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ALM Rangers ship update #1 for the Team Foundation Server Word Add-in
We are pleased to announce that we have released the first update to version (1.0.12.0622) of the Team Foundation Server Word Add-in, adding support for Word 2010 64-bit.See Word4TFS10-x64misi and...
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Asynchronous Programming for Windows Store Apps: .NET is up to the Task
Programming with async and await is the driving force behind delivering “fast and fluid” user experiences. Compiler diagnostics for async APIs guide developers towards best practices – it’s a wonderful...
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Visual Studio, TFS and the Egyptian elections
A little over a year ago, I was contacted by someone responsible for helping the new Egyptian government build the software necessary to run their first elections. It was clearly a profound time for...
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Acquiring a single Geoposition in Windows Phone 8
This blog post was authored by Daniel Estrada Alva, a software development engineer on the Windows Phone team.- AdamWith the new set of Geolocation APIs in Windows Phone 8, your app can request a...
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Friday Miscellany #2
We recently requested feedback on native debugging (http://aka.ms/nativeenc) and your C++ build experience (http://aka.ms/cppbuildsurvey). These surveys are still open, but I wanted to share some of...
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Windows Phone Store market expansion and new game ratings
Today we are beginning to roll out the latest in the series of regular updates to the Windows Phone Dev Center and the Windows Phone Store. These updates are designed to address issues that you have...
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Debugger Source Symbol Improvements to Visual Studio 2012
by Tarun Arora – see credit at the end of the postAs part of the Visual Studio 2012 Update 1, improvements have been made to the debugger for loading symbols and source. The improvements can be broken...
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Geoposition advanced tracking scenarios for Windows Phone 8
This blog post was authored by Daniel Estrada Alva, a software development engineer on the Windows Phone team.- AdamWindows Phone 8 offers a new model for tracking a device’s position, based on change...
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Windows Store holiday schedule
From December 22nd through January 1st, the Windows Store team will have fewer staff on-hand, as team members spend the holidays with their families. We’ll continue to review and certify your apps...
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Designing a Simple and Secure App Package – APPX
When we started working on the new Windows 8 development platform one of the first questions we had was “how do you package an app into a simple yet secure format?” Before Windows 8 there were two...
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Casablanca : Give us your feedback!
Casablanca: a native library to access the cloud from C++ Take a quick 10 minute break and give us your feedback on Casablanca. The Casablanca team would love to hear what you have to say! We want to...
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My next PC will be an Ultrabook
Darn it all. I didn't want to like this little computer. I've always been a "MOAR POWER" laptop user. For me, laptops are desktop replacements. It's less about the carrying and more about the "setting...
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Implementing Traits in custom Visual Studio Test Adapters
Terje Sandstrom has written two excellent blogs on using Traits in Visual Studio Test Explorer.How to manage unit tests in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 : Part 1–Using Traits in the Unit Test...
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Visual Studio and Internationalization
Our developer customer base for Visual Studio is truly global. A significant portion of the Visual Studio user base is international, and as a result, we spend a lot of time and energy making sure...
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LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–November 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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F# Community Update
At the Visual F# team, we're glad to be contributors to the broader F# language and community through the Visual F# tools, the free F# Tools for Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web, and the open source...
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Publishing test results through command line test runner
Generally, a subset of tests are executed as part of a build as Build Verification Tests. You may want to run the full set of automated tests on a local machine and publish them to a TFS build. You can...
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Windows Phone 8 Jump Start Training is here
Last week we hosted the Windows Phone 8 Jump Start training, a fast-paced and demo-packed learning ‘experience’ tailored to show developers how to build responsive, appealing, and effective...
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Custom Controls and Data Binding in the LightSwitch HTML Client (Joe Binder)
Custom JavaScript controls allow you to create user experiences that are tailored to specific use cases and business needs. Given the wealth of code samples, control frameworks, and partner control...
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Release notes for 12/05/2012
Over the last week the CodePlex team fixed several bugs throughout the site. Several notable changes were:Fixed several UI issues related to the recent action bar changesFixed the issue related to...
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