Combining F# and Excel using Excel DNA - Some Links
The topic of integrating F# and Microsoft Excel arises frequently, particularly in financial, insurance, statistical and data science work. There are several approaches to this, and in a recent...
View ArticleJavaScript Editor Improvements in Visual Studio 2013 Preview
In Visual Studio 2012, we added many new features for JavaScript developers, delivering a first class JavaScript experience in Visual Studio. Now, in Visual Studio 2013, we’ve continued evolving and...
View ArticleThe Progressive F# Tutorials, New York City, September 18-19
The Progressive F# Tutorials are returning to New York City on September 18-19th! The Progressive F# Tutorials bring together the leading experts in F# to deliver a range of talks, 4 hour intensive...
View ArticleTeam Development Series–Part 3: Leveraging Team Build in LightSwitch (Saar Shen)
What is Team Build? Team build lets you create and manage build processes that automatically analyze, compile and test your applications. Refer to the MSDN topic Build the application for more details...
View ArticleResponsible for a million dollar software project, but don’t know where to...
This post was written by Cesar De la Torre Llorente, a member of the .NET Marketing team. Cesar provides guidance on .NET to customers and to sales, marketing, and support professionals at Microsoft.We...
View ArticleTracing in ASP.NET MVC Razor Views
System.Diagnostics.Trace can be a useful tool for logging and debugging, and sometimes it would be handy to be able to call one of the tracing methods from a Razor view. For example, when an MVC...
View ArticleHTML UI Responsiveness tool in Visual Studio 2013
posting this on behalf of Jonathan Carter who authored this post Performance is a critical aspect of any 5-star rated app. Users expect pages to load quickly, interactions to respond immediately and...
View ArticleWhy does Visual Studio 2013 display “Visual Studio 2010” in the Test settings...
Had a question come up today on one of the distribution lists: Why does the Data and Diagnostics adapter reference Visual Studio 2010 even in Visual Studio 2013? Turns out this dialogue is trying to...
View ArticleNo new C# and VB Language Features in VS 2013
As you can see in the VS2013 Preview, we have not added new language features to C# and Visual Basic in the next version of Visual Studio. I’d like to share our thinking on this. There are essentially...
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View ArticleNo new VB and C# Language Features in VS 2013
As you can see in the VS2013 Preview, we have not added new language features to Visual Basic and C# in the next version of Visual Studio. I’d like to share our thinking on this. There are essentially...
View ArticleWindows Phone 8 Samples July Update
This blog post was authored by Andrew Byrne (@AndrewJByrne), a Senior Content Developer on the Windows Phone Developer Content team.- AdamIn June we gave you a rundown of the last 10 samples we...
View ArticleWhat’s new in WebView in Windows 8.1
Incorporating web code and content into apps is becoming more the norm for app development. With Windows 8.1 Preview, you have choices in how you do that. Developers might be looking to integrate an...
View ArticleHttpClient 2.2 is now stable
As promised, we’ve just pushed the RTM version of HttpClient 2.2 to NuGet. This version adds support for automatic decompression. As announced here, this doesn’t require a dependency on...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Diagnostics Investments
Hi, I am Daniel Moth, a Program Manager in Visual Studio. I don’t know about you, but I usually spend more time (and more fun time in fact!) in the debugger than I do in actually constructing my app....
View ArticleMultiple LightSwitch Designers (Elizabeth Maher)
Gone are the days of just one LightSwitch designer opened at any given time. With the release of Visual Studio 2103 Preview, each LightSwitch related asset seen in the Solution Explorer has its own...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Getting LightSwitch Extensions to Install into Visual Studio 2013...
So you want to try out Visual Studio 2013 Preview and test out the awesome new LightSwitch features on your own real projects, but you can’t because your extension(s) won’t install into the VS2013...
View ArticleThe New IE11 Experience: Best of the Web with Sites and Apps Together
IE11 delivers the best daily browsing experience for getting to your sites quickly and using them together with Windows Store apps in Windows 8.1. Browsing feels fast, fluid and perfect for touch with...
View ArticleWriting Web API Client Code for Multiple Platforms Using Portable Libraries
The Microsoft ASP.NET Web API Client Libraries make it easy to write .NET clients that interact with RESTful HTTP services. Unfortunately, until recently the Web API client libraries did not support...
View ArticleC99 library support in Visual Studio 2013
Hello, I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team. In this blog post I want to share some information about the C99 support added to the C run-time library in Visual Studio 2013.To...
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