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Merging the Code-Base: Combining Existing Windows Store and Phone Apps into...
This post was written by Microsoft MVP Can Bilgin. -----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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Profile and Time your ASP.NET MVC app all the way to Azure
Successful web app dev teams generally consider performance a requirement from the beginning, not an afterthought. Performance should be considered in all phases of a project, from design and into...
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NuGet Package of the Week: MarkdownLog makes log files much prettier
While I'm not 100% gaga over Markdown as I know many of you are, I definitely appreciate it's usefulness and it's clarity. Some folks would say I shouldn't rest until every binary document on my hard...
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How to create a file with a . dot prefix in Windows Explorer
If you right click in Windows and try to make a new text file with a . period/dot in front of it:Name the file...something like .gitignore, for example.You'll get the "You must type a file name"...
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Explanation of July 18th outage
Sorry it took me a week and a half to get to this.We had the most significant VS Online outage we’ve had in a while on Friday July 18th. The entire service was unavailable for about 90 minutes....
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The Mobile Web should just work for everyone
Windows Phone 8.1 Update includes hundreds of Internet Explorer 11 enhancements that greatly increase compatibility with the mobile web.Based on your feedback, we pursued a web experience for IE users...
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C++ Runtime for Sideloaded Windows 8.1 apps
A while ago we posted about how the distribution and deployment of C++ Runtime as a dependency was handled through the Windows Store. That mechanism works for apps that are themselves distributed...
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[Announcement] ODataLib 6.6.0 Release
We are happy to announce that the ODL 6.6.0 is released and available on nuget along with the source code oncodeplex (please read the git history for the v6.6.0 code info and all previous version)....
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Wrapping Up The Imagine Cup
It’s been a great week here at the Imagine Cup World Finals. We brought 125 of the top students from around the world, plus another 70+ Microsoft Student Partners here to Seattle, and these young...
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Driving Unit Tests from Cloud Load Test
Visual Studio Load Testing has always made it easy to create Load Tests. Now with Visual Studio Online it is also easy to verify the performance capacity of your software of 1,000s of users external...
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Free ebook: Building Cloud Apps with Microsoft Azure
Last week MS Press published a free ebook based on the Building Real-World Apps using Azure talks I gave at the NDC and TechEd conferences. The talks + book walks through a patterns-based approach to...
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A white frog?
I was out doing chores on my farm yesterday morning and ran across something surprising (to me, at least). By the pig pen, we have an electric fence charger and it is covered by buckets. For some...
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VS2013 Update 3 and Entity Framework
Today we are releasing Visual Studio 2013 Update 3. You can read the release announcements by Soma and Brian Harry. This update includes the Entity Framework 6.1.1 (EF6.1.1) runtime and tooling.EF6.1.1...
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Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 now available
With around 60 new features Visual Studio Update 3 has value through the entire development process from the new SDKs and emulators for Windows Phone and Windows Store development to the ~20 new...
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VS/TFS 2013.3 (Update 3) released
Today we released the final version of Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 and Team Foundation Server Update 3. You can get the update using the link below. Note that the link includes both the Visual Studio...
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Visual Studio 2013 Update 3, Azure SDK 2.4, Windows Phone 8.1 Update and...
Today I am excited to announce the release of three important updates for Visual Studio developers. Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 a feature-filled update for all Visual Studio 2013 users.Azure SDK 2.4 an...
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Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RTM Available
Today we released Update 3 for Visual Studio 2013 (you can read more on Brian Harry’s blog and Soma’s blog). To upgrade you can either download the update or install a full version of Visual Studio...
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Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 Released & July Content Rollup
Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 Released!The latest update for Visual Studio 2013 is now available for download. You can read about all the new features on the Visual Studio blog, Soma’s blog and Brian...
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Windows platform developer August updates
This morning, the Windows platform team has released three new Windows platform developer updates available for you:Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 is now available, providing a number of productivity...
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Apache Cordova Tooling Update with Support for Windows 7
This week, we released CTP 2.0 of our Extension for Multi-Device Hybrid App Development which enables developers to build apps for iOS, Android, and Windows using Apache Cordova™. This preview release,...
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