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Announcing the CloudyDeveloper.com Blog
Our Developer Experience team created a blog: CloudyDeveloper.com. It’s for tips and tricks for developers targeting Microsoft’s cloud and web technologies, including Windows Azure, Visual Web...
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My Favorite Features: Entity Framework Code First and ASP.NET Web API
It’s an exciting time for Entity Framework! Last Thursday, the team announced an open source release, which is now available on the Entity Framework CodePlex Site. I’ve been using Entity Framework...
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Creating beautiful views for local files
Part of Metro style design is building clean views that allow content to shine and help users accomplish their tasks. We explore in particular how you can create beautiful galleries with content from...
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Microsoft Internal Usage of TFS: January - June 2012
Summary The following analysis includes the IT internal offering for TFS and includes trends throughout the first half of 2012 (January – June 2012). Overall, we are continuing to see consistent...
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The new Office customer preview is here!
On July 16th 2012 Steve Ballmer unveiled the new, modern Office with exciting support for developers. In this release, Office aligns with Windows 8, offering the best tools and platform to help you...
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Windows 8 Metro: Something about application lifecycle
Also if currently you are probably running Windows 8 on a virtual machine or luckily on a computer, there is not any doubt that this new operating system and especially the metro-style interface is...
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Dynamically setting column names on an editable grid (Babar Ismail)
LightSwitch gives us the ability to import data from numerous sources. This data can then be shown to the end user in an editable grid by simply creating editable grid screens based off that data. The...
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When did my test plan get deleted? Who deleted my test suite\test run?
If you are looking for answers to questions like above then read on. It has been a frequent asks to have an easy way to figure out when a particular test artifact got deleted and by whom. At present...
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Creating SilverlightShow Windows Phone App: Ebook
This e-book collects the 4 parts of SilverlightShow article series 'Creating the SilverlightShow Windows Phone Application' authored by Peter Kuhn. From the author: At the end of February, the official...
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Resolving Issues with the RC Version of TFS Office Integration After...
You may encounter problems when opening an RC version of an Office Integration Team Foundation client after you install the Visual Studio 2012 RC. These problems occur when you install the following...
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Windows 8 Metro: Asynchrony made easy
After the birth of Silverlight the developers have had to deal with asynchronous programming much more than before. The responsiveness of the user interface has always been an important matter and...
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Easier Authoring for Slipstreaming Patches
Slipstreaming Windows Installer patches is, technically, installing the MSP simultaneously with the MSI as a single transaction. This is, effectively: msiexec /i D:\product.msi PATCH=D:\patch.msp The...
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Release Notes for 7/26/2012
Here are the notes for this week's release on CodePlex: In-line Diff View on Pull Requests Continuing our improvements for pull requests, we now default to an in-line diff view for pull requests with...
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Using HTML controls to create great Metro style apps
With Windows 8, you can use HTML to build Metro style apps. What you might not realize is that by using HTML controls directly, you automatically get the new Windows 8 experience. We have done work in...
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Windows Server AppFabric book released
One of our long-time MVPs, Rick Garibay, and one of our DPE evangelists, Hammad Rajjoub, have just released their new book, Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook. If you’re building your WF4...
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How Visual Studio 2012 Avoids Prompts for Source
Requiring source packages during installation, repairs, and even uninstall are common occurrences for some customers. The core issue is that Windows Installer needs the source location of the package...
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How to use LINQ in a Workflow
Question Can I use a LINQ Query such as the following in a Workflow? private static void ShowQueryWithCode(IEnumerable<string> names){ Console.WriteLine("Linq Query in Code - show names that...
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Recording of Webinar 'Prism and WCF RIA Services' by Brian Noyes
Watch a recording of the webinar 'Prism and WCF RIA Services - Two Great Toolkits That Work Great Together' delivered by Silverlight MVP Brian Noyes on May 30th, 2012. Download the slides | Get the...
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Web Performance APIs Rapidly Become W3C Candidate Recommendations
We’re pleased to share that three new W3C Web Performance Working Group specifications moved to W3C Candidate Recommendations. Accurately measuring the performance characteristics of Web applications...
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