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Web Performance APIs Rapidly Become W3C Recommendations
The W3C Web Performance Working Group recently published three specifications as W3C Recommendations with full implementations from all major browser vendors, advancing developers’ ability to...
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Office and SharePoint 2013 Continuous Integration Using Team Foundation...
When your team is collaborating on a project, you need a regular and reliable development process to ensure smooth delivery while maintaining high quality. This process typically includes frequent...
View ArticleCreate location aware apps using geolocation and Bing Maps
By tying together a user’s location to the business logic of your app, you can easily provide app users with weather, coupons, sporting events, or concert listings for their current location. You can...
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Portable HttpClient is now available as RC
Three months ago we shipped the first preview of the portable HttpClient. Many of you wondered when we would ship the RTM version. Today, we’re happy to announce the first step towards an RTM: We...
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We want your ideas on migrating SharePoint solutions to apps for SharePoint
Have you heard? The new Reimagine SharePoint Development site is now live. This site contains articles, videos, and blog posts that focus on migrating SharePoint solutions to apps. We will be adding...
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OData Apps in Update 2 - Querying Data from Stack Overflow
Matt Sampson's got a blog about making a LightSwitch HTML App that queries data from the one and only Stack Overflow by attaching to their very cool public OData Service.(Now you can use a LightSwitch...
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Top 10 Quick Tips for Building Great Mobile LightSwitch Apps
I’ve been building a lot of HTML clients using LightSwitch lately so I thought I’d share some quick tips that you can use to build great mobile apps. (You’ll need Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 to get the...
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Windows Phone 8 XAML LongListSelector
This blog post was authored by Rohan Thakkar, a Program Manager on the Windows Phone team.- AdamLast year we evangelized the use of the LongListSelector control to provide smooth infinite scrolling...
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Portable HttpClient is now available as RC
Three months ago we shipped the first preview of the portable HttpClient. Many of you wondered when we would ship the RTM version. Today, we’re happy to announce the first step towards an RTM: We...
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Inside Windows Phone – Practical MVVM for Windows Phone
This blog post was authored by Matthias Shapiro, a technical evangelist at Microsoft.- LarryThe cornerstone app architecture for Windows Phone development is the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) design...
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Reviews of Super Weird Mice:The Microsoft Arc Touch and Wedge Mouse
I'm always on the lookout for the perfect mouse. I don't think it exists, yet, frankly, but we're getting close. I've got two notebook mice I'm bouncing between while using my new ultrabook, the Lenovo...
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JavaScript is Assembler and that's OK.
Some years ago I said that JavaScript is the Assembly Language of the Web. In fact, lots of people said it, because it's true. Later, some folks disagreed, saying that this is an inaccurate analogy. Of...
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New Channel 9 video on the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit now online
If you’re interested in DirectX development, head on over to Channel 9, where there’s a new video about the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit. This time, Roberto Sonnino interviews Gokhan Sengun, who’s...
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Side by Side Versioning with a Web-Hosted Xamlx Workflow Service video and...
I have created a video walkthrough of implementing side-by-side versioning with a web-hosted xamlx workflow service here:Side by Side Versioning with a Web-Hosted Xamlx Workflow ServiceThis project...
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Markdown in the Source Browser
CodePlex now supports markdown in the source browser! All files with a .md extension will be formatted as markdown. For more information on the markdown syntax that we support, check out our...
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Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) – Under the Hood
To introduce myself I am Ankit Asthana and I am the program manager for the backend C++ compiler. In my last few blogs I provided an introduction to what PGO is all about along with case studies which...
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Is the Windows user ready for apt-get?
What it doesChocolatey lets you install Windows applications quickly from the command line via a central catalog of installation scripts. You could install Git, 7Zip or even Microsoft Office (given a...
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Pushing F# Websites to Azure with Git (Windows Azure Training in F#, Part Two)
You can now push F#-implemented websites directly to Windows Azure from Git and GitHub!The indefatigable Sir Eel has published a series for the Windows Azure Training Kit in F# and the corresponding...
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Building and Publishing Web Sites containing F# Code (Windows Azure Training...
The indefatigable Sir Eel has published a series on the The Windows Azure Training Kit in F#. Part 1 covers building and publishing Window Azure web sites which contain F# code.Part 1 - WATK in F#,...
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Using F# and Entity Framework with an Azure Database (Windows Azure Training...
The indefatigable Sir Eel has published a series on the The Windows Azure Training Kit in F#. Part 3 covers Using Entity Framework with an Azure Database.Part 1 - WATK in F#, Part 1: Building and...
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