Designing and building user interfaces for Windows
Great design helps your Windows Store apps stand out from the crowd. Improvements to the Windows platform in 8.1 Preview, such as an expanded common controls set with greater design flexibility, allow...
View ArticleCross-post from the SharePoint dev blog: Access SkyDrive Pro using the...
On Tuesday 8/13, the SharePoint dev blog published the following post:Access SkyDrive Pro using the SharePoint 2013 APIs.In this post, Yina Arenas and Donovan Follette explain how to access your...
View ArticleInside Windows Phone 61 – Building for Windows Phone and Windows 8 - The Basics
This blog post was authored by Matthias Shapiro, a technical evangelist at Microsoft. - Larry One of the exciting elements about building an app for Windows Phone is that a properly designed and...
View ArticleUse SignalR Sample Nuget package in VS2013 Preview MVC 5 Project
We received feedback that the current 1.2 version SignalR sample Nuget package doesn’t work in an MVC 5 project by default. Here are the repro steps and the necessary change to make it work.1. Create a...
View ArticleCreating a UI for Background Transfer Requests
This blog post was authored by Nate McMaster, a Program Manager Intern on the Windows Phone team. - AdamIn the Windows Phone Toolkit - August 2013 update we add a TransferControl element to the set of...
View ArticleInstall MVC4 HotTowel SPA NuGetNuGet package in One ASP.NET Web API Project...
I was trying to install MVC4 HotTowel SPA package (MVC4 and Razor v2) on a VS2013 Preview One ASP.NET Web API Project (MVC5 and Razor V3). I blindly let the NuGetNuGet package overwrite all my files...
View ArticleWindows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #72)
Welcome to the newest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure.Here is what we pulled together for the past...
View ArticleWindows Phone App Studio Beta response exceeds expectations, new capabilities...
Windows Phone App Studio beta has been live for almost two weeks – with a few hiccups. Today I’d like to share a few of the learnings and tell you about enhancements we’re releasing today. First of...
View ArticleAccessing the ASP.NET Web Configuration Tool in Visual Studio 2013
As many of you have noticed, the option to select “ASP.Net Web Configuration Manager” is no longer in Visual Studio 2013 Preview. This is due to the removal of the Visual Studio Development Server (or...
View ArticleCreating smarter apps with geofencing
Windows 8 introduced the Geolocation API, which let your app get the current location or get regular updates on the current location. We covered some of that functionality in a previous blog post...
View ArticleUse OAuth 1.0 to access the Zotero web service from apps for Office
In this post, you’ll learn how to integrate OAuth 1.0a to access an external service from an app for Office. In the course of a recent development project, I was asked to show how apps for Office can...
View ArticleSOC 2 with CSA CCM Attestation Streamlines Security Evaluation for Windows...
Editor's Note: This post comes from Sarah Fender, Director of Windows Azure Product Marketing.Today we’re announcing that Microsoft’s public auditor Deloitte, has issued a Service Organization Control...
View ArticleWeb Publishing a simpler way to exclude files/folders from being published
I’ve written a fewblog posts on how to exclude files from publishing/packaging. In each of these posts you’d have to be familiar with MSBuild and the Web Publish process. I’ve been looking for a much...
View ArticleInside Windows Phone 62 - A Common HTTP Stack for Windows & Windows Phone
We’ve been talking a bit about how developer can leverage the same code to deliver similar applications on both Windows and Windows Phone. In a related vein, we wanted to showcase the outstanding work...
View ArticleAt Unite, enjoy expert Windows and Windows Phone help in porting your games
If you’re heading to Unite 2013, the annual event for Unity developers held this year August 27-30 in Vancouver, Canada, get ready to enjoy the expert help and advice of a whole crew of Microsoft...
View ArticleWindows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #73)
Welcome to the newest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure.Here is what we pulled together for the past...
View ArticleCreating a unique ListView layout using cell-spanning
The ListView control makes it easy for you to organize content in a beautiful and meaningful way. The ListView control takes advantage of the Windows 8 grid system, a design tool that provides a...
View ArticleUpdate: Knockout IntelliSense Highlight Bug Fix
In an earlier blog post on June 24th entitled Knockout IntelliSense Highlighting Bug Fix I described a bug fix in the Knockout IntelliSense feature. In that post I recommended installing Windows Azure...
View ArticleUse “Napa” Office 365 Development Tools to build apps for Office and...
Since our Preview release, “Napa” Office 365 Development Tools has delivered many features and improvements to the browser development experience. This post highlights the major features we’ve...
View ArticleGet your apps ready for the Windows 8.1 launch!
Today we announced that Windows 8.1 has hit the RTM milestone. That means our hardware partners are now preparing their devices for the holiday buying season, beginning with the general availability of...
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