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Writing a Visual Studio 2012 Unit Test Adapter
Visual Studio 2012 comes with an extensible Unit Test Framework. Many of your favorite Unit Test frameworks (xUnit.Net, nUnit..) already have built adapters to Visual Studio. Peter Provost maintains a...
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Recording of Webinar '10 Things Silverlight Developers Should Know About...
Watch a recording of the webinar '10 Things Silverlight Developers Should Know About Windows 8' delivered by Silverlight MVP Michael Crump on July 3rd, 2012. View the webinar slides (.ppt / .pptx) |...
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Accelerating Startups Globally with Windows Azure
Over the last few months, I’ve had the opportunity to participate in the launch of the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure in Israel, China, and India. The Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure...
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RTM Windows Store is now open for paid apps, company accounts
Today marks an important milestone for the Windows Store as we move from preview toward the general availability of Windows 8. We’re again expanding our market coverage, committed as ever to creating...
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Final Build for VS 2012 - Availability and Launch Dates Ahead
The final build of Visual Studio 2012 is now complete! The engineering team is finished and is now preparing the build for our numerous distribution channels. I’d also like to congratulate the Windows...
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Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Complete!
Today, the Windows and Windows Server teams announced that Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 have been released to manufacturing. In keeping with our goal of delivering great tools on the same cadence...
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LightSwitch Takes the Stage on the Visual Studio Toolbox Show on Channel9
Last week while I was up in Redmond I met up with Robert Green, the host of the Visual Studio Toolbox show on Channel 9, to show off some of the new features in LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 like...
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Introduction to Windows 8 Metro Part 1: Ebook
This ebook collects the first 7 parts of SilverlightShow article series 'Windows 8 Metro', together with source code. In this first part (2 more parts expected to be released, following the development...
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LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–July 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...
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Processing tasks as they complete
Recently I’ve had several folks ask me about how to process the results of tasks as those tasks complete. A developer will have multiple tasks representing asynchronous operations they’ve initiated,...
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Windows 8 Metro Apps: The 8 Must-Know Tricks! Day 1
You’re at a chic coffee shop or on a plane. Just like everyone around you, you have a tablet. Watch a movie, play a game, do the social stuff. And then while everyone starts getting bored, you flip...
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App building events for Windows 8 app developers
With the announcement that Windows 8 has been released to manufacturing (RTM) and will be available for customers to buy on October 26, now is the time to build apps. On August 15th, all developers can...
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A Lap around Team Foundation Server 2012 Redmond User Group August 6th
Join Cheryl Hammond for this introduction to the major new features and improvements in Team Foundation Server 2012. Expect to see the new enhanced User Interface, Agile Planning Tools, Requirements...
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10 money-making secrets of top apps (part 2)
Do best-selling apps have something in common? The experts on our Marketplace team think so. In part one, I shared some of the lessons they learned from studying top apps across Marketplace. Here’s the...
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Getting paid from the Windows store
In previous posts we’ve described how to prepare your app and the different ways you can make money with your app on the Store. Just as important is how you will receive payments for your app sales....
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Windows 8 Metro Apps: The 8 Must-Know Tricks! Day 2
This is Day # 2 in the Windows 8 development article series on common tips & tricks towards developing real-world Metro apps. Over the next several weeks, you’ll see 8 articles talk about some...
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Release Notes for 8/2/2012
Here are the notes for this week’s release on CodePlex: Bug Fixes Fixed an issue were previewing a file’s diff on a pull request would fail for Mercurial projects. Fixed a wrapping issue displaying a...
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Detection keys for Visual Studio 2012
Administrators and developers who need to detect if Visual Studio 2012 is installed on a machine can use similar keys as those used for past releases like Visual Studio 2010. In general, these...
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Changing your account/URL name for your Team Foundation Service Preview (TFSP)
In the last couple of weeks we have seen a lot of voting in user voice for the ability to rename/change your TFS Account name in the TFS Service Preview (e.g. XYZ.TfsPreview.com). At this time there...
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Recording of Part 1 of the Webinar 'Advanced Windows 8 Metro' by Gill Cleeren
Watch a recording of Part 1 of the webinar 'Advanced Windows 8 Metro' delivered by Silverlight MVP Gill Cleeren on July 18th, 2012. Download the slides (.ppt/.pptx) | Get the demos Join part 2 next...
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