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Using the new client hooks in WCF Data Services Client
What are the Request and Response Pipeline configurations in WCF Data Services Client?In WCF Data Services 5.4 we added a new pattern to allow developers to hook into the client request and response...
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Build talk of the week: Building apps that connect with devices
One of the most exciting improvements in Windows 8.1 Preview is opening the floodgates for device access. While Windows 8 supported certain device scenarios like print, sensors, and geolocation, access...
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EF/MVC Series updated to EF5/MVC4
Tom Dykstra and I have updated Tom’s popular EF/MVC series to the latest release, that is MVC 4 and EF 5. The biggest change was the addition of code first migrations. What’s great about the updated...
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EF/MVC Series updated to EF5/MVC4
Please come back Monday night, 29 July to see the updates, they won’t be published until then.Tom Dykstra and I have updated Tom’s popular EF/MVC series to the latest release, that is MVC 4 and EF 5....
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Initial Impressions - Intel Haswell 4th Generation Developer Prototype Ultrabook
I've reviewed Intel Ultrabooks before that were sent by the software development team at Intel. I review them from a software developer's point of view, so I'm pretty hard on laptops. I want them to be...
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Windows game developers: Build with Unity 4.2 for a chance to win big!
In case you missed the post over on the Windows Phone Developer Blog, we’re celebrating our collaboration with Unity and the release of Unity 4.2 by sponsoring a game-building contest for Windows 8 and...
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Team Foundation Service Update – July 29
Today we are deploying our sprint 51 build. You will soon be able to read the release notes here. Today’s deployment is what I’d like a lot of deployments to be like – nothing particularly big but a...
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Visual Studio 2012 tools for Git (0.9.5.0) are available
Today we released an update to our Visual Studio 2012 tools for Git. We’ve been iterating on these since the first release in February and each release gets more complete, easier to use and better...
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Debugging and Tuning Web Sites and Apps with F12 Developer Tools in IE11
Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 comes with a completely redesigned and enhanced suite of in-browser developer tools that help developers build, diagnose, and optimize modern Web sites...
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One year of news!
It wasn’t until after I posted my “news” post this morning and I was perusing our news site that I realized that the first news post was almost exactly 1 year ago on August 6th 2012. These are...
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Windows Phone app building tools you might not know about
This blog post was authored by Andrew Byrne, a Senior Content Developer on the Windows Phone Developer Content team.- AdamToday I’m going to share some of the tools I use to help me build and ship...
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EF/MVC Series updated to EF5/MVC4
Tom Dykstra and I have updated Tom’s popular EF/MVC series to the latest release, that is MVC 4 and EF 5. The biggest change was the addition of code first migrations. What’s great about the updated...
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Download Visual Studio 2013 while your feedback still matters
Lots of stuff is happening at MSFT right now. Windows 8.1 is around the corner (did you download the 8.1 Preview?) and development is still happening on Visual Studio 2013. The ASP.NET and Web Tools...
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Now available: Refresh of Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 developer training
The developer training for Office and SharePoint 2013 now contains updated information about new features and capabilities for Office and SharePoint developers. In this post, learn about the 20...
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VS 2012.4 (Update 4) will exist!
Sometime this spring, though for the life of me I can’t find it, I wrote a blog post where I said I thought Update 3 (VS/TFS 2012.3) would be the last update in the VS/TFS 2012 update line. I often...
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New Features in for VS 2013 RTM
Introduction:Hi, I’m Brandon Jacobs, an intern on the Visual C++ Libraries team. For part of my internship, I was tasked with adding new features to Stephan T. Lavavej’s . It was certainly an honor to...
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Basic networking support in Windows Phone
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 using the Proximity APIs to cover peer-to-peer scenarios...
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The Improved Microsoft Developer Network
Today we launched the new Microsoft Developer Network site. As I've mentioned before, my team is responsible for much of the infrastructure and experience for MSDN. I’m very proud of what we have and...
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Windows 8.1 for iOS developers
For those of you currently developing apps for iOS, we’ve been adding lots of content to the Windows Store apps Dev Center. We’d like to help you get started building Windows Store apps, so we updated...
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