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Modules Window Search support in VS2013
This post is about a small featurette we added to one of the debugger windows – not a huge item, but sometimes for some people it is the little things that please them and so we decided that it was...
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OWIN Startup Class Detection
OWIN Startup class is the entry point for any OWIN based application. When you use VS 2013 to create web projects, a Startup class is created for you by VS. Check out how Katana runtime does the OWIN...
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Organizational Accounts in Visual Studio 2013 RC
Visual Studio 2013 Preview shipped with support to create new ASP.NET projects that can be easily configured with organizational accounts. This support has been simplified and enhanced in this RC...
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Web Publish how to automate multi-project publish with file system
The other day I received an email from a customer with a question which I’ve summarized as below.I have a solution containing multiple web projects. One of the projects, _RootSite, is the top level...
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What is a Product Owner?
Adam Cogan, one of our TFS MVPs, had his company put together a short animated video on the role of the product owner. I thought it was pretty cool so I figured I’d share it. It’s only a few minutes....
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TFS 2013 Power Tools are available
I apologize for the long wait. But, the TFS 2013 Power Tools are finally available. There’s no new features in this release but there are a fair number of bug fixes and the Power Tools have all been...
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Attribute Routing changes for ASP.NET Web Stack shipped in VS2013 RC
For the VS2013 Preview release, we published two articles about Attribute Routing for Web API 2:· http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/web-api-routing-and-actions/attribute-routing-in-web-api-2·...
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Create a complete System Image Backup with Windows 8.1 and File History
I feel better when things are backed up. I use the File History feature of Windows 8 to backup files every hour or so. I really encourage folks to use the Computer Backup Rule of Three.One of the...
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Making it easier to give your app an age rating
Family safety is a priority for Windows. We have a number of ways we help ensure that kids have the experience that parents and educators expect, such as family safety settings, browser settings, and...
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Show us your apps & new release: Windows Phone App Studio Beta
It’s been more than a month since we last updated you on Windows Phone App Studio beta, and like you, we’ve been busy working with App Studio! On our end, we’ve reviewed your feedback, made some...
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Sit, Stand, Walk, Type - Using a Treadmill Desk
I've been doing this whole "sitting and thinking for money" thing for over twenty years now. I've written about some of the things that happen to the body after sitting and typing for long periods, and...
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Use SharePoint permission management to create various roles in an app for...
This articles describes how to leverage SharePoint 2013 permission management to create different roles in an app for SharePoint.ScenarioWhen you develop an app for SharePoint, you might want to assign...
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What Time Is It? Global Time (Steve Lasker)
You’re building apps that are hosted in the cloud. Your users can be anywhere across the globe. When you’re viewing a customer service call log, and you see a customer called at 4:30pm and was really...
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Immutable collections ready for prime time
Today I’m very happy to announce that we released the stable version of the Microsoft.Bcl.Immutable NuGet package. We also published the MSDN documentation on immutable collections.Thank you!Nine...
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Create SharePoint 2013 development environments quickly on Azure
In this blog post we will walk you through creating a SharePoint 2013 development environment on Windows Azure using the Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 RC image. Have you ever been in a situation where...
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Introducing BrowserSwarm – Spend less time testing your next JavaScript project
Today, along with appendTo and Sauce Labs, we are releasing BrowserSwarm– an open source tool that helps Web developers automate testing of their JavaScript frameworks and libraries across devices and...
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Cloud Business Apps & Visual Studio 2013 at Silicon Valley Code Camp!
I’ll be speaking again this year at the biggest code camp in the world – Silicon Valley Code Camp– on October 5th & 6th. I’ve been speaking there for years and it’s always a well run and very well...
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How to get started easily leveraging web services in your Windows Phone...
Many of today's best apps and games tap online information to give customers real-time data. Apps fueled by data from online weather, stock, and news services; social networking; and game playing...
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EF6.0.2 Nightly Builds Available
We recently blogged about our plans to publish a 6.0.2 patch release to address some issues in the 6.0.0 and 6.0.1 releases. The changes in this release will improve performance and fix some bugs...
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