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Accelerate cool app development with the Coding4Fun Toolkit
The Coding4Fun Toolkit is a set of powerful controls and libraries that you can use, free, to add rich features and functionality to your XAML Windows Phone apps (and also to your Windows 8 Store...
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Developing an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, part 3 of 3
Welcome back to our third and final post on using the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit! If you read our previous posts in this series (here and here), you’ve got an app that has an animated die, and you’re...
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LightSwitch Tip: A Simple Way to Check User Permissions from the HTML Client
Those of you that have been working with LightSwitch know that we support a robust permissions system that allows developers to define certain permissions and then check them in code. LightSwitch...
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A refresh of our forums
We’ve just completed and launched a new version of the Microsoft forums. We’ve worked really hard to substantially improve the experience both for people looking for answers and those providing them....
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TypeScript 0.9 Preview Release
Over the past few years, we’ve seen JavaScript applications for the web, on the server, and on Windows become much more substantial in size. To address this trend, last October we released the initial...
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Enterprise grade Git
In my Visual Studio 2013 post from TechEd a couple of weeks ago, I made a very innocuous comment about including Git support in our TFS 2013 preview that will ship next week (at the Build conference)....
View ArticleAnnouncing Microsoft Monitoring Agent
We are very pleased to announce the RTM version of the brand new Microsoft Monitoring Agent. This new tool incorporates the capabilities introduced with Visual Studio 2012’s IntelliTrace Standalone...
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Visual Studio Online Update – May 20th
This week we are deploying our sprint 65 work. You can read the release notes here: http://www.visualstudio.com/news/2014-may-20-vsoThe really big news is that we’ve completed the next step in the...
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Azure Web Site Enhancements
Hopefully you already know that publishing your LightSwitch app or Cloud Business App to an Azure Web site is the quickest and easiest way to get your app published. You may not know, however, about...
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DEVELOPER SPEAK: Nowak and Keller help enterprises & IT Professionals become...
Peter Nowak and Lars Keller, both Microsoft MVPs and enterprise mobility experts at Germany-based H&D International Group, recently ported their apps to Windows Phone 8.1. As technologists, they...
View ArticleApplication Insights now supports Windows Phone and Windows Store applications
Application Insights now supports collecting telemetry from Windows Phone and Windows Store applications and lets you visualize it in the Azure Preview portal. You can get insights about your users and...
View ArticleMetrics Explorer - Custom metrics, events and properties
Knowing how people use your application is vital to shaping your development priorities and architecture. To get that information, Visual Studio Application Insights makes it easy to insert a few...
View ArticleLearn about your app’s usage with Application Insights
We’re excited to introduce our new usage analysis experience for both your web applications and device apps (Windows Phone and Windows Store applications). Using Application Insights, it’s now easy to...
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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...
View ArticleConnecting 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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