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Amazon Kindle Paperwhite SECOND GENERATION Review - plus new Kindle Software...
I'm a longtime Kindle fan. Love it. It's not a tablet, not a computer, my Paperwhite Kindle represents books for me.I have a first-generation Kindle Paperwhite and use it almost every day. It's my...
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Exciting Times for .NET
Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at //build/ which is the premiere developer event of the year for Microsoft. As I mentioned in the rollup yesterday, yours truly spoke in the Office &...
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Intellisense for JSON Schema in the JSON Editor
In the previous post, we introduced our new JSON editor in the CTP 2 release of Visual Studio 2013 Update2. In the RC version of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2, we added intellisense support for JSON...
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VSTO Runtime Update to Address Slow Shutdown and “Unknown Publisher” for...
We are pleased to announce a new version of the VSTO Runtime (10.0.50325) that addresses two important issues reported to us by customers. For VSTO add-ins using WPF controls, customers using...
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Now live: Consolidated price tiers to support universal Windows apps, may...
This week we began rolling out the behind the scenes infrastructure changes in support of announcements at last week’s //build/ conference. This includes the consolidated price tier structure, which...
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Windows Phone 8.1 now available on Windows Phone Preview for Developers
Starting today, you can update your personal dev phone(s) to run Windows Phone 8.1 using the Windows Phone Preview for Developers program . Along with the tooling delivered in Visual Studio 2013 Update...
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Is Microsoft abandoning TFVC in favor of Git?
No.This is an example of the power of social media. I had planned to ignore it but I’ve had enough requests for “official confirmation” that I guess I have to say something :).Last week someone...
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Using Visual Studio to build Universal XAML Apps
At the Build conference, we announced the release of the new converged Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1 platforms. As a developer, this means you can now build XAML and HTML universal apps that run on...
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Dev Center now open for Windows Phone 8.1 and universal Windows app submissions
I’m Keith and I manage the engineering teams accountable for the Dev Center experience. Over the past few months the team has been hard at work enabling the universal Windows app experience announced...
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Azure Updates: Web Sites, VMs, Mobile Services, Notification Hubs, Storage,...
It has been a really busy last 10 days for the Azure team. This blog post quickly recaps a few of the significant enhancements we’ve made. These include:Web Sites: SSL included, Traffic Manager, Java...
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What's new in F12 with Windows 8.1 Update
We are excited to announce a set of substantial updates to the developer tools in IE, (F12) as well as in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2. The updates in F12 accompany the new releases in IE11. Previously,...
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DualShot developer plans to increase reach, reduce dev time with Windows...
“The potential to increase reach across platforms while actually reducing development time makes [Windows Phone 8.1] the most developer-centric release I have witnessed from Microsoft.”Canadian...
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Authoring Windows 8.1 Apps in XAML
At the BUILD conference last week, we announced the availability of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 and Blend for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2. We have been busy improving the overall experience of XAML...
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Application Insights Webinar April 17th 8:00am PST
If you are looking to get started with Application Insights I will be hosting a webinar Thursday 8:00am PST where I will be walking through a getting started session looking at Availability Monitoring,...
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Where’s That Record? (Rohit Agrawal)
Today we will be exploring some new features introduced in the Office Developer Tools – March 2014 Update that make filtering rich sets of data easier – Table Sort, Search bar and auto-complete support...
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Tech Days 2014 – April 16 – 17 World Forum Den Haag
Tech Days is the annual Microsoft Conference for software development, software architecture and IT solutions in the Netherlands. The Tech Days conference covers the full spectrum of Microsoft...
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New agent for Application Insights available
We are excited to announce that there is an updated version of Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA) available now. Performance counter collection frequency was reduced from 5 minutes to 1 minute for...
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Exploring ASP.NET Web Pages - A fully-featured MiniBlog using just Razor
ASP.NET "Razor" Web Pages are ASP.NET sites without models, views, and controllers, without project files. Some folks say "oh, that's just Classic ASP, or PHP right? Not at all. It's the fill power and...
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Enhancements to Debugging and Profiling in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2
Less than a year ago, I gave you a quick overview of the many investments we made to debugging and profiling in Visual Studio 2013 RTM and got some great feedback from you about what we’d done. Now,...
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