Nikolai Tillmann's Blog
Nikolai works at Microsoft Research on TouchDevelop, Pex, and Spur
130,000+ TouchDevelop Participants in the Hour of Code
Congratulations to all participants! As you can see on code.org/learn, the TouchDevelop Hour of Code...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 12/19/2013
Releasing TouchDevelop for Android: a companion app to receive notifications
Today, the TouchDevelop team is excited to announce the first release of a TouchDevelop app for...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 12/05/2013
cloud data for TouchDevelop released today
What makes some of the best mobile apps great is the ability to share data, game progress, or to...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 10/28/2013
Microsoft Touch of Summer 2013 Contest
We received many TouchDevelop script submissions for the August/September period of the Microsoft...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 10/17/2013
help us make TouchDevelop scripts run faster
As a development platform, TouchDevelop is committed to running your scripts in a way that is fast...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 08/05/2013
Debugging TouchDevelop scripts
You might already know that you can try out upcoming features of the mobile application development...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 07/10/2013
Announcing TouchDevelop v3.0 for Windows Phone 8: unified experience, new language features, NFC, speech and tile APIs
The TouchDevelop Team is thrilled to announce a major update of the TouchDevelop app for Windows...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 06/28/2013
TouchDevelop v3.0 beta for Windows Phone 8
We are looking for adventurous mobile app creators. Do you have a device running the latest Windows...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 05/14/2013
Introducing: Code Digger, an extension for VS2012
// Today, the Pex team at Microsoft Research (Nikolai Tillmann and Peli de Halleux) is happy to...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 04/23/2013
TouchDevelop: create apps ON iPad, iPhone, Android in addition to PC, Mac, Windows Phone
One month ago we released the Web App Preview of TouchDevelop, the mobile programming environment....
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 11/27/2012
Announcing TouchDevelop Web App Preview
// Today we are announcing the TouchDevelop Web App Preview, available at touchdevelop.com/app: a...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 10/22/2012
Announcing TouchDevelop v2.10: tutorial videos, code synthesis, trace+replay, and more!
// The TouchDevelop team is excited to announce a new app update. The growing TouchDevelop team got...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 08/28/2012
Announcing TouchDevelop v2.8: structured datatypes, tags, pages+buttons, better api search, featured screenshots, and more!
// After v2.7, which was just bug fixes and updates to the license agreement, the TouchDevelop team...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 05/26/2012
turn TouchDevelop scripts into apps on the Windows Phone Marketplace
// The TouchDevelop app is a great environment to create, share, run and discuss scripts, and if are...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 03/02/2012
TouchDevelop book and slides - now available online
Until recently, there wasn’t much documentation available around the TouchDevelop programming...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 02/24/2012
TouchDevelop v2.6: enhanced user profiles, libraries, access devices in your home network, and more
// Today, the TouchDevelop team is excited to announce the release of the latest app update for...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 02/21/2012
TouchDevelop v2.5: new tutorial, artwork, forum, and more
// Today, the TouchDevelop team releases the latest app update for Windows Phone 7: learn how to...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 12/20/2011
TouchDevelop v2.4: push notifications, updates, discussions, …
// We have been amazed by all the great scripts that you have published over the past months –...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 11/11/2011
TouchDevelop v2.3 for Mango: Pin to start for scripts
// Today, the TouchDevelop team is excited to announce the first version of TouchDevelop that was...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 10/07/2011
TouchDevelop v2.2: tutorial mode, improved code editor, events
// The TouchDevelop team is really happy to see all the scripts that you published on the script...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 09/13/2011
TouchDevelop v2.1: integrated script bazaar
// The TouchDevelop team is happy to release this incremental update to TouchDevelop. After we...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 08/18/2011
Announcing TouchDevelop v2.0 beta: script sharing in the cloud
Today, the TouchDevelop team is thrilled to announce a big step forward in mobile programming:...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 08/02/2011
Announcing TouchStudio v1.2 beta: fast game and physics engine, pin actions in TouchStudio, post to Facebook, and much more…
On 5/27/2011, the TouchStudio team is excited to announce the second update of the TouchStudio app...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 05/19/2011
TouchStudio Update v1.1 beta: accelerometer, location, maps, charting, screenshots, …
Today, the TouchStudio team is happy to announce the first update of the TouchStudio app for Windows...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 05/02/2011
Announcing TouchStudio
Today, we are excited to announce a new project from the Research in Software Engineering group at...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 04/09/2011
pexforfun.com: IntelliSense, High Score List, Publishing, Dynamic Ranking, Live Feed
Today, the Pex team is thrilled to announce a great makeover for pexforfun.com, adding several new...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 09/14/2010
Sign in on pexforfun.com, start earning medals
Using Windows Live™ ID, you can now sign in to pexforfun.com and get a personalized...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 08/30/2010
Coding Duels on www.pexforfun.com
When we showed an earlier version of www.pexforfun.com to our long-term collaborator Tao Xie,...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 07/12/2010
Share more puzzles on www.pexforfun.com
A few days ago we announced our new website, www.pexforfun.com. We had a tremendous response, and...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 07/01/2010
Announcing www.pexforfun.com
Today, the Pex team is thrilled to announce www.pexforfun.com, a web site that brings code to life....
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 06/26/2010
SPUR: A Trace-Based JIT Compiler for CIL
Besides working on Pex, for the last year I have been driving forward a new research project, SPUR....
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 03/28/2010
Pex and Moles become Visual Studio 2010 Power Tools
After more than a year of community feedback on DevLabs, Pex and Moles have taken the next step and...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 03/05/2010
Moles - Replace any .NET method with a delegate
I just shot a short video giving a short demo of Moles, a new framework that allows replacing any...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 01/30/2010
Pex 0.18 Released: New Tutorials, Moles work with Visual Studio 2010
We just released a maintenance update of Pex. Together with this release come new tutorials, and...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 10/15/2009
How do you use Pex in Visual Studio? Your Input Is Needed!
Since it’s been almost a year that we’ve released Pex, we have started a little survey on our...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 09/09/2009
Pex 0.13 Released: Unit Tests as Inputs, Fuzzing and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1, F# Beta 1 support
We just released an update of Pex that brings a very cool new feature, Unit Tests as Inputs and...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 05/28/2009
Pex 0.12 Released: Exploration Tree View, Partial Stubs…
Peli just announced the latest Pex Release,version 0.12.40430.3. Get all the details on his blog.
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 05/01/2009
Pex 0.11 Released: Delegates, Exception Trees, and Stubs
We just released Pex v0.11.40421.0, which you can download here. This release brings support for...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 04/21/2009
Pex 0.10 Released / ICSE Tutorial on Parameterized Unit Testing
Peli just announced that we have released Pex version 0.10. (You didn’t think that after version 0.9...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 04/10/2009
Pex now a DevLabs project
Soma just announced DevLabs (https://msdn.microsoft.com/DevLabs), "a site dedicated to [...] software...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 10/24/2008
Pex 0.8 Released, featuring Code Digger and Stubs
We just released the most exciting iteration of Pex to this date: version 0.8. Update: Pex is now a...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 10/22/2008
Sneak Preview: Code Digger — The New Pex Experience
NEW: Code Digger now available for Visual Studio 2012 Download it now from the Visual Studio...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 10/21/2008
Pex at PDC2008
We are very excited to announce that Pex has a session at PDC 2008. The session combines two topics:...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 10/04/2008
Pex 0.7 Released
We just published Pex 0.7. This update is mainly a maintenance release. We have been working on...
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 09/22/2008
Pex 0.6 Released
We just released another milestone for Pex: version 0.6, still under the Microsoft Research License....
Author: Nikolai Tillmann Date: 08/06/2008