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Team Foundation Server on Azure IaaS Guidance
Over the last year, I’ve run across numerous customers who are looking for cloud benefits but aren’t ready to go to VS Online – for any number of reasons. I asked the Ranger team to put together some...
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C++14 STL Features, Fixes, And Breaking Changes In Visual Studio 14 CTP1
I'm Microsoft's STL maintainer, and once again we've got about a year's worth of work to tell you about. ("We" means P.J. Plauger of Dinkumware for most features, myself for most fixes and Library...
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ASP.NET Identity 2.1.0-alpha1
Today, we are releasing a preview ASP.NET Identity 2.1.0-alpha1. The main focus in this release was to fix bugs and add SignInManager to make it easier to use security features for login.Download this...
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Error importing the result file after a load test run
Been working with the fine folks at the Game Studios labs and they just recently ran to the following error when they finish a load test run: “There was an error importing the result file after a load...
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Get hacking with the new Kinect for Windows
For the past six months, a select group of developers have been participants in the Kinect for Windows Developer Preview program, experimenting with a pre-release version of the Kinect for Windows v2...
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FIXED: Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) 7E in HIDCLASS.SYS while installing Windows 7
I was doing tech support for a friend this weekend. He was paving an old HP Envy laptop (although this happens on some Dell Inspirons as well) and was getting a blue screen in the middle of install....
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Guide to Freeing up Disk Space under Windows 8.1
This is an "updated for Windows 8.1" version of my popular original article Guide to Freeing up Disk Space under Windows 7.I've got a 256 gig C: drive that is an SSD, but things add up and I've noticed...
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VS/TFS 2013.3 CTP 2 is now available
Today we released the second preview (CTP) of VS/TFS 2013 Update 3. You can download it here.That I know of, there’s not much in the way of new features over and above what I listed in CTP1. The...
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Bugs Fixed in the Spring Update
The Spring Update includes a number of fixes filed through Connect: Free functions can be called using curly braces instead of parentheses. ( link ) When attempting to expand a recursive template, the...
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How to use an Xbox One controller on your Windows PC
The Xbox One controller is fantastic. Even if you don't have an Xbox One, the controller now works on a Windows PC with a standard micro-USB cable. Any Steam and Windows game that supports standard...
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The Great C Runtime (CRT) Refactoring
(This is the first of two articles on changes to the C Runtime (CRT) in the Visual Studio "14" CTP. This article discusses the major architectural changes to the libraries; the second article will...
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Debugging your LightSwitch Application in Microsoft Azure Web Sites
You have built a LightSwitch application and deployed it to an Azure Web Site and everything is working as expected. One day you receive a call that your application is not functioning as it should be....
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New Release: Windows App Studio Beta makes it even easier to publish your apps
If you’re not one of the over 1.1 million people who have used Windows App Studio Beta to quickly turn your idea into an app for Windows and Windows Phone, now is the time to check it out. Our latest...
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Visual Studio Online Update – June 10
It’s time for our sprint 66 deployment already! Over the next couple of days the update will be rolling out across accounts. The big news in this update is Pull Requests for Git repos. Pull requests...
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Analyzing Load Test Results and everything you wanted to know about load test...
Geoff Gray works in Premier services and “ALL” he does is help our customers with their performance problems and even helped create one of three US based performance labs. He has just finished a three...
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Conduct a Git pull request on Visual Studio Online
Today we are announcing that Git pull requests are available on Visual Studio Online. Many teams use code reviews to improve code quality. When you want people on your team to review code in a Git team...
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June 2014 Internet Explorer Updates
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-035 - CriticalThis security update resolves two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities and fifty-seven privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most...
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Use of SQL 2014 with TFS 2013
We’ve certified TFS 2013 (and its subsequent updates) to work with SQL 2014. However, there’s a hitch. Because TFS 2013 shipped before SQL, the license than grants the right to use it with SQL Server...
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Easy accelerated 3D Games in a browser with JavaScript and WebGL using...
Let's ignore that we haven't got a web-agreed-upon way to do just about anything, much less basic line-of-business apps with data-bound text boxes over data, and just revel in the fact that we can do...
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Partner Profile: Zattoo TV launches Live TV Universal Windows App
While consumers are enjoying the latest technologies available right now, developers are busy creating what’s next. Throughout Microsoft’s history, development partners have been essential to our...
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