What to Expect from Microsoft at GDC
We at Microsoft look forward to GDC as much as you do. We get to geek out with the best game developers in the world and learn how we can help you be successful. We’re always working to provide the...
View ArticleWhat to Expect from Microsoft at GDC
We at Microsoft look forward to GDC as much as you do. We get to geek out with the best game developers in the world and learn how we can help you be successful. We’re always working to provide the...
View ArticleWebinar: Cloud based performance, load, & stress testing March 19th and March...
We received a lot of requests to redo the the load test Webinar…That being the case we have two more sessions: Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 4:00 p.m. PSTThursday, March 20, 2014, 9:00 a.m. PST Not...
View ArticleEF6.1.0 RTM Available
Since the release of EF6 our team has been working on the EF6.1 release. This is our next release that includes new features. What’s in EF6.1EF6.1 adds the following new features:Tooling consolidation...
View ArticleOneNote and Microsoft's quiet API revolution
Microsoft just released OneNote for Mac today. They also made OneNote for PC free, which means there's a free OneNote app on Windows, Windows Phone, iOS, Mac, Android and a really full featured HTML5...
View ArticleUse Enumeration types in OData
Enumeration is a very common data type in various data models. Enumeration types are useful means to represent data that needs to support certain programmatic options (such as the ability to detect one...
View ArticleIntegrating documents into cloud business apps
Documents are critical pieces of information in many business applications. That’s why we added support for easily attaching to Office 365 or SharePoint document libraries in the latest release of...
View Articlecppcon registration open!
From cppcon : Registration is now open for CppCon 2014 to be held September 7–12, 2014 at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Washington, USA. The conference will start with the keynote by Bjarne...
View ArticleIntegrating Documents into Cloud Business Apps
For the Office Developer Tools – March 2014 Update, we’ve added the ability to integrate application data with SharePoint document libraries. We’ve also added a new control to display related...
View ArticleImproving High-DPI support for Visual Studio 2013
Visual Studio has had support for High-DPI modes for some time. Visual Studio 2010 adopted WPF as its primary UI framework, which addressed many existing high-DPI issues. Some of our components which...
View ArticleAngleBrackets open web conference in Florida - April 2014
We had a blast last year at AngleBrackets in Vegas. Next month we're heading to family-friendly Orlando with our friends ScottGu, Denise Jacobs, Douglas Crockford, John Papa, Dan Wahlin, and lots...
View ArticleHow to automatically notify the user that it's time to upgrade a Windows App
Back in 2007 I did a post called Making your Application Automatically Update Itself. Yesterday I was pairing on a little startup I'm doing on the side with Greg Shackles and it was time do the setup...
View ArticleVisual Studio Online Best Practices: Troubleshooting issues with the...
As you adopt Visual Studio Online (VSO) and assign licenses to your users you may want to assign the “Eligible MSDN Subscriber” license type to team members. MSDN subscriptions are purchased"...
View ArticleFree and great value ALM training on the West Coast
My buddy Steve is back out on the road doing what he does best –preaching about best practices in the ALM space. Northwest Cadence Complementary Webcast/Training events:Continuous Delivery with MS...
View ArticleDocument Libraries FAQ
A recent post, Integrating Documents in Cloud Business Apps, was published on the Apps for Office and SharePoint Blog which discusses the ability to integrate application data with SharePoint document...
View ArticleChanges in the Microsoft MVP Program - MVPs for Open Source Contributions
Before I went to work for Microsoft a few years back, I was given the "MVP" award for ASP.NET. I didn't go out and seek this award, it just happened. The MVP awards are backward-looking in that they...
View ArticleOpen Source and Microsoft Developer Tools
Across Microsoft, we've seen a significant increase in our engagement with open source communities over the last few years - as consumers, producers and participants in open source software projects....
View ArticleInstrumenting Your App for Telemetry and Analytics
Publishing your app through the Windows Store and the Windows Phone Store is just the first step in your app’s relationship with its customers. Certainly you hope that many customers will find and...
View ArticleAnnouncing RTM of ASP.NET Identity 2.0.0
Today, we are releasing the final version of ASP.NET Identity 2.0. The main focus in this release was to add security and account management features as well as address feedback from the...
View ArticleThe ASP.NET Web API 2.2 for OData release and the OData Client Code Generator...
We are very excited to announce the availability of nightly builds on MyGet for ASP.NET Web API 2.2 for OData v4.0 along with OData Client Code Generator for writing OData v4 clients. The Web API 2.2...
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