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Putting the F# in Finance with Xenomorph TimeScape: A World of Financial Data...
(This is a slightly edited cross-posting of this blog from Xenomorph).We are glad to bring you a sample demonstrator for applying the F# 3.0 Type Providers to enterprise financial data sources, both...
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Announcing SharePoint Conference 2014 App Awards
The much-anticipated, highly-suspenseful, excitement-inducing App Awards are coming back to SharePoint Conference 2014! We are looking for innovative and high quality apps for the Office Store. Create...
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Options for publishing Windows Phone beta apps and testing in-app purchase
Developers frequently send us questions asking for the best publishing option to test their apps, benefits and limitations of beta publishing, as well as how to test in-app purchase. Testing is an...
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Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2013 Part 4: Too much information! Sorting and...
NOTE: This is the Visual Studio 2013 update of the popular Beginning LightSwitch article series. For previous versions see:Visual Studio 2012: Part 4: Too much information! Sorting and Filtering Data...
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Another silly post about clothes
And an embarrassing moment.I’ve gotten some teasing about wearing a tie at the French Visual Studio 2013 launch event in Paris this week. There are some pictures of me floating around online. It’s...
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Announcing the F# 3.1 Compiler/Library Code Drop (from the Visual F# Tools...
The Microsoft Visual F# team are pleased to announce the availability of our code drop of an F# 3.1 compiler, library and tests.This code drop corresponds to the release of the Visual F# Tools for F#...
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"F# in Finance" - New York Edition - December 11
The next edition of the successful F# in Finance conference will be held in New York City on December 11. You can register now.See also our writeup of the London edition of the F# in Finance...
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Instant Azure Caching with MVC
In this blog post I’ll take my MVC Movie app and in 15 minutes connect it to the preview Windows Azure Cache service. The image below shows the details of a movie along with timing data (1.4...
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Human Computer Interaction Diversity - 7 Devices that AREN'T a mouse and...
One of the most wonderful and least appreciated things about computers is diversity of devices. You're probably interacting with your computer with a keyboard and mouse. But in the last few years,...
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Load Testing VSOnline/TFS
Ed Glas, Bill Barnett and Jiange Sun published a detailed write up of their experiences load testing VSOnline/TFS. It’s a good read because they go into a lot of the reasons for the things they do and...
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C++11/14 Core Language Features in VS 2013 and the Nov 2013 CTP
Although we've listed the C++11 Core Language features available in VS 2013 and the C++11/14 Core Language features available in the Nov 2013 CTP , I haven't published a table on VCBlog. (Previous...
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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Development Lifecycle Management
Now say that 3 times fast Gartner recently released their 2013 report on ADLM. I’m very pleased to see that, once again, they’ve placed us in the leaders quadrant. And this placement doesn’t even...
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TF255356: Known Issue with Configuring TFS 2013 RTM Express and Basic
This post is to report a known issue with configuration in Team Foundation Server 2013 RTM. The issue is specific to configuring TFS Basic, Express, or Upgrade on a machine with SQL Express 2008 R2...
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LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup- November 2013
A while back I started posting a monthly rollup of interesting community happenings, content, samples and extensions popping up around Visual Studio LightSwitch. If you missed those rollups you can...
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Getting to the Content You Want, Faster in IE11
Internet Explorer 11 helps overcome the effects of network latency, making every day browsing feel fast and responsive without hurting battery life, CPU, network bandwidth, or memory. Network latency...
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Visual C++ in 2013 and Beyond – Q&A
Did you watch Charles Torre's discussion with Ale Contenti, Tarek Madkour and Herb Sutter at the Visual Studio 2013 Virtual Launch last month? The team answered a number of questions from Charles and...
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Announcing TypeScript 0.9.5
Today, we're happy to announce the release of TypeScript 0.9.5. This release focuses on addressing feedback from the community around quality and stability. In this release, we've fixed over 100...
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Beta apps no longer expire, plus an update for the Dev Center app
Today I have two updates I’d like to share with you: beta apps no longer have an expiration date, and the Windows Phone Dev Center app has a new “markets” view. Beta apps no longer have an expiration...
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Holiday Helpers
The Holidays are coming! The Holidays are coming! I’m being a little dramatic but it’s a pretty big deal. Companies rush their most exciting products to the marketplace, and customers spend more in...
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Working with files across the local PC and SkyDrive
Tablet devices, now omnipresent, have enabled new levels of mobility and content creation on the go. Today, consumers want more from their tablets: the ability to access files from any device, and the...
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