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Native Development Experience in Windows Embedded Compact 2013
In windows embedded compact 2013, we are updating the native developer experience to the latest and greatest experience available via Visual Studio 2012. With this update, we are essentially bringing...
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Pre-release IEAK 10 Now Available
Internet Explorer Administration Kit 10 (IEAK 10), pre-release version, is now available for download at http://ieak.microsoft.com. IEAK 10 simplifies the creation, deployment, and management of...
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IEAK 10 for Windows 8 now available
Internet Explorer Administration Kit 10 (IEAK 10) for Windows 8 is now available for download at http://ieak.microsoft.com. IEAK 10 simplifies the creation, deployment, and management of customized...
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The Computer Backup Rule of Three
I'm ALWAYS pounding people to backup. I will continue. BACKUP YOUR STUFF. If you care about it, back it up.Let's talk. Yes, I'm talking to you, non-technical friend. You're a writer, a blogger, not a...
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Get a jump on development with Windows Store App Labs
It’s been an incredibly exciting year. Since last year’s //Build conference, nearly half a million developers, designers and entrepreneurs from more than 80 countries have started building great,...
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IE 9.0.11 Available via Windows Update
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-071 - CriticalThis security update resolves three privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a...
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ASP.NET WebForms Model Binding – Overview
This is the first post in the part of series around Model Binding. In this post I will introduce Model Binding integration in ASP.NET WebForms while focusing on history, benefits, principles and the...
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Adapting your WebKit-optimized site for Internet Explorer 10
Ensuring that your site works great on Windows Phone 8 is easier than ever, thanks to extensive HTML5 support in Internet Explorer 10. You might currently use WebKit on a site specifically optimized...
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Scenario pages for SharePoint 2013 on TechNet
Earlier this week, Samantha Robertson published a post about scenario pages in the SharePoint IT Pro Blog.To make a long story short—scenario pages allow you to view key resources about a particular...
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Enabling great Play To experiences from your Windows 8 apps (and websites!)
Play To OverviewThe Play To feature allows you to stream music, photos and videos from apps to Xbox and other supported devices on your home network. Imagine being able to easily flick photos and...
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Friday Miscellany #1
Some links for your consideration.Don McCrady published Introducing Shevlin Park–A Proof of Concept C++ AMP Implementation on OpenCL over on the Parallel Programming in Native Code blog. Check out the...
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Introducing NETCF 3.9 in Windows Embedded Compact 2013 – a faster, leaner and...
Ever since .NET Compact Framework was introduced at the PDC conference in 2001, programming with .NET has scaled from some of the smallest devices to the largest servers. With C# and Visual Basic,...
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PLINQ and Int32.MaxValue
In both .NET 4 and .NET 4.5, PLINQ supports enumerables with up to Int32.MaxValue elements. Beyond that limit, PLINQ will throw an overflow exception. LINQ to Objects itself has this limitation with...
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Capturing Unhandled Exceptions in ASP.NET Web API's with ELMAH
I'm a fan of using ELMAH to track unhandled exceptions in my ASP.NET applications. If you haven't tried ELMAH, you should definitely check it out. There's even an ELMAH NuGet package so it's trivial to...
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How to set up CrashPlan Cloud Backup headless on a Synology NAS - Backup...
At home I use a Synology 1511+ NAS (Network Attached Storage) server for all my family's digital things. The Synology gives me virtually all the features I had when I was in love with the Windows Home...
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Networking in Windows Phone 8
A couple of weeks ago at //BUILD I did an overview of the API surface and features offered for networking in Windows Phone 8. Over the next few months, I’ll be writing drill-down posts focused on the...
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Give Us an Earful: Visual C++ Build Survey
Need a quick 10 minute break from developing your latest Visual C++ masterpiece? Want to give us feedback about your project build experience?Yes? Then we have a link for you:...
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All about
Background – on quirks and compatibilityThe .NET Framework (including ASP.NET) strives to maintain near-100% compatibility when an existing framework is updated on a machine. We try to ensure as much...
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Team Foundation Service Update – Nov 19th
Sprint 39 is now done and deployed. As always, you can see the latest on the service on the service release notes: http://tfs.visualstudio.com/en-us/home/news/Sprint 39 was another modest release. We...
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A New API for LightSwitch Server Interaction: The ServerApplicationContext...
Although the team has focused on building the LightSwitch HTML client and SharePoint 2013 applications recently, supporting existing scenarios remains a top priority. We’ve tried to balance our new...
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