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Internet Explorer 10 brings HTML5 to Windows Phone 8 in a big way
We are excited to bring Internet Explorer 10 to web and app developers as part of Windows Phone 8. I posted earlier about how you can use IE10 on Windows 8 to do early testing of your sites. Now that...
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Many Raspberry Pi projects - How can you not love a tiny computer?
How can you not love a tiny computer? I posted about Top 10 Raspberry Pi Myths and Truths and since then I'm up to four Raspberry Pi devices. The most recent is the new Raspberry Pi "Model B" that...
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Enabling ASP.NET Web API Help Pages for ASP.NET Web Forms Applications
ASP.NET Web API Help Pages is a new preview feature that automatically generates help page style content for your Web API endpoints. You can read more about it at Introducing the ASP.NET Web API Help...
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It's still essential!
I am pleased to announce that Essential C# 5.0 by Mark Michaelis, and, new for this edition, yours truly, is available for pre-order now. It will be in stores in early December.As long-time readers of...
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How to manage unit tests in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 : Part 1–Using Traits...
As a result of writing the post: Edit Test Case properties directly from the test runner of Microsoft Test Manager I asked one my ALM MVPs, Terje, to look at one of the most requested Visual Studio...
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New Visual Source Safe Upgrade Tool is Available!
In the last month I have seen multiple requests for a new Visual Source Safe Upgrade tool – and here it is!The Visual Source Safe Upgrade tool provides a Wizard Based UI for upgrading Visual Source...
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Increase monetization by adding in-app purchase to your apps
In-app purchase is rapidly becoming the leading way to grow app revenue. Now, you can add it to apps and games that run on Windows Phone 8. Today I want to share key ideas to consider when using in-app...
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Windows 8, Step 0 - Turn on continuous backups via File History
So you've installed Windows 8. I'm going to do a small series of posts called "Windows 8, Step0" with tips on what to be sure to do after you've installed Windows.Here's an important TODO for you. Do...
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The Internet is not a black box. Look inside.
All I too often I see programmers trying to solve their problems on the internet by blinding "flipping switches." Change something, hit refresh in the browser. "Why is that cached? What's going on?"...
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Interacting with Databases for Web Developers in VS 2012
VS2012 is out and with it brings a host of developer improvements when dealing with data. This post aims at highlighting a few key improvements which will affect you the most and hopefully you will...
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Announcing LightSwitch HTML Client Preview 2!
We are pleased to announce an updated preview of the LightSwitch HTML Client! The overly positive feedback we received following our first preview last June for building HTML5-based, touch-optimized...
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Building Apps for Office and SharePoint
Several months ago, I shared the news of our new set of development tools for Office and SharePoint, including the in-browser “Napa” tools and the rich client Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio...
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Top 11 Reasons to Visit the Hilo Docs in the MSDN Library
Top 11 reasons to vist Developing an end-to-end Windows Store app using C++ and XAML: Hilo (Windows):Provides a practical example you can use to kickstart your Windows 8 modern app development.Async...
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W3C Charters Pointer Events Working Group
Following Microsoft’s submission of the Pointer Events specification, the W3C announced Friday the launch of the Pointer Events Working Group. The group intends to use Microsoft's proposal, based on...
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New LightSwitch HTML Client APIs (Steven Provine)
Following the recent announcement of the LightSwitch HTML Client Preview 2, we are excited to introduce a set of additional APIs that allow further control over the behavior and capabilities of a...
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IE10: Fast, Fluid, Perfect for Touch, and Available Now for Windows 7
IE10: Fast, Fluid, Perfect for Touch, and Available Now for Windows 7In Windows 8, we reimagined the browser with IE10. We designed and built IE10 to be the best way to experience the Web on Windows....
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Why is deriving a public class from an internal class illegal?
In C# it is illegal to declare a class D whose base class B is in any way less accessible than D. I'm occasionally asked why that is. There are a number of reasons; today I'll start with a very...
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Customize the SharePoint 2013 search experience with a Content Enrichment web...
Did you ever wish you had more control over how your content is indexed and presented as search results? In SharePoint 2013, you have the option to add a callout from the content processing component...
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Getting Started with the LightSwitch HTML Client Preview 2
If you haven’t heard, we released the HTML Client Preview 2 yesterday morning! This release is part of the Office Tools Preview 2 release that was announced at the SharePoint Conference keynote in Las...
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Scaling cloud apps with the .NET Framework 4.5
The .NET Framework 4.5 is now available on Windows Azure. Thank you to everyone cheering for this moment. We’re just starting to see the possibilities that a rich developer framework like the .NET...
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