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We just released a feature that integrates MSDN profile information directly into Channel9. Now, for any niner that has an MSDN account, Channel9 shows that user's MSDN statistics – points earned in the MSDN profile system, badges, and links to their MSDN activity page and profile – both on hover of...

Achievements For Windows Azure

In January, we released Visual Studio Achievements to the delight of the developer community -- 80,000+ downloads and counting!  With cloud computing being all the rage these days, we thought it made sense to cook up some achievements for Windows Azure. As such...

Version 2.0 - Released April 26, 2012

15 new Azure Achievements added. Learn more here.

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Version 1.7 - Released April 5, 2012

More FxCop tweaks.Hopefully the last of them.

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We just released the Visual Studio Achievements extension, here's the 60 second recap with what you need to know about how it works. Want more information, check out the Visual Studio Toolbox episode

Download the Visual Studio Achievements extension

Bring Some Game To Your Code!

A software engineer's glory so often goes unnoticed. Attention seems to come either when there are bugs or when the final project ships. But rarely is a developer appreciated for all the nuances and subtleties of a piece of code--and all the heroics it took to write it.&...

What versions of Visual Studio does the achievements extension work on?

Visual Studio 2010 Professional, Premium or Ultimate.  Achievements marked with Uses FxCop only work on Visual Studio 2010 Premium or Ultimate unless FxCop is installed. FxCop is a free download and can installed from here: ...

You can access the Visual Studio Achievements via an API.

To get a list of all achievements as JSON, do an HTTP GET to the achievements page like this: http://channel9.msdn.com/achievements/visualstudio?json=true

To get a list of a user's achievements, do an HTTP GET to the user's achievements pa...

You may notice that earning some of the achievements requires FxCop.  If you have Visual Studio 2010 Premium or Ultimate, you are all set, as FxCop gets redistributed with these products. However, if you have Visual Studio 2010 Professional, you will need to install FxCop from here. N...

We are going to be rolling out a new project soon called Visual Studio Achievements. With the Visual Studio Achievements add-in, your code will be monitored and, as you proceed, you will unlock various achievements based on your activity. When you unlock an achievement, Visual Studio will let you kn...

A screencast on how to publish PHP to Windows Azure without using Visual Studio. Follows along with this blog post:  http://rhizohm.net/irhetoric/post/2011/04/18/How-To-Do-PHP-Deployment-To-Windows-Azure.aspx