Announcing Windows Phone 8 SDK—Design Great Apps with Blend
The Blend team is excited to announce our latest release of Blend and Visual Studio XAML design tools that support Windows Phone 8 development. In this release, our big focus was on unifying the XAML...
View ArticleAnnouncing the new Windows Phone 8 Developer Platform
I’m proud to launch the Windows Phone 8 Developer Platform. After years of planning and development, today we’re making available the most important advancement of our dev plat to date, including a new...
View ArticleBuilding Apps for Windows Phone 8
It’s a very exciting time for developers! Last week, we launched Windows 8 and Surface. On Monday, we launched Windows Phone 8 and introduced some awesome new smartphone devices. Today, we’re kicking...
View ArticleIntroducing Windows Phone SDK 8.0
It gives us great pleasure to announce that today at //build/ we launched the Windows Phone 8 development story. We have enhanced the existing Visual Studio 2012 developer tools to support development...
View ArticleAnnouncing the release of the .NET Framework for Windows Phone 8
Bringing the full power of the Windows based CLR and .NET Framework to the Windows Phone has been several years in the making. The .NET capabilities introduced with Windows Phone 8 builds upon many of...
View ArticleOData Client Tools for Windows Phone Apps Now Available
Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone SDK 8.0 were just announced and we are pleased to announce that OData Client Tools for Windows Phone 8 is also now available from the download center. OData Client...
View ArticleNew tools for Windows Phone 8 save developers time and money
The Windows Phone developer ecosystem is enriched every day by companies, communities, and people who are creating offerings and resources to help developers quickly and easily build or port great apps...
View ArticleEF6 Alpha 1 Available on NuGet
EF6 Alpha 1 Available on NuGet A couple of months ago we released the RTM of EF5. Today we are pleased to announce the first alpha of EF6. EF6 is being developed in an open source code base on...
View ArticleTeam Foundation Service is out of Preview
Earlier this morning at the Build conference here in Redmond we announced that Team Foundation Service is now out of Preview! The new URL for the service is http://tfs.visualstudio.com. You can read...
View ArticleHow to update existing Windows Phone 7 OData applications to work with the...
OData Client Tools for Windows Phone Apps is recently released to add support for consuming OData v3 services. You may already have a Windows Phone 7.1 application that consumes OData and want to...
View ArticleDeploying your first Facebook App on Azure using ASP.NET MVC Facebook Template
Today we announced the preview for ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update and one of the cool features we added to the update is the Facebook Application Template. This template includes a new library that makes it...
View ArticleUsing Add Service Reference with OData services after installing Windows...
In this post, we will talk about how you can continue to consume OData v3 services after installing Windows Phone SDK 8.0. If you are a developer who is using WCF Data Services to produce OData v3...
View ArticleBUILD: Wednesday Update
C++ is alive at Build 2012! Developers have been filling the C++ sessions and getting tips, tricks, insights and example code from the experts. But you don't have to take our word -- sessions from...
View ArticleWorkflow Session at //build/
We delivered a Workflow session at the //build/ conference yesterday. Slides and a recording of the presentation are now available; it was a great opportunity to provide an update on all of our recent...
View ArticleMicrosoft exam 70-497: Software Testing with Visual Studio 2012
We just released a new Microsoft Exam “Software Testing with Visual Studio 2012” which covers manage the process of running tests, creating and monitoring bugs, and managing and mitigating issues...
View ArticleUI Testing SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2012
Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 provides complete record and play support through Coded UI for performing UI validations on Sharepoint 2010 applications. Recording and playing back on a sharepoint...
View ArticleRelease Notes for 11/1/2012
Today's deployment is mostly focused on bug fixes across the site. Bugs in the source browsing, pull request, download management and issue tracker were addressed. Have ideas on how to improve...
View ArticleLightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–October 2012
Last year I started posting a rollup of interesting community happenings, content, samples and extensions popping up around Visual Studio LightSwitch. If you missed those rollups you can check them all...
View ArticleTeam Foundation Service is Released
Team Foundation Server is a mainstay of Microsoft’s collaboration platform for software development teams. It provides modern application lifecycle support for modern app development, including agile...
View ArticleTeam Foundation Service RTM
Today, we announced that the Team Foundation Service has released. Read more about it on the service web site here: http://tfs.visualstudio.com/en-us/home/news/. I wanted to provide a bit of my own...
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