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Git-TF 2.0 update available
Yesterday, we released our second major version of Git-TF. To refresh your memory, Git-TF allows developers to use Git locally and “sync-up” with a central TFS server. It’s a particularly nice way...
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Announcing November CTP of the C++ compiler, now with more C++11
On February at the Going Native conference, we promised to work on implementing more parts of the C++11 standard. We also made a commitment to progressively roll out these features on a faster cadence...
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Touring the Windows Phone 8 Dev Center
In addition to launching Windows Phone 8 and our new developer platform this week, we also refreshed the Dev Center, which is now ready for Windows Phone 8 app submissions. In case you haven’t had a...
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Dynamic contagion, part one
Suppose you're an epidemiologist modeling the potential spread of a highly infectious disease. The straightforward way to model such a series of unfortunate events is to assume that the population can...
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//BUILD Session: Building Connected Business Applications with Visual Studio...
Friday, John Stallo, Lead Program Manager of the LightSwitch team, did a session at //BUILD that is now available online. We’re very excited about the LightSwitch HTML Client and the direction we’re...
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Windows Phone 8 developer platform highlights
Earlier this week, at the //BUILD 2012 conference, we announced the Windows Phone 8 developer platform, the most significant enhancement to our dev platform to date. Built on a common core shared with...
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Videos of talks from the 2012 BUILD Conference - Angle Brackets and Curly Braces
It was an insane week at BUILD. Much of my schedule was my own fault as I continue to treat Microsoft Outlook as if it were a game of Tetris, franticly packing appointments ten-deep.The "Angle...
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It’s a Wrap on Windows Phone at BUILD 2012
Last week was a tremendous week for Windows Phone developers, as we took the wraps off the new Windows Phone 8 developer platform by releasing the new SDK, delivering an exciting keynote presentation...
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Eylean Board
This past summer I had the chance to play around a bit with a tool called the Eylean Board - an add-in for TFS that provides visual project management. In TFS 2012 we shipped a set of features to...
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User experience integration testing for Windows 8 apps
In the blog post for testing Windows Store apps, we discussed what to test at the various runtime states for your app. We also discussed a few aspects of the Windows 8 user experience and how that...
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Reactive Extensions (Rx) is now Open Source
A few years back I did a podcast with Erik Meijer about Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx). Since then thousands of people have enjoyed using Rx in the projects and a number of open source projects like...
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F# Community Group of the Week: The Zurich F# Meetup Group
Our F# community group of the week is the Zurich F# Meetup Group!Marc Sigrist is the current organizer, and the next meeting is on Thursday, Nov 29 at Herostrasse 9. If you're in Zurich, I'm sure Marc...
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The Microsoft Build 2012 Event — .NET Framework Highlights
It was at the first BUILD conference last year that we announced the .NET Framework 4.5. BUILD last week was a big opportunity for us to reflect on the incredible things you can do with .NET 4.5 and...
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Productivity Power Tools 2012
By popular request, the new version of the Productivity Power Tools has arrived for Visual Studio 2012! These tools are the fruit of a few passionate engineers on the Visual Studio team that love...
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Edit Test Case properties directly from the test runner of Microsoft Test...
As the lead to the ALM MVPs I am continually surprised by the breadth of skills my MVPs have. For instance this post was created by Terje Sandstrom. In our ranks we tend to think of Terje as an...
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What’s new in the Windows Phone Store—a developer perspective
For several months we’ve been rolling out a series of infrastructure upgrades to the Windows Phone Store and Dev Center in preparation for Windows Phone 8. That work is now wrapping up, so I wanted to...
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SQL Server Data Tools - November 2012 is now available!
The SQL Data Tools Team (Gert Draper aka the “Data dude”’s team) is pleased to share with us that SSDT - November 2012 update is now available for download. SSDT for Visual Studio 2012:...
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Good Stuff on Channel 9
Looking for the C++ Good Stuff? Have you visited Channel 9 lately?Getting started with C++/3D/WinStore Game Dev with the "Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit" demonstrated several features of Visual Studio...
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Dynamic contagion, part two
Last time I discussed how "dynamic" tends to spread through a program like a virus: if an expression of dynamic type "touches" another expression then that other expression often also becomes of...
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Updated Workflow Developer Center
We've updated our Workflow Developer Center on MSDN. We've simplified the design and refreshed the site with updated links. As part of this work, we've also pulled together a list of key WF...
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