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Git init VS
Today at the ALM Summit I made a bunch of announcements. A couple of them warrant a bit of extra comment Today, I made 2 announcements involving TFS, VS and Git.Team Foundation Server will host Git...
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Improving the Modern Application Lifecycle
This week in Redmond, Microsoft is hosting the 3rd annual ALM Summit, a gathering of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) practitioners interested in learning more about the craft and sharing their...
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Announcing Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 CTP
We are excited to announce the availability of the CTP of Visual Studio 2012 Update 2, as it bring forwards a number of improvements for the XAML developer. The following are some of the key...
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Git support for Visual Studio - Git, TFS, and VS put into Context
Dogs and cats, living together...mass hysteria. This classic Ghostbusters quote is used by many geek-types (myself included) whenever something crazy or unexplained happens. Today Brian Harry from...
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EF Power Tools Beta 3 Available
The Entity Framework Power Tools provide additional design-time tools in Visual Studio to help you develop using the Entity Framework. Beta 3 of the Power Tools is now available. Where do I get it?The...
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IE10 Automatic Update Blocker Toolkit Available for Windows 7
Business and organizations that want to manage their own update schedule can use the IE10 Automatic Update Blocker Toolkit to disable automatic delivery of Internet Explorer 10. This Blocker...
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Markdown in Discussions
We now support markdown in our discussion editor! If you are new to markdown, you can learn more about it from our previous blog post on the topic. A couple other notable changes are:Editing and...
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Using Visual Studio Git with CodePlex
Brian Harry made two major announcements today at the ALM Summit.Visual Studio will support GitTeam Foundation Server will host Git repositories.When we added Git to CodePlex back in March of last year...
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Windows Phone Unit Tests in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2
Unit Testing is an important part of the application development life cycle for any platform. Visual Studio users no longer need to depend on 3rd party frameworks for unit tests on Windows Phone. The...
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Theming a LightSwitch SharePoint App with ThemeRoller
One of the many great benefits of building HTML clients with LightSwitch is that you can easily change the theme of your apps with standard CSS. When you install the HTML Client Preview 2 you get two...
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Cross Browser Debugging integrated into Visual Studio with BrowserStack
TL;DR - To Long Didn't Read VersionBrowserStack Integrated into Visual StudioFrom a debug session inside Visual Studio 2012 today, click the dropdown next to your Debug Button, the click on "More...
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How to get your app promoted in the Windows Phone Store
Hi! I’m Kami LeMonds, merchandising manager for the Windows Phone Store. My team has the awesome job of selecting the apps we promote every day in the Windows Phone Stores across the globe. Many of you...
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WCF Data Services 5.3.0-rc1 Prerelease
Today we released an updated version of the WCF Data Services NuGet packages and tools installer. This version of WCF DS has some notable new features as well as several bug fixes.What is in the...
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Building a SharePoint App with LightSwitch (Beth Massi)
I just wanted to let everyone here know that I’ve been having fun using the HTML Client Preview 2 to build a SharePoint app on top of Office 365 using LightSwitch over on my blog. Although you...
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This Developer's Life 3.0.1 - Cancer
Big thanks from both my wife and myself for the outpouring of support after our Cancer announcement. Last year was a long year and the Cancer part of the year was particularly long. We were very...
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Fixes for TFS 2012 Update 1 (aka Cumulative Update 1 for Visual Studio Team...
We have now released a patch with a set of fixes for TFS 2012 Update 1. Many of you saw that we released a patch in early January and then pulled it down. This is the re-release.Shipping major changes...
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Hotfixes for TFS 2012 Update 1 (TFS 2012.1)
Thank you for being patient. If you’ve followed my blog, you’ve seen that we’ve struggled a bit with some issues we introduced in our initial Update 1 release. A few weeks ago, we released a patch...
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Today's Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA)
I'll start answering question on today's AMA at about 10:15am PST this morning. It will open about 30 minutes ahead of time to start collecting questions and letting people vote them up/down.Hope to...
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modern.IE – A new set of tools to help test web site compatibility
Yesterday, we launched modern.IE, a new set of tools and resources to help developers test their sites for the over 50% of users who run various versions of Internet Explorer. modern.IE includes a...
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Tips for Localizing Windows Phone 8 XAML Apps - Part1
This blog post was authored by Dan Zucker, a program manager on the Windows Phone team.- Adam This is Part 1 of a two part series. Part 1 gives you a deeper understanding of the standard pattern for...
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