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Team Foundation Services Updates 6/26
Well, the last 3 weeks were busy. We announced our Azure Continuous Deployment support and removed the invitation codes to open the service up to everyone. As I wrote in my Spring wrap up post, we’ve...
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New .NET Diagnostic info added to Process Explorer
Productivity is the hallmark of programming with managed code. So often productivity boils down to figuring out why something isn’t working – diagnostics. The CLR provides one of the best foundations...
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New TaskCreationOptions and TaskContinuationOptions in .NET 4.5
Astute users of the Task Parallel Library might have noticed three new options available across TaskCreationOptions and TaskContinuationOptions in .NET 4.5: DenyChildAttach, HideScheduler, and (on...
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Towards Interoperable Pointer Events: Evolving Input Events for Multiple Devices
Today, the W3C has accepted and published Microsoft’s member submission describing a new way for Web sites to support multiple pointing devices such as mouse, pen, and multi-touch. Our proposal for a...
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September Update CTP for Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and Microsoft Visual...
I have had a couple of people ask me about these new downloads appearing in MSDN downloads simply called: CTP of Quarterly Update for Visual Studio 2012 (x86) - (English). Unfortunately these downloads...
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Codeplex upgraded to TFS 2012
I haven’t been blogging about it regularly (because there’s a separate Codeplex blog) but Codeplex continues to march forward. We’ve done some good work on pull request workflow, work on streamlining...
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Spell Checker extension for Visual Studio 2012 HTML, ASP.NET, CSS and other...
I have updated spell checker extension for Visual Studio 2012. You can download it from Visual Studio Gallery.Spell checker supports text verification in:HTML and ASP.NET element content and...
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Tips on designing a great Windows Phone app
Today Larry Lieberman brings Windows Phone designer Jon Bell into the studio of Inside Windows Phone to talk about what makes a design good or bad and how to make it better. Jon, by the way, is also a...
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Improvements in .NET Framework Setup for Developers, IT Pros, and Users
The only experience most Microsoft customers have with the .NET Framework is the deployment and installation experience, which is why we spend so much time analyzing opportunities to improve it. For...
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Visual Studio and Internationalization
Our developer customer base for Visual Studio is truly global. A significant portion of the Visual Studio user base is international, and as a result, we spend a lot of time and energy making sure...
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Get Started with Windows Phone 8 Lenses
From the very beginning, as you’ve no doubt heard us say, Windows Phone has been about delivering outstanding experiences to end users and giving developers contextually relevant mechanisms to expose...
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Security best practices for building Windows Store apps
As part of creating the app platform for Windows Store apps, one of our primary goals was to ensure that customers have confidence in their apps. We want customers to be confident that their apps will...
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MVC Single Page Application Template Update for ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC
We added a C# MVC Single Page Application (SPA) template in ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update BUILD Preview. John Papa had written a detailed blog about the preview version. With help of John Papa’s detailed...
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Need funding for a great app idea? AppCampus is here to help
Does down time during the holidays have you thinking about creating the next great app for Windows Phone? If so, we have a program that might help make the season bright. Through a joint project with...
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Simulation Dashboard for Windows Phone Apps
Hi folks, I’m Jonathan, the PM Lead for the Windows Phone Tools and SDK team. A wise man once said “your code’s as good as your people, and your people are as good as their tools.” We believe that...
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Network Monitoring for Windows Phone Apps
This blog post was authored by Rahul Bagaria, a program manager on the Windows Phone developer tools team.- JonathanConsumers and businesses are increasingly becoming dependent on the continuous...
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Skype and the new Team Explorer
As you probably know, we made a pretty significant rev of the Team Explorer in VS 2012. As part of that we did a re-think of the Team Members Power Tool to provide a much nicer collaboration...
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App submission tips for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8
If you currently have a Windows Phone 7.x app that you’re thinking about updating to take advantage of Windows Phone 8 functionality, you have some decisions to make about support for your existing...
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Master-Detail Screens with the LightSwitch HTML Client
Since we released the latest version of the LightSwitch HTML Client a couple weeks ago, the team has been cranking out some awesome content on the LightSwitch Team blog around the new capabilities as...
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Connecting to Facebook with the C++ REST SDK
Hi, this is Andy Rich from the C++ QA team. Previously, I showed you how you can use the C++ REST API to connect to Live services, but this is just one of many web services that you can use the REST...
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