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Announcing a New Preview of the LightSwitch HTML Client
Today we are announcing a new updated preview of the LightSwitch HTML Client, which is now available as part of Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 CTP 4. This update brings many new exciting features and...
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Programming's not for you? How about thinking? Be empowered.
There seems to be two extremes of this whole "Learn to Code" movement which has come to a crescendo with the "What most schools don't teach" video from Code.org. People seem to fall on the side of...
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Getting Started with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 CTP4
Today CTP4 of Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 released which now also includes the LightSwitch HTML Client Preview! Take a look at John’s announcement on the team blog for release details and what’s new....
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Connecting to Live with the C++ REST SDK
Hi, I’m Andy Rich, a QA on the C++ team. Earlier this week, the C++ team released the C++ REST SDK (codename “Casablanca”) on CodePlex (http://casablanca.codeplex.com). This blog post will walk you...
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TFS Kanban board Swim lane customization walk through
While Tarun couldn’t attend the MVP Summit in person (having just gotten married it didn’t seem the most prudent use of his vacation time); he was definitely well missed and more importantly put the...
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A New User Experience (Heinrich Wendel)
After releasing the preview of our HTML Client to a broader audience, it became pretty clear from your feedback that we had to work on the user experience of LightSwitch HTML applications. While not...
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TFS Update 2 Offers Settings Preservation for In-Place Upgrades
Great news!Given the new, faster release cadence of updates for TFS 2012, there has been great demand for improvements to the upgrade process; namely, to minimize any manual steps it requires of the...
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Download the Office and SharePoint Visual Studio tools!
Hello Office and SharePoint developers!You may have read Somasegar’s announcement yesterday that the Visual Studio 2012 tools have been released. You can download the latest version of the tools here....
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Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012: Now Available
I'm pleased to announce that the official Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 is now available to download! For VSTO developers, this release brings .NET 4.5 support and design-time support...
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Update to Immutable Collections
Thanks a lot for your great feedback!Two months ago, we shipped a NuGet package with support for immutable collections. We’ve also talked about it on Channel 9. Since then we received feedback through...
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Winners of App to the Future Design challenge
We’re joining Core77 to present the five winners of the App to the Future challengewhere designers were asked to create an app concept that helps them connect or delight their future self.Submissions...
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Visual Studio Web Deployment Tutorial Series Updated for Windows Azure and...
This week we published an updated version of the popular 12-part tutorial series that shows how to deploy an ASP.NET web application with SQL Server databases. Here are links to the new tutorials, with...
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Use Git 0.8.0.0 to run scheduled builds and resolve conflicts
By: Andy Lewis and Matthew MitrikToday we released Visual Studio Tools for Git 0.8.0.0. Install this release to get not only fixes to numerous bugs, (for details see the release notes on the gallery...
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Release Notes 3/6/2013
This week, the CodePlex team made several improvements across the site. A couple noteworthy changes are:F# syntax highlighting is now supported in both source browsing and code snippets. Huge thanks to...
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Guest Post - The Expression Evaluator
Hi. My name is Ofek Shilon and I blog mostly about various VC++ tricks I come by. Today I’d like to explicitly introduce a debugging feature we all use daily but seldom refer to it by name – the native...
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core.ignorecase corruption issue fixed in Visual Studio Tools for Git 0.8.0.0
By: P. KelleyOn 30 January 2013, we released the first preview version of the Visual Studio Tools for Git downloadable plugin for Visual Studio 2012. We recently became aware of two bugs in this...
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Git extension for VS 2012 Update 2 CTP4
A couple of days ago I announced the availability of VS/TFS 2012.2 CTP4. At that time I mentioned that there would be an update of our Visual Studio Git extensions to work with it. We released the...
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Now Available - SQL Server Data Tools and Office Developer Tools for Visual...
This week we released two new sets of tools, which help Visual Studio 2012 users take advantage of the latest Microsoft development platforms.SQL Server Data ToolsYesterday we released SQL Server Data...
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A quick & easy LightSwitch app for SharePoint
I’m a Program Manager on the SharePoint features for LightSwitch. I’ll be honest… it’s taken me a while to warm up to SharePoint development. Prior to this release, my only exposure to SharePoint was...
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Our first year. A new web conference -
There's a new web conference happening in Vegas next month and you should join us. John Papa, myself and our friends pulled in the speakers from a combination of invitations and submitted talks. It's...
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