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Windows Phone 8 Jump Start Training is here
Last week we hosted the Windows Phone 8 Jump Start training, a fast-paced and demo-packed learning ‘experience’ tailored to show developers how to build responsive, appealing, and effective...
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Custom Controls and Data Binding in the LightSwitch HTML Client (Joe Binder)
Custom JavaScript controls allow you to create user experiences that are tailored to specific use cases and business needs. Given the wealth of code samples, control frameworks, and partner control...
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Deploy SSIS 2012 projects using catalog.deploy_project Stored Procedure
In SQL Server 2012, you can use the catalog.deploy_project stored procedure to deploy an SSIS project to the SSIS server. You need to provide the binary contents of the project deployment file (.ispac...
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Hyper-V Replica Saves the Day
Today our SMB organization published a great blog entry: “With Windows Server 2012, my customers where prepared for Hurricane Sandy”. It tells the story of a partner, WorkITsafe, and their customers...
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Now available: Windows Server 2012 Essentials Management Pack for OpsMgr 2012
The System Center Monitoring Pack for Windows Server 2012 Essentials helps you monitor features that are specific to Windows Server 2012 Essentials. It does not monitor features in the Windows Server...
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OMG! Cool tips for typing faster and smarter on Windows Phone
Whether you’re looking to take on Grace Pak’s 280-character-per-minute world speed record for smartphone typing—or tap out a quick error-free email to your boss—this video shows off some of the team’s...
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The secrets of the Windows Phone 8 keyboard
From the day Windows Phone 7 made its debut, we’ve gotten lots of kudos for the on-screen keyboard and its intelligent suggestions and corrections. Engadget called it “one of the best and most accurate...
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Eight Enthusiast Updates in Windows 8
For the last few years, Windows 8 has been a part of my daily life. As a part of the Windows 8 engineering team, I spent many hours installing and running Windows 8 on a variety of hardware. I’ve...
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Using the Storage Pools page in Server Manager to create storage spaces
With Windows Server 2012, Server manager includes simple and easy to use, user interface that enables management of WindowsStorage Spaces and other Storage Subsystems such as EMC Clariion VNX and Dell...
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Cross-Post: Fast-LMM and Windows Azure Put Genetics Research on a Faster Track
In the video below, David Heckerman, Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research, talks about the work he and his team conducted using data from the genome-wide association study (GWAS). Their goal is...
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Release notes for 12/05/2012
Over the last week the CodePlex team fixed several bugs throughout the site. Several notable changes were:Fixed several UI issues related to the recent action bar changesFixed the issue related to...
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Visual Studio 2012 ALM Virtual Machine with Update 1 and hands-on-labs / demo...
For anybody looking for training on the Microsoft Application Lifecycle tools one of the absolute best resources is Brian Keller’s ALM virtual machine. The Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 ALM virtual...
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Improve navigation through search results using refiners based on custom...
Audience: Search Admin/ITPro Pre-requisite: This post assumes the reader has basic Search Administration knowledge.If you want to ease navigation through your search results and your documents already...
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PMK Customs Gets a Web Makeover with Help from Internet Explorer
Over the course of the past year, the IE team has brought creative, fun and immersive experiences to life online through the browser in an effort to show how cool and touch-friendly the web can be....
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Outlook.com makes me love email again
Last week we announced that Outlook.com has over 25 million active users. This got me thinking about how much easier Outlook.com makes it for me to manage my email – so much in fact that I...
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App roundup: Xbox games in the Windows Store
Hi, I’m Tatsuo Yamada, a writer on the Windows team, working on the Windows Store. Today I’m posting the first in a new series of blog posts about apps and games available in the Windows Store.Over the...
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Get Started with Windows Phone 8 Lenses
From the very beginning, as you’ve no doubt heard us say, Windows Phone has been about delivering outstanding experiences to end users and giving developers contextually relevant mechanisms to expose...
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Now in the Store: Insider app for Windows Phone 8
The official Microsoft Insider app has been a popular way for Windows Phone owners to score new Bing wallpapers and exclusive ringtones for their phones each month. As manager of the app (and the...
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Now in the Store: Vimeo for Windows Phone 8
Vimeo—the popular video sharing site catering to “high-quality videos and the people who love them”—just published a new version of its official app that’s designed just for Windows Phone 8. I haven’t...
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Everything you want to know about Network Teaming in Windows Server 2012
I was recently given a pointer to the following document:Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming (LBFO) Deployment and ManagementIt is a very comprehensive guide to setting up network teaming in Windows Server...
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