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Windows task manager shows wrong CPU Speed when using Hyper-V
My buddy Damian and I both recently bought the Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch. It's got Intel SpeedStep technology so it changes the CPU speed dynamically based on load. These two laptops of ours are...
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An Update to the F# Microsoft Dynamics CRM Type Provider Sample
Part 1 - The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Type Provider SamplePart 2 - The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Type Provider Sample - Static ParametersPart 3 - The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Type Provider Sample - Updated...
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Accelerate cool app development with the Coding4Fun Toolkit
The Coding4Fun Toolkit is a set of powerful controls and libraries that you can use, free, to add rich features and functionality to your XAML Windows Phone apps (and also to your Windows 8 Store...
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Developing an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, part 3 of 3
Welcome back to our third and final post on using the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit! If you read our previous posts in this series (here and here), you’ve got an app that has an animated die, and you’re...
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ALM Rangers ship guidance for DevOps bug resolution using IntelliTrace
We are pleased to announce that we have shipped a new exciting project, focused on IntelliTrace, under the Visual Studio Test Tooling Guidance umbrella.This release supplements the Test Tooling Guide...
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LightSwitch Tip: A Simple Way to Check User Permissions from the HTML Client
Those of you that have been working with LightSwitch know that we support a robust permissions system that allows developers to define certain permissions and then check them in code. LightSwitch...
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Hanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things: April 3rd, 2013
I have a "whenever I get around to doing it" Newsletter of Wonderful Things. Why a newsletter? I dunno. It seems more personal somehow. Fight me. You can view all the previous newsletters here. You can...
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Using the LightSwitch ServerApplicationContext API (Matt Evans)
The ServerApplicationContext API is a new feature in LightSwitch, available with Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 or later, which allows you to create entirely new ways to call custom business logic on the...
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Building great-looking apps for Office using the new project templates
In last month's release of Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012, the app for Office project templates were redesigned―adding better styling, better structure, and better code to newly-created...
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Controlling a hardware prototype with your Windows Phone
This blog post was authored by Erik Reitan, a programming writer on the Windows Phone developer content team.- AdamYou’re already familiar with creating great apps for Windows Phone, and porting your...
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How to disable the On-Screen Touch Keyboard in Windows 8
It's lovely, isn't it. It's the Windows 8 on-screen keyboard, except I don't need or want to see it. I have a Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch and it already has a keyboard. I will never ever want to use the...
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F# + GPGPU - Financial Services Developer Forum (.NET in the City) - Thursday...
Join our Microsoft Developer Evangelist Team, and Financials Services Account team, at the next Developers and Architects Forum for the Finance Sector. Come together to talk all things Microsoft and...
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Defining your app’s requirements for a great customer experience
One of the things I really enjoy about developing for Windows Phone is being able to reach a diverse audience across the globe. Windows Phone users access my apps on phones from different...
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Startups unveil new apps for Windows 8 at DEMO Mobile
Startups, entrepreneurs, and app builders are congregating at DEMO Mobile in San Francisco today. DEMO Mobile is the launch event exclusively focused on the best new mobile technologies based on...
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Using LightSwitch ServerApplicationContext and WebAPI to Get User Permissions
Last post I showed a simple way of checking a single user permission from an HTML client screen in order to disable/enable UI elements. If you only have a couple permissions to check and you don’t want...
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Installing Helvetica Neue Fonts with Google Chrome on Windows considered harmful
A few days ago, I visited the Xamarin.com website and noticed this. The word "Pricing" looks like "Prioing." It's not an illusion. It looks wrong in Google Chrome. See this zoomed-in shot.Here's the...
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Microsoft.Bcl.Async is Now Stable
It’s done. About five months ago, we shipped our Microsoft.Bcl.Async NuGet package which provides support for the async/await keywords for pre-.NET 4.5 platforms, such as .NET 4, Silverlight 4, and...
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Help content for the Agile planning tools gets a makeover with TFS CU2
With the latest VS ALM TFS update, we've given the help content for the Agile Planning tools a makeover - as you can see by going to Collaborate and Collaborate (dig deeper).The collaborate content...
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Developer Must-Have: 125+ Apps for Office and SharePoint Code Samples
The Microsoft Office Content Publishing group has published more than 125 code samples for apps for Office and SharePoint, and new samples are added regularly. The code samples are now available as two...
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Facebook SDK for .NET - Featured in the Facebook Technology Partner program
This blog post was authored by Sanjeev Dwivedi, a developer evangelist for Microsoft working with Facebook.- AdamToday we are pleased to share with you that Facebook has announced the Facebook SDK for...
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