What’s new in Internet Explorer 11 for Windows Phone
You may have been hearing bits and pieces of news about IE11 on Windows Phone 8.1, and we’re excited to share the full scoop on user experience improvements with you today! Our team has been laser...
View ArticleFixing System.Core 2.0.5 FileLoadException, Portable Libraries and Windows XP...
My buddy Greg and I are getting ready to launch our little side startup, and I was going through our product backlog. Our app consists of a global cloud service with Signalr, an iPhone app made with...
View Article.NET at MonkeySpace Europe, June 9-11
This post was written by Daniel Plaisted, a member of the .NET Framework team who will be at MonkeySpace.MonkeySpace is the “official cross platform and open-source .NET conference.” This year,...
View ArticleDebugging, Profiling, IntelliTrace in VS2013 Update 2 and Tech Ed
Those of you following this blog, and in particular the diagnostics tag, know about the wealth of new value we have shipped in VS2013 RTM and the VS2013 Update 2 RC. I wanted to remind you of all the...
View ArticleInside Windows Phone 75: Tim Heuer on Windows Runtime XAML
This week, Lead Program Manager Tim Heuer joined us to talk about all the announcements from Build 2014 with regard to Windows Runtime XAML, (as well as the unified Windows platform in general). As you...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Update 2 is here!
We’re excited to share that the final release of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 is ready to download. If you are already using Visual Studio 2013 then you’ll soon have a notification waiting for you in...
View ArticleVisual Studio Online REST APIs and Service Hooks
Since we launched Visual Studio Online last November, we've seen great adoption and usage across enterprise, small business and personal users, with over a million accounts created so far. With team...
View ArticleEnabling the .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”) in ASP.NET applications
The .NET languages team recently announced the availability and open sourcing of a public preview of “Roslyn”, the new .NET Compiler Platform. This is the long awaited .NET “compiler as a service” that...
View ArticleAnnouncing ASP.NET Session State Provider for Redis Preview Release
Today, we are pleased to announce a preview release of ASP.NET Session State Provider for Redis. You can use it with your own Redis server or the newly announce Microsoft Azure Redis Cache...
View ArticleThe latest developer bits and advertising SDK; it’s time to //publish/
Last month at the //build/ conference, we announced the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 and today at TechEd North America we delivered the RTM version of the software development...
View ArticleRelease Management for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 with Update 2 is live!
This update brings functionality to easily execute your components/actions to group of servers. It also introduces the ability to achieve continuous deployment from any CI system (including Visual...
View ArticleAzure: VM Security Extensions, ExpressRoute GA, Reserved IPs, Internal Load...
This morning we released a massive amount of enhancements to Microsoft Azure. Today’s new capabilities and announcements include:Virtual Machines: Integrated Security Extensions including Built-in...
View ArticleBuild secure enterprise apps faster on Windows and Windows Phone 8.1
TechEd North America 2014 kicks off today. For the next few days you’ll be reading and hearing about how Microsoft is innovating to help IT pros, developers and users embrace the mobile-first,...
View ArticleMigrating Your Data from TFS to Visual Studio Online with New Free Utility...
Ever since we launched Visual Studio Online in November, we’ve had tremendous success with lots of teams coming to Visual Studio Online for their needs. We’ve had many Team Foundation Server customers...
View ArticleApplication Insights extension for Visual Studio Update – May 12
Today we shipped an update (version 1.3) of our plugin for Visual Studio 2013 that makes working with Application Insights from Visual Studio really easy. Improvements include:Intro to portal...
View ArticleWindows Phone 8.1 helps make it easier to focus on user needs
“Windows Phone 8.1 empowers me, as a developer, to focus on my users’ needs through a variety of powerful features.”Paras Wadehra is a San Francisco-based developer and Microsoft MVP. He has been using...
View ArticleMigrating On Premises TFS to VS Online
One of the questions I’ve frequently gotten from customers considering Visual Studio Online is “How do I migrate my on-premises TFS data to VS Online?”Until now that’s been a tough one to answer. In...
View ArticleNew Getting-Started Resources for Azure Cloud Services and ASP.NET
This week we published a new getting-started tutorial with sample project for Azure Cloud Services on the azure.microsoft.com site. This is a multi-tier application that uses Azure SQL Database and...
View ArticleInstall Visual Studio 2013 Update 2
TechEd 2014 is going on this week in Houston, Texas and there have been many exciting announcements from all over Microsoft. You can read about all the exciting developer-focused announcements on...
View ArticleJoin us at a //Publish/ Event
The last mile of finishing an app can be the most trying for developers. This week on May 16-17, Microsoft and community experts are teaming up to produce a global event taking place in 60 cities...
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