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What is new in Browser Link with Visual Studio 2013 RC?
Over the last few months, the Browser Link team has worked on delivering these new features in the Visual Studio 2013 RC release:Browser Link DashboardAPIs for extension authoringFor those who are not...
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Use two-domain design for more secure communication with external content
In this article, we use the Wikipedia app for Office to show how to communicate between two domains to help address security concerns in apps for Office and SharePoint. The Wikipedia app is an open...
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Learn how to write Apps for Office code interactively with the API Tutorial...
The API Tutorial for Office teaches you how to get started writing code for an app for Office. The tutorial is an app for Office that runs in Excel or Excel Web App. You can download the app for free...
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The LightSwitch HTML Table Control (Rohit Agrawal)
Recently we announced the availability of Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2013 and highlighted some of the new features introduced in LightSwitch. The Table control is one of those newly added...
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Introducing ‘/Gw’ Compiler Switch
A compiler can only optimize away data or a function if a compiler can prove that the data or function will never be referenced. In a non-LTCG compile (i.e. a build with Whole Program Optimization...
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Creating New Windows Azure Web Site from Visual Studio 2013 RC
We are now making it easier to create a new Windows Azure Web Site from Visual Studio 2013 RC. This feature can be accessed from the Web Sites sub node under the Windows Azure node in Server Explorer....
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Visual Studio 2012.4 RC 3 Available
Every few weeks I’ve been posting about new pre-releases for VS/TFS 2012 Update 4. Yesterday we released another one – RC 3.Important links:Download locationKB ArticleAmong other things, the KB...
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Visual Studio 2013 Custom Web Servers and OwinHost.exe
When running Web applications from within Visual Studio, there have generally been two primary hosts available while developing: a local “development” Web server, or a full version of Internet...
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September 2013 Internet Explorer Updates
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-059 - CriticalThis security update resolves ten privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code...
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My Favorite New LightSwitch Features in Visual Studio 2013
On Monday, Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate was made available and there are some more LightSwitch features that “lit up” with this release that I’m excited about. If you haven’t given the latest...
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Supercharged Styling: Quickly Finding and Setting a CSS Property in Blend
A core goal of Blend for Visual Studio is to make it fast and easy for developers who care about the quality of their markup to create professional looking apps. One of the many ways that the HTML...
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Using Hardware to Decode and Load JPG Images up to 45% faster in Internet...
Internet Explorer 11 and Windows Store Apps on Windows 8.1 offload parts of the image decoding pipeline to the graphics hardware, resulting in up to 45% faster image load, up to 40% lower memory...
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Immutable collections are now RC
Over the past several months, we’ve been working on a new set of collection types that offer an immutable design. Today we are happy to announce that we are one step closer to a stable version of this...
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Inside Windows Phone | From the Archive | Getting Started With Windows Azure...
Windows Azure Mobile Services can help you increase productivity and expand the capabilities of your app. To help illustrate how to build your app, this interview with Nick Harris walks you through...
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Visual Studio 2013 RC ALM courses available from training partner Quicklearn
One of the ALM MVPs Anthony Borton (TFS Instructor) has created an entire set of courses around Visual Studio 2013…and one of the nicest things about his courses you can attend either virtually or in...
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Perform Java code analysis with Team Foundation Server and SONAR
One of our ALM Rangers Hosam Kamel from our Center of Expertise has recently just finished a large project that involved integrating several different technologies and platforms. In this project he...
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Teaching Kids Electronics, Computers, and Programming Fundamentals with Snap...
I'm not particularly interested in my kids being programmers or computer people. I'd rather they be interested in life and totally geeked about something. If that's computers, fine. If that's ballet,...
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Just updated: Dev Center app and financial reporting
Today I have a few updates for you including a new release of the Dev Center app, an updated financial summary report, and several reliability improvements for reporting and app submission in Dev...
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Increased Microsoft advertising opportunity, improved payout and Dev Center...
In recent years we’ve seen more than a 50% increase in app downloads and purchases during the busy holiday season of November and December. We expect this trend to continue this year, especially with a...
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Visual Studio 2013 RC and Send to FSI
Earlier this week, the Release Candidate build of Visual Studio 2013 was announced. Like the Preview build before it, the RC contains a host of new features for F# developers, including F# 3.1...
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