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Calling Stored Procs in your LightSwitch Databases using Web API
Last post I showed you a new LightSwitch feature in Visual Studio 2013 Preview that let’s you use SSDT database projects to manage your intrinsic (internal) LightSwitch database. You can use database...
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IE11: Touch Browsing for Today’s Web and Beyond
Internet Explorer 11 in the Windows 8.1 Preview continues the innovative touch support introduced in Windows 8 with new touch features, improvements to existing touch features, and new developer APIs....
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Test your app with temporary, test data before you ship
This blog post was authored by Andrew Byrne, a Senior Content Developer on the Windows Phone Developer Content team.- AdamSometimes I need data to test my app in the emulator. The Windows Phone 8...
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Do you have a digital or social media will? Who will maintain your life...
As we continue to pour our few remaining keystrokes into walled gardens we should be asking ourselves - who controls our content? You don't want all your words to be wasted so I hope you own your own...
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Inside Windows Phone 60 | More on Imaging Scenario Resources for WP Developers
This week on Inside Windows Phone, Matthias and I take a few minutes to walk through some of the more powerful imaging developer scenarios possible on Windows Phone. And we look at some of the more...
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Commenting on Commits
The source code experience on CodePlex just got more social. Now, you can comment directly on a commit when viewing a project’s source code history. This feature acts as a nice compliment to the...
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LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup– July 2013
A while back I started posting a monthly rollup of interesting community happenings, content, samples and extensions popping up around Visual Studio LightSwitch. If you missed those rollups you can...
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A rich new JavaScript code editor spreading to several Microsoft web sites
I noticed yesterday that some C#, JavaScript and CSS files I had sitting in SkyDrive were suddenly editable. Not just editable, but there's also autocompletion of strings (not quite intellisense, as...
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Make jQuery UI and Bootstrap 2 working together in MVC template
In VS2013 preview MVC5 template, we included Bootstrap and jQuery UI together in the same project. However, some themes of jQuery UI (1.8.24 in the project template) is conflicting with Bootstrap...
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Idea books for commercial and enterprise app design—with sample code!
You can create great Windows Store apps that provide elegant, engaging, consistent and compelling user experiences in Windows. Idea books are a great starting point to inspire you when designing your...
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Visual Studio 2013 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine with...
While i hate simply echoing other blog posts…This one was too important to not cover. The ALM Virtual Machine (which most people refer to as the “Keller VM”) is probably the single most important...
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Visual Studio Unit Test Generator is feature complete – v1 Release Candidate...
The ALM Rangers are pleased to announce the landing of the Release Candidate for the Visual Studio Unit Test Generator. OverviewOnce you’ve moved to Visual Studio 2012, what’s a developer to do without...
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ALM Readiness Treasure Map – Release 2 available in the Windows Store
The ALM Rangers are pleased to announce the landing of the second release of the ALM Readiness Treasure Map Windows Store App, which was certified and released on August 1st and is now featured in the...
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Download Windows Live Writer 2012
Why is this blog post called "Download Windows Live Writer 2012?" Because that's all I wanted to do. I love Live Writer. If you love it too, put a note in the comments and maybe the team will notice,...
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Hanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things: July 2nd, 2013
I have a "whenever I get around to doing it" Newsletter of Wonderful Things. Why a newsletter? I dunno. It seems more personal somehow. Fight me. You can view all the previous newsletters here. You can...
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Add Social Sharing Links to your Blog without their widget JavaScript
I'm always trying toa tidy up my blog layout and remove 'noise' but every time I try to remove those social sharing buttons for Twitter and Facebook I get a barrage of email asking me to put them back....
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C++ IDE Performance Improvement in Visual Studio 2013 Preview
My name is Li Shao. I am a Senior Software Design Engineer in Test on the VC++ team. In this blog, I would like to share the performance enhancements we've made in VS 2013 Preview to improve the C++...
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Review: The Blackberry Z10 - In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
I've been hating my iPhone lately and I've got a love-hate relationship with my Lumia 920 so my buddy at AT&T loaned me a Blackberry Z10 for a month to try out. This is the same buddy who loaned me...
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Making it easier to get started with Windows Phone App Studio beta,...
I’m pleased to announce a number of new tools and capabilities that further expand opportunity and enhance productivity for Windows Phone developers. New tools for first-time developersWe’ve heard from...
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Everyone can build an app – introducing Windows Phone App Studio beta
Today Todd Brix outlined several new programs to make it easier for more developers to get started with the Windows Phone platform. In this post, I’d like to tell you a bit more about one of them,...
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