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XDT (web.config) transform engine released on NuGet
We have just released the XDT transform engine on NuGet, with a license which allows you to redistribute the assembly with your own product. . If you are not familiar with XDT it is a XML...
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TFS 2010 will NOT support SQL 2012
With every release – of our product or a dependency, we think hard about the test/support matrix. As we developed Team Foundation Server 2012, we decided to support both SQL 2008 R2 and SQL 2012 – due...
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Getting a content rating
Support for PEGI and other ratings systems is an important part of the Windows Store—we want people to always have a clear expectation of the type of content an app contains. Also, many countries such...
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TFS 2012 Update 1 Hotfix
I’ve written a couple of posts about our issues with Update 1 and what we’ve learned from it. You can get and overview in me retrospective summary. You can also read about the list of bugs that we’ve...
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Friday Miscellany #4
Welcome to another Friday Miscellany, a collection of interesting links from across the internet curated from social media, conversations and curiosity.It’s all about performance: Using Visual C++...
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The Missing Windows 8 Instructional Video
A few months ago while sitting at a Burger King (yes, I know) I recorded a video on "How to use Windows 8 in 3 minutes" and threw it up on YouTube. It's been viewed nearly a half million times. Eek....
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Cooperatively pausing async methods
Recently I was writing an app that processed a bunch of files asynchronously. As with the Windows copy file dialog, I wanted to be able to provide the user with a button that would pause the...
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Skype and the new Team Explorer
As you probably know, we made a pretty significant rev of the Team Explorer in VS 2012. As part of that we did a re-think of the Team Members Power Tool to provide a much nicer collaboration...
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Visualizing List Data using a Map Control (Heinrich Wendel)
The true power of LightSwitch lies in its combination of Access-like ease of use and quick ramp-up, while also remaining attractive for complex coding scenarios. The new LightSwitch HTML Client allows...
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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-008 - Critical
Today, we are releasing an out-of-band security update to fully address the issue described in Security Advisory 2794220. While we have still seen only a limited number of customers affected by the...
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Next App Star: See your app featured in a Windows Phone TV ad
That’s right – we’ve cooked up something very big for developers in 2013. I’ll fill you in on the details in a moment. By now you’ve probably noticed that for Windows Phone 8 we’ve deployed an all-new...
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In The Community: Meet Jeremiah Morrill
This is the third installment of "In The Community," a series spotlighting members of the C++ / developer community. Today we meet Jeremiah Morrill, MVP, developer and community guy.Jeremiah has been...
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Accessing Team Foundation Server with OData
TFS has very nice SDKs for building both .NET & Java applications for it. However, some platforms – particularly some devices don’t support those SDKs. On those platforms, often the easiest way...
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Modern Lifecycle on the Cloud OS
Microsoft announced a bunch of new releases today, advancing our Cloud OS vision. You can read more on the overall announcements here but I will focus on some new/improved application lifecycle...
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How to be Windows Phone’s Next App Star
Hi folks, I’m Emilio Salvador Prieto. I manage the Windows Phone Developer Experience team. We work alongside our technical teams to help you get what you need to be successful -- things like developer...
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Entity Framework Links #3
This is the third post in a regular series to recap interesting articles, posts and other happenings in the EF world.In December our team announced the availability of EF6 Alpha 2. Scott Guthrie also...
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App submission tips for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8
If you currently have a Windows Phone 7.x app that you’re thinking about updating to take advantage of Windows Phone 8 functionality, you have some decisions to make about support for your existing...
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Announcing the Windows Startup Challenge
Ted Dworkin, Partner Program Manager for the Store, authored this post.In September, we partnered with Startup Weekend to give entrepreneurs technical mentorship, design guidance, and other valuable...
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Immutable Collections is on Channel 9
Recently we were interviewed by Erik Meijer for Channel 9. We talked about our preview of immutable collections and answered several questions that were being asked on the Channel 9 post about...
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Most Popular LightSwitch Team Blog Posts of 2012
I was doing some content analysis this morning for this blog and the LightSwitch team blog and I thought it would be fun to list off the most viewed LightSwitch team articles of 2012. Then I thought it...
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