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VSTO Runtime Update to Address Slow Shutdown on .NET Framework 4.5.2
In a VSTO Runtime release earlier this year, we addressed an issue of slow application shutdown for add-ins using WPF controls on touch-enabled devices. With the release of .NET Framework 4.5.2 two...
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Application Insights SDK (0.9.0)
What is it?Our latest and greatest release of the Application Insights SDK.We offer 5 different types to support the different types of application:1) Windows Phone (8.0 & 8.1)2) Windows Store (8.0...
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Using Boost Libraries in Windows Store and Phone Applications
Boost contains a lot of high quality cross platform C++ libraries. Some of the libraries in Boost use APIs that aren’t available in Windows Store and Phone applications. To help improve the experience...
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Internet Explorer @ IETF 90
This week Microsoft is sending a number of engineers, including members from the IE team, to the Internet Engineering Task Force meetings in Toronto. We’re looking forward to the conversations and...
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Open complex type step by step with Web API 2.2 for OData v4.0
IntroductionRecently, Microsoft officially announced Web API 2.2 for OData v4 via the blog post Announcing the Release of ASP.NET MVC 5.2, Web API 2.2 and Web Pages 3.2. In this release, a new feature...
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Parenting Tip: Star Wars Audiobooks, Family, and narrator Marc Thompson
The wife and the boys and I are often in the car for 30 minutes or more, heading off to various activities or events. We live pretty far outside of town, and when we need to head into the city, it's...
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Announcing: Microsoft’s Unified Technology Event for Enterprises
I want to take a moment to share news that we are announcing a new event that will be of interest to all of you in the world of IT and enterprise development. In a cloud-first, mobile-first world,...
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Visual Studio Online Update – July 21
Today we began deployment of our sprint 68 work. There’s a bunch of really good stuff there. I say “begun” because deployment is a multi day event now as we roll it out across instances. Everyone...
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Tips and tricks for using XAML controls in your universal Windows apps
This post was written by Rohan Thakkar, Program Manager 2 - Developer Ecosystem Platform on Operating Systems Group at Microsoft.At //build 2014 we introduced the ability to build universal Windows...
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Announcement: Apps for Office and SharePoint blog has moved
This is the final Apps for Office and SharePoint blog post. We've moved to the Office Developer blog, in this new location:http://blogs.office.com/devPlease join us in this new location to keep reading...
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Announcement: SharePoint Dev blog has moved
This is the final SharePoint Dev blog post. We’ve moved to the Office Developer blog, in this new location:http://blogs.office.com/devPlease join us in this new location to keep reading all the latest...
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The rest of the story (about sand)
A month ago I wrote about our newly enabled capability to measure quality of service on a customer by customer basis. In that post I mentioned that we had actually identified a customer experiencing...
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Trip Report: Community Leadership Summit 2014
I had the opportunity to attend the Community Leadership Summit in Portland, Oregon this last weekend, held right before OSCON. This free event brings together all kinds of community leaders, not just...
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Node.js Tools for Visual Studio 1.0 Beta 2 Available
Today we released the Node.js Tools for Visual Studio 1.0 Beta 2 which is now available for download.NTVS is Microsoft’s free Visual Studio add-on that enables a rich experience for working with...
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Using Unsigned Integers in OData
Unsigned integers can be useful in many ways, such as representing data sizes, resource handles and so on. Though OData V4 only supports signed integer natively, the protocol offers a flexible way...
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How to add a keyboard and write in YOUR language in Windows for free
A lot of people don't realize that Windows supports a LOT of different languages out of the box. After Windows 7 and now with Windows 8 and 8.1, you can add keyboards to dozens of languages without...
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Introduction to universal Windows apps in Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1
This post was written by Microsoft MVP Pavel Yosifovich. -----This week we're featuring guest blog posts from some of the members of our Microsoft developer MVP program. Microsoft MVPs are passionate,...
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Expanding Open Source technologies on Windows
At //build/ 2014 earlier this year, Microsoft took a number of broad steps to embrace open source, from WinJS and .NET to the open cloud on Azure and investments and efforts to enable your favorite...
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Visual C++ Bytes Redux
Be sure to check out the third episode of the current season of VC++ Bytes, featuring demos for a slew of additional productivity features added to Visual Studio “14” CTP 2! Check out the video (and...
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Visual Studio Tools for Unity 1.9
Today we released the Visual Studio Tools for Unity add-on (formerly known as UnityVS). It is now available for download on the Visual Studio Gallery at the following links:Visual Studio 2010 Tools for...
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