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F# Community Group of the Week: the San Francisco Bay Area F# Meetup Group
Our F# community group of the week is The San Francisco Bay Area F# Meetup Group.I had the pleasure to meet some of the people in the group last week, at their last meetup held at Microsoft Research in...
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5 tips to getting your apps certified quickly
From the beginning, we designed the Windows Store to be a partnership between developers and Microsoft. We’re committed to ensuring that our certification requirements and app submission processes are...
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Another Earful: Debugging Survey
The Visual C++ build experience survey (http://aka.ms/cppbuildsurvey) has almost passed the 250 response mark on the way to 500 responses. Thank you to everyone who has already provided feedback. To...
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Part 2–Using Traits with different test frameworks in the Unit Test Explorer
As promised one my the ALM MVPs, Terje Sandstrom, has delivered his Part 2 of his Unit Test Series: “Using Traits with different test frameworks in the Unit Test Explorer”. From the traffic and...
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BUILD 2012: 50 Performance Tricks to make your HTML5 Applications and Sites...
Creating high performance Web applications is crucial for every Web developer, be it a Web site that runs on a standards based Web browser or a Windows Store App. Microsoft recently hosted the BUILD...
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Building Windows Store Apps with .NET
For .NET developers, this is the best time to build client apps. Never before have the Windows APIs been so easy to use from C# or Visual Basic without wrapping them with custom libraries. So far,...
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Release Notes for 11/20/2012
The CodePlex team deployed a few times over the last week. Below is a roll-up of changes:Fixed issue with being able add additional commits to pull requests - Thanks to Oren NovotnyFixed problem with...
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Windows Phone Toolkit overview
The Toolkit team is proud to announce the release of the Windows Phone 8 version of the Windows Phone Toolkit. Here’s what’s new: New toolkit download from CodePlexInstallation exclusively through...
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Web Publish Updates with Windows Azure SDK 1.8
We recently released new updates to the publishing experience in Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2010 as part of the Windows Azure SDK for .NET 1.8 release. The main new features include web site...
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Register now for Windows Phone 8 Jump Start
We are pleased to announce a new Jump Start for developers focused on building apps for Windows Phone 8. The live online course is scheduled for two full days of fast-paced, demo-rich sessions led by...
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Building a LightSwitch HTML Client: eBay Daily Deals (Andy Kung)
With the release of the LightSwitch HTML Client Preview 2, I’d like to take this opportunity to showcase the simple steps to get an HTML client up and running. The holiday season is now upon us. In...
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Content enrichment service scaling and aggregation
WCF Routing Service with content based routingThe configuration of the content enrichment feature only supports a single web service endpoint. This can be limiting for a number of common scenarios:You...
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Quick Response Sample – Visual Studio Extension to support the ALM Rangers...
Quick Response samples provide information directly from Visual Studio ALM Rangers working with the Microsoft Visual Studio Product Group and Microsoft Services, in response to feature gaps to...
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ASP.NET Web API and HTTP Byte Range Support
Range requests is the ability in HTTP to request a part of a document based on one or more ranges. This can be used in scenarios where the client wants to recover from interrupted data transfers as a...
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Using the Windows 8 SDK with Visual Studio 2010 – configuring multiple projects
A few months ago, we wrote about how to use the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows 8 within your Visual Studio 2010 projects. These instructions work great if you are updating just one...
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Try F# 3.0 - Get Your Feedback In Now!
The new edition of the Try F# website from Microsoft is rapidly approaching the final stages of engineering!For those who haven't seen it, the new edition of this website is available at...
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Nest Thermostat Review 2nd Generation - Every consumer electronic device...
Last year I purchased and installed a 3M Filtrete Touchscreen WiFi-Enabled Programmable Thermostat and have generally been very happy with it. It's not automatic, but it's programmable and it has a...
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REMINDER: Register Now for Windows Phone 8 Jump Start
A quick reminder that the Windows Phone 8 Jump Start begins this Wednesday – take a moment now to register. You won’t want to miss these two days of demo-rich sessions led by experts Andy Wigley and...
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Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 1 now available
As Soma mentioned in his blog the Visual Studio Updates are a new mechanism we are using to provide ongoing value throughout the year to our Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server customers. These...
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Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 is here
Today, the Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (Visual Studio 2012.1) is available for download. You will likely see a notification when you next run Visual Studio, or you can get it now via the Visual Studio...
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