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Performance++ with Visual C++ 2013
For Visual Studio 2013 we have continued to improve the analysis performed by the Visual C++ compiler so it can produce code that runs faster than before. In this blog we highlight some of the many...
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Three all new Windows 8.1 video tutorials - what's new in 8.1, keyboard...
I'm really happy with the response from my "Windows 8 moved my cheese" YouTube Tutorial. It's helped thousands of people lose their fear of the change that Windows 8 represents. I encourage you to...
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Release Candidates for ASP.NET MVC 5.1, Web API 2.1 and Web Page 3.1.
Today we shipped release candidates for ASP.NET MVC 5.1, ASP.NET Web Pages 3.1 and Web API 2.1 to the NuGet gallery. In this release we are previewing some of the runtime features in ASP.NET and Web...
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Microsoft.SqlServer.Types NuGet Package (Spatial on Azure)
Any application that uses Entity Framework’s spatial data type support to target SQL Server requires the ‘CLR Types for SQL Server’to be available on the machine the application runs on. This also...
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Windows Store trends – Nov 2013 Update
As you build new apps or improve existing apps, it’s important to understand as much as possible about the store where your apps will be offered. We frequently get questions about the best categories,...
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Visual Studio 2013.1 RC is Available
We are doing a pretty quick turn of the crank on VS 2013 Update 1. Originally we were thinking our first Update would take a little longer but for a variety of reasons (most prominently the feedback...
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The .NET Framework 4.5.1 is available on Windows Update and WSUS
We are happy to announce that the .NET Framework 4.5.1 and its language packs are now available via Windows Update (WU) and WSUS. You can learn more about the release from the What's new in the .NET...
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How to modify the TFS 2013 default build process template...
Release Management provides the option to trigger a release from a build. But to use this feature, some additional logic has to be added to the default build process template. This article details how...
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Enable app SideLoading in your non-developer site collection
Visual Studio allows developers to sideload apps for development and test use only. In this post, we’ll walk through what app sideloading is, when it’s appropriate to sideload SharePoint apps, and how...
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ASP.NET December 2013 Security Updates
Today is Patch Tuesday, and the ASP.NET team would like to announce that we have two items included in this month’s release. The first is a bulletin affecting certain versions of SignalR; the second is...
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Enabling no-quota push notifications for company apps on Windows Phone
This post was authored by Austin Laugesen, program manager, and Steve DiAcetis, principal program manager on the Windows Phone team. -- AdamWindows Phone 8 enables companies to publish and distribute...
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December 2013 Internet Explorer Updates
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-097 - CriticalThis security update resolves seven privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code...
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Manage OAuth2.0 access tokens with Sina Weibo service
An app for Office often accesses external resources such as search results, blog posts, and videos. To do that, authorization with third-party web-services is required. In this post we share our...
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Making Visual Studio Accessible
Microsoft as a whole is committed to making our technology accessible to everyone (see our Accessibility Mission Statement). This is true for us here in Visual Studio as well, and we work continuously...
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Application Insights Microsoft Monitoring Agent setup FAQ
Application Insights has only been available for a month; so it doesn’t come as any huge surprise that most of the questions and issues have been on the setup process and many of those question has...
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Announcing Visual Studio 2013 Virtual Machine with Application Lifecycle...
The Visual Studio 2013 RTM ALM Virtual Machine is available for download along with 4 hands-on-labs / demo scripts which introduce some of the new ALM capabilities which have been added in this...
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Configuring Release Management to work across untrusted
There are times when you will want Release Management (RM) to interact with machines that are not part of the same domain. This post details the steps required to configure RM to work across untrusted...
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New Visual F# Templates for ASP.NET, Web API, MSTest and Nancy Now Available
The F# community and the Visual F# team have been working together to bring new community-authored templates for Visual F# into the Visual Studio Gallery.One step in this has been to create a central...
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New release: Package Tracker for Outlook 2013 and Outlook Web App
The Microsoft ecoSystem group is pleased to announce the free app Package Tracker for Outlook 2013 and Outlook Web App. It is available on Office Store for you to download and use! Package Tracker...
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Visual Studio Online Update – Dec 11
Today we did our last deployment of 2013 (Sprint 57). You can read about it here: http://visualstudio.com/en-us/news/2013-dec-11-vsoOur next deployment would normally fall very close to the Christmas...
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