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Friday Miscellany #3
Active in the C++ community? Answering questions, creating demos, sharing code snippets, or hosting a local user group meeting? If you have something to share, send it to me (ebattali@microsoft.com)...
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Pie in the Sky (December 7, 2012)
It's been crazy this week, trying to get everything done before people disappear for vacation. Here's some early December links for your weekend reading:Pkgcloud: A node.js library that abstracts away...
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What’s new in Internet Explorer 10 for Windows Phone
Hello again Windows Phone fans! It’s been a while since I shared some of the thinking behind the redesign of Internet Explorer in our previous release. Today, I’ll take you on a behind-the-scenes tour...
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WCF Data Services 5.2.0-rc1 Prerelease
A couple of days ago we posted a new set of NuGet packages and today we posted a new tools installer for WCF Data Services 5.2.0-rc1. This prerelease integrates the UriParser from ODataLib Contrib and...
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Windows Azure Community Roundup (Edition #48)
Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure.I would like to take this opportunity to...
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Updating my Windows Phone App to Windows Phone 8
Earlier this year I wrote a small Windows Phone 7 application in a day called Lost Phone Screen. It creates lock screens for you with your name and contact number on them to aid in finding your phone...
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Code Coverage in Microsoft Test Manager – Deep Dive
With the Quarterly Update1 for Visual Studio 2012, we have enabled collection of code coverage information for manual testing of ASP.Net web applications running under Internet Information Services...
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How to execute tests locally using TCM.exe command-line?
I have seen a lot of customers who use TCM.exe to execute tests on remote environments, but I have not seen many who use the same command-line to execute the tests locally. Here by locally, I mean...
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Why adding Hyper-V Replica Connection Broker Fails (in Failover Cluster Manager)
By Roger OsborneLike many of you, when I test out new Windows features, I often turn to TechNet documentation, to be certain I’m following Microsoft guidelines and recommendations along the way. A lot...
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Coded UI Test: Configuring Search Properties while recording on Internet...
This blog assumes that you have a prior understanding of Coded UI Test Search properties. If not, a good starting point would be here. This blog explains the new “configurable properties" feature of...
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Asynchronous calls in C++ Windows Store Unit Tests
In Visual Studio 2012, we added support for the Async Test Methods in C#. You can call await inside the test method body and the unit test framework will appropriately wait for its completion.Here is a...
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TFS 2012 Management Pack Available
We have just about finished shipping the 2012 versions of all of the various pieces that complement Team Foundation Server. Last week we shipped the SCOM management pack for TFS 2012. It works with...
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Windows Azure Active Directory Supports JSON Web Tokens
Howdy folks,Just a quick note with some cool news.Many of you may not have realized that the developer preview of Windows Azure Active Directory (AD) supports the JSON Web Token (JWT). We just haven’t...
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KB: Description of the cumulative update for Lync Server 2010 Monitoring...
This cumulative update fixes the issue that is documented in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article: 2735318 You receive Secure Reference Override Failure warnings after you install...
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Tech Tuesday Live Twitter Chat with Panos Panay and Surface–#winchat
It seems like wherever I go lately, people are taking about Microsoft Surface. As I travelled last week around the country, I saw a Microsoft Holiday store in Chicago, had a good friend ask me about it...
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Creating NGEN PDBs for Profiling Reports
When profiling managed applications on Windows 8 any samples in an NGEN’d module will appear in the report as [NI module name] instead of showing the function name, which obviously makes it difficult...
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TechNet Radio series covers Windows Server 2012 File Server and SMB 3.0...
I have been working with Bob Hunt at the TechNet Radio team to provide a series of webcasts with information about SMB 3.0 and the File Server role in Windows Server 2012.These are fairly informal...
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Team Foundation Service Update – Dec 10
Today we deployed our sprint 40 update to the Team Foundation Service. You can read more about it on the release notes.We continued to make progress adding valuable components to the build images. We...
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Running Windows 8 Pro? Get the Windows Media Center Pack for Free!
In case you haven’t heard the news- the Windows Media Center Pack for Windows 8 is available for free for a limited time. Until January 31, 2013 you can get a free product key that will allow you to...
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Tell us your favorite Office thing: Join Tuesday’s webinar live
What did you find out about Office this year that you like? A new tool? A shortcut? Tell us during our live webinar (or leave a comment in the blog below). We’ll tell you our favorites too and show you...
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