Developing Windows Store games
Windows 8 has changed the PC landscape with innovative form factors, new chip architectures, exciting commerce models and huge opportunities. PC games have long been a staple of the way computers are...
View ArticleTeam Foundation Service Update–Mar 22
Today, we released the results of Sprint 45 on Team Foundation Service. You can check out the release notes to learn more about today’s release. There were 2 basic areas of new capabilities on the...
View ArticleIEAK 10 now available for Windows 7 and Windows 8
Internet Explorer Administration Kit 10 (IEAK 10) now supports building custom Internet Explorer 10 packages for Windows 7 and Windows 8. IEAK 10 simplifies the creation, deployment, and management of...
View ArticleVisual C++ Developer Survey
Hi, my name is Sumit Kumar and I am a Program Manager on the Visual C++ team at Microsoft. We are conducting a survey to understand what can we do to make Visual Studio more useful for C++ development...
View ArticleSpring Forward: Advancing Historical Date and Time Calculations on the Web
Spring Forward: Advancing Historical Date and Time Calculations on the Web Web developers want to create world-ready applications to reach a global audience. Internet Explorer 10 brings the historical...
View ArticleSigned-In Part 4 – Authentication and Branding (Andy Kung)
Welcome to the 4th installment of the Signed-In app walkthrough! Here are the previous posts:Signed-In Part 1 – IntroductionSigned-In Part 2 – Upcoming Events ScreenSigned-In Part 3 – Guest List...
View ArticleASP.NET MVC Facebook Birthday App
Tom Dykstra and I have published a really cool tutorial on creating a MVC FB birthday app. You can test the app out by clicking on the FB link below:https://apps.facebook.com/birthdayapp-mvc/The image...
View ArticleChanging ASP.NET web.config inheritance when mixing versions of child...
My blog and all the sites in and around it are a mix of .NET 2.0, 3.5 and 4. This blog engine is currently .NET 3.5 and runs at http://hanselman.com/blog, but the application at http://hanselman.com/...
View ArticleSigned-In Part 5 – Search Screen and Dynamic UI (Andy Kung)
Welcome to the last installment of the Signed-In app walkthrough! In case you missed the previous posts:Signed-In Part 1 – IntroductionSigned-In Part 2 – Upcoming Events ScreenSigned-In Part 3 – Guest...
View ArticleDeveloping an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, part 1 of 3
As we promised a few weeks ago, welcome to the first post in a series where we’ll explore a full end-to-end app developed with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit. During this series we’ll develop a 3D...
View ArticleWCF Data Services 5.4.0 Prerelease
Recently we uploaded an RC for our upcoming 5.4.0 release. This release will be NuGet packages only.What is in the release:Client deserialization/serialization hooksWe have a number of investments...
View ArticleBUILD 2013 has been announced
http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2013/03/26/announcing-build-2013.aspxBrian
View ArticleFallback HTML5 audio tags for a simple MP3 podcast are harder than you'd think
The HTML5 Audio tag is wonderful, right? Just works. This is the dream:Your browser doesn't support the HTML audio tag. Be sad.You can try that live at http://jsfiddle.net/CdxbX/ if you like.Except...
View ArticleMark your calendars: Build 2013 will be June 26-28 in San Francisco
Today we announced that our next developer conference, Build 2013, is taking place June 26-28, 2013 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Save the date and mark your calendar for the opening of...
View ArticleNew middleware makes porting games to Windows Phone easy
We’re at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco today showing developers just how fast and efficient it is to port their existing games to Windows Phone. Window Phone 8 unlocks a...
View ArticleUsing named events to coordinate foreground apps and background agents
In Windows Phone OS 7.1, Microsoft introduced the background agents feature which enables you to periodically run a small piece of code in the background. The same technology is used for background...
View ArticleUsing SharePoint Lists as LightSwitch Entities and with CSOM (Chris Rummel)
Hi, I’m Chris Rummel, a tester on the LightSwitch team. I work mostly on SharePoint features. Brian has already gone over a lot of the benefits of SharePoint development with LightSwitch in his...
View ArticleAt GDC, game developers reveal early success on Windows 8
This week is the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. While we’re excited about all of the new titles coming to the Windows Store, what’s most interesting for app builders are the new ways to...
View ArticleVisual Studio 3D Starter Kit Now Available for Windows Phone 8
The Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, which shows you how to use common capabilities in 3-D apps and games, has been updated to support Windows Phone 8. With support for Windows Phone 8, code and assets...
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