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Visual Studio 2012 ALM Virtual Machine with Update 1 and hands-on-labs / demo...
For anybody looking for training on the Microsoft Application Lifecycle tools one of the absolute best resources is Brian Keller’s ALM virtual machine. The Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 ALM virtual...
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Get Started with Windows Phone 8 Lenses
From the very beginning, as you’ve no doubt heard us say, Windows Phone has been about delivering outstanding experiences to end users and giving developers contextually relevant mechanisms to expose...
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Friday Miscellany #3
Active in the C++ community? Answering questions, creating demos, sharing code snippets, or hosting a local user group meeting? If you have something to share, send it to me (ebattali@microsoft.com)...
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Debugging on your Windows RT Device without a Network Connection
Visual Studio 2012 allows you to debug your application on your Windows RT device so that you can develop the application the same way that your customers will use it. Remote debugging is over your...
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WCF Data Services 5.2.0-rc1 Prerelease
A couple of days ago we posted a new set of NuGet packages and today we posted a new tools installer for WCF Data Services 5.2.0-rc1. This prerelease integrates the UriParser from ODataLib Contrib and...
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Updating my Windows Phone App to Windows Phone 8
Earlier this year I wrote a small Windows Phone 7 application in a day called Lost Phone Screen. It creates lock screens for you with your name and contact number on them to aid in finding your phone...
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Code Coverage in Microsoft Test Manager – Deep Dive
With the Quarterly Update1 for Visual Studio 2012, we have enabled collection of code coverage information for manual testing of ASP.Net web applications running under Internet Information Services...
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How to execute tests locally using TCM.exe command-line?
I have seen a lot of customers who use TCM.exe to execute tests on remote environments, but I have not seen many who use the same command-line to execute the tests locally. Here by locally, I mean...
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Coded UI Test: Configuring Search Properties while recording on Internet...
This blog assumes that you have a prior understanding of Coded UI Test Search properties. If not, a good starting point would be here. This blog explains the new “configurable properties" feature of...
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EF6 Alpha 2 Available on NuGet
Around a month ago we released the first alpha of EF6. Today we are pleased to announce that availability of Alpha 2. EF6 is being developed in an open source code base on CodePlex, see our open...
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Asynchronous calls in C++ Windows Store Unit Tests
In Visual Studio 2012, we added support for the Async Test Methods in C#. You can call await inside the test method body and the unit test framework will appropriately wait for its completion.Here is a...
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TFS 2012 Management Pack Available
We have just about finished shipping the 2012 versions of all of the various pieces that complement Team Foundation Server. Last week we shipped the SCOM management pack for TFS 2012. It works with...
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Creating NGEN PDBs for Profiling Reports
When profiling managed applications on Windows 8 any samples in an NGEN’d module will appear in the report as [NI module name] instead of showing the function name, which obviously makes it difficult...
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Team Foundation Service Update – Dec 10
Today we deployed our sprint 40 update to the Team Foundation Service. You can read more about it on the release notes.We continued to make progress adding valuable components to the build images. We...
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Registration for C++Now 2013 Opens Today!
Registration for the seventh annual C++Now Conference (formerly BoostCon) opens today, and if you're looking for a great C++ conference to attend this year, you should definitely consider C++Now. I...
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Comparing two techniques in .NET Asynchronous Coordination Primitives
Last week in my post on updating my Windows Phone 7 application to Windows 8 I shared some code from Michael L. Perry using a concept whereby one protects access to a shared resource using a critical...
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Debugging SharePoint Apps with IntelliTrace in Visual Studio
In this post we’ll explore how to use IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate Update 1 to debug custom Web Parts in a SharePoint application. First we’ll summarize SharePoint’s use of correlation...
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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-077 – Critical
This security update resolves three privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web...
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Sidekicks is available for TFS 2012
Attrice has now updated their Sidekicks to support TFS 2012. Read more here: http://www.attrice.info/blog/2012/12/06/team-foundation-sidekicks-for-2012-available/Brian
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Sharing from your app
In Windows 8, sharing is a ubiquitous experience and a natural user expectation. Users often come across content in your app that they’re excited to share with friends or use in another app. As a...
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