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Enabling Professional-Quality Online Video: New Specifications for...
Video captioning on the Web is about to get significantly better, putting in place another critical building block for enabling professional-quality online video delivery and playback. To achieve the...
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Featured apps in the Windows Store
Each week we showcase apps in the Windows Store that we think customers will love. We spend all day, every day, looking for apps to highlight and we’re excited to promote apps that are well-designed,...
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Penny Pinching in the Cloud: How to run a two day Virtual Conference for $10
We've just finished Day One of "DotNetConf" our community-run free online conference for developers who love the .NET development platform and open source! The Conference PlatformIt seems funny to call...
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Enterprise Library 6.0
I’ve written on my blog before about the Microsoft Enterprise Library. Enterprise Library has a long and accomplished history of providing architectural guidance, recommended practices, and reusable...
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Visual Studio Tools for Git Update available
Yesterday, we released a major update to our Visual Studio Tools for Git. While still nowhere near done, we feel like we’ve crossed a significant threshold of completeness and usability. If you’re...
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Test the Web Forward – Seattle 2013
On April 12-13, Microsoft hosted a record-setting Test the Web Forward event to advance the Web by creating interoperability tests. Dozens of volunteers from Adobe, AT&T, Blackberry, Mozilla, and...
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NuGet for C++
The wait is over. NuGet support for C++ projects is here.Quick Links• NuGet 2.5 Download page: https://nuget.codeplex.com/releases/view/96733• CoApp’s Powershell Tools Installer to create C++ NuGet...
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Review: The Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch is my new laptop
I have a new primary laptop and it's the Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch. It's an Intel Core i7 3667U running at 2 GHz. I got 8 GB of RAM and a 240 GB SSD. The integrated graphics are the Intel HD Graphics...
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Updated TFS 2010 MSSCCI Provider
Last week we released an update to the TFS 2010 MSSCCI provider. The primary motivator for this release was to enable it to work with VS 2005. This now enables you to connect to TFS 2012 using VS...
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Team Explorer Everywhere 2012 Update 2
I missed announcing the availability of Team Explorer Everywhere Update 2. We released the update the first week of April. You can get it either by:Downloading it from our download page orIf you use...
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Publishing LightSwitch apps for SharePoint to the Catalog (Brian Moore)
Ok, your app is done, you’ve learned how to authenticate it and publish it like I demonstrated in my previous post. When you’re done with the publish wizard on a SharePoint app, you’ll see an explorer...
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How to enable Google Now for iOS devices (iPhone, iPad) with Google Apps for...
I've got GAFYD (Google Apps for your Domain) running mail for hanselman.com and managing Google logins for the family. (There's 14 of us.)Google Now (that's the fancy cards and predictive assistant)...
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StarEast and an AMA with noted Test analyst Theresa Lanowitz this week
This week I will be at the Stareast 2013 conference manning the Microsoft Test booth, meeting testers, sneaking into Anna’s incredible Test training, doing demos of our Test tools and something that...
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Register now for the App Builder Virtual Summit
This Thursday, May 2, Microsoft hosts the App Builder Virtual Summit. The online event is free and will be held from 9 am – 12:30 pm PST. Register now to learn the why and how of designing, building,...
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Seeking Feedback on Alternative Formats for ASP.NET MVC and Deployment...
The ASP.NET content maps are lists of resources that we have reviewed and recommend. The content maps have been popular in their present form, but we’re looking at ways to improve them, such as by...
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CDNs fail, but your scripts don't have to - fallback from CDN to local jQuery
There's a great website called http://whoownsmyavailability.com that serves as a reminder to me (and all of us) that external dependencies are, in fact, external. As such, they are calculated risks...
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LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–April 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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Please update to the latest version of Web Essentials 2012 after installing...
After releasing ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2, which is also included in Visual Studio 2012 update 2, we’ve received a few customer feedback about their VS shows an error dialog saying:An exception has...
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Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Enabling New Relic Performance Monitoring on...
I've been looking for ways to save money running my (now 12) websites in the cloud lately. Getting insights from logs has been helpful, but I really want more details as to what my app is doing so that...
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.NET Crash Dump and Live Process Inspection
Analyzing crash dumps can be complicated. Although Visual Studio supports viewing managed crash dumps, you often have to resort to more specialized tools like the SOS debugging extensions or WinDbg. In...
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