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Twitter for Windows 8 now available in the Windows Store
Twitter for Windows 8 is now available in the Windows Store. This app takes advantage of the unique Windows 8 experience (snapped view, live tiles, notifications, and charms) while retaining the look,...
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Fixed the incorrect order of the first column on the Kanban board on the service
After the Mar 4 update of the service, we received quite a bit of feedback about a bug on the Kanban board. It turned out that the first column on the board was not ordered by stack rank anymore, but...
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New tool for converting test lists to Visual Studio 2012 Playlists
One of the requests we have heard upon the introduction of test Playlists in Visual Studio Update 2 was a tool for converting Visual Studio 2010 test lists to the new Playlists format…Well it turns a...
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Building Vyclone's Interactive Experience with HTML5
Building Vyclone's Interactive Experience with HTML5The Web is more engaging and productive for consumers, as developers unlock the full potential of HTML5. In this guest blog post, Anton Molleda of...
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Build Apps for Both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8
This blog post was authored by Ben Riga, a Technical Evangelist on the Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism team. You can find out more about Ben at http://about.me/ben.riga.- LarryIt’s no...
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Duet workflow extensibility and SharePoint-hosted apps Part 1
In this blog post, learn how to retrieve updated information for a Duet workflow task from SAP and customize the workflow item page to show the information in an app for SharePoint.The following are...
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Signed-In Part 1 – Introduction (Andy Kung)
Before I show you all the wonderful things about LightSwitch, let me tell you a little story behind this post.I’m a college football fan. During the football season, I’d attend the game watching events...
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Imagining a More Engaging Web: 3rd Anniversary of IE Test Drive
As developers build on the full capabilities of HTML5, touch, and hardware accelerated graphics, the web today is more engaging for consumers than many imagined. The experiences developers are building...
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Entity Framework Links #4
This is the fourth post in a regular series to recap interesting articles, posts and other happenings in the EF world.Entity Framework 6Since our last EF Links post we announced the availability of EF6...
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Excel Does JavaScript! A VBA developer’s perspective
Today's post is brought to you by Daniel Ferry. Daniel is a Microsoft Excel MVP. He runs the Excel Hero blog and the Excel Hero Academy where students learn advanced Excel techniques. He can be...
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Installing Sendy (a PHP app) on Windows Azure to send inexpensive newsletter...
TL;DR SummarySendy.co is a lovely and polished PHP app that uses Amazon's SES (Simple Email Service) to send email on the cheap.It's easy to setup PHP apps on Windows Azure.Azure Websites don't support...
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Windows Phone Next App Star finalists, vote for your favorite and win
Our goal this year is to create opportunity for the Windows Phone developer community. With that goal in mind, in January we launched the Windows Phone Next App Star contest to shine the spotlight on...
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Signed-In Part 2 – Upcoming Events Screen (Andy Kung)
In the last post, we gave an overview of the Signed-In app we are going to build. We created a LightSwitch project and set up our data. In case you missed it:Signed-In Part 1 – IntroductionNow, we’re...
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Inner Workings of Immutable Collections on Channel 9
After introducing immutable collections three months ago, it’s now time to peek behind the curtain. What did we learn from the preview? How do they work? What trade-offs did we make? Are they different...
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How to fix “TF400898: An Internal Error Occurred.” on your Kanban board in...
Kanban customizable columns was made publicly available in VS Update 2. You can read the release notes for an overview of the feature itself, and you can read an in-depth article to understand what...
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Providing satisfactory performance for mail apps in Outlook
Providing a good user experience is a joint effort of the underlying app for Office platform and the individual app. If you’re creating a mail app for Outlook, there are some safeguards that help...
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Release Notes 3/20/2013
In this release, the CodePlex team enabled Azure Web Sites deployment for Mercurial projects. Now this integration is available for both Git and Mercurial projects. To enable it, go to your Azure...
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Moving old apps from IIS6 to IIS8 and why Classic Mode exists
I had an interesting emailed question today. Here's a paraphrased one sentence version of the question:Why does an ASP.NET Runtime issue surface in IIS 8.0 Integrated Pool for an application we have...
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NuGet Package of the Week #13 - Portable HttpClient makes portable libraries...
When you've got an idea for an app, it's likely that you've got the idea for that app in more than one place. By this I mean, you'll start with a phone app, then make a desktop app, then a web app. Or...
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Connecting to Facebook with the C++ REST SDK
Hi, this is Andy Rich from the C++ QA team. Previously, I showed you how you can use the C++ REST API to connect to Live services, but this is just one of many web services that you can use the REST...
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