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Build talk of the week: Design and build a great search experience in your app
Improving the search experience was an important goal for Windows 8.1, both across the OS and inside of every app. The key to delivering a great search experience for your users is to make it as fast...
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If you're not using Glimpse with ASP.NET for debugging and profiling, you're...
I've blogged about Glimpse since the day I first saw it at Mix 2011's open source fest. It's popular, but frankly, Glimpse is so useful more people need to know about it. From within your ASP.NET...
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REST API for Team Rooms
I had someone ask about this so I decided to go ahead and post something. Below is the contents of a Word doc that describes our REST API for working with Team Rooms. It should work both on Team...
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Unity 4.2 released: build a better game, get a chance to win big, more than...
If you’re a Unity developer, we’ve got great news. Unity and Microsoft announced a new collaboration at last month’s Build Conference, and to celebrate we’re sponsoring a game-building contest with...
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Speed up LightSwitch Development with “Edit & Refresh” (Sudhanshu Kulkarni)
In this post I’d like to discuss a feature of LightSwitch that helps speed up your development of HTML client applications. We first released this feature in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 with the...
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Using Buddy with Windows Phone 8
This guest post is authored by Shawn Burke VP of Engineering at Buddy. Buddy offers cloud infrastructure with high level services ready to use with your mobile apps. The Buddy offering was featured...
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Publish HTML/JS website to Linux/Apache using Visual Studio
We received a question about how to use Visual Studio to deploy HTML/JS website to Linux / Apache. To do it, you need to create an empty ASP.NET website project in Visual Studio (File->New Web...
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Get started with some basic TFBuild Scripts
You want to run some of your business logic during your TFBuild process. Maybe before, or maybe after Team Foundation Build (TFBuild) compiles or tests your code. For example, before you compile, you...
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Proximity in Windows Phone 8
At the recent Build developer conference in San Francisco I presented a session on networking in Windows Phone 8. Part of the session was about HTTP networking using the new HttpClient portable...
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The impact of a compliment
This is the beginning of a great compliment. Here, the President is speaking about the Attorney General of California:You have to be careful to, first of all, say she is brilliant and she is dedicated...
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Adding Stored Procs to your LightSwitch Intrinsic Database
When you build a LightSwitch application the very first question you are asked is whether you want to connect to an existing data source or if you want to create a new one. If you choose to create new,...
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IE11 Developer Preview for Windows 7: Enabling Next Generation Sites and Apps...
With the recent release of Windows 8.1 Preview, Internet Explorer 11 continues our vision of providing the best Web experience across the full range of Windows devices and screen sizes. IE11 on Windows...
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Windows Azure Mobile Services in Visual Studio 2013
With new tools for Windows Azure Mobile Services, Visual Studio 2013 helps you quickly build connected Windows Store apps. We’ve made it very easy for you to associate your app with Mobile Services,...
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Advise the .NET Framework Team
This post was written by Rich Lander, a Program Manager on the .NET Framework team. He’s also the one posting as @DotNet on Twitter. Late last month, we released the .NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview. We’re...
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Use cache to turbo-boost LightSwitch App (Saar Shen)
Making use of a cache to turbo-boost the presentation of read-only data is a common solution. In this post, I'll walk with you to speed up a LightSwitch HTML Application.To make an example, I’ll create...
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Choosing the right Portable Power Phone/Tablet/Gadget Battery Charger
I travel a lot and I've talked about the importance of having power while on the go. I carry a small Four Outlet Mini Power Strip, for example, as well as an all-in-one travel plug adapter. I like...
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Visual Studio a leader in software quality suites
Visual Studio has always been a great tool for developers. In 2010, as we continued to expand the breadth of our Application Lifecycle Management suite, we made our first foray into tooling...
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Inside Windows Phone 59 | Nokia's Imaging SDK for Windows Phone
Two weeks ago, alongside the fantastic 41-megapixel Lumia 1020, Nokia announced the public beta of the Nokia Imaging SDK. The Nokia Imaging SDK is a library that developers can use to help them add...
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Kids!
We are gradually working our way into goats. Last year we bought a dairy goat and she had 2 kids. This year we bought 2 meat goats (Kiko breed) and one of them, “Pretty Girl” just had 3 kids. I...
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Enabling IntelliSense for Mobile Services JavaScript in Visual Studio
In a previous post , we shared the new Windows Azure Mobile Services integration and capabilities in Visual Studio 2013. These include the ability to edit your Mobile Services table scripts. In this...
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