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Windows Workflow Foundation Case Studies
Happy New Year!I’ve gotten a few requests for WF customer examples, so I thought I'd kick off 2013 with a list of some published case studies. These are case studies specific to the use of WF...
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C# is the “Language of the Year”
It’s a great way to start a new year: the PYPL index has named C# the language of the year. This index focuses on the leading indicator of learning a language. It’s nice to see that there’s been...
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Bugs in TFS Update 1
I’ve posted here the list of bugs that we’ve found in our TFS 2012 Update 1. We’ve got a hot fix in final testing now. I’ll post a link as soon as it is available and we’ll be updating the Update 1...
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How to detect that your app is running in Kid’s Corner
In Windows Phone 8, Microsoft introduced the Kid’s Corner feature that lets parents configure a separate Start screen for their children and populate it with only the apps, games, and content that they...
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iPad, Surface, Ultrabook: Are we there yet?
Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft in Azure doing open source for the web. I have never worked for the Windows group. I've been blogging here for a decade and I stand on my reputation for being fair and...
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How to connect to TF Service without a prompt for LiveID credentials
Normally when you connect to the Team Foundation Service you are presented with a web page to log in with your Microsoft Account (aka LiveID). When you log in you can choose to have it remember you and...
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In The Community: Meet James McNellis
This is the second installment in the "In The Community" series spotlighting members of the C++ / developer community. Today we meet James McNellis, a developer on the Visual C++ team and community...
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Team Foundation Service Update – Jan 7
The results of our sprint 41 were deployed today. You can read the news about them on the release notes.Because of the holidays it was a pretty modest sprint. The biggest end user feature was making...
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How to keep your ASP.NET database connection strings secure when deploying to...
I was working with Rob Conery today during lunch moving the This Developer's Life podcast website to Git. We recorded the whole upgrade and migration experience and it will be up as a video on TekPub...
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2012 Archive of Hanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things
I have a "whenever I get around to doing it" Newsletter of Wonderful Things. Why a newsletter? I dunno. It seems more personal somehow. Fight me.Still, it's one more site to check and it's a hassle for...
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New build of git-tf required for use with Team Foundation Service
Yesterday’s update of Team Foundation Service requires a new build of git-tf, which is now available for download. Using a version of git-tf prior to the update will result in repeated prompts for your...
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LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–December 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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Git-TF 2.0.1 Released
Today we shipped a new binary release of the Git-TF tools. We did a deployment of the Team Foundation Service yesterday and one of the things that changed was the way that we do basic authentication....
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VS/TFS 2012 Release Candidate expiring
I’m starting to receive mails from a number of people observing that their installs of the 2012 Release Candidate are approaching expiration on Jan 15. That’s just over a week away. I’m being asked...
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Dual Mode Sockets - Never create an IPv4 Socket again
The Problem:If you’ve worked with network programing in recent years you’ve probably had to grapple with the IPv4 vs. IPv6 issue at some point. In short, IPv6 is a great new technology for the future...
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CodePlex Now Supports Markdown!
We are very excited to announce that CodePlex now supports markdown in our issue tracker! If you are not familiar with markdown, it is a simple markup language used for text formatting. A brief...
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Renaming your Team Foundation Service account
We’ve seen a growing cadre of people who created Team Foundation Service accounts and have decided they don’t like the name they chose. So far this has required that you contact our support...
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Real Scenario: folder deployment scenarios with MSDeploy
Hi everyone Sayed here. I recently had a customer, Johan, contact me to help with some challenges regarding deployment automation. He had some very specific requirements, but he was able to automate...
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NuGet Package(s) of the Week #12 - Accessing Google Spreadsheets with GData...
Sometimes I write apps for charities on the side. Recently I've been doing some charity coding on the side for The Red Pump Project. They are a non-profit focused on raising awareness about the impact...
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Customize the Duet Workflow Task form in InfoPath 2013
Summary: Learn how to customize the Duet Workflow Task form using InfoPath Designer.Applies To: SharePoint Server 2013, Duet Enterprise 2.0, SharePoint Designer 2013, InfoPath Designer 2013, InfoPath...
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