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What’s new in Visual Studio 2013 and InstallShield Limited Edition
We believe it is important to provide Visual Studio developers a no-cost setup tooling solution to deploy applications to the various platforms you target. In Visual Studio 2010 we partnered with...
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Spice Up Your HTML Client UI With Code (Rohit Agrawal)
Often we wish to personalize the HTML Client in order to either add extra functionality or to give a screen more personal and snazzy look. In this post I will walk you through some ways we can add...
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Inside Windows Phone 61 – Building for Windows Phone and Windows 8 - The Basics
This blog post was authored by Matthias Shapiro, a technical evangelist at Microsoft. - Larry One of the exciting elements about building an app for Windows Phone is that a properly designed and...
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Use SignalR Sample Nuget package in VS2013 Preview MVC 5 Project
We received feedback that the current 1.2 version SignalR sample Nuget package doesn’t work in an MVC 5 project by default. Here are the repro steps and the necessary change to make it work.1. Create a...
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Creating a UI for Background Transfer Requests
This blog post was authored by Nate McMaster, a Program Manager Intern on the Windows Phone team. - AdamIn the Windows Phone Toolkit - August 2013 update we add a TransferControl element to the set of...
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Announcing TraceEvent – Monitoring and Diagnostics for the Cloud
In this post, Vance Morrison, software developer on the .NET Runtime team, will talk about the TraceEvent NuGet library we just shipped. -- ImmoI am happy to report that we have just released the...
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Install MVC4 HotTowel SPA NuGetNuGet package in One ASP.NET Web API Project...
I was trying to install MVC4 HotTowel SPA package (MVC4 and Razor v2) on a VS2013 Preview One ASP.NET Web API Project (MVC5 and Razor V3). I blindly let the NuGetNuGet package overwrite all my files...
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Coded UI Test Gesture support in Visual Studio 2013
As part of Coded UI Test’s support for windows store apps introduced in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 as detailed in this blog , there is now playback support for touch gestures on Windows Store Apps....
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Windows Phone App Studio Beta response exceeds expectations, new capabilities...
Windows Phone App Studio beta has been live for almost two weeks – with a few hiccups. Today I’d like to share a few of the learnings and tell you about enhancements we’re releasing today. First of...
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VS/TFS 2012.4 (Update 4) RC 2 is available
Three weeks ago I announced that there will, in fact, be a fourth update to VS/TFS 2012. It’s going to be a very small update – really not much more than key bug fixes. It’s going to ship sometime...
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Accessing the ASP.NET Web Configuration Tool in Visual Studio 2013
As many of you have noticed, the option to select “ASP.Net Web Configuration Manager” is no longer in Visual Studio 2013 Preview. This is due to the removal of the Visual Studio Development Server (or...
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TFS Internal Usage Statistics - 1st Half CY 2013
SummaryThe following analysis includes the Microsoft IT internal offering for TFS and includes trends throughout the first half of 2013 (January – June 2013). This only includes the TFS servers hosted...
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Creating smarter apps with geofencing
Windows 8 introduced the Geolocation API, which let your app get the current location or get regular updates on the current location. We covered some of that functionality in a previous blog post...
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ATL and MFC changes and fixes in Visual Studio 2013
Hello, I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team. In this blog post I would like to share with you the changes that we’ve made in ATL and MFC for Visual Studio 2013.One of the...
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Recent JavaScript Jabber Podcast - Microsoft, not Microsoft, and the Web
I was a guest recently on a podcast called JavaScript Jabber. I enjoy checking out other folks' podcasts and how they run things. I actually talked to the guys about sound quality for about 30 min...
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Use OAuth 1.0 to access the Zotero web service from apps for Office
In this post, you’ll learn how to integrate OAuth 1.0a to access an external service from an app for Office. In the course of a recent development project, I was asked to show how apps for Office can...
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EF6 Release Candidate Available
We are now in the final stages of bug fixing for EF6 and are pleased to announce the availability of EF6 Release Candidate. Getting Started with RCThe runtime is available on NuGet. If you are using...
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Web Publishing a simpler way to exclude files/folders from being published
I’ve written a fewblog posts on how to exclude files from publishing/packaging. In each of these posts you’d have to be familiar with MSBuild and the Web Publish process. I’ve been looking for a much...
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Inside Windows Phone 62 - A Common HTTP Stack for Windows & Windows Phone
We’ve been talking a bit about how developer can leverage the same code to deliver similar applications on both Windows and Windows Phone. In a related vein, we wanted to showcase the outstanding work...
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Improved Package Restore
As we’ve previously explained we receive various reports on how our NuGet packages don’t play nicely with NuGet’s package restore feature. In this blog post I’ll talk about an update we shipped to our...
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