June 3 session: Develop apps for SharePoint 2013 with Visual Studio 2012
My name is Xiaoying Guo, and I’m a program manager on the Microsoft Office Developer Tools team in Visual Studio. On June 3, I’m giving a talk on building apps for SharePoint using Visual Studio 2012....
View ArticleZurich FSharp Meetup: Embrace the Cloud with F# (Wednesday, May 29, 2013)
Tomorrow night (Wednesday, May 29, 2013) the Zurich F# Meetup Group has a session on Embrace the Cloud with F#.The next meetup of the Zurich F# Users will take place on Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 18:45...
View ArticleCleveland F# Meetup, Wednesday Night - Data Mining with F#: Analyzing Network...
Join the next F# Meetup in Cleveland, Ohio, Wednesday evening, looking at network-analysis data mining with F# -We’ll continue working on the problem of how to analyze packets of network data. Last...
View ArticleHelping Android developers build Windows Store apps
For those of you who are currently developing on Android, we have a lot of resources to help you bring your Google Play app to the Windows Store.On the Windows Dev Center, we have a whole section of...
View ArticleLocalizing host web features in apps for SharePoint
Visual Studio 2012 can’t localize host web features by itself. Learn about a tool that you can use to localize your host web features, such as app parts and custom actions.SharePoint is used in many...
View ArticleGet /httpclient/rtm – 200 OK
As promised in our last blog post we’re releasing Microsoft.Net.Http as a stable NuGet package today. Yep, that’s right: You can finally start using the portable HttpClient 2.1 in production!As we’ve...
View ArticleOptimizing C++ Code
Introduction Hi, my name is Jim Hogg and I am a Program Manager, working in the Visual C++ compiler team in Microsoft, based on the main campus here in Redmond. More specifically, I work in the part of...
View ArticlePortable HttpClient is now available as RTM
As promised in our last blog post we’re releasing Microsoft.Net.Http as a stable NuGet package today. Yep, that’s right: You can finally start using the portable HttpClient 2.1 in production!Want to...
View ArticleAdd search capabilities to your apps for SharePoint
With Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012, developers can deploy custom search configurations to a search-enabled site. Custom search configurations include all customized query rules, result...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2012.3 RC2 available
We are getting close to shipping Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012.3 (Update 3). This week we shipped Release Candidate 2 (RC2). We’re down to fixing just the last few bugs and if you are...
View ArticleCredential Locker: Your solution for handling usernames and passwords in your...
If you haven’t yet heard about the Credential Locker that's available for Windows Store apps, it’s time you did. Why? Because it not only simplifies the task of storing and retrieving user credentials,...
View ArticleWCF Data Services 5.5.0 Release
WCF Data Services 5.5.0 has officially been released! The 5.5.0 release will be another NuGet-only release as we did not make any updates to the Visual Studio tooling.What is in the release:This...
View ArticleBlog Updates
You may have noticed some updates to the blog today. We’ve made a few changes to better accommodate how readers are using the blog. Over the past year, we’ve seen a lot of growth in the ALM team blog,...
View ArticleEF6 Beta 1 Available
Since releasing Alpha 3 a few months ago, we've been working hard to add the remaining new features to the EF6 runtime and get the EF tooling ready to preview. Today we are pleased to announce the...
View ArticleSQLite WinRT wrapper for Windows Phone
The SQLite WinRT wrapper is a CodePlex project that offers lightweight Windows Runtime (WinRT) APIs you can use to access the most common SQLite database functionality. The latest update of the library...
View ArticleTeam Foundation Service Update – May 28
Sorry for being a little late with this but I’ve been traveling this week and it’s thrown me off. On Tues May 28th, we deployed our Sprint 48 build to Team Foundation Service. It was quite gratifying...
View ArticleDeclaring your DataContext in markup
This blog post was authored by Steve White, a Senior Content Developer on the Windows Phone team.- AdamSetting the DataContext property to a view model instance in your page markup can increase the...
View ArticleNew Office developer blogs network and Office developer highlights at TechEd...
Blogs for Office developers networkWe've launched a new top-level blog network that joins all the primary Microsoft-supported Office developer blogs in one central...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013, ALM, and DevOps
Since launching Visual Studio 2012, we’ve been thrilled with the customer adoption and partner momentum we’ve seen. Visual Studio 2012 has been downloaded more than 4 million times, the fastest...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013
Hold on to your seat, this is going to be a long one…Today at TechEd, I announced Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 and many of the Application Lifecycle Management features that they...
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