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We are excited to announce the launch of TechEd achievements for both TechEd North America and TechEd Europe.  There are five achievements you can earn: 

Whether it is comments on a video, forum posts or events, Channel 9 is all about facilitating conversations. And there are a lot of conversations. Wouldn't it be handy if Channel 9 aggregated the conversations you were interested in and notified you when there was new activity?

We're excited to announce...

We are excited to announce an update to the Visual Studio Achievements extension: the availability of nineteen new achievements all oriented toward Windows 8 app development.

These new achievements can be earned in JavaScript, C#, VB and C++. Some examples include: I Like To Move It Move It which...

We are excited to announce a version of Visual Studio Achievements that works on Visual Studio 2012 RC.  Running this version of the extension will enable you to unlock a new achievement called Brave New World, which is unlocked when you create or open a project when running Visual Studio 2012 RC...

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 3.0 - Released January 17, 2013

20 new Windows 8 App Development Achievements added. Note: VS Achievements does not work with the code coverage feature of Visual Studio.  If you are experiencing issues with code coverage analysis tools in Visual Studio, disable the VS Achievements extension....

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

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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: ...