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ALM Rangers Branching and Merging guide for Visual Studio 2012 is available
As mentioned in Cowabunga! Visual Studio ALM Rangers Readiness “GIG” goes RTM! the RTM version of the Branching and Merging Guide for Visual Studio 2012 was not included in the sim-ship wave. But we...
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NuGet Feed Performance Update
As you might know, NuGet has been having some performance (and timeout) related issues recently. Earlier this week, we completed a deployment that helped, but it didn't address everything. Many users...
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Memory Profiling: The Instances View
[Performance is a key concern for all but the most trivial of apps, and memory usage helps determine how well your app runs. In this series, Pratap Lakshman shows how the Windows Phone Performance...
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Enable Remote Audio Capture
To record audio as part of a feedback or testing session on a remote machine that is running Microsoft Feedback Client, Test Runner, or Exploratory Testing window, you must configure audio redirection...
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Connecting C++ and XAML
Hi, I’m Andy Rich, a tester on the C++ frontend compiler and one of the primary testers of the C++/CX language extensions. If you’re like me, making use of a technology without understanding how it...
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Customizing the login UI when using OAuth/OpenID
In the last post I showed how you can plug in your own OAuth/OpenID provider. This post shows you how you can pass in extra data about the provider such as display name, image etc and use this...
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Evolving the Reflection API
As many developers have noticed, the reflection APIs changed in the .NET API set for Windows Store apps. Much of .NET’s ability to offer a consistent programming model to so many platforms over the...
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Add cloud to your app with Windows Azure Mobile Services
Great Windows Store apps are connected. They use live tiles, authenticate users with single sign-on and share data between devices and users. To get all these great benefits of being connected, your...
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Optical Zooming in Legacy Document Modes
Internet Explorer 9 introduced sub-pixel font positioning as part of its hardware-accelerated rendering of HTML5 content as described in this IEBlog post. That was an important step into the future as...
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OData 101: Using the [NotMapped] attribute to exclude Enum properties
TL;DR: OData does not currently support enum types, and WCF Data Services throws an unclear exception when using the EF provider with a model that has an enum property. Mark the property with a...
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Visual Studio 2012 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine and...
Brian Keller just recently released a new VS/TFS 2012 VM and hands on lab. It’s a handy way to kick the tires and check things out....
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OData 101: Bin deploying WCF Data Services
TL;DR: If you’re bin-deploying WCF Data Services you need to make sure that the .svc file contains the right version string (or no version string). The idea for this post originated from an email I...
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WCF Data Service 5.0.2 Released
We’re happy to announce the release of WCF Data Services 5.0.2. What’s in this release This release contains a number of bug fixes: Fixes NuGet packages to have explicit version dependencies Fixes a...
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Clearing the credentials for connecting to a Team Foundation Server
Ran in to a situation a couple of days ago where i needed to log into a Team Foundation Server as a different user - and since Visual Studio/Team Explorer "remembers" your last credentials you don't...
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Changing fields on the Visual Studio Extension Gallery page
Had a community member ask: I want to change some fields on my Visual Studio Extension Gallery page. These fields do not appear to be editable: · “Supported Versions” · “Supported Visual...
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C++/CX Part 0 of [n]: An Introduction
Hello; I'm James McNellis, and I've recently joined the Visual C++ team as a libraries developer. My first encounter with the C++/CX language extensions was early last year, while implementing some...
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Exploring Device Orientation and Motion
Today, we released a prototype implementation of the W3C DeviceOrientation Event Specification draft on HTML5Labs.com. This specification defines new DOM events that provide information about the...
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Getting Started: XAML Authoring with Blend for VS 2012
Now that you have your copy of Visual Studio 2012 including Blend, you must be raring to go and explore the world of Windows 8 development. We hope this post helps all the C#/VB & C++ junkies out...
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Almost two years ago, we set out on a path towards building a flavor of Blend that allowed you to seamlessly craft HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into Metro style applications. We are thrilled to announce...
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Getting Symbols and Source with ASP.NET Nightly NuGet Packages
You can now get full symbols and source along with the nightly NuGet packages making it possible to debug the latest MVC, Web API, and Web Pages bits by tracing directly through the source. This is...
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