Designing pixel perfect layouts in Visual Studio 2013 and Blend
It’s a familiar scenario. You’re developing your application and you’ve got a design in mind. It may have come from a professional designer or a sketch on the back of a cocktail napkin, but you need to...
View ArticleInternet Explorer 11 Release Preview Now Available for Windows 7 Customers
Today, we’re excited to announce that Internet Explorer 11 Release Preview is now available for our customers using Windows 7! Building on IE10, Internet Explorer 11 is faster and advances the web...
View ArticleThe Garage Series: 365 Days Later - Office 365 vs. Office 2013 on the Desktop...
Video 17:51. This week Jeremy Chapman and Tal Krzypow return to the Garage in Microsoft's Redmond campus to kick off season two. They try to answer common questions, "Which version of Office should I...
View ArticleTechNet Radio: The 3rd Installment from the What’s New in 2012 R2 Series
A few days ago I got to sit down with the guys from TechNet Radio to talk about the third pillar of our “What’s New in 2012 R2” series – Enable Modern Business Apps.We conclude this three-episode...
View ArticleMore options to integrate on-premises networks and Windows Azure with AT&T
The primary dialogue on cloud computing revolves around moving to the cloud. Today we announced a strategic alliance with AT&T to bring cloud computing to customers. This partnership will empower...
View ArticleScaffolding asynchronous MVC and Web API controllers for Entity Framework 6
BriefEntity Framework 6 introduces support for the .NET 4.5 asynchronous programming pattern using the async and await keywords. And in Visual Studio 2013 RC we’re making it easier for you to take...
View ArticleJoin the Pork Side in Angry Birds Star Wars II, now available for Windows...
You have a startling choice when you play Rovio’s newly-released Angry Birds Star Wars II on Windows Phone 8 ($0.99). You can use the Force for good, popping pigs in the sneaky, greedy Pork...
View ArticleHere’s a script for VMM 2012 that helps you create logical networks, VM...
~ Alvin Morales | Lab EngineerHi Everyone, my name is Alvin Morales and I want to share a script that can help you create networks in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Service Pack 1 (SCVMM...
View ArticleSharePoint Conference registration is now open!
This is what you've been waiting for. Registration for SharePoint Conference 2014 is now open to the public through the Registration page of the SharePoint Conference website. Don't miss out as the...
View ArticleOracle Self-Service Kit : Gimme the details (part 1)
This is the first of two posts getting into more details about the “Oracle Server Self-Service Kit”. It goes through 2 sample uses, to highlight how the solution works and what the outputs are.Table of...
View ArticleOracle-Self Service Kit : Gimme the details (part 2)
This is the second of two posts getting into more details about the “Oracle Server Self-Service Kit”. It goes through 2 sample uses, to highlight how the solution works and what the outputs are.Table...
View ArticleOracle Self-Service Kit : Provisioning Oracle Database components using the...
With the recent announcements from Oracle and Microsoft, many of you are getting in touch with us to understand how you can deploy and manage Oracle workloads on Hyper-V.This post is the opportunity to...
View ArticleHow to change the text that is displayed in the Search Box Web Part in...
This is a blog post in the series "How to change how search results are displayed." To demonstrate how you can customize your search results, I'll use examples from an internal Microsoft Search Center....
View ArticleUse the SharePoint hidden list to store configuration data for an app part...
In this article, we discuss the limitations in using an app part’s custom properties to store configuration data, and then we recommend an alternative approach by using the SharePoint hidden list. When...
View ArticlePrivate, Public or Hybrid - Why Not Let Customers Decide?
As competition in the cloud space heats up, things are looking better than ever for customers, as they have access to increasingly better solutions and hence, more choice. However, this competition is...
View ArticleHP announces the Spectre 13 Ultrabook, Pavilion 13 x2, and Omni 10 for fall...
Today HP announced the Spectre 13 Ultrabook, Pavilion 13 x2, and Omni 10 offering excellence in entertainment as well as portability.HP Spectre 13 UltrabookPlease meet one of HP’s lightest and most...
View ArticleManage spam notifications with Exchange Online Protection
Shobhit Sahay (@shobhits) is a product marketing manager on the Exchange team.Last March we released a shiny new version of the email filtering service formerly known as Forefront Online Protection for...
View ArticleJust My Code for JavaScript Windows Store Apps in Visual Studio 2013
If you’ve ever debugged a JavaScript Windows Store app there’s a very good chance that you accidentally ended up in either “Function code [dynamic]” or “base.js” without knowing how you got there and...
View ArticleWindows Phone Fast App Resume
This blog post was authored by Matt Hidinger, a Program Manager on the Windows Phone team.- AdamWindows Phone offers developers an important choice in how their app resumes from Start. By default, each...
View ArticleSupport Tip: Secondary site prerequisite check fails when initiated from...
~ Vishal Gupta | Technical LeadHere’s a quick tip on an issue you might see with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr 2012) when you try to install a secondary site on a computer running...
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