvements (Code Folding, IntelliSense, Indentation, Ruler, & More!)
  11. BOOK GIVEAWAY: Win a free copy of Learn to Program with Small Basic: An Introduction to Programming with Games, Art, Science, and Math
  12. Visual Studio Team Services - NEW FEATURES: Test like you've never tested before!!! (6 Big Test Case Improvements)
  13. Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURES: 12 Language Improvements (JavaScript, TypeScript, & C#)
  14. Visual Studio Team Services - NEW MARCH RELEASE: 13 Improvements (Viewing Test Results, Triggers, Board Drill Down, Testing from a Work Item, & More!)
  15. Early Access Book: Learn to Program with Small Basic
  16. 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!)
  17. Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURES: 13 Big Debugging Updates (Rich Object Hover, Conditional Breakpoints, Node.js, Mono, & More!)
  18. Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURES: 2 Workbench Improvements (The Horizontal Panel & Hiding the Menu Bar)
  19. Small Basic: How to Publish Your Program
  20. Visual Studio Team Services - NEW FEBRUARY RELEASE: Marketplace Extensions +17 New Improvements!
  21. NEW BOOK: Microsoft OneNote 2016 Step by Step (by Curtis Frye)
  22. Visual Studio Community - Free Node.js Development Tools!
  23. Visual Studio Community - Free Python Development Tools!
  24. 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)
  25. Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURES: JavaScript - Salsa Preview
  26. Visual Studio Code - All the Git Features!!!
  27. Visual Studio Team Services - NEW FEATURES: Dashboard Improvements (Auto-Refresh & Widgets)
  28. Small Basic 1.2: Installation Guide
  29. Why should I teach Java out of Visual Studio Code instead of out of Eclipse or NetBeans?
  30. Lego Mindstorms EV3 Basic - "Ease-In, Ease-Out" Motions for Motors
  31. Visual Studio Team Services - NEW FEATURES: 3 Build Summary Page Improvements (Richer Visualizations, View Passed Test Results, & File Bug on Test Failures)
  32. Visual Studio Team Services - NEW FEATURES: 2 Big Widget Improvements (building widgets & the markdown widget)
  33. Computational Thinking - Videos & Papers by Jeannette Wing
  34. Visual Studio Team Services - NEW FEATURE: Create branch and links to related artifacts
  35. Visual Studio Team Services - NEW JANUARY RELEASE: Dashboard widget SDK (WE NEED YOUR FEEDBACK) + 25 New Improvements!
  36. Visual Studio Team Services - NEW FEATURE: Scope code search using path filters
  37. Lego Mindstorms EV3 Basic - Unlock the Power of Text!!!!
  38. Small Basic Compiler
  39. Computer Programs
  40. Computer Hardware
  41. Computers Today
  42. Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURES: 4 Great Debug Improvements! (Text Wrapping, Breakpoints Visuals, Extension Debugging, & Debug Adapter Development)
  43. Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURES: Git Services, Git Status, & GitHub!!!
  44. Applied Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services: Tabular Modeling
  45. Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURES: 3 Big Improvements (File Picker, Fuzzy Search, & Persisted Zoom Level)
  46. Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURES: 4 Language Improvements (JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, & TSX)
  47. Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURES: 7 Big Extension Improvements!!! (Debugging, Outdated Extensions, Installation Issues, Proxy Support, Deactivation, JSON Schema, and Language Server)
  48. Visual Studio Team Services - NEW FEATURES: Keyboard Shortcuts & On-Prem Support!
  49. Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURES: Improvements for non US standard keyboard layouts

2015 138

  1. NEW BOOK: Applied Power BI by Teo Lachev (Microsoft MVP)
  2. Visual Studio Team Services - NEW FEATURES: Dashboards edit mode!
  3. Visual Studio Code - NEW RELEASE: v0.10.6 (fixes OSX crash on startup)
  4. Lego Mindstorms Development - Get better handling of Variables!!!
  5. Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURES: 4 Editor Improvements (Find/Replace, Cursor Blinking, Select Current Line, & Scroll Viewport)
  6. Visual Studio Team Services - NEW FEATURES: 3 Work Item Improvements (Discussion, History, Deleting)
  7. Visual Studio Code - NEW RELEASE: v0.10.5 - New Insider's Channel + 32 New Features/Updates!!!
  8. Visual Studio Team Services - NEW FEATURE: Custom work item fields!
  9. Lego Mindstorms EV3 Basic - SPECIAL FEATURES: the Sound & Speaker Objects
  10. Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURE: PHP Language Improvements
  11. Where Did BASIC Come From?
  12. Why Are There so Many Programming Languages?
  13. Demystifying CPU Speed; About Os and 1s
  14. Where Computers Came From
  15. DO YOU TEACH LEGO MINDSTORMS? Get free products, training, and support!
  16. Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURE: Yo Code Generator - TextMate Snippets
  17. DO YOU TEACH MINECRAFT? Want to collaborate with us?
  18. Visual Studio Code - Batman themed Syntax Coloring!
  19. How QR Codes will change BI Forever
  20. Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURE: Improved Syntax Highlighting
  21. TEACHERS: Get free Visual Studio products, training, and support!
  22. Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURES: 7 Debugging Improvements!
  23. How to program games and UI applications for your Lego Mindstorms EV3 Robots!!
  24. Visual Studio Code - NEW RELEASE: v0.10.3 (big performance fix)
  25. Lego Mindstorms EV3 Basic - Leveraging the Small Basic Graphics Window
  26. Visual Studio Code - NEW UPDATE: VS Code is now Open Source!
  27. Lego Mindstorms EV3 Basic - What are the social collaboration features?
  28. Visual Studio Code - NEW RELEASE: v0.10.2 (6 bug fixes)
  29. Lego Mindstorms EV3 Basic - Small Basic teaches you as you type!
  30. Small Basic - File Error Example: Writing to a Read-Only File
  31. Are you a teacher?
  32. Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURE: VS Code Supports Extensions!
  33. Lego Mindstorms - EV3 Basic is the Easiest Installation!!
  34. Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURE: Yo Code - Streamlined Customizations for VS Code
  35. Teach Kids to Code with Minecraft and Code.org!
  36. Lego Mindstorms EV3 Basic - Small Basic is in 20 Languages!!!
  37. DigiGirlz try out HoloLens at developer education session
  38. Visual Studio Code - NEW FEATURE: Persistent (update to update) location for Customizations
  39. Small Basic - The Settings File
  40. Small Basic - Temporary Files
  41. FREE SOFTWARE: Lego Mindstorms EV3 Basic for Small Basic
  42. Computer Programming could change your life financially
  43. What languages are supported for Visual Studio Code?
  44. Program your Lego Mindstorms EV3 Robots with actual Text-Based Coding!
  45. Is Visual Studio Free?
  46. Small Basic: Strings and Characters in Non-English Languages
  47. Small Basic Poet
  48. Small Basic: Text Files and Binary Files
  49. Pig Latin
  50. Small Basic: Three Ways to Validate Input
  51. Small Basic: Three Loop Counters
  52. Small Basic: Flower Anatomy Quiz
  53. Small Basic: Prime Sieve
  54. Small Basic: Dice Simulation
  55. Small Basic Arrays: Empty Elements
  56. Small Basic: Unconventional Indexing of Arrays
  57. Small Basic Arrays: Indexing Operator
  58. Small Basic: Infinite For Loops
  59. Small Basic For Loops: Control Variable Warning
  60. Small Basic: For Loop Diagram
  61. Small Basic - Enter the Sentinel!!!
  62. Small Basic Example - Wood Chuck: How much wood could a woodchuck chuck?
  63. Small Basic - Example Loop
  64. Small Basic - Reading Flowcharts
  65. Small Basic: Generating a Random Character
  66. Small Basic - Numbers Triangle
  67. Small Basic - Compound Interest Example
  68. Small Basic - Multiple Nesting Levels
  69. Small Basic: Multiplication Table Example
  70. Small Basic: Iteration Count
  71. Small Basic - Story Games
  72. Small Basic - More About MouseMove
  73. Small Basic - Special Keys: Alt & F10
  74. Small Basic - Variables as Named Constants
  75. Small Basic - Automatic Type Conversion
  76. Small Basic - Strongly-Typed Languages
  77. DECIMALS ARE FLOATING POINT NUMBERS
  78. Small Basic - Creating Different Variables
  79. Small Basic - Combining Strings and Variables
  80. Algebra VS Small Basic
  81. Small Basic - Invalid Variable Names
  82. Small Basic - The Dragon Game
  83. Small Basic - A First Look at Recursion
  84. Small Basic - Using Stacks for Managing the Handshake
  85. Azure Guru Winners - March 2015
  86. Small Basic - The Triangle Area Calculator
  87. Small Basic Subroutines - Input and Output
  88. Small Basic - Other Names for Subroutines
  89. Small Basic Subroutines - Abstraction and Information Hiding
  90. Small Basic Files
  91. Small Basic Keywords
  92. Small Basic - The Properties of the TextWindow Object
  93. Small Basic - The If-ElseIf Ladder
  94. Small Basic - Goto Loops
  95. Small Basic - Spaghetti Code
  96. Small Basic Example - Evaluating Math Functions
  97. Small Basic 1.1 on TechNet Wiki
  98. Small Basic - Avoiding the Else
  99. Small Basic - About Fonts
  100. Small Basic - About Hexadecimal Pen and Brush Colors
  101. Small Basic - How to change the thickness and color of your lines
  102. Small Basic - Changing Properties
  103. Small Basic - Make it Easy to Read
  104. Binary Operators in Small Basic
  105. Small Basic Objects Example: The Microwave
  106. Small Basic - Mutual Exclusion
  107. Small Basic - When is an Equal Sign (=) a comparison?
  108. Small Basic Example: Leap Year Checker
  109. Power BI for iPad and iPhone - Now available Worldwide!!!
  110. Small Basic - "True" String
  111. If Statements are like Rollercoasters
  112. Flowcharts
  113. Small Basic: Relational Operators & Strings
  114. New Power Map Features - Coming Soon!
  115. 3 new reasons to love Power Query!
  116. DevScope's awesome PowerShell module for Power BI API's
  117. Updated Whitepaper: Introducing Microsoft BI Reporting and Analysis Tools
  118. Small Basic Quiz 13 - Getting Loopy
  119. Small Basic Exercise: Counting Garage Sale Money
  120. Small Basic: Trigonometric Methods
  121. Small Basic: GetRandomNumber( ) - Is it really random?
  122. Small Basic: Remainder with Negative Numbers
  123. Small Basic Rounding Methods: Digging Deeper
  124. Small Basic Quiz 06 - Input & Math
  125. Small Basic: Silly Shakespeare Program
  126. Small Basic Quiz 05 - Turtle Object
  127. Small Basic Quiz 03
  128. Insert vs Draw
  129. Small Basic Turtle Object - 5 Practice Exercises!
  130. Small Basic: Turtle Polygon Patterns
  131. Power BI Pricing - What it Is & What it Will Be
  132. Small Basic: Turtle Stars
  133. Why Computers Love to Repeat Things
  134. Small Basic Turtle Games & Graphics
  135. Small Basic Turtle: Comparing Angle and Turn
  136. Small Basic Turtle: Absolute Motion VS Relative Motion
  137. Small Basic: The History of the Logo Turtle
  138. Women in Analytics - What the???

2014 29

  1. Try out the New Power BI Preview (clap clap) Today!
  2. Microsoft Curah! - Curate the web and share what you know.
  3. Small Basic for Kids - Ages 10-12
  4. Thank you for your participation!
  5. Curah! A new content curation platform launched by Microsoft
  6. NEW WHITEPAPER: Using Power BI in a Hybrid Environment
  7. Small Basic Quiz 02
  8. Small Basic - Hints for helping Cathy (and her babysitting career)
  9. Alice in Small Basic Land - early thinking
  10. The Origin of the Order of Operations
  11. The Frog Community Project - early thinking
  12. Collecting some good ASCII Art
  13. A Case for Insensitivity
  14. All About Help
  15. Good Comments and Bad Ones
  16. Binary Operators
  17. Binary Operators
  18. Small Basic Quiz 01
  19. Small Basic Character Based UI Apps
  20. How did Small Basic change IntelliSense?
  21. Hey, what's a PDB File?
  22. What is the Geekiest Microwave?
  23. interviews with Vijaye Raji, the creator of Small Basic
  24. POWER BI UPDATES FROM LAST WEEK (May 2014)
  25. NEW FREE eBook - Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2014 (+ Power BI)
  26. System Center - New Category for TechNet Guru!!!
  27. Interview with a Visual Basic MVP and MSDN Forum Moderator - Reed Kimble
  28. Interview with a System Center MVP in Turkey - Mustafa KARA
  29. Business Intelligence in SQL Server 2014 - Power View for Multidimensional Models

2013 80

  1. Business Intelligence in SQL Server 2014 - SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
  2. Interview with a SQL Server Guru: Shanky 621
  3. Power BI Q&A - Now you can search on your own data!!!
  4. Power Map helps you raise children!
  5. SQL Server BI Gold Medal Winner - Using a View to Mask Multi-Server SSIS Package Configurations
  6. Get your candy... with POWER!!! (how Power Map will help you Trick or Treat)
  7. Three SSRS Quizzes - Test Your Knowledge!!!
  8. Power Pivot - DAX Error Messages Survey
  9. IDE Colors in Small Basic
  10. FIM Guru - How to Bulk Import Attributes Flow Rules into a Synchronization Rule in the Portal
  11. Windows Store Guru - Create an Analog Clock in a Windows Store Application
  12. Why create a TechNet Wiki article when you can just link to an MSDN Forum thread?
  13. Windows Phone Development Guru - Location API in Windows Phone 8
  14. VB.NET Guru - How to Handle a Huge Collection of Strings
  15. Transact-SQL Guru - Gaps and Islands Problem
  16. Power BI - Blog posts you should read!!!
  17. Crying over milk spilled under bridges? Then GO MAKE LEMONADE!
  18. SSRS Guru - Multi Font Color / Multi Font Size within a Single Field / Textbox
  19. Power Pivot Guru - We’ve Got The Power: “Power BI”, New Microsoft BI Suite Announced
  20. Small Basic Guru - Shapes Editor
  21. Digital Leap
  22. BizTalk Guru - Provisioning BizTalk Services using the Windows Azure Management Portal
  23. Transact-SQL: Date-Related Queries (featured article)
  24. SQL Server 2012 - SET ANSI_PADDING Setting and Its Importance
  25. How to Launch Windows Phone 8 Emulator without using Visual Studio 2012? - by Isenthil
  26. WPF Guru - Set Brush for ScrollViewer Thumb
  27. Windows Store Apps Guru - Building an App using the DataviewModel from external XML
  28. Windows Phone Guru - Windows Phone 8 Development: Maps and Clusters
  29. VB Guru - How to Communicate with a Microcontroller or Other Serial Device in VB.Net
  30. C# Guru - Named Pipes IO for Inter-process Communication
  31. Transact-SQL Guru - How SQL Server Determines Type of the Constant
  32. Reporting Services Guru - Using Custom Code in SSRS Reports for Advanced String Operations
  33. Analysis Services Guru - Aggregations in SSAS
  34. Small Basic Guru - Nonki Takahashi's "How to Make a Turtle Maze Game" on TechNet Wiki
  35. TechNet Wiki Awards System - INTERMEDIATE WIKI NINJAS
  36. BizTalk Guru - Monitoring and Automatically Starting Host Instances Via A Scheduled Task
  37. TechNet Wiki Awards System - NOVICE WIKI NINJAS
  38. TechNet Wiki Awards System - Wiki Ninja Belts
  39. T-SQL Guru - SQL Server PIVOT
  40. Windows Phone Development Guru - Retrieving the Screen Resolution for Windows Phone 8 Emulator
  41. SharePoint 2010 Guru - Adding Charts to Standard Webparts and Visual Webparts
  42. T-SQL Guru - Dynamic Pivot on Multiple Columns
  43. C# Guru - Spell Checking WinRT Component (C#, VB, HTML5/JavaScript)
  44. Who's going to be the June SSRS Guru?
  45. All about the TechNet Wiki Community Council
  46. How do You Earn Recognition Points and Achievement Medals on MSDN and TechNet?
  47. All About BizTalk Server 2010
  48. Where can you find MSDN and TechNet Forum Support?
  49. Announcing the NEW BizTalk Guru Competition for June 2013
  50. Are you the C# Guru for June 2013???
  51. Featured Article - Small Basic Curriculum
  52. SQL Server Reporting Services 2012 & SharePoint - Content Quiz
  53. Active Directory Certificate Services - PKI FAQ
  54. Small Basic E-Books
  55. How to Insert a Formatted Code Snippet and Code Block on TechNet Wiki
  56. Simple Data Binding in XAML
  57. All about ASP.NET MVC
  58. Windows Phone 7 Application With Federated Authentication
  59. ASP.NET MVC Web Application With Federated Authentication
  60. Get started with Windows Workflow Foundation and ASP.NET
  61. How to migrate ASP.NET applications to IIS 7 Integrated Mode
  62. How to Create a Small Basic Extension Using C#
  63. SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit Content
  64. Dynamics CRM 2011 - Development Resources
  65. SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit BOM
  66. MSDN Forum Support
  67. How to Create Quick and Basic Tables for TechNet Wiki
  68. Should you self-propose an answer in an MSDN forum?
  69. How to get started with TechNet Wiki
  70. SQL Server 2012 Books
  71. MSDN Forum Moderation - Marking Answers
  72. Windows Server 2012/Windows 8 Base Configuration test lab
  73. IPv6 Survival Guide
  74. How to Become an MSDN Forum Moderator
  75. Microsoft Test Lab Guides (Windows Server 2008 R2 & Windows 7)
  76. Hadoop on Windows
  77. Microsoft Training and Certifications - MCDP, MCITP, MTA, MCTS
  78. E-Book Gallery for ASP.NET, Visual Studio, Windows Azure, Windows Phone, SQL Server, Windows Server, Office, SharePoint, and more!
  79. How to Become a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) or Microsoft Community Contributor (MCC)
  80. BizTalk Server 2010 + WF/WCF - Are they better together?

2012 15

  1. A card game for developers!!! Elevation of Privilege
  2. How to Embed SQL Server Express in an Application
  3. SQL Server Developer Resources
  4. Introduction to Development with SQL Server
  5. How to use a SQL Server database with your PHP web site
  6. Business Intelligence - BI Pro Survey: SQL Server Analysis Services, Reporting Services, BIDS, SSDT
  7. How to use a SQL Server database with your ASP.NET web site
  8. Operations Manager: System Center 2012 - Visio Management Pack Designer
  9. AppFabric: Developing Services for Windows Server AppFabric
  10. AppFabric - Frequently Asked Development Questions
  11. About ASP.NET MVC 4
  12. List of MSDN Forums
  13. Books for Developers - .NET, ASP.NET, C/C++, C#, SQL Server, Visual Basic, and WPF
  14. Featured Article: Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) Overview
  15. Featured Article: BizTalk Server 2010 Host Throttling

2011 9

  1. Patterns Determine Decisions (microwaves are EVIL!!!!)
  2. Confusion is GREAT!!!
  3. Sought Content (RTFM – read the fascinating manual)
  4. Solicited Content (remember Clippy? now forget him)
  5. The best help is NO HELP!!! (what is integrated assistance?)
  6. Integrated Assistance... and your elevator
  7. 30 Days of Integrated Assistance
  8. 30 Days of... What?
  9. About User Ed