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Excuse me sir, your cow is stuck in the mud
I try to share some of the funnier and stranger stories from my life. Unfortunately, I don’t always remember to share them.I’m working from home today because I’ve got an all day phone call with...
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All about promises (for Windows Store apps written in JavaScript)
When writing Windows Store apps in JavaScript, you encounter these constructs called promisesas soon as you do anything that involves an asynchronous API. It also doesn’t take very long before writing...
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Part 3: Unit testing with Traits and code coverage in Visual Studio 2012...
The Unit Testing series by one of the ALM MVPs Terje Sandstrom has been some of the highest read posts on the ALM blog…In this post he shows how to easily provide unit Test Adapters from NuGet. Thanks...
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June 2013 Internet Explorer Updates
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-047 - CriticalThis security update resolves nineteen privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code...
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Windows Phone 8 Samples Update
This blog post was authored by Andrew Byrne (@AndrewJByrne), a Senior Content Developer on the Windows Phone Developer Content team.- AdamThe Windows Phone Developer Content team is continually adding...
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LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup– May 2013 (+more)
Last year I started posting a rollup of interesting community happenings, content, samples and extensions popping up around Visual Studio LightSwitch. If you missed those rollups you can check them all...
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Feature Spotlight: Live Tiles
Windows 8 contains powerful new technologies that Windows Store apps can take advantage of. These technologies not only provide a great user experience, but also drive engagement with your apps. Over...
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The Importance of Closed Captioning - How to and Why
If you can hear well, you may have never thought about Closed Captioning or Subtitles. Perhaps you've used it once or twice to catch a missed word in a movie, or perhaps you've only read subtitles in...
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Optimizing C++ Code : Overview
If you have arrived in the middle of this blog series, you might want instead to begin at the beginning.This post explains the flow of data within the Visual C++ compiler – starting with our C++ source...
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Remote HTML5 debugging on Windows Phone with weinre
Exciting news for HTML5 developers on Windows Phone 8: weinre (WEb INspector REmote) support has arrived! Weinre is a remote DOM inspector tool that web app developers can use to quickly solve the...
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NuGet Package Restore Issues
We’ve received several reports that our NuGet packages broke the NuGet package restore feature. In this post, I’ll explain what the issue is, how you can work around it, and finally how we plan on...
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Windows Installer PowerShell Module 2.2.0 Released
Years ago I released PowerShell cmdlets (“command-lets”) that make querying product and patch information easy and robust. Windows PowerShell is a powerful shell that pipes objects – not simply text –...
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Upgrading your app for SharePoint
Once you have submitted an app to the Office Store or published it to your corporate app catalog, you will probably start planning the next version of your app. An important part of that planning is...
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Stop Doing Internet Wrong.
Some days...some days it's frustrating to be on the web. We're compiling C++ into JavaScript and running Unreal in the browser but at the same time, here in 2013, we're still making the same mistakes....
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Inside Windows Phone - Use Location and Mapping in your Apps
On this week’s Inside Windows Phone, Matthias and I review in detail how easy it is to add mapping and location functionality to your apps. For apps in which this is relevant, it is an amazingly easy...
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jQuery and WinJS working together in Windows Store apps
The Windows Library for JavaScript (WinJS) and Visual Studio templates for Windows Store apps give developers great flexibility when using third-party JavaScript libraries, including the popular...
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Intercepting HTTP Request/Response using C++ Rest HTTP Library
We released the C++ REST SDK (codename "Casablanca") as an open source project on CodePlex in Feb 2013. It enables writing modern, asynchronous C++ code that can connect with REST services.Using the...
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Team Foundation Server 2013 Preview - Upgrade FAQ
Now that the Preview has been out for a couple of weeks, we've started to get lots of questions about acquisition and upgrade. This page provides useful information about the upgrade process for the...
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Energy Consumption tool in Visual Studio 2013
(First of 2 posts for a team mate and friend Pratap Lakshma) Battery draining applications result in bad customer experience and poor ratings. Optimal battery usage is an important aspect that a...
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Viewing function return values in the Visual Studio 2013 debugger
One of the great new features in Visual Studio 2013 is the ability to view function return values in the debugger. This works not just for C# and VB, but for F#, as well. We didn’t include this in...
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