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Shrink my Program Database (PDB) file
Overview PDB's (Program Database file), PDB stands for Program Database , a proprietary file format (developed by Microsoft ) for storing debugging information about a program (or, commonly, binaries...
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Showcase apps with real world code samples
This week we published a new type of content called showcase apps. Are you looking for a 30,000 foot view into a real world sample or complex architecture? Showcase apps will help! A showcase app is a...
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Review: A tale of three Lenovo Laptops - X1 Carbon Touch, ThinkPad Yoga,...
I'm a big Lenovo fan and have used Thinkpads nearly exclusively since my first T60p. I'm using an first-gen X1 Carbon Touch as my main on the go machine these days. I've also tried using a Lenovo Yoga...
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UserVoice: Your Feedback in Our Products
In October 2013, we launched the Office and SharePoint developer UserVoice, which allowed us to get your thoughts about the platform. We have read though every message and, now that SharePoint...
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Writing Windows Store apps with locale-based adaptive design
The Windows architecture allows developers to create apps and easily make then available to people all around the globe. This process, known as globalization, requires that developers primarily design...
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New “How Do I…?” Videos and other Resources for Building Cloud Business Apps...
We released the Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – March 2014 Update on Monday which contains a ton of new features for Office 365 Cloud Business Apps and LightSwitch projects as well as...
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Inside Windows Phone 72: Deploying Windows Phone apps for the Enterprise
This week’s Inside Windows Phone was written and recorded by Matthijs Hoekstra, senior product marketing manager for Windows Phone. -- Larry In this week’s Inside Windows Phone, we talked with Rob...
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Office Web Widgets—Experimental
At SharePoint Conference, we announced a couple of experimental UI widgets to help you build apps for Office and SharePoint. The widgets included in this first release are the People Picker and the...
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Enhancements to Debugging Exceptions with IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2013
The Microsoft Monitoring Agent allows you to collect reliability and performance data for web applications and to review the data using IntelliTrace. With Visual Studio 2013 Update 2, we have added the...
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A Case of the Twitters
Do you watch the Twitterverse for interesting stuff about C++, development, life, the universe and everything? We do and in today's post share some recent Tweets that crossed our ( @visualc ) path:...
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Using Parameter Alias to simplify the OData URL
Are you suffering from typing complex parameter values in URL? Or even make it worse you need to type it more than once?To solve this problem, now Microsoft.OData.Core.dll 6.0 supports parameter alias...
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Blend for HTML Behaviors and Actions
Blend for Visual Studio 2013 introduces a feature to HTML developers that may be familiar to those who already work with XAML: Behaviors. When attached to HTML elements, Behaviors add life to an...
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Getting started with ASP.NET Web API 2.2 for OData v4.0
A few weeks ago we started publishing nightly builds for our initial support in ASP.NET Web API for the OData v4.0 protocol. Our OData v4.0 support is based on the OData Library for OData v4.0 that has...
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Build apps that connect with People and Calendar, Part 2: Appointments
In the first post of this series, we looked at one of the contracts introduced with Windows 8.1, contact cards. In this post we’ll explore how an app can work with the user’s calendar through the...
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Improvements in Working with Large Data Sources
Business apps typically need to connect to large data sources and schemas. That’s why in the Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – March 2014 Update we've done a lot of work to improve the...
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Back to Basics: Assert your assumptions and diff your source code
I've done a whole series of "Back to Basics" posts that I encourage you to check out. Sometimes I'll do a post as a result of a reader emailing me for help and this is one such post.A person emailed me...
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Using Application Insights for Windows Phone 8.0 Direct3D C++ Apps
You can currently use Application Insights to find out how people use your Windows 8.1 Store Apps&Managed Windows Phone 8.0 Apps. We’ve been asked about Phone 8.0 Direct3D C++ Apps as well, which...
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New release: Modern Trend app for Excel
The Microsoft ecoSystem group is pleased to announce the free Modern Trend app for Excel. It is now available on Office Store! The Modern Trend app helps you tell a story based on your Excel data. With...
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Exploring FAKE, an F# Build System for all of .NET
I've been orbiting around F# - but not really jumping in - for a while now. In fact, I looked at F# in 2008 almost 6 years ago and more recently talked to Richard Minerich and Phillip Trelford on...
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Visual Studio Online Test Troubleshooting Guide
Visual Studio Online Test Troubleshooting GuideLast Updated Friday, March 14, 2014If you still have issues after reviewing this guide, please contact Microsoft support. GENERAL1. How do I know the IP...
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