Seattle DotNet Startup Group: F# for Startups, Tuesday June 11 2013
If you're in Seattle, Redmond or the Puget Sound Area, don't miss the Seattle DotNet Startup Group session on F# for Startups.Joel Grus is Chief Scientist at VoloMetrix, where he develops and builds...
View ArticleF# for Machine Learning - a Gentle Introduction and Coding Dojo
If you're in the Bay Area, don't miss F# for Machine Learning - a Gentle Introduction and Coding Dojo on Tuesday, May 14 at 6:00pm.The F# Software Foundation also have a collection of links about F#...
View ArticleTFS 2012.2 Power Tools update available
Yesterday we released our update to the TFS 2012 Power Tools to work with VS/TFS 2012.2 (Update 2).TFS 2012 Power ToolsTFS 2012 Build extensionsMSSCCI provider (32 bit)MSSCCI provider (64 bit)Yes, I...
View ArticleReimagine SharePoint Development
Join us May 20, 2013, for a webcast as we kick off a new site centered on migrating SharePoint solutions to apps. We will discuss the history of SharePoint customizations and where the SharePoint...
View ArticleSome thoughts on a comment about VS 2012.3
Yesterday, I got a thoughtful comment from Dean on my post about Update 3. I sat down to write a response this morning and it turned into a but of a novel (in fact, the blog says it’s too long to post...
View ArticleSharing to your target app
In Sharing from your app, we introduced the idea of sharing content from the example app Food with Friends to several target apps that let the user accomplish rich end-to-end scenarios. Apps in Windows...
View ArticleNuGet for C++ and the Northwest Hackathon
Howdy!My name is Garrett Serack, I'm not actually part of the Visual C++ team--I actually work as a Senior Software Development Engineer in Microsoft's Open Source Technology Center, which is part of...
View ArticleURL to Browse the Latest Version of Source Code
In this release, the CodePlex team made improvements to the source browsing URLs. Now, when you navigate to the source browsing page, the provided URL will always point to the latest version of the...
View ArticleInside Windows Phone – Windows Phone and HTML5
This blog post was authored by Matthias Shapiro, a technical evangelist at Microsoft.- LarryOne of the exciting things and lesser known features in Windows Phone development is how it’s the perfect...
View ArticleSaving Data Across One-to-One Relationships
I’ve had a couple questions recently on how you could add data to tables that have a one-to-zero-or-one relationship in Visual Studio LightSwitch. Depending on whether the related record is mandatory...
View ArticleW3C Transitions Pointer Events to Candidate Recommendation
Today, the W3C published Pointer Events as a Candidate Recommendation, an important step towards a standard and interoperable way to handle input from touch, pen, mouse, and more. This fast 5-month...
View ArticleLatest Windows Phone app submission improvements
As Todd mentioned in his post last week, I’d like to share some details about the latest improvements we’ve made to Dev Center to address your feedback. Multiple XAP management during app submissionAs...
View ArticleRedirecting ASP.NET Legacy URLs to Extensionless with the IIS Rewrite Module
ASP.NET has included support for "friendly URLs" for a while now. ASP.NET MVC has always supported friendly URLs and more recently, so has Web Forms. That means if you don't want to have the .aspx...
View ArticleF# on FreeBSD
Through Jack Pappas, the F# Software Foundation (an F# community group also known as fsharp.org) has recently made F# more readily available on FreeBSD. Some details below, taken from the discussion...
View ArticleHanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things: April 24th, 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...
View ArticleChasing Wi-Fi as a Remote Worker: AT&T Unite LTE Mobile Hotspot Review
I've blogged about how being a remote worker sucks. Sometimes I just need to get out of the home office and wander around town just to be near people. There's all this unspoken etiquette when you're a...
View ArticleTeam Foundation Service Update – May 13
Yesterday, we deployed an update to Team Foundation Service. You can read the release notes to see the improvements. The improvements aren’t major but there’s a few nice things – Some updates to UI...
View ArticleCustomizing the SharePoint Chrome Control in LightSwitch
If you’ve done any LightSwitch apps for SharePoint you may have noticed that we incorporate a version of the SharePoint chrome control. You may not have known what it was (or what it was called), but...
View ArticleMay 2013 Internet Explorer Updates
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-037 - CriticalThis security update resolves eleven privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code...
View ArticleCreating a mail app to check out Active Directory org information for mail...
In an organization or enterprise setting, you frequently get included in emails with unfamiliar people. If your organization uses Active Directory, Exchange Server 2013, and Outlook 2013, you can now...
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