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Portable Compression is now stable
Today we are happy to announce that our portable compression library is now available as a stable NuGet package.Microsoft.Bcl.CompressionMicrosoft.Bcl.Compression provides the following APIs in a...
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At Unite, enjoy expert Windows and Windows Phone help in porting your games
If you’re heading to Unite 2013, the annual event for Unity developers held this year August 27-30 in Vancouver, Canada, get ready to enjoy the expert help and advice of a whole crew of Microsoft...
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Google Chromecast Review - The race is on to wirelessly throw video to your TV
The Google Chromecast is simple and brilliant. It's one of those perfect little "duh! Why didn't someone do that before?" ideas. I didn't realize I needed one until I realized that I've been chasing...
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C++ IDE Improvements in Visual Studio 2013
When we considered what features to add to the C++ IDE in Visual Studio 2013, we decided to focus on improving the C++ code editing experience. We've added a number of features that will help you write...
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Calling ASP.NET Web API from a LightSwitch Silverlight Client
Before I left for a wonderful vacation camping in Lake Tahoe :) I showed you how you can use Web API with your LightSwitch middle-tier service in order to call stored procedures in your databases. I...
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Creating a unique ListView layout using cell-spanning
The ListView control makes it easy for you to organize content in a beautiful and meaningful way. The ListView control takes advantage of the Windows 8 grid system, a design tool that provides a...
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Am I really a developer or just a good googler?
I got a very earnest and well-phrased email from a young person overseas recently. Some time in my mind sounds come that Is that I am really a developer or just a good googler. I don't know what is the...
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Team Development Series – Part 4: Testing the LightSwitch Application (Saar...
Using Visual Studio 2013, we can create automated test projects like a Coded UI Test or aWeb Performance and Load Test to test LightSwitch Applications. A Coded UI Test is used for creating automated...
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Update: Knockout IntelliSense Highlight Bug Fix
In an earlier blog post on June 24th entitled Knockout IntelliSense Highlighting Bug Fix I described a bug fix in the Knockout IntelliSense feature. In that post I recommended installing Windows Azure...
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How is your experience developing graphics apps?
Hello, my name is Rong Lu. I’m a PM on Visual C++ team working on graphics development features in VS, including asset designers, templates, graphics diagnostics, etc.. In preparation for planning for...
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Hanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things: August 5th, 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. You can view all the previous newsletters here. Here's the...
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A Cloud and Azure Glossary for the Confused
A parody Twitter account called Confused .NET Dev last week tweeted:For a web hoster Azure has a crazy learning curve: Blob, Table, Queue, Service Bus, Access Control, Drive, CDN, etc @...
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WCF Data Services 5.6.0 Release
Recently we released updated NuGet packages for WCF Data Services 5.6.0. You will need the updated tooling (released today) to use the portable libraries feature mentioned below with code gen.What is...
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Use “Napa” Office 365 Development Tools to build apps for Office and...
Since our Preview release, “Napa” Office 365 Development Tools has delivered many features and improvements to the browser development experience. This post highlights the major features we’ve...
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Get your apps ready for the Windows 8.1 launch!
Today we announced that Windows 8.1 has hit the RTM milestone. That means our hardware partners are now preparing their devices for the holiday buying season, beginning with the general availability of...
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Visual Studio Unit Test Generator v1 “lands”
The ALM Rangers are pleased to announce the landing of the Visual Studio Unit Test Generator v1. Looking for unit test code generation?The Visual Studio Unit Test Generator helps to increase developer...
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NuGet 2.7 Released
The NuGet team is excited to announce NuGet 2.7 release, for details please see the release notes published on docs.nuget.org.NuGet 2.7 FeaturesPackage Restore by Default (with implicit...
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NuGet Package Restore with Team Foundation Build
In this post, I’ll provide a walkthrough on how to use package restore with Team Foundation Build with both, git as well TF version control.In our previous blog post on how we improved package restore,...
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Writing data from apps to Office documents
Inserting content into your Office documents is an important part of the app model. In this post, we'll talk about the Wikipedia app, how it inserts information into your documents, and ways you can...
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Ability to debug Optimized Code (Optimized Debugging)
Optimized Debugging or in other words the ability to debug optimized code has come across as an important feature request in previous surveys.As we start planning for the next version of Visual Studio...
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