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iOS & iPhone storyboarding
So much happened yesterday I’m still trying to catch up on writing about it. Yesterday we release two new sets of storyboarding shapes on the Visual Studio Gallery. Common iOS Icons iPhone controls...
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Visual Studio LightSwitch Books
I recently had a couple emails asking for LightSwitch books so I thought I’d create a list of the ones I know about here. I haven’t read all of them so take a look at the reviews and decide for...
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Casablanca at TechEd Australia
A few days ago, our friends and technology enthusiasts John Azariah and Mahesh Krishnan delivered a great presentation on Casablanca at the TechEd Australia. John and Mahesh go deep - PPL tasks, table...
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New Team, New Challenges
Last week we officially launched VS2012 and the .NET Framework 4.5. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks in launch activities in London, Seattle, Atlanta, and New York, sharing details on the new...
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Integrating Additional Tools in a SharePoint Continuous Integration Build...
We have finally come to the last post in our series on Continuous Integration for SharePoint. Today we’ll first wrap up on the subject of running tests from a build, and then primarily we’ll be...
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Weekend reading: Windows Phone tips from MSDN Magazine
We have a team of talented programming writers here who are always eager to help you build Windows Phone apps faster and better. Besides the developer documentation work they do for the Windows Phone...
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Project Austin Part 1 of 6: Introduction
My name is Jorge Pereira and I am a developer at Microsoft. For the past few months I've been working on a Windows 8 app along with a small team of developers from the Visual C++ team, we call it...
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ASP.NET 4.5 ScriptManager Improvements in WebForms
The ScriptManger control has undergone some key targeted changes in ASP.NET 4.5 which makes it easier to register, manage and combine scripts using the ASP.NET weboptimization feature. This post will...
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The F# 3.0 Freebase Type Provider Sample – Integrating Internet-Scale Data...
Today we have added a new sample to the F# 3.0 Sample Pack – the Freebase Type Provider Sample! You can also read the hot-off-the-presses technical report from our partner team in Microsoft Research...
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IE 9.0.10 Available via Windows Update
Today we released Security Update MS12-063 to address limited attacks against a small number of computers through a vulnerability in Internet Explorer versions 9 and earlier. We also released an...
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Tip for the day: If you get the error "Type provider assembly ... is not...
Tip for the day: If you get the error ""Type provider assembly ... is not trusted and will not be loaded for security reasons" and you want to explicitly opt-in to trusting it, then Go to the Tools...
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The Freebase Type Provider Sample: Static Parameters
The Freebase Type Provider Sample in the F# 3.0 Sample Pack supports a number of interesting static parameters to the type provider which control how Freebase is integrated into the F# programming...
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New TaskCreationOptions and TaskContinuationOptions in .NET 4.5
Astute users of the Task Parallel Library might have noticed three new options available across TaskCreationOptions and TaskContinuationOptions in .NET 4.5: DenyChildAttach, HideScheduler, and (on...
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Visual Studio 2012 SimShip Partners
A month ago we launched Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 at our launch event (http://www.visualstudiolaunch.com) in Seattle. At this event and online, we had a number of sessions showing how Visual Studio...
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Web Platform Docs Debuts with Developer Resources
Today, we are taking another step forward in helping developers achieve the goal of interoperability through same markup. We’re happy to be part of creating Web Platform Docs (WPD), a new W3C hosted...
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Security Advisory 2755801 Revised to Address Adobe Flash Player Issues
Today we released an update that addresses vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8. The majority of customers have automatic updates enabled and will not need to take...
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The evolution of Windows Phone memory management
My colleague Mike Battista posted some great info earlier this year about how to develop apps for lower-memory phones. There’s also some excellent best practice guidance on the Windows Phone Dev...
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Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 CTP
Below you will find the features that can be found in the Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 CTP. This release is a consumer technology preview of the forth coming Visual studio Update due out in November....
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CTP of Windows XP Targeting with C++ in Visual Studio 2012
Background In June, we announced enhanced targeting for Windows XP using the Visual Studio 2012 C++ compiler and libraries. This feature has been included in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 CTP 3. You can...
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Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 CTP3 is Available
Visual Studio 2012 Update (VSUpdate) is our way of delivering fixes and, in some cases, new features to our VS2012 customers. The latest Community Technical Preview (CTP) is available for download now....
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