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Hanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things: May 13th, 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...
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Blocking Image Hotlinking, Leeching and Evil Sploggers with IIS Url Rewrite
I recently discovered that a blog called (seriously) "Google Chrome Browser" was reblogging my site. (It of course has NO relationship to Google or the lovely folks on the Chrome team.) This is a splog...
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Introducing Cloud-based Load Testing with Team Foundation Service
Performance and load testing is a very important part of the application lifecycle. You’d want to do this every time before you deploy the latest changes to production. However, one of the biggest...
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Office Store now accepting listings in four additional languages – French,...
We’re excited to announce that the Office Store is now accepting listings in four additional languages!Whether you have existing apps listed in the Office Store or you’re ready to add your first new...
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VS 2013 round tripping
In VS 2012, we introduced the notion of “round-tripping”. This meant the ability for VS 2012 to load and save VS 2010 compatible solutions/projects. That was a huge customer ask and I’ve heard a lot...
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C++ REST SDK 1.0.0 is now available
Since our last release, the C++ REST SDK team has been working on improving the overall quality of the SDK to transition out of the beta phase. We are excited to announce that the C++ REST SDK has...
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Microsoft Test Manager: Customization of test result fields and marking test...
As part of the MTM enhancements in the Visual Studio Update 2, we introduced a feature to customize the test result analysis fields like 'Resolution' and 'Failure type'. Different projects may have...
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Testing your Windows Phone app – Part 3
This blog post was authored by Craig Horsfield, a Senior SDET on the Windows Phone Test and Operations team.- AdamThis is the final post in a 3-part series that outlines key test areas that you should...
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Join the Game On Virtual Event
Learn how to build a Windows 8 game in record time at this free virtual event! Using GameMaker: Studio from YoYo Games, both novices and professional developers can create and publish high-quality...
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CodePlex learns to talk to other services!
CodePlex is now able to talk to other services! For example, if you want CodePlex to tell Trello to update cards on your Trello board, it can do it. Or if you want CodePlex to notify your Campfire chat...
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HttpClient 2.1 available on NuGet
HttpClient is a modern networking API that makes it easy to access any resource exposed through HTTP. The HttpClient API has been available in some versions of the .NET Framework for a while now. This...
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TechEd Presentations Now Online: Building Modern, HTML5-Based Business Apps...
Just a quick post while I’m here at TechEd in New Orleans this week. My sessions are now online along with the slides. They went really well and I couldn’t have been more pleased with the turnout. My...
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No-quota push notifications using a root Certificate Authority
This blog post was authored by Austin Laugesen, a Program Manager on the Windows Phone team.- AdamThese are the steps you can take to implement no-quota (unthrottled) push notifications for your...
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Announcing "Get Involved" from Tekpub - Enhance your career by engaging with...
Get Involved - The VideoMy friend Rob Conery and I work on the This Developer's Life podcast together. You should check it out, we work well together. Last year we created a Technical Speaking Tips...
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TechEd North America 2013 Summary
We were really excited to be at TechEd North America 2013 this week, where we participated in 15 deep, technical sessions all about Windows Phone for IT pros and enterprise developers. Windows Phone 8...
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How to delete Open or Insecure Wi-Fi HotSpots from Windows 8: Wifi.exe...
For the most part I'm happy with Windows 8 but one feature was removed that makes no sense to me - the wireless networks dialog.Sure, you can "Forget this network" by right clicking on a Wi-Fi...
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Portable Compression and HttpClient Working Together
Today we’re happy to announce that we released two NuGet packages:A brand new Microsoft.Bcl.Compression (Beta). A portable compression library that supports stream based compression (gzip, deflate) as...
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Join the Game On Virtual Event
Games are a key class of apps in the Windows Store. If you’re looking to build a Windows Store game, we’d like to help you with this virtual game building event. The event is free and open to both new...
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CSI: Visual Studio - Unable to translate Unicode character at index X to...
A customer emailed me a weird one. I tend to have a sense for when something is up and when an obscure thing will turn into something interesting. The person says:...mysteriously most of my projects...
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Portable Compression and HttpClient Working Together
Today we’re happy to announce that we released two NuGet packages:A brand new Microsoft.Bcl.Compression (Beta). A portable compression library that supports stream based compression (gzip, deflate) as...
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