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18 year old student and designer develops an app for a global manufacturer...
Mick Brege is more than just your average 18 year old. Full-time student and part-time designer, Brege attends Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, MI and works for Promess, Inc. – a global...
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Better support for paging with Table Storage in Azure Mobile Services .NET...
When we released the .NET backend for Azure Mobile Services, we provided support to store data in Azure Table Storage and MongoDB databases (in addition to the SQL Azure storage which has been used...
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Announcing Microsoft.ASPNET.Facebook 1.1 RTM
The NuGet packages for Microsoft.ASPNET.Facebook 1.1 are now live on the NuGet gallery!Download this releaseYou can install or update the NuGet packages for Microsoft.ASPNET.Facebook 1.1 using the...
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Using a Surface Pro 3 full time for two months
Back in August I posted my initial impressions of a Surface Pro 3 after using it for a week or so. I paid for the Surface Pro 3 with my own money and have been using it as my primary machine ever...
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Bing Elections: Your One-Stop-Shop for Comprehensive Election Information
As the U.S. approaches one of the most hotly contested political seasons in years, Bing has launched a new election experience at Bing.com/election that helps you get 360-degree view – from local to...
View ArticleAccessing and Using Azure VM Unique ID
We have recently added support for Azure VM unique ID. Azure VM unique ID is a 128bits identifier that is encoded and stored in all Azure IaaS VM’ SMBIOS and can be read using platform BIOS...
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Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Azure VM Available
As part of providing pre-release versions of Visual Studio running as Azure Virtual Machines (VMs), we now provide you with an easy way to test drive the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova.If you...
View ArticleWinSock and more Open Source for your Windows Store apps
Back at the //Build conference in April, I outlined our goals for the Windows 8.1 developer platform, and followed up with a post about Extending platform commonality through universal Windows apps....
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100 Technical Things Non-Technical People Can Learn To Make Their Lives Easier
My lovely wife has an MBA, speaks 5 languages, and is currently in school to get a third (fourth?) degree. Point is, she's smarter than me (I? See?) and I'm lucky she even speaks to me. However, she's...
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Trigger Release from build with Release Management for Visual Studio 2013...
The following is applicable only for vNext pipelines of Release Management. To trigger a release from build with Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2, you needed to install RM client on...
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October 2014 .NET Security Updates
The .NET team released a security bulletin today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle.Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-057 - Critical, Vulnerabilities in the .NET Framework could allow remote...
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Mobile Apps for Web Developers
The path of a mobile app developer often begins with a choice: develop for iOS, Android or Windows? It’s a choice that instantly diminishes the size of your potential audience, but developers often...
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October 2014 updates and a preview of changes to out-of-date ActiveX control...
This post describes the October updates for Internet Explorer that we are releasing today and provides a preview of updates to out-of-date ActiveX control blocking coming in November 2014.October...
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Getting Started with the Office 365 APIs
This weekend I had the pleasure of speaking on a couple of Office Development topics at Silicon Valley Code Camp, as well as the East Bay.NET user group meeting on Thursday (with special Halloween...
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New Windows Server containers and Azure support for Docker
In June, Microsoft Azure added support for Docker containers on Linux VMs, enabling the broad ecosystem of Dockerized Linux applications to run within Azure’s industry-leading cloud. Today, Microsoft...
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Visual Studio Online Update – Oct 14th
Today we began releasing our Spring 72 build on VS Online. You can read the release notes on the site. As usual, it will take a couple of days for the changes to propagate across all accounts.This...
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Test artifacts as work items – Oct 14
Test artifacts as work itemsWork item based Test Plans and Test Suites, which were available with TFS 2013 Update 3, are now available on Visual Studio Online. Now that Test suites are work items you...
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Microsoft brings real-time analytics to Hadoop with Storm preview
Today at Strata + Hadoop World, Microsoft is announcing the preview of Apache Storm clusters on Azure HDInsight. Apache Storm is an open source project in the Hadoop ecosystem which gives users access...
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Python Tools 2.1 for Visual Studio
The final release of Python Tools 2.1 for Visual Studio (PTVS) is available for download. PTVS is available for Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012, and Visual Studio 2013. In addition to the other...
View ArticleWindows App Studio Beta adds 9 languages and Windows Phone 8.1 sideloading
Since launching 14 months ago the response to Windows App Studio Beta has been nothing short of incredible. From small business owners to skilled developers learning the basics of our platform, our...
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