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Course Manager VS 2012 Sample Part 1 – Introduction (Andy Kung)
When we released Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 last year, we published a sample project called “Course Manager.” We also wrote a series of tutorials based on the sample. With the release of Visual...
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Silverlight Show: Windows 8 and the future of XAML Part 7: The application...
In the previous articles of this series, we have touched on quite a few important aspects of Windows 8 application development. In part 6, we looked at tiles. We saw that live tiles are a way of...
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Testing Windows 8 apps using Visual Studio 2012
As we continue to innovate on the operating system platform with Windows 8, we also enhanced the toolset available in Visual Studio to increase your productivity in testing your Windows 8 apps....
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Profile specific web.config transforms and transform preview
When we released VS2010 we add support for web.config (XDT) transforms during publish/package. Note: From now on I’ll only use the word publish from now on but the full content relates to packaging as...
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Getting Started with ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms
The best way to learn what’s new in ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms, is to work through the latest tutorial series by Erik Reitan: Getting Started with ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms. The 10 tutorials in the series...
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Using Git with TFS projects
If you having been following the updates to CodePlex over the last several months you will have noticed that we added support for Git source control. It is important to the CodePlex team to enable...
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Releasing Microsoft ASP.NET Universal Providers Core 1.2
I hope everyone has been busy downloading Visual Studio 2012 and have started building awesome web applications. We have been busy too during this time. We have just released an update to the version...
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Visual Studio 2012 released to the web!
On August 15th, we announced the release of Visual Studio 2012 to the web! Make sure to visit Somasegar’s Blog for the announcement, and if you haven’t downloaded yet, check out Jason Zander’s Blog for...
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Visual Studio 2012 can only install to certified Windows To Go drives
Windows To Go is a cool new enterprise features to enable a mobile workforce to carry around an enterprise-managed installation of Windows on a USB thumb drive. However, only certified thumb drives...
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Extra Information from OAuth/OpenId Provider
When you authenticate a user using the OAuth/OpenId providers, you can request for some extra information about the user if you have granted access for these providers to send this information. For eg...
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NuGet Gallery Performance Issues
Since August 16th, and especially since August 21st, the NuGet Gallery has been exhbiting intermittent performance issues. Some users are reporting errors when attempting to browse or search for NuGet...
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Plugging custom OAuth/OpenID providers
In the previous post, I wrote about how you can use the existing providers for Google, Facebook etc. and retrieve extra metadata about the authenticated users. Let’s assume you wanted to change the way...
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Course Manager VS 2012 Sample Part 4 – Implementing the Workflow (Andy Kung)
Welcome to part 4 of the Course Manager series! If you missed the previous posts you can read them here: Course Manager VS 2012 Sample Part 1 – Introduction Course Manager VS 2012 Sample Part 2 –...
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New Visual Studio 2012 Debugging Features for the Windows 8 App Lifecycle Model
Windows 8 brings a new app lifecycle model, in which Windows Store apps are automatically managed for the user. These apps always feel alive, even though they never run when they’re off the screen....
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An "is" operator puzzle, part one
It is possible for a program with some local variable x: bool b = x is FooBar; to assign true to b at runtime, even though there is no conversion, implicit or explicit, from x to FooBar allowed by the...
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Release Notes for 8/23/2012
Below are the release notes from today's deployment. Improved the inline diff load performance for large diff sets Fixed a few issues related to sending and saving comments within a Pull Request...
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OData 101: Building our first OData-based Windows Store app (Part 2)
Download the sample code In the previous blog post, we walked through the steps to build an OData-enabled client using the new Windows UI. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at some of the code that...
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Media Playback: What you need to know about playing media to make your app...
For Windows 8, we made some changes in our audio system designed to improve the app experience. In this blog, I discuss these changes, and how you can take advantage of them in your media apps....
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Visual Studio 2012 RTM will not install on pre-release versions of Windows 8
Symptom Customers installing Visual Studio 2012 RTM on pre-release versions of Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 may see the following error after launching the setup application: The .Net Framework...
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Course Manager VS 2012 Sample Part 5 – Detail Screens (Andy Kung)
This week I’ve been writing a series of articles on building the Course Manager Sample, if you missed them: Course Manager VS 2012 Sample Part 1 – Introduction Course Manager VS 2012 Sample Part 2 –...
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