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Code Debugging Content in Community
A few days ago, we called out some of the great debugging topics on the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Library. Here are some excellent resources outside of the MSDN Library (in no particular order...
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Top Windows Phone app certification failures and how to avoid them
Thanks to Mike Francis of the Windows Phone Store certification and policy team, who provided much of the content for this blog. -- Bernardo I work very hard to develop, test, and market my Windows...
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Deprecation of Custom Code in Sandboxed Solutions
Our bad. We’ve been guilty of sending mixed messages about the status of sandboxed solutions in SharePoint development. We’d like to clarify that now.While developing sandboxed solutions that contain...
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Build 2014 Registration is Now Open
Last month we announced that Build 2014 will be back at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, April 2 – 4. Hopefully you’ve saved the date on your calendar, because registration is now open at...
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Register now for Build 2014
As we announced last month, Build 2014 will take place on April 2-4 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. Registration has just opened up at http://buildwindows.com - we encourage you to sign up...
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Register now for Build 2014
As we announced last month, Build 2014 will take place on April 2-4 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. Registration has just opened up at http://buildwindows.com - we encourage you to sign up...
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Kinect for Windows C++ Samples
Kinect for Windows enables developers like you to create applications that allow users to interact naturally with the computer by gesturing and speaking. You probably already know this. But did you...
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Scaffolding ADO.NET Entity Data Model Designer-based-models
The ADO.NET Entity Data Model Designer (Entity Designer) is a GUI tool for editing Entity Framework models. You can use the Entity Designer to visually create and modify entities, associations,...
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Living a High-DPI desktop lifestyle can be painful
I've been using this Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro for the last few weeks, and lemme tell you, it's lovely. It's the perfect size, it weighs nothing, touch screen, fast SSD, it's thinner than the X1 Carbon Touch...
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Publishing apps for Office and SharePoint to Windows Azure Websites
Windows Azure Websites are a great hosting platform for a variety of applications – and your app can be one of them. Azure Websites are easy to create and offer advanced management, scalability, and...
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Visually Creating Snippets
Get the new Snippetizer DevLabs Extension hereSnippets are a fun and easy way to quickly add code into your app. Snippets are commonly used, small blocks of code that represent a particular action or...
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Roslyn performance (Matt Gertz)
(For the next few posts, I’m going to introduce readers to the different feature teams in the Managed Languages org. Today, I’m starting this with a focus on the performance team.)Back in 2000, I...
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Roslyn performance (Matt Gertz)
(For the next few posts, I’m going to introduce readers to the different feature teams in the Managed Languages org. Today, I’m starting this with a focus on the performance team.)Back in 2000, I...
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Some notes on using Organizational Auth with ASP.NET
In Visual Studio 2013 we shipped support for creating new ASP.NET projects which use Windows Azure Active Directory for Organizational Authentication. Vittorio Bertocci has recently written a great...
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Creating a C++ Project from a PDB file: PDB Project [[Version 2.0]]
We are thrilled to announce version 2.0 of the PDB Project extension on the Visual Studio Gallery . PDB Project, as the name suggests, takes the information contained in a .pdb file to create a C++...
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Tips and Tricks for Lync Integration (Nicole Haugen, Ravi Eda)
The Person Viewer and Person Picker controls were introduced in Visual Studio 2013 to support the Person data type which makes it easy to manage people-related data in your application. These controls...
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Cloud Load Testing and Application Insights Webinar – January 23rd
January 23rd I will team up with Manas Maheshwari to host a live Webinar on Visual Studio Online, Cloud Load Testing and of course Application Insights!The webinar will provide a short overview on the...
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Exception Boundaries
In modern C++, exceptions are the preferred method of runtime error reporting and handling. Yes, there are some cases where other forms of error reporting may be more appropriate—error codes, for...
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Windows Azure: Staging Publishing Support for Web Sites, Monitoring...
This morning we released another great set of enhancements to Windows Azure. Today’s new capabilities and announcements include:Web Sites: Staged Publishing Support and Always On SupportMonitoring...
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Inside Windows Phone 71 – Using NoSQL to store data offline
Rob Tiffany joins Matthijs Hoekstra again to discuss NoSQL, an easy way to store your data offline on your phone. During this conversation Rob explains what NoSQL is, why you would use it and what the...
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