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Publishing LightSwitch Apps to Azure with Visual Studio 2012–UPDATED
The recent release of LightSwitch for Visual Studio 2012 included some updates around publishing to Azure. Most importantly, we have made it even easier to publish your LightSwitch applications to...
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Announcing this year’s Dream.Build.Play challenge winners for Windows Phone
Microsoft’s annual Dream.Build.Play Challenge invites developers to create games for Windows Phone or the Xbox 360 and compete for cash prizes and fame. I had the chance to spend several long hours...
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C++ AMP Resources
Hopefully by now you have heard of C++ AMP. C++ AMP is a modern C++ library (plus a key new language feature) that ships with Visual Studio 2012 and it lets you take advantage of accelerators, such as...
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LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup– August 2012
Last year I started posting a rollup of interesting community happenings, content, samples and extensions popping up around Visual Studio LightSwitch. If you missed those rollups you can check them all...
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Windows Phone 8 SDK Preview opens for applications Sept. 12
In June we provided an early look at some developer features of Windows Phone 8, promising to share the Software Development Kit (SDK) in late summer. Select partners and developers have already seen...
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ALM Rangers Demo Factory Team release their first demo nuggets!
The ALM Rangers started the Demonstration factory initiative to raise the overall quality bar of hands-on labs and to create DemoMate based recordings. The team’s key objectives were to improve...
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C++/CX Part 1 of [n]: A Simple Class
See C++/CX Part 0 of [N]: An Introduction for an introduction to this series. In this article we'll consider the basics of C++/CX by looking at a simple Windows Runtime class; we'll skim over some of...
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Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook available
Richard's new book 'Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook' is now available. It's a great broad overview of the new capabilities in VS 2012 and is a good way for an existing VS user to get up to speed on all...
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Windows Installer XML (WiX) v3.6 Released
The Windows Installer XML (WiX) team has released version 3.6 which, most notably, released a powerful and customizable chainer named Burn. The Visual Studio 2012 setup applications weren’t built on...
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Release Notes for 9/6/2012
Below are the release notes from today's deployment. More performance improvements around inline diffs – this time in the pull request view Fixed an issue where sending pull requests was not generating...
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Choosing the Right Tool for the Task to Manage Projects, Collaborate, and...
In Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 you have a number of tools to perform some familiar tasks as well as excercise new tasks. In some cases, you can only exercise some features from a single...
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Embracing UI on demand with the app bar
Creating a great app requires honing in on what makes your app best in its category and making that shine. Windows 8 provides tools like charms and app bars to make it easy to really focus on what...
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Memory Profiling: The Methods View
[Performance is a key concern for all but the most trivial of apps, and memory usage helps determine how well your app runs. In this series, Pratap Lakshman shows how the Windows Phone Performance...
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Gartner starts a study on Testing tools and publishes its findings on Magic...
If you are wondering about different vendors of Application Lifecycle Management Tools it is worth taking a look at their latest research where Gartner positions Microsoft in the ALM Leaders Quadrant:...
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Introducing ASP.NET FriendlyUrls - cleaner URLs, easier Routing, and Mobile...
I've said before how surprised I am that more ASP.NET Web Forms developers don't use Routing to make their URLs prettier. If you don't want "foo.aspx" in your URL, then change it with...
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XSS Trends and Internet Explorer
As far back as 2005, cross-site scripting (XSS) was recognized as the most commonly reported type of software vulnerability. A more recent study by Veracode using data from the Web Hacking Incident...
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ASP.NET Web Forms DynamicData FieldTemplates for DbGeography Spatial Types...
Did you enjoy my recent post on ASP.NET MVC DisplayTemplate and EditorTemplates for Entity Framework DbGeography Spatial Types and it's associated GIANT URL? Modeling Binding and EditorTemplates...for...
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What is this Lab Management network traffic: QueryLabSystemDeploymentTasks,...
Just received a question on an internal distribution list: What is Lab Management doing on the Network? I am seeing traffic like: Lab Management QueryLabSystemDeploymentTasks Date...
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Forking in async methods
Given that .NET 4.5 has only recently been released in its final form, it’s not surprising that many folks are still very new to the async/await keywords and have misconceptions about what they are and...
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Sam and Neno’s VS 2012 Book Available at Launch
Sam Guckenheimer and Neno Loje have updated their book on Visual Studio and TFS and it is in print and shipping with our launch this week. You can preview and order the book from any of these...
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