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Localizing a LightSwitch Application (Heinrich Wendel)
With Visual Studio Update 2 we finally added a functionality a lot of you (especially outside the US) have been waiting for, the ability to localize a LightSwitch application into multiple languages....
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Inside Windows Phone – Data binding
Data binding is one of the fundamental concepts used for good Windows Phone application design, but can be difficult to grasp for newcomers. The core concept is this: No one wants to manually update...
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Cloning test plans using Microsoft Test Manager
In Visual Studio Update 2, we introduced the capability to clone test plans in Microsoft Test Manager. This feature lets you clone test plan artifacts within a given team project, by creating copies of...
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ASP.NET SignalR and LightSwitch (Matt Sampson)
Maybe you've already heard about ASP.NET SignalR and how you can use it to do "real-time" web.Or how it lets you easily push content from your server up into your HTML5 Client, or back from your client...
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Expanded developer opportunity – new payout markets and billing connections
We continue to take steps forward on the path to establish a Windows Phone ecosystem characterized by quality, scale, and developer opportunity. We are seeing strong results for the ecosystem since the...
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Testing your Windows Phone app – Part 1
This blog post was authored by Craig Horsfield, a Senior SDET on the Windows Phone Test and Operations team.- AdamTesting your app throughout the development process helps to ensure that your app has a...
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Announcing availability of ISOs for Visual Studio Updates
Last month, we shipped Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS2012.2). We’re continuing to see good uptake of the Update releases, with the majority of Visual Studio 2012 users now running on VS Update. We’re...
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Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS 2012.2) ISOs available
I’ve had a healthy discussion with some of you on this post and we’ve received quite a lot of feedback on Soma’s blog and other places. Based on this feedback we’ve produced ISOs for Visual Studio...
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How to move or archive your Napa app projects
The "Napa" Office 365 Development Tools that you can install to your Office 365 Developer Site provide an ideal way to get started developing apps for Office and SharePoint: a browser-based authoring...
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Convert your Office 365 Developer Subscription Preview to a General...
On February 27, we reached the General Availability date for Office 365, and the preview period ended. Here’s the good news: we’re now giving you the option to convert your preview subscription to a...
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Using Windows 8 features to drive customer engagement: the Box app
Box is all about content, according to Box VP of Platform Technology Matthew Self."Content is at the heart of every successful organization. Customers need to access their content wherever they are....
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One ASP.NET: Nancy.Templates for Visual Studio
I hope you've updated to Visual Studio 2012.2 and picked up Web Essentials because we're continuing to add goodness all the time. As we march forward with the One ASP.NET vision, so does the community....
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ASP.NET hosts six community created SPA templates now
Since announcement of 4 community created Single Page Application templates when releasing ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 in February 2013, the community has done some updates to the templates and...
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Speed up Windows PHP Performance using Profile Guided Optimization (PGO)
To introduce myself I am Ankit Asthana and I am the program manager for the backend C++ compiler. In my last two blogs I provided an introduction to what Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) is all about...
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Optimizing SharePoint 2013 websites for mobile devices
The mobile market is growing continuously, and in the near future, more mobile devices than desktop computers will be used to surf the web. To ensure a user-friendly experience, we must optimize...
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Announcing Runtime Update 1 - Supporting jQueryMobile 1.3
When we took a bet on jQuery, jQueryMobile, and datajs for our HTML client, we recognized that we’d need to adapt to the rapid release cadence these frameworks employ. At the same time, we know that...
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Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 now available
The Visual Studio Updates are a new mechanism we are using to provide ongoing value throughout the year to our Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server customers. These updates will provide features to...
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Fix: Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 breaks Windows XP targeting with ATL and/or...
Recently, some of our customers reported a bug in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 that breaks Windows XP targeting with C++ in some scenarios. Specifically, applications using ATL and/or statically linking...
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Visual Studio 2012.3 (Update 3) “go-live” CTP is now available
I know it seems like 2012.2 just released (at least it does to me) but we’re already well into our schedule for 2012.3. Today, we released the updates for both Visual Studio and Team Foundation...
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Smart Watches are finally going to happen - Pebble Watch Reviewed
The Pebble Watch is shipping and it's revolutionary, fresh and new! Well, kind of. Dick Tracy got his first smart watch in 1946. It seems we've always wanted a computer and communicator on our wrists....
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