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Auto History Extension in Visual Studio 2013
Have you ever found yourself wishing you could roll back a few hours to a piece of code you had working but have made changes to? You were “in the flow” and you haven’t checked anything in to your...
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Examining stack traces of objects using Visual Studio 2013
It is quite common to have a program stopped in the debugger due to a crash or assertion caused by an object being in a bad state, and to track down the problem, you need to figure out how it got that...
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IN YOUR OWN WORDS – Eddie Kezeli, ProShot developer
"The results of my single app on Windows Phone exceeded my expectations so much that I quit looking for a job."In less than one year, Eddie Kezeli, the mastermind of ProShot—an innovative camera app...
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More control for app developers in the Windows Store
We’re always thinking about how we can improve the Windows Store onboarding and publishing process to make things easier for you as an app developer. This week we rolled out a few changes to help you...
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LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–January 2014
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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Introducing the new hub control for heterogeneous data
In Windows 8, we introduced several concepts and controls to deal with large collections of data. The XAML and HTML ListView control allows you to create uniform grouped lists with a single,...
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Building Modern Web Apps with ASP.NET - A new day of free ASP.NET Training...
Last year, about this time, a bunch of us sat down in a studio to give a full day of tutorials and discussion on "Building Web Apps with ASP.NET." All those videos are online and have lots of good...
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VS/TFS 2013.2 (Update 2) CTP Released
Today, fast on the heels of Update 1, we released the first CTP of VS/TFS 2013 Update 2. Although Update 1 was a pretty small release, Update 2 is much larger. This CTP is *not* feature complete and...
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Visual Studio 2013 arriving soon for Windows Embedded Compact 2013
As announced recently on the Windows Embedded blog, Microsoft Windows Embedded is making an update release to the Windows Embedded Compact 2013 product to be available this spring. This update release...
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modern.IE Celebrates 1 Year Anniversary and 1 Million Hours Saved
Since the launch of modern.IE in January of 2013, developers taking advantage of the free virtual testing tools on the site have collectively saved over 1 million hours testing time.Join us in...
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JSON Debugger Visualizer in Visual Studio 2013
We are proud to announce the addition of JSON Visualizer to Visual Studio debugger in the Update 2 for Visual Studio 2013. JavaScript Object Notation or JSON is a popular format for transmitting data...
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Application Insights Visual Studio Add-in preview
In the fall, we introduced a preview of a new VS Online service called “Application Insights” that enables you to instrument your app to ensure that it is available, performing and successful. It...
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Triggering Prefetch for Windows Store Apps in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2
Windows 8.1 introduced a method for Windows Store App developers to pre-register content with the Windows API to cache resources to be used by your apps before your app has been launched. This was to...
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.NET Memory Analysis: Object Inspection
In Visual Studio 2013, we introduced a way to analyze .NET Memory with Visual Studio. Now in the Update 2, we’ve added a new feature to inspect values of objects and instances to improve your...
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Checklist: What NOT to do in ASP.NET
About a year ago we thought it would be a good idea to do a talk on "What not to do in ASP.NET?" - basically an anti-patterns talks. We kept seeing folks falling into the same traps and wanted to be...
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Advanced Developers Conference 2014
The Advanced Developers Conference 2014 takes place April 29-30 in Munich. This years sessions will be about modern device apps, debugging, drivers, graphics,cloud services and much more. The...
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Vote for the SharePoint Conference App Awards – People’s Choice!
We asked for innovative and high-quality apps for the Office Store, and the response was overwhelming, with over 200 new or updated apps! If you are registered to attend SPC14, now is the time to cast...
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The Old New C++ Thing
I've spent many hours reading articles on Raymond Chen's blog, The Old New Thing . It is one of the most popular blogs on MSDN with content ranging from concerts at the Seattle Symphony to Win32 and...
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Reduced Windows Phone Certification Times
We receive a good deal of feedback from the Windows Phone community and one request remains consistent - reduce the time required to certify my app. Over the last several months we have been...
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How do we know if mobile apps are secure?
You know how we're always telling out non-technical non-gender-specific spouses and parents to be safe and careful online? You know how we teach non-technical friends about the little lock in the...
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