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App Certification Holiday Schedule: Open for Business
With the holidays rapidly approaching, I wanted to confirm that the Windows Phone Store will be open for business during the holiday timeframe. Since the launch of Windows Phone 8 in late October, we...
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Expanding our commitment to Windows Store games
Today the Windows Store begins accepting games with a rating of PEGI 18.Windows has long been a favorite platform for games of all types, and age rating support for PEGI 18 is another step forward in a...
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Talking about .NET in the Community Press
We follow a lot of blogs and digital papers relating to both .NET and also technology in general. There is a lot of great content that gets published every day about .NET. We’re starting a new series...
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Windows Phone “App to the Future” Design Challenge
Although this blog is primarily a destination for developers, we all know that design is important. So today, we’d like to make a call for designer talent. For the second year, we’ve joined Core77 and...
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Known Issue Upgrading from TFS 2012 Beta to Update 1
We would like to convey some information about a known upgrade issue with the February 29th Team Foundation Server 2012 Beta release.Recently, one of our customers reported hitting a block when trying...
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ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012 RC, TFS 2012 Monitoring Management Pack AND SQL...
Crazy week around here with everybody finishing up their sprints before the holidays!Three new exciting downloads and a new Channel9 Video on the Visual Studio Update1 for you over the Holidays! Visual...
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The Cosmopolitan shell and theme source code is released!
We’ve released the source code for the Cosmopolitan shell and theme, allowing you use the default LightSwitch 2012 shell and theme as starting points for your own custom shells and themes. You can...
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ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 (Release Candidate)
I've talked before in presentations that the ASP.NET and Web Tools team has been slowly externalizing pieces of ASP.NET. You've seen it in many pieces of the ASP.NET runtime moving into NuGet while...
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The new Facebook application template and library for ASP.NET MVC
If you’re looking to build a Facebook App using ASP.NET MVC, then you’re in the right place. With the release of ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC, we’ve added lots of updates to our Facebook Application...
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Update to Alleged Information and Security Issue with Mouse Position Behavior
Over the last few days we’ve seen reports alleging abuse of a browser behavior regarding mouse position. Microsoft is working closely with other companies to address the concern of mouse position...
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Release Notes 12/12/2012
This past week the CodePlex team worked on several fixes to improve the stability of our TFS infrastructure, including applying TFS 2012 Update 1. We apologize for the recent downtime. We are not...
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Knockout Intellisense in ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC
WTE (Web Tools Extension) 1.2 RC is part of the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC and it’s available for download from http://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=36053.Knockout Intellisense is an...
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C# memory model articles
Igor Ostrovsky is one of the minds behind the parallel programming support in the .NET Framework. Igor's recently written a great set of articles for MSDN Magazine to cover "The C# Memory Model in...
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CSS Auto-Sync and JavaScript Selection Mapping in Page Inspector
With the release of ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC (details here), we have added a couple of new features to Page Inspector in Visual Studio 2012, namely CSS Auto-Sync and JavaScript Selection...
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WCF Data Services 5.2.0 Released
We’re pleased to announce that today we are releasing NuGet packages and a tools installer for WCF Data Services 5.2.0. As mentioned in the prerelease blog post, this release brings in the UriParser...
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In the Community: Meet Kenny Kerr
Hello. Welcome to the first "in the community" posts spotlighting members of the C++ and/or developer community. Today we meet Kenny Kerr and a Microsoft MVP who graciously agreed to "go first" :)Kenny...
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Downloading the .NET Framework and Visual Studio Express Editions and SDKs
We see a lot of daily traffic through the .NET blog and the .NET dev center on MSDN. It is clear from the web traffic data that a key task for many of you is downloading more .NET software, to expand...
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HTML 5.0 and Canvas 2D Reach Candidate Recommendation Status
Today marks an important milestone for Web development, as the W3C announced the publication of the Candidate Recommendation (CR) version of the HTML 5.0 and Canvas 2D specifications. The...
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Trip Report: Eastern Canada LightSwitch Speaking Tour
Wow! What a great trip! I got back late last week from an amazing 10-day tour through eastern Canada (and Vermont) spreading the LightSwitch love. Thanks to all the user group leaders, conference...
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Cooking up a great Windows Store app
It’s exciting to see so many developers embracing the innovations of Windows 8 to create great apps that provide exceptional experiences. We had a chance to talk to the creators of the Allrecipes and...
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