Windows 8.1 for iOS developers
For those of you currently developing apps for iOS, we’ve been adding lots of content to the Windows Store apps Dev Center. We’d like to help you get started building Windows Store apps, so we updated...
View ArticleUNO goes social. Introducing UNO & Friends for Windows Phone 8
UNO has been a hit for years—it’s a huge favorite in my house—but now this beloved, easy-to-learn card game is available for Windows Phone 8 as a multiplayer Xbox game that lets you play it just about...
View ArticleDownload the new Microsoft Visio Compatibility Pack
Visio 2010 users can use this pack to open files created in the newer Visio 2013 file format.Visio 2010 users can download the Visio Compatibility Pack from the Microsoft Download Center. This pack...
View ArticleSan Francisco Developers Sweet on IE11 and modern.IE Tools
And now, another update from the IE interns…Yesterday, we took to the road to bring free treats to the developers of San Francisco! With help from the great team at Kara’s Cupcakes, we drove through...
View ArticleCalling Stored Procs in your LightSwitch Databases using Web API
Last post I showed you a new LightSwitch feature in Visual Studio 2013 Preview that let’s you use SSDT database projects to manage your intrinsic (internal) LightSwitch database. You can use database...
View ArticleIE11: Touch Browsing for Today’s Web and Beyond
Internet Explorer 11 in the Windows 8.1 Preview continues the innovative touch support introduced in Windows 8 with new touch features, improvements to existing touch features, and new developer APIs....
View ArticleTest your app with temporary, test data before you ship
This blog post was authored by Andrew Byrne, a Senior Content Developer on the Windows Phone Developer Content team.- AdamSometimes I need data to test my app in the emulator. The Windows Phone 8...
View ArticleDo you have a digital or social media will? Who will maintain your life...
As we continue to pour our few remaining keystrokes into walled gardens we should be asking ourselves - who controls our content? You don't want all your words to be wasted so I hope you own your own...
View ArticleAnnouncing the release of the Windows Azure SDK 2.1 for .NET
Today we released the v2.1 update of the Windows Azure SDK for .NET. This is a major refresh of the Windows Azure SDK and it includes some great new features and enhancements. These new capabilities...
View ArticleIgnite Webcast - How to use eDiscovery in Office 365
To sign up for this webcast please download and save the attached calendar invite below where you will find the Webcast Meeting information. Ignite Webcasts are online sessions led by Microsoft Office...
View ArticleStore, sync and share with SharePoint
Vivek Narasimhan is a product manager for SharePoint. Whether you are an individual working on a document by yourself, or a team that needs to collaborate on a project, SharePoint has many capabilities...
View ArticleWhat’s New in 2012 R2: Service Provider & Tenant IaaS Experience
Part 5 of a 9-part series. Today’s post is the 2nd of two sections; to read the first half, click here. I recently had an opportunity to speak with a number of leaders from the former VMWare User...
View ArticleHardware Considerations for In-Memory OLTP in SQL Server 2014
In-Memory OLTP uses memory and disk in different ways than traditional disk-based tables. The performance improvement you will see with In-Memory OLTP depends the hardware you use. In this blog post...
View ArticleWhat's New in 2012 R2: Going Deep on the Microsoft IaaS Service Provider and...
Yesterday Microsoft VP Brad Anderson and Erin Chapple detailed some key Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) scenarios for a High Performance Storage Fabric, Scalable Storage on Commodity Hardware, and...
View ArticleInside Windows Phone 60 | More on Imaging Scenario Resources for WP Developers
This week on Inside Windows Phone, Matthias and I take a few minutes to walk through some of the more powerful imaging developer scenarios possible on Windows Phone. And we look at some of the more...
View ArticleMonitor Your GPU on Windows with GPU-Z by TechPowerUp
Wondering what your GPU is doing? Curious how much GPU capability you’re using? Do you want to know practically every detail about your GPU? You may want to try the free Windows-exclusive tool from...
View ArticleIntroducing a new user experience feature in Access web apps: Cascading Controls
The Access team is pleased to announce a new Cascading Controls feature available for users using Access web apps for SharePoint on Office 365! Read on to learn more about this new feature...
View ArticleTry the Onetastic add-in to bring tons of new features to OneNote
Here's a look at Onetastic, an add-in to enhance OneNote functionality with a set of built-in features and an extensible macro processor that allows you to download and modify macros and add new ones...
View ArticleCommenting on Commits
The source code experience on CodePlex just got more social. Now, you can comment directly on a commit when viewing a project’s source code history. This feature acts as a nice compliment to the...
View ArticleCireson Asset Management vNext
Cireson, one of our leading partners in the industry announces a newly released version of the System Center Service Manager plug-in Asset Management. Many consider Cireson’s Asset Management solution...
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