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Customizable kanban swim lanes
It’s been a crazy week with all of the announcements. Among the demos I did Wednesday was one that hasn’t gotten much coverage yet. The reason is because you can’t put your hands on it but you will...
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Friday Miscellany #5
Welcome to another Friday Miscellany, a collection of interesting links from across the internet curated from social media, conversations and curiosity.From isocpp.org, B-Tree containers, a C++...
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SharePoint load testing made easier with Visual Studio 2012 Update
A lot of people ask me what was my favorite part of living in Australia for 7 years. Most assume it was something like the warm water, the amazing red wines, the beautiful beaches or the unspoiled...
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Team Foundation Server on Azure IaaS
I’ve been getting a few questions lately about whether or not we support TFS on Azure IaaS. The truth is that a number of us have set up and used it on IaaS but we have never really formally tested...
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Improvements in Windows Store Unit Tests: Test Exceptions in Async Lamba...
Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 includes support for unit testing managed Windows Store apps and includes unit test library templates for Visual C#, Visual Basic and Visual C++. For more information about...
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David Warren - the inventor of the Black Box
I try not to use my blog for too many personal things but I couldn't resist. A good friend of mine, who also happens to be one of our Visual Studio ALM MVPs, sent me an email. He told me about a...
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Visual Studio Update 2 Team Foundation Server feature -Work Item Tagging
Unfortunately we don’t have a level above MVP is for recognizing community contributions; if we did Tarun would clearly have achieved that award too. Thanks for the post...
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Windows Phone 8: First Major Smartphone OS to Support Alipay in China
I wanted to call to your attention that Windows Phone 8 sales are beginning to ramp up in China and describe the huge reach and monetization opportunity this represents to the Windows Phone developer...
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In the Community: Meet Nish Sivakumar
In the Community is a regular series spotlighting members of the C++ / developer community. This week, meet Nish, a C++ MVP, author and long-time developer. Nish has been writing code since 1990 when...
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Hanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things: January 7th, 2013
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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Learn How to Create an Internet Game Using F#, C#, and ASP.NET
We have just released a new MSDN sample and tutorial that shows how to use F# and C# in a Windows Azure cloud service. If you are considering doing any F# programming in Windows Azure, we encourage you...
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Microsoft Internal Usage of TFS: July - December 2012
SummaryThe following analysis includes the IT internal offering for TFS and includes trends throughout the second half of 2012 (July – December 2012). Overall, we are continuing to have consistent...
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Preparing your Windows Store app for a world market
Do you want to make your new app accessible for a worldwide market and potentially increase the number of customers for it? Windows 8 makes it easier than ever to write an app that can be tailored for...
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Debugging Unhandled Exceptions in a SharePoint App with Visual Studio using...
Following on from our last blog post on IntelliTrace enhancements for SharePoint, in this blog post we’ll talk about how the new analysis section for SharePoint can help you find the source of issues...
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Closures and asynchronous chaining in Office JavaScript
In this post, we’ll discuss JavaScript closures and how misunderstanding them can lead to seemingly unexpected behavior in some JavaScript API for Office methods. Along the way, we’ll establish some...
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F# + ServiceStack - F# Web Services on any platform in and out of a web server
Demis Bellot has two excellent articles on using F# with ServiceStack: F# Web Services on any platform in and out of a web server Async, Cached Twitter API Proxy in F#To quote: You now have a...
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LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–January 2013
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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Create, Connect, and Publish using Visual Studio with Git
By: Andy Lewis and Matthew Mitrik (MS)In the few days since we announced Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service support for Git, it's been exciting to see so much interest, along with a lot of great...
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Simultaneous Editing for Visual Studio with the free MultiEdit extension
I use a number of text editors. The three I have pinned to my taskbar are Visual Studio, Sublime Text 2, and Notepad 2.I have three because I like features from one and wish those features were in...
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modern.IE – New tools for mobile web developers
Last week, Microsoft launched modern.IE, a free set of tools and resources to help web developers ensure that their sites work beautifully across versions of Internet Explorer as well as other modern...
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