Windows 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 ArticleInside Windows Phone 63 - Easily Adding Auth and Push to your WP App with...
This blog post was authored by Matthias Shapiro, a technical evangelist at Microsoft. - Larry In this week’s Inside Windows Phone, we talk about ways to simplify building a server component to your...
View ArticleUnderstanding Security Features in the SPA Template for VS2013 RC
The blog is based on Visual Studio 2013 RC release.We have completely rewritten the SPA template from the previous version( MVC 4). Here are some of the changes we made:The authentication story has...
View ArticleIE11 Automatically Makes Over 40% of the Web More Secure While Making Sure...
Internet Explorer 11 is the first browser to make Internet connections more secure and reliable by reducing the use of vulnerable ciphersuites, such as RC4 and by using the latest security standards,...
View ArticleNovember 2013 Internet Explorer Updates
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-088 - CriticalThis security update resolves ten privately reported and one publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe vulnerabilities...
View ArticleAll About Newsfeeds With Your Cloud Business App
Cloud Business Apps in Visual Studio 2013 allow you to easily integrate with SharePoint and use the Office 365 collaboration and social features – including newsfeeds. You can now expose entity data...
View ArticleAzure Web Site now supports WebSockets
If you missed the announcement the other day, WebSockets are now supported in Windows Azure Web Sites. Let's try it with a sample SignalR application.Create an Azure Web SiteLogin to...
View ArticleFacebook login for Windows Store apps
Facebook Login is a great way to plug into your user’s social network, offer a more personalized experience, and accelerate viral adoption of your apps. Today, we are excited to announce that on...
View ArticleSign into Windows Phone 8 apps with Facebook Login
This blog post was authored by Taqi Jaffri, a senior program manager on the Windows Phone team. - AdamFacebook users increasingly rely on their Facebook identity to access apps, play games with...
View ArticleIntroduction to WebSockets on Windows Azure Web Sites
Editor's Note: This post was written by Stefan Schackow, Principal Program Manager Lead on the Windows Azure Web Sites Team.Windows Azure Web Sites has recently added support for the WebSocket...
View ArticleASP.NET Performance: Prefetch and Multi-Core Jitting
Editor note: This blog is originally published by Jose Reyes - ASP.NET on 02-29-2012 in Web Performance Blog, which will be obsolete soon. Future ASP.NET related performance blogs will be posted...
View ArticleASP.NET Performance: Managed runtime loader
Editor note: This blog is originally published by Jose Reyes - ASP.NET on 02-29-2012 in Web Performance Blog, which will be obsolete soon. Future ASP.NET related performance blogs will be posted...
View ArticleASP.NET Performance: Debugging W3WP Startup
Editor note: This blog is originally published by Christy Henriksson on 03-19-2012 in Web Performance Blog, which will be obsolete soon. Future ASP.NET related performance blogs will be posted here.On...
View ArticleASP.NET Performance: Performance Counters on Windows Client + IIS Express
Editor note: This blog is originally published by Christy Henriksson on 09-12-2012 in Web Performance Blog, which will be obsolete soon. Future ASP.NET related performance blogs will be posted here.I...
View Article1000+ Unity apps across Windows Store and Windows Phone
This past June, we announced a collaboration with Unity, through which Unity developers can publish their apps on Windows platforms. Since the release of Unity 4.2, we’ve seen exponential growth of...
View ArticleBrowser Link APIs in Visual Studio 2013 RTM
Browser Link feature in Visual Studio 2013 provides APIs for you to write your own Browser Link Extension. To take a look at some of the extensions, you can download Web Essentials for Visual Studio...
View ArticleDisabling ARR’s Instance Affinity in Windows Azure Web Sites
Editor's Note: This blog post was written by Erez Benari, Program Manager on the Windows Azure Web Sites Team.Setting up multiple instances of a website in Windows Azure Websites is a terrific way to...
View ArticleSharePoint Conference 2014 – Cloud Developer Skills Jumpstart
This year, an MVP will conduct an all-day pre-conference training focusing on the key developer skills necessary to get ahead with building apps for both Office and SharePoint. Since the technologies...
View ArticleWhat’s new for XAML and DirectX interop in Windows 8.1
In Windows 8 we enabled combining the high level UI capabilities of XAML and the low-level rendering power of DirectX within the same app using the three XAML-DirectX interop...
View ArticleApp Showcase: My SharePoint Sites from QuePort
Sometimes, a simple tweak can make navigating a website so much easier. Thomas Herbst, a developer at QuePort, realized this when creating the My SharePoint Sites app. This app for SharePoint adds...
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