Sign into Windows Phone 8 apps with Facebook Login
This blog post was authored by Taqi Jaffri, a senior program manager on the Windows Phone team. - AdamFacebook users increasingly rely on their Facebook identity to access apps, play games with...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Launch Partners
On November 13, 2013, we launched Visual Studio 2013 at our launch event in New York City, and we’re excited to share that 74 of our Visual Studio Launch Partners are delivering 123 integrated products...
View ArticleAll About Newsfeeds With Your Cloud Business App
Cloud Business Apps in Visual Studio 2013 allow you to easily integrate with SharePoint and use the Office 365 collaboration and social features – including newsfeeds. You can now expose entity data...
View ArticleAll About Newsfeeds With Your Cloud Business App (Nicole Haugen)
Cloud Business Apps in Visual Studio 2013 allow you to easily integrate with SharePoint and use the Office 365 collaboration and social features – including newsfeeds. You can now expose entity data...
View ArticleSupport for Facebook Login APIs on Windows
Today, I authored a blog post here on the Microsoft blog announcing Facebook’s official support for Facebook Login APIs on Windows 8/8.1 and Windows Phone 8.If you do have any feedback, you can reach...
View ArticlePortable Class Libraries just got REALLY useful with new licensing changes
It takes a little while to turn a large ship. I love the .NET community and I'm happy to have been a part of it from the beginning. I'm also happy that I'm helping (in a small way) turn the ship from...
View ArticleAzure Web Site now supports WebSockets
If you missed the announcement the other day, WebSockets are now supported in Windows Azure Web Sites. Let's try it with a sample SignalR application.Create an Azure Web SiteLogin to...
View ArticleFacebook login for Windows Store apps
Facebook Login is a great way to plug into your user’s social network, offer a more personalized experience, and accelerate viral adoption of your apps. Today, we are excited to announce that on...
View ArticleImplementing Deployment Markers in Application Insights
Application Insights is a set of services that integrates production monitoring data with development tools. In many of the demos you will see us opening the solution and code file directly from the...
View ArticleApplication Insights invitation
In the launch keynote on Wed, I announced, and Nicole demoed a new service on VS Online called Application Insights.I also announced that it is in “limited preview” – meaning it’s an invitation only...
View ArticleASP.NET Performance: Prefetch and Multi-Core Jitting
Editor note: This blog is originally published by Jose Reyes - ASP.NET on 02-29-2012 in Web Performance Blog, which will be obsolete soon. Future ASP.NET related performance blogs will be posted...
View ArticleASP.NET Performance: Managed runtime loader
Editor note: This blog is originally published by Jose Reyes - ASP.NET on 02-29-2012 in Web Performance Blog, which will be obsolete soon. Future ASP.NET related performance blogs will be posted...
View ArticleASP.NET Performance: Debugging W3WP Startup
Editor note: This blog is originally published by Christy Henriksson on 03-19-2012 in Web Performance Blog, which will be obsolete soon. Future ASP.NET related performance blogs will be posted here.On...
View ArticleASP.NET Performance: Performance Counters on Windows Client + IIS Express
Editor note: This blog is originally published by Christy Henriksson on 09-12-2012 in Web Performance Blog, which will be obsolete soon. Future ASP.NET related performance blogs will be posted here.I...
View ArticleTonight in San Francisco, 6pm: Domain Specific Languages in F# with Tomas...
Tonight at ThoughtWorks in San Francisco, 6pm:When designing software, we often need to solve numerous instances of the same problem. When designing user interfaces, we need to describe the layout and...
View ArticleAnother Application Insights invitation code
Well, the last one was exhausted in a few hours. It’s great to see there are plenty of people who want to take an early peek. Here’s another one to unblock the next group of...
View ArticleFirst public drill down of Application Insights at DevTeach Vancouver
For the folks going to the largest developer conference in Canada, DevTeach; you are in for a real treat as you will be first people on the planet to see Application Insights in anger as the DevTeach...
View ArticleWorking Remotely Considered Dystopian
At the time of this writing, I work remotely from Portland, Oregon for Microsoft and have for over 5 years. While I haven't written any books on Remote Work, I think it's far to say that I am more...
View ArticleCase Study: Using froglogic for test UI automation with Java based...
In just the last month i have been asked three times for a case study or examples of how to test Java based systems using Microsoft Test Manager.Knowing one of the ALM MVPs, Marcel de Vries, just...
View ArticleSmartOffice4TFS
A couple of weeks ago one of our great partners, eDev Technologies (makers of InteGREAT – an excellent formal requirements management tool for TFS), released a new set of tools called SmartOffice4TFS....
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