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Instapaper delivered to your Kindle changes how you consume web content -...
I've talked about Instapaper before when I tease folks of having 42 tabs open. Remember that "open in new tab" rarely means "read it later." It usually means "use up memory and let this page run in the...
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Release Notes for 10/18/2012
Below are the release notes from this week's deployment. Improvements and Bug Fixes Updated the Source browsing to fixed width and full browser height. The source browsing experience now defaults to...
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IE10 on Windows 7 available in November
As we approach general availability of Windows 8, we want to provide an update on IE10 for Windows 7. We will release a preview of IE10 on Windows 7 in mid-November, with final availability to follow...
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Building iOS Apps in TFS
Note: The iOS sample code used for this blog is located @ https://tfsiosbuild.codeplex.com Especially interesting is a script @ scripts/cibuild.sh It is becoming more and more common for software...
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C++/CX Part 4 of [n]: Static Member Functions
See C++/CX Part 0 of [n]: An Introduction for an introduction to this series and a table of contents with links to each article in the series. In this article, we'll take a look at static member...
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Web Performance: When millisecond resolution just isn’t enough
Sometimes measuring time in millisecond resolution just isn’t accurate enough. Together with industry and community leaders, the W3C Web Performance working group has worked to solve this problem by...
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Creating a custom Tile to link to your website
Overview This article guides you through the process of creating a custom pinned Tile that links to your website. This helps you control your brand when users pin your site to their Windows Phone Start...
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Using async/await without .NET Framework 4.5
Do you want to use await but don’t want to wait until you can target .NET Framework 4.5? The waiting is over and awaiting is about to begin. Today, we are proud to announce an update to the Async...
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Cryptographic Improvements in ASP.NET 4.5, pt. 1
I am Levi Broderick, a developer on the ASP.NET team at Microsoft. In this series, I want to introduce some of the improvements we have made to the cryptographic core in ASP.NET 4.5. Most of these...
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A method group of one
I'm implementing the semantic analysis of dynamic expressions in Roslyn this week, so I'm fielding a lot of questions within the team on the design of the dynamic feature of C# 4. A question I get...
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Updated F# Language Specification for F# 3.0 Now Available
The Visual F# team are glad to announce that we have now updated the F# Language Specification for F# 3.0 (HTML, PDF)The aim of this update is to document the language features introduced in F# 3.0....
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Cloud-Controlled Remote Pan Tilt Zoom Camera API for a Logitech BCC950 Camera...
I like my giant blog post titles. Nyah. As a remote worker for almost 5 years now, I live in video conferences. I feel really strongly about the power of seeing someone's face rather than just being a...
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Cryptographic Improvements in ASP.NET 4.5, pt. 2
Thanks for joining us for day two of our series on cryptography in ASP.NET 4.5! In yesterday's post, I discussed how ASP.NET uses cryptography in general, where key material is pulled from and how it...
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Introducing Windows Store App Labs for app builders
Today we introduce Windows Store App Labs in more than 30 cities around the world for all app builders – developers, designers, and entrepreneurs. Windows Store App Labs are places where you can access...
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Memory Profiling: The Object Graph View
[Performance is a key concern for all but the most trivial of apps, and memory usage helps determine how well your app runs. In this series, Pratap Lakshman shows how the Windows Phone Performance...
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Cryptographic Improvements in ASP.NET 4.5, pt. 3
Thanks for joining us for the final day of our series on cryptography in ASP.NET 4.5! Up to now, the series has discussed how ASP.NET uses cryptography in general, including how the pipelines are...
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Typescript - a real world story of adoption in TFS
As you may know, we've had a web UI for TFS for quite some time. In our TFS 2012 release, we did a pretty major overhaul of our web UI to modernize it - both in look and feel and in architecture. We...
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Announcing the Release of Workflow Manager 1.0
Today we announced the RTM release of Workflow Manager 1.0, a new offering that builds on and extends the capabilities of WF 4.5. It's been an incredibly busy time for the team, and we're thrilled to...
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Heterogeneous dependencies: what’s a development team to do? Migrate or...
With the launch of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012, I have seen a lot of dev teams wanting to move to this latest release, yet for most software development organizations, they are likely...
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Hello ARM: Exploring Undefined, Unspecified, and Implementation-defined...
With the introduction of Windows RT for ARM devices, many Windows software developers will be encountering ARM processors for the first time. For the native C++ developer this means the potential for...
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