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The C++ REST SDK ("Casablanca")
The C++ REST SDK (codename "Casablanca") has officially been released as an open source project on CodePlex (http://casablanca.codeplex.com). We first announced Casablanca as an incubation project on...
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Security Advisory 2755801 Updated to Address Adobe Flash Player Issues...
Today we released an update that addresses vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8. The details of the vulnerabilities are documented in Adobe security bulletin...
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Being a Remote Worker Sucks - Long Live the Remote Worker
I've been at 100% remote worker at Microsoft for just about 5 years now. My last two jobs were both 7 year long gigs, so this isn't the longest I've worked somewhere, but clocking in at a half-decade,...
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EF6 Alpha 3 Available on NuGet
A couple of months back we released EF6 Alpha 2, since then we've been adding new features, polishing existing features and fixing bugs. Today we are pleased to announce the availability of Alpha 3....
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How to profile a XAML Windows Store App
If you are developing a Windows Store App using XAML (whether it’s C++, C#, or VB), there is a good chance there will be areas of your app where you would like to improve the performance. To assist...
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Learning more about Pointer Events as the W3C publishes Last Call Working Draft
On Tuesday February 19, the W3C published the Pointer Events specification as a Last Call Working Draft, a significant milestone in the path towards standardization and interoperability. Begun a little...
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Improving Issue Tracker Details
In this release, the CodePlex team made improvements to the issue tracker. Two notable changes are:In an effort to reduce clutter on the issue page, fields that have a value of “unassigned” are now...
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In the Community: Meet David Cravey
Welcome back to In the Community, our continuing series focusing on members of the C++ and developer community. This week, meet David Cravey, I cut my teeth on programming in BASIC (GW-BASIC/QBasic),...
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The Internet's Best Placeholder Image Sites for Web Development
So you're making a site but you haven't got the images ready. You'll need placeholders, but things are changing quick and you don't want to make a bunch of images you'll eventually through away.Enter...
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Building Web Apps with ASP.NET Jump Start - 8 Hours of FREE Training Videos
Last week Jon Galloway, Damian Edwards and myself (with a raspy throat) were up in Redmond at the Microsoft Campus filming at Microsoft Virtual Academy. They've got a whole studio there so we spent the...
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The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Type Provider Sample: Static Parameters
[ Update: the CRM type provider is now available as the FSharpx.TypeProviders.Xrm NuGet package. The namespace has changed from "Samples" to "FSharpx" ]The CRM Type Provider Sample in the F# 3.0 Sample...
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ALM Rangers ship guidance for Microsoft Fakes, TFS Disaster Avoidance and...
We are pleased to announce that we have shipped two new exciting projects introducing practical guidance on the use of Microsoft Fakes and for Team Foundation Server (TFS) disaster recovery avoidance,...
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Marketing your Windows Phone app 101 – Q&A with resident Windows Phone...
Our resident app developer, Bernardo Zamora, joins me today for a Question & Answer post, highlighting two ways to think about marketing your apps for increased discovery and downloads. Bernardo...
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LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–February 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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Cumulative Update 1 Released for Workflow Manager 1.0
I am pleased to announce the release of the first Cumulative Update (CU) for Workflow Manager 1.0; you can find the associated KB article here. The Workflow Manager CU has a dependency on Service Bus...
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Kanban customizable columns, “under the hood”
Kanban customizable columns was made publicly available on the March 4 service update, and will be available in the RC version of VS Update 2.You can read the release notes for an overview of the...
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Delivering access to knowledge: Wikipedia
Wikipedia needs no introduction: it’s the largest encyclopedia in the world, built by users, and has become a truly indispensable resource. With users all around the world, one of their primary goals...
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Team Foundation Service Update – Mar 4
Sprint 44 is done and has now been deployed to the service. You can read the release notes on the Team Foundation Service Portal to learn more about what’s in it. Maybe the biggest news is that the...
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CTP4 (March) of VS/TFS 2012 Update 2 is available
We are continuing our journey to deliver a final release of Update 2. You can read about the CTP3 we shipped a few weeks ago here. The most notable thing about this CTP is that it is “go-live”. One...
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March CTP of Visual Studio Update 2 now available
Visual Studio Updates are a mechanism we are using to provide ongoing value throughout the year to our Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server customers. These updates will provide features to support...
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