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IE11 Virtual Machines Now Available on modern.IE
With the recent release of Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7, we have added IE11 for Windows 7 and IE11 on Windows 8.1 to the suite of virtual machines available on modern.IE for testing Internet...
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Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2013 Part 5: May I? Controlling Access with User...
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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Why do I spend time on great design? To double my app downloads
The more apps that I write (40 and counting), the more I learn that designing a beautiful and effective user interface is equally as important as having a great idea and using high-performance code....
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Implementing custom events in Application Insights
Application Insights Usage reports can supply an incredible wealth of information by simply adding a single line of JavaScript. Such as how many people visit a page, what browsers are they using, what...
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Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2013
Those following the Visual Studio 2013 launch may have noticed that we've taken your UserVoice feedback seriously and brought more Productivity Power Tools into the core Visual Studio experience.We...
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How to configure Team Foundation Server with Release Management
Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 (RM) is tightly integrated with TFS. In order to communicate with TFS, RM uses a service account to access different functionality of TFS. Here are the...
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Design Resources for Windows Phone and Windows app development
If “designer” isn’t currently on your resume, you may not realize that developing and publishing an app means you are a designer – you designed your app! With the many tools available to Windows Phone...
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Happy Holidays from the IE Team!
In the spirit of the season, we wanted to share some GPU-powered HTML5 and CSS3 holiday cheer. Check out Holiday Lites to brighten your screen and test your browser’s layout and rendering performance....
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Customization and configuration in VS ALM
With Visual Studio ALM and TFS, you gain access to a wealth of tools, many of which you configure or can customize. Common areas that team's customize include team alerts, team home page, shared...
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Building a basic Web Forms application using Visual Studio 2013
In a previous blog post, we have described the different options you have when creating a new web application with Visual Studio 2013 (VS 2013) and provided an overview of the various ASP.NET features...
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Investigating Memory Leaks in Azure Web Sites with Visual Studio 2013
One of the cool new features in Visual Studio 2013 is the ability to analyze managed memory issues. Recently, Azure Web Sites added support to programmatically get mini-dumps and “diagsession” files...
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EF 6.1 Alpha 1 Available
Since the release of EF6 a couple of months ago our team has started working on the EF6.1 release. This is our next release that will include new features. What’s in Alpha 1It’s still early days in the...
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Updated license for September 2012 Roslyn preview available (MattGe)
As I mentioned in my previous blog post, we ended up with a little too much time between previews, to our subsequent embarrassment. In fact, it came to our attention recently that the licensing for the...
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Updated license for September 2012 Roslyn preview available (MattGe)
As I mentioned in my previous blog post, we ended up with a little too much time between previews, to our subsequent embarrassment. In fact, it came to our attention recently that the licensing for the...
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Updating ASP.NET applications from ASP.NET Identity 1.0 to 2.0.0-alpha1
We released the 2.0.0-alpha1 version for ASP.NET Identity. Learn more here http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/12/20/announcing-preview-of-microsoft-aspnet-identity-2-0-0-alpha1.aspxOne of the...
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Announcing preview of Microsoft.AspNet.Identity 2.0.0-alpha1
Today, we are releasing a preview of ASP.NET Identity. The main focus in this release was to fix issues with the 1.0 release and build upon the 1.0 Framework to add more features such as Account...
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Scott Hanselman's 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
Everyone collects utilities, and most folks have a list of a few that they feel are indispensable. Here's mine. Each has a distinct purpose, and I probably touch each at least a few times a week....
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Asynchronous programming in C++ using resumable functions and await
As you know we recently released the Visual C++ Compiler November 2013 CTP . One of the many features in this CTP is the support for resumable functions and await. In this blog post, I want to touch...
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2013: The Year of Unification
As 2013 comes to a close, I want to take a moment to reach out and thank all of you for your support of the Windows platform over the past year. I continue to be amazed by the apps you create, and I...
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2013 brings first steps in unified developer experience
As we look back on 2013, we’re thankful for your support of the Windows platform. Over the past years, the ability to use apps on a variety of devices (phone, tablet, and PC) and in different contexts...
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