What’s New in System Center 2012 R2? Catch the In the Cloud Blog Series!
Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President for Windows Server and System Center, continued his blog series introducing Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2 today with the second blog post in...
View ArticleOrder and Chaos, an award-winning multiplayer fantasy game, comes to Windows...
If you thought no one would be up to bringing an MMORPG (that’s Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) to Windows Phone 8, think again. Gameloft’s Order and Chaos for Xbox ($6.99) conjurs a...
View ArticlejQuery and WinJS working together in Windows Store apps
The Windows Library for JavaScript (WinJS) and Visual Studio templates for Windows Store apps give developers great flexibility when using third-party JavaScript libraries, including the popular...
View ArticleMicrosoft CityNext Initiative Puts People First
Today, at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston, Microsoft announced CityNext, a global initiative empowering cities, businesses and citizens to re-imagine their futures and cultivate vibrant...
View ArticleIntercepting HTTP Request/Response using C++ Rest HTTP Library
We released the C++ REST SDK (codename "Casablanca") as an open source project on CodePlex in Feb 2013. It enables writing modern, asynchronous C++ code that can connect with REST services.Using the...
View ArticleTeam Foundation Server 2013 Preview - Upgrade FAQ
Now that the Preview has been out for a couple of weeks, we've started to get lots of questions about acquisition and upgrade. This page provides useful information about the upgrade process for the...
View ArticleRecap: This week’s Windows Phone news from T-Mobile, Sprint, and Nokia
It’s another busy week in the world of Windows Phone. If you’re just tuning in, let me bring you up to speed. First, T-Mobile and Sprint both provided more detail about new Windows Phone 8 models...
View ArticleViewing function return values in the Visual Studio 2013 debugger
One of the great new features in Visual Studio 2013 is the ability to view function return values in the debugger. This works not just for C# and VB, but for F#, as well. We didn’t include this in...
View ArticleCodePlex integrates with Zapier
CodePlex is now able to send commit events to Zapier! If you haven’t played with Zapier before, we highly recommend checking it out. It is a web service that allows you to connect 200+ services on the...
View ArticleNew Hotfix: A task sequence cannot download content from a Configuration...
Assume that you perform one of the following deployments: - A task sequence by using the Download content if needed option - A task sequence to a System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Service Pack 1...
View ArticleI want you to go read the In the Cloud Blog
I am channeling my early days living and breathing as a U.S. Army Officer. I can't be any more clear about what I am asking you to do. So, here is your mission:Subscribe to this this nine-part Blog...
View ArticleWhat’s New in 2012 R2: Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and Protecting Corporate...
Microsoft continues to evolve the products that are part of our Cloud OS vision. Microsoft Corporate Vice President Brad Anderson recently started a blog series to provide you keen insight into the...
View ArticleWhat's new in Active Directory in Windows Server 2012 R2
Hello folks. This is Uday Hegde from the Active Directory product team at Microsoft. I’m the Group Program Manager responsible for Windows Server Active Directory. Hopefully by now, you've downloaded...
View ArticleExtending device support in Active Directory
Hello folks. This is Uday Hegde from the Active Directory product team at Microsoft. I'm the Group Program Manager in Alex Simons' team who is responsible for Windows Server Active Directory. Hopefully...
View ArticleTeam Foundation Service Update – July 9
Last week we completed sprint 50 and, today, the changes went live on the service. You can read more of the details of what’s new on the service news feed.One of the things I’ve had to get used to...
View ArticleHow does VS determine which version of Razor engine to use when editing razor...
In VS2013 Preview, we released new Razor V3 runtime and design time Engine to support MVC5 and Razor V3 website’s runtime and design time behavior. Unlike Razor V2 runtime and design time, VS2013 did...
View ArticleHttpClient 2.2 is now RC
Today we are happy to announce the next step in providing a portable HttpClient with automatic decompression: we just pushed the RC version to NuGet.From Beta to RTMWe haven’t changed much since the...
View ArticleNew upgrade app for the public website
New in the Office Store is the Public Site Content Migration app. You can use this app to copy pages, documents, images, navigation, and more from your existing website to your new website in Office...
View ArticleXAML UI Responsiveness tool in Visual Studio 2013
(Posting for a team mate and friend Pratap Lakshma) From the perspective of interaction-performance applications need to be “fast” and “fluid” - fast to launch, to navigate between pages, to react to...
View ArticleMeet the new king of phone cameras: The 41-megapixel Nokia Lumia 1020,...
Phone or camera? Nokia just made the line a lot more blurry. The company today took the wraps off the Nokia Lumia 1020, a new Windows Phone 8 flagship that packs a whopping 41-megapixel sensor, a pixel...
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