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Opportunities for app builders this holiday season
We expect this holiday season to be especially strong for the Windows Store and Windows Phone Store. There’s an amazing selection of great tablets, phones, and PCs on the market from many of our device...
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Optimizing DirectX apps for low latency input and longer battery life
DirectX is a powerful graphics platform used in all sorts of Windows apps, ranging from high budget triple-A games to mainstream apps like newsreaders and photo manipulation apps. However, having great...
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IE11 Virtual Machines Now Available on modern.IE
With the recent release of Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7, we have added IE11 for Windows 7 and IE11 on Windows 8.1 to the suite of virtual machines available on modern.IE for testing Internet...
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Why do I spend time on great design? To double my app downloads
The more apps that I write (40 and counting), the more I learn that designing a beautiful and effective user interface is equally as important as having a great idea and using high-performance code....
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Design Resources for Windows Phone and Windows app development
If “designer” isn’t currently on your resume, you may not realize that developing and publishing an app means you are a designer – you designed your app! With the many tools available to Windows Phone...
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Happy Holidays from the IE Team!
In the spirit of the season, we wanted to share some GPU-powered HTML5 and CSS3 holiday cheer. Check out Holiday Lites to brighten your screen and test your browser’s layout and rendering performance....
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Building a basic Web Forms application using Visual Studio 2013
In a previous blog post, we have described the different options you have when creating a new web application with Visual Studio 2013 (VS 2013) and provided an overview of the various ASP.NET features...
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Updating ASP.NET applications from ASP.NET Identity 1.0 to 2.0.0-alpha1
We released the 2.0.0-alpha1 version for ASP.NET Identity. Learn more here http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/12/20/announcing-preview-of-microsoft-aspnet-identity-2-0-0-alpha1.aspxOne of the...
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Announcing preview of Microsoft.AspNet.Identity 2.0.0-alpha1
Today, we are releasing a preview of ASP.NET Identity. The main focus in this release was to fix issues with the 1.0 release and build upon the 1.0 Framework to add more features such as Account...
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2013: The Year of Unification
As 2013 comes to a close, I want to take a moment to reach out and thank all of you for your support of the Windows platform over the past year. I continue to be amazed by the apps you create, and I...
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2013 brings first steps in unified developer experience
As we look back on 2013, we’re thankful for your support of the Windows platform. Over the past years, the ability to use apps on a variety of devices (phone, tablet, and PC) and in different contexts...
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How to customize the generated files from the New Scaffolded Item dialog
In Visual Studio 2013 we introduced the Add New Scaffolded Item dialog. This dialog replaced the Add View/Add Controllers ASP.NET MVC dialog which was had in 2012. This new dialog works for all ASP.NET...
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New emulators available for Windows Phone 8.0 Updates 2 and 3
Available now, you can download new emulator images for Windows Phone 8.0 Updates 2 and 3 from the Microsoft Download Center, and install them on your existing Windows Phone SDK 8.0 installation.Update...
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Windows Azure Web Sites (WAWS) and Intermediate Certificates
Editor's Note: This post comes from Erez Benari, Program Manager on the Windows Azure Web Sites teamUsing SSL with Windows Azure Web sites is a popular scenario, and while uploading and assigning a...
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Meet the new generation of app developers – courtesy of Windows Phone App...
It’s been almost five months since we launched Windows Phone App Studio Beta, a tool that enables anyone to quickly build a Windows Phone app. In that short period of time over 290,000 of you...
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Implementing custom password policy using ASP.NET Identity
We recently released the 2.0.0-alpha1 version of ASP.NET Identity. Learn more here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/12/20/announcing-preview-of-microsoft-aspnet-identity-2-0-0-alpha1.aspxTo...
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New Windows Azure Network Security Whitepaper
Download the new Windows Azure Network Security Whitepaper. Windows Azure networking provides the infrastructure necessary to securely connect your virtual machines to one another, as well as bridge...
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Get Better Acquainted with Azure
Editor's Note: This post comes from Erez Benari, Program Manager on the Windows Azure Web Sites teamWhile our website http://www.windowsazure.com contains a wealth of information, and we keep adding...
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Be two places at once using multiple windows
Windows 8.1 enables powerful multitasking by allowing a user to split her screen to see several different Windows Store apps simultaneously. There are times, though, when it’s valuable to have multiple...
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Calling all SharePoint Conference 2014 attendees!
If you’re attending the SharePoint Conference this year, do not miss the Design Time sessions! Check out the Invitation to Design Time sessions at the SharePoint Conference 2014 blog post for details....
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