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Building your own Windows Runtime components to deliver great Metro style apps
For Windows 8, we completely reimagined the platform, allowing you to choose the programming language and technologies you already know to build apps tailored to the device and form factor. With the...
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Plans regarding Website projects and Web Deployment Projects
The release of Visual Studio 2012 is right around the corner. If you’ve been following our blog/twitter then you may know that many of the Web related components of Visual Studio are now“out-of-band”,...
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Team Foundation Service Updates - 8/6
Today we deployed a service update with our sprint 34 work. As part of this, we have introduced a new "News" section on the tfspreview.com site. Here's a link to today's news:...
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Meet the Windows Phone Dev Center
Today I’m happy to announce the debut of the Windows Phone Dev Center, the new online home for Windows Phone developers. The site, an evolution of our retired App Hub developer portal, is designed to...
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Trip Report: St. Louis Day of .NET
I just got back Saturday from speaking at the St. Louis Day of .NET (stlododn) conference and I had a blast! It was my first time at stlododn and it did not disappoint. Held at a huge Ameristar...
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Liven up your app with location and sensors
If you’re developing an app for Windows 8 tablets or convertibles, you have access to cutting edge hardware and software services for sensors and location. By tapping into these hardware capabilities,...
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.NET Framework 4.5 Talks from TechEd 2012 and aspConf
The .NET Framework team is out at conferences all the time. We love getting to meet with you all to discuss the latest news about what we’re building and even better learning about what all of you...
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How to create Web Deploy packages in Visual Studio 2012
When building Visual Studio 2012 we made an effort to reduce the amount of menu options which are shown on toolbars as well as context menus. If you have used any of the pre-release versions of VS 2012...
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Answering your top 10 Windows Phone Dev Center questions
When we launched the Windows Phone Dev Center earlier this week, my colleague Ash Wahi outlined some of the improvements and new capabilities, and also asked for your feedback. Many of you said you...
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Tiny Happy Features #2 - ASP.NET Web API in Visual Studio 2012
At some point soon lots of people are going to start writing these epic blog posts about Visual Studio 2012. They will include LOTS of screenshots (some good and some bad), some small code samples and...
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Launching the Feedback client from a Windows 8 application using Team...
One of my standard demos lately is to show off the new Feedback client – lately I have also been showing how you could launch the feedback client using our URI syntax i.e....
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Compiler Bugs Fixed In Visual Studio 2012
Following STL Bugs Fixed In Visual Studio 2012, here are similar lists for the compiler front-end (responsible for parsing C++)... ID Title 599151 Using declaration for a name of a type does not work...
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Tiny Happy Features #3 - Publishing Improvements, chained Config Transforms...
(UPDATE: See other Tiny Happy Features) At some point soon lots of people are going to start writing these epic blog posts about Visual Studio 2012. They will include LOTS of screenshots (some good and...
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OAuth/OpenID Support for WebForms, MVC and WebPages
One of the coolest features in Visual Studio 2012 is the ability to login using your Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter or Google account. The project templates showcase a social way of logging in along with...
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Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2012 Part 5: May I? Controlling Access with User...
NOTE: This is an update of an article written against Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 that has been updated for LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012. To view the original version click here. Welcome to...
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Win cool prizes in the app contest!
Last week Vivek Narasimhan (Product Marketing Manager for Office and SharePoint) announced the app contest in the official Apps for Office and SharePoint Blog for developers. The app contest? Yes! The...
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Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2012 Part 6: Go beyond the box. Customizing...
Welcome to Part 6 of the Beginning LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 series! In parts 1 thru 5 we built an Address Book application and learned all about the major building blocks of a Visual Studio...
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Visual Studio 2012 RTW
Visual Studio 2012 is now released to the web. Please visit Jason Zander’s Blog for detailed announcement. This page lists what’s new in ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio for Web. We are updating the...
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EF5 Released
We are very pleased to announce the release of Entity Framework 5. EF5 is available as the Entity Framework NuGet package and is also included in Visual Studio 2012. What’s New in EF5 EF 5 includes a...
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More info on publish links in Visual Studio 2012
Within the web publishing tools in Visual Studio there are a few places where we point to more resources. For example if you open a VS publish profile (.pubxml) file you will see a link in the comments...
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