#VISUAL STUDIO FOR MAC SAMPLES UPDATE#
#VISUAL STUDIO FOR MAC SAMPLES SOFTWARE#

Blogs gave sample authors flexibility to talk more about what the samples do and even update the details over time. Moving samples out of SDKs and online was a step right direction but it too had limitations. Updating a sample that was part of an SDK was also a challenge because it meant updating the entire SDK so, needless to say, samples in SDKs were not often updated.ДЄnother popular way samples were published was through individual and team blogs as single samples or packs zipped and stored online. Searching for information about the samples in an SDK before you installed a sometimes large set of content was impossible unless the SDK authors duplicated all their SDK contents online. Samples were often laid somewhere on the file system, sometimes in read-only locations like program files, with few hints about where to find the samples or information about what was available. Shipping samples with an SDK was convenient for bundling all the tools and assets in one place but you never knew what you were going to get after you installed the SDK. The SDK was used as single vehicle to ship tools, documentation, headers, libraries and samples.

#VISUAL STUDIO FOR MAC SAMPLES SOFTWARE#

One of the primary ways samples were released is through software development kits or SDKs. Where have samples been hiding all this time? With the purpose of getting our samples out of the hard to find corners of our websites and into one central location, we created a single site called the MSDN Code Samples Gallery and introduced easy ways to discover and use them in Visual Studio 2012. Samples have found many different homes over the years and this led to difficulties in discovering them and problems using them. It quickly became clear that we needed a better storage and update model. We first looked at the collection of samples we already had, and those we planned to add. With Visual Studio 2012 we set out to give developers easy access to find and use samples, especially when building applications for Windows 8.

If a picture is worth a thousand words then a sample is worth thousand pages of documentation.

We use samples as a starting point to learn about new APIs, we reference them when we hit bugs in our own code and need a comparison, and we share them for others to learn from our discoveries. Samples are the primary way that we as developers learn to develop applications for a new platform.

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