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Optimizing Battery Consumption of Windows Phone Applications
This blog post was authored by Rahul Bagaria, a program manager on the Windows Phone developer tools team.- JonathanSmartphones have become an integral part of our lives, and we increasingly rely on...
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Release Notes 1/17/2013
The CodePlex team has been working hard to improve our TFS cluster, and it is now running much faster! The improvements will increase reliability and performance of source browsing, issue tracking,...
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Get Started Building SharePoint Apps in Minutes with LightSwitch
I’ve dabbled in SharePoint 2010 development in the past by using Visual Studio. In fact, I wrote a fair share of articles and samples about it. However I’ve been slacking when it comes to really...
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8 Tips for Designing Windows Phone Apps
As part of the "App to the future" challenge (see details at the end of the post) we’ve conducted Lightning Design Review sessionsfor a few weeks, and one thing struck me as I was watching: review...
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Jumping into C++
I was a professional developer for years, working initially with C in labs and an engineering firm before moving on to other languages and stints as an enterprise developer and consultant. Other...
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Unlocking Windows 8 "God Mode" - A Useful Trick but also Mysterious Nonsense
Everyone likes the idea of a cheat mode, or "God Mode." Many years ago - I think around 1993 - Doom introduced the idea of switching a player into God Mode within the game by typing IDDQA. You'd then...
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Quickly start developing apps with the new “0-60” developer experience
The new “0-60” developer experience allows you to start developing apps for Office and SharePoint in minutes instead of days.This new developer experience begins in your Office 365 developer site, so...
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Team Foundation Service Update – Jan 21
I mentioned a couple of sprints ago that we were going to be investing in making the source control experience in the browser shine. We’ve just finished sprint 42 and are deploying it today. The...
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Building the Bing apps for Windows 8
OverviewFor Windows 8, the Bing team built News, Weather, Finance, Sports, Travel and Maps apps. This technical overview provides insight on the architecture of these apps, key Windows 8 features and...
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In The Community: Meet Kate Gregory
In the Community is an ongoing series spotlighting members of the C++ / developer community. This week, meet Kate Gregory. Kate Gregory has been using C++ since before Microsoft had a C++ compiler. She...
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Cancer
Cancer. My wife has, or hopefully by now, had Cancer.See that To Do List in the picture at the right there? That's how awesome my wife is. This is her list for the day of the surgery that would remove...
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Stand-alone installer for TFS object model
For years we’ve had requests for an easier way to install the Team Foundation Server object model. Since 2005, the only way to install it was to install VS or Team Explorer, both of which included a...
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Now Available: Windows Phone SDK Update for 7.8
Today we are releasing the Windows Phone SDK Update for Windows Phone 7.8, an optional update that adds two new Windows Phone 7.8 emulator images to your existing SDK installation. These two emulator...
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Windows Phone 7.8 and Windows Phone 8 Live Tile light up for Windows Phone OS...
This blog post was authored by Thomas Fennel, a program manager on the Windows Phone developer tools team.- AdamFlip, Cycle, and Iconic—you hear them in your sleep calling your name, don't you? Those...
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Try F# 3.0 Launches Today!
If you're familiar with the site Try F#, which lets you run F# right in your browser, you'll be happy to hear that the Try F# team has launched Try F# 3.0 today! You will find updated content and...
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Meet the cloud diagnostics and analytics team while at the ALM Summit Jan 29-31
With the ALM Summit next week the Cloud Analytics Team would love to have a conversation with customers building Cloud based applications for our vNext planning efforts (i.e. talk to one of the teams...
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Other enhancements in Microsoft Test Manager in Update 1
As part of the VS update 1 , apart from the few big features like supporting pause across sessions, support hierarchical queries for suite creation , inline editing , ability to detect/install updates...
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Introducing SvcPerf - An End-to-End trace Analysis tool for WCF
Standardizing on ETWIn 4.5 we introduced ETW tracing for WCF. In the past couple of months we have been trying to establish some common tools that can be used to debug and analyze ETW traces from WCF....
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Markdown Editor Enhancements
We added formatting buttons to our markdown editor! Now, if you are trying to learn markdown or you just forgot the syntax for a hyperlink, you can click the formatting buttons, and the proper markdown...
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Enabling .NET Framework 4.5 on LightSwitch Server Projects
With LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 (a.k.a LightSwitch V2) your server projects target the .NET Framework 4.0. This was a conscious decision on the team’s part in order to allow V2 applications to...
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