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Windows Azure: General Availability Release of BizTalk Services, Traffic...
This morning we released another great set of enhancements to Windows Azure. Today’s new capabilities include:BizTalk Services: General Availability ReleaseTraffic Manager: General Availability...
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Visual Studio Updates - Survey
Hi folks.With Visual Studio 2012 we started the Visual Studio Update program - releasing regular (nearly quarterly) public updates that contained both new features and servicing fixes. To date we’ve...
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F# in Finance in London - Three Days and Counting!
Three days until F# in Finance in London on Monday, 25th November. Brought to you by Microsoft and Fountainhead Labs. F# in FinanceDate: Monday 25th November 2013, 8:00am to 6:15pm.Venue: Microsoft,...
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Taking Advantage of Large-Screen Windows Phones
Nokia recently announced a pair of 6-inch Windows Phone devices: the Lumia 1520 and the Lumia 1320. To support these new devices, Windows Phone 8 GDR 3 includes changes to take advantage of the larger...
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Debugging OWIN app or framework
DiagnosticsThe Microsoft.Owin.Diagnostics nuget package contains a welcome page and an error page. The UseWelcomePage extensions can be used to add a simple html page to your application to verify the...
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Using a Visual Studio Web Test for availability monitoring in Application...
I am just wrapping up a week at the MVP Summit and one of the System Center MVPs asked me to walk him through creating a Web Test in Visual Studio and using it for Availability monitoring…Of course i...
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Opening Files from SkyDrive using .NET
Since Windows 8 I fell in love with SkyDrive and use it all the time now. Windows 8.1 has improved this a lot by introducing a new concept that requires some changes to the way you interact with files....
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A Rough Patch
Either I’m going to get increasingly good at apologizing to fewer and fewer people or we’re going to get better at this. I vote for the later.We’ve had some issues with the service over the past week...
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Just My Code for ASP.NET in Visual Studio 2013
Posting this on behalf of Patrick Nelson who is a developer on the Visual Studio Debugger team, and also thanks to Rob Paveza for his help with both of our post regarding JavaScript Just My CodeDo you...
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Release Management for Visual Studio 2013
DevOps is an increasingly important part of application lifecycle management and is a growing area of interest as businesses need to develop and deploy quality applications at a faster pace. As part of...
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Customizing the Table Control: Sortable by Column (Kevin Mehlhaff)
The Table control is a new way to display a collection of data in the LightSwitch HTML Client as of Visual Studio 2013. Like all controls in the LightSwitch HTML client, you can take over the rendering...
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Visual Studio Surveys
We are running a couple of surveys on Visual Studio to collect feedback for our next release cycle. We’d appreciate any feedback you have. Here are the links to the surveys on the VS blog.Visual...
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Choosing the right sensor
The sensors available to Windows Store apps offer a powerful way to spice up your app’s functionality. Sensors let your app know the relationship between the device and the physical world around it;...
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EF6.0.2 Beta 1 Available on NuGet
We recently shared our plans to produce a 6.0.2 patch release to address some performance issues (and other bugs) in the 6.0.0 and 6.0.1 releases. Today we are making Beta 1 of the 6.0.2 release...
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Renaming, aliasing or coalescing applications in Application Insights
Just saw a requests on our internal AI alias on how to rename an application that is being monitored in Application Insights. For those of you that don’t want to read the entire post the directions can...
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Unit testing OWIN applications using TestServer
Unit testing OWIN applications using TestServerUnit testing a OWIN application (pipeline) can be as simple as calling WebApp.Start() on a Startup class. For example here is a simple OWIN pipeline:You...
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Modified ASP.NET 4.5 CPU Throttling
A while back, Jose blogged about the CPU throttling feature in ASP.NET 4.5. As described in the original post, this feature is intended to correct negative scaling in server throughput when handling...
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Visual Studio 2013 Demo VM available
Brian Keller has released the RTM version of his incredibly useful demo VM. He loads just about everything you could want to demo onto it and makes it easy to see how anything in VS or TFS works.Read...
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Presentations I’m doing in Dublin and London Dec 2nd->5th
I’ll be in Ireland and the UK next week presenting at several events. Below are details on the talks I’ll be doing if you want to come along and hear them:Dublin: Monday Dec 2ndI’m doing two separate...
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Microsoft's "F# in Finance" in London - Initial Report
On Monday Microsoft hosted the first “F# in Finance” at Microsoft’s corporate offices in London, co-organized by Fountainhead Consulting. The next "F# in Finance" event will be in New York City on 11...
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