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Quick steps to drive more downloads
The Office Store is officially one year old! We’d like to share some pointers that will help your app to reach the maximum number of customers. With the SharePoint Conference just around the corner,...
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Introducing Bing Code Search for C#
Download the extension now from the Visual Studio GalleryImagine wanting to read a file line by line, and process those lines. Today, we’d most likely load up a web browser, visit our favorite search...
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Interacting with Content Items on the Screen with the LightSwitch API (Kevin...
A LightSwitch application at its core is built by adding data to screens and creating a tree of content items to display and interact with this data. LightSwitch provides a JavaScript API over these...
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Introducing ASP.NET Project “Helios”
In late 2013 we made available a prerelease NuGet package which allows running a managed web application directly on top of IIS without going through the normal ASP.NET (System.Web) request processing...
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Supplemental to ASP.NET Project “Helios”
This is a supplemental document to my earlier Introducing ASP.NET Project “Helios” post. It contains extra information that might be of interest to the advanced developer but which didn’t make it into...
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New CodedUI course from Pluralsight
One of the ALM MVPs, Marcel de Vries, has been spending a ton of time writing CodeUI Tests. Thankfully Marcel decided to take this hard earned knowledge and convert it into a class on best practices...
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Winter ISO C++ Meeting Trip Report
Herb Sutter posted highlights from the Winter ISO C++ meeting held last week in sunny Issaquah, WA: The major work of this meeting was to complete processing of the national body comments received in...
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Adding two-factor authentication to an application using ASP.NET Identity
IntroductionWe recently released the 2.0.0-beta1 version of ASP.NET Identity. Learn more here by visiting this link. This is an update to 2.0.0-alpha1 and adds two-factor authentication along with a...
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Beginning LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2013 - Address Book HTML Sample
I just uploaded the completed sample that you build step-by-step in the Beginning LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2013 Article Series. If you’re completely new to LightSwitch or HTML5/JavaScript...
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Distributed Automated Browser Testing with Selenium and BrowserStack
I'm a huge fan of BrowserStack. They are a cloud-based browser testing service that lets you remote into effectively any browser version on any version of any operating system. They've even got Visual...
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Vote for the SharePoint Conference App Awards – People’s Choice!
UPDATE 2/20/2014: Preliminary voting is done, and we have 4 finalists! It’s time for you to cast your final vote between now and February 28, 4:00PM PST. Each registered SharePoint Conference attendee...
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New UI and capabilities for Windows Phone App Studio Beta developers
We created Windows Phone App Studio Beta as a powerful but easy-to-use tool to help hobbyists, enthusiasts and new developers create content-based apps from end to end, all within a web UI. To date...
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Creating a slide show for your lock screen
In Windows 8, the lock screen feature introduced a personalization option to change the single image for each user that is logged into the device. In Windows 8.1, we’ve taken personalization a step...
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Azure: ExpressRoute Dedicated Networking, Web Site Backup Restore, Mobile...
This morning we released a massive amount of enhancements to Windows Azure. Today’s new capabilities and announcements include:ExpressRoute: Dedicated, private, high-throughput network connectivity...
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Using Claims in your Web App is Easier with the new OWIN Security Components
Hello everybody! My name is Vittorio Bertocci: I am a program manager in the Windows Azure Active Directory team, where I work on developer experience. In the last few months the ASP.NET and Active...
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Free ALM Webinars from Northwest Cadence
Steve and his team is offering a free set of Webinars for the ALM World!Thanks Steve!Northwest Cadence Complementary Webcast/Training events:- Using Kanban: Microsoft Jump Start March 5-...
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VS Online early adopter program extended to May 7, 2014
I know this is the second time I am doing this but I believe it is the last. For a refresher for those who don’t remember what the early adopter program is, let me explain. We released the public...
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Usage monitoring with Application Insights JavaScript SDK Update
Posting on the behalf of Bret Grinslade. If you want to know more or meet Bret he will also be doing a talk on this topic at TechED 2014. ***************************** We have posted an update to the...
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Why C++?
A few weeks ago, I had an opportunity to share a few scenarios where C++ really matters to an internal audience from the field. No demo code or sample projects were reviewed, just the scenarios and...
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Microsoft killed my Pappy
I was talking to a young (<25) Front End Developer recent who actively hated Microsoft. Sometimes I meet folks that are actively pissed or sometimes ambivalent. But this dude was pissed. The ones I...
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