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SemVer 2.0 Released

youve been HAACKED, June 18, 2013
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One of the side projects Ive been working on lately is helping to shepherd the Semantic Versioning specification (SemVer) along to its 2.0.0 release. I want to thank everyone who sent pull requests an...

How to tweet automatically when you push a new package to nuget.org

eXtensible mind, June 17, 2013
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Wouldnt it be nice if your followers could be notified whenever you publish a new version of a NuGet package? Currently, nuget.org offers no support for this, but with the following tricks, you can ge...

Debug Decompiled Code with JustCode

the telerik blogs, June 17, 2013
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Debug Decompiled code inside Visual Studio with JustCode Q2 2013....

Reporting Release History : Q2 2013 (version 7.1.13.612)

Telerik News RSS Feed, June 12, 2013
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Telerik Reporting Q2 2013 (7.1.13.612) What's New: New System Requirements .NET Framework v4.0 or later Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 or later Starting from Q2 2013 (v7.1.13.612) Telerik Reporting ...

Increase developer productivity with NuGet packages with NuGet References

eXtensible mind, June 5, 2013
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A typical solution usually has many projects, and many more NuGet packages in use:   How do you get a glance of what packages are installed on each project? Typically, youd just open each of the ...

T4 - The Insource Code Monkey

Simple Talk, June 3, 2013
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T4 usually stays behind the schenes in Visual Studio, but if you find that you have a good reason to write similar code over and over again, or use a lot of copy and paste, then it could be that you...

Visual Studio 2013, ALM, and DevOps

Somasegars WebLog, June 3, 2013
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Since launching Visual Studio 2012, we’ve been thrilled with the customer adoption and partner momentum we’ve seen.  Visual Studio 2012 has been downloaded more than 4 million times, ...

EF6 Beta 1 Tools First Pass is VS EF Designer, Not Power Tools, Yet & Im Good With That

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., June 1, 2013
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With EF6, Microsoft (and the community that is helping with this OSS project) is pulling the Entity Framework Designer tools out of the Visual Studio install and making them a part of EF6. While you c...

Update your Windows Phone App to Support Theme Changes

Jason N. Gaylords Blog, May 30, 2013
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If youve ever built a Windows Phone 7 or Windows Phone 8 application, you may have found that your app looks great when building it in Visual Studio. However, as soon as you attempt to change the them...

A typical effect of setting CopyLocal = true

Brendan Tompkins, May 30, 2013
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If you read me in the past, you certainly know that I have a problem about the Visual Studio default option that set CopyLocal = true in project references assemblies. I mean this option: I’ve already...

Quickly zipping together your Windows 8 App with ZipApp

MSDN: Coding4Fun, May 27, 2013
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Continuing with our "Building Windows 8 App's quickly" theme started last Wednesday, Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, some PCL and your social world = Social Media Dashboard Sample, today's Modern Monday...

Using The New Git Support in WebMatrix 3

Chris Love's Official Blog - Professional ASP.NET, May 26, 2013
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WebMatrix is probably my favorite web development IDE because it is so simple and easy to use. Sure I use Visual Studio 2012 everyday and it has probably the best web development features available on...

Optimizing Use of the Telerik Control Panel

the telerik blogs, May 24, 2013
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We’ve received lots of feedback on the Telerik Control Panel from our users since the initial launch back in mid-2012. A hearty thanks to those who’ve taken the time to provide their thoug...

Andy and Okra is your Windows 8 App Store MVVM app building supercharger...

MSDN: Coding4Fun, May 20, 2013
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Today's Modern Monday project by Andrew Wilkinson is one of those kinds of projects that makes me love developers.Imagine this...Building Windows 8 MVVM app... Gaa, don't like the available templates,...

NuGet References: publishing my first open source extension to the DevStore

eXtensible mind, May 18, 2013
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Last week I had the pleasure of spending time with a bunch of friends at the OuterConf 2013, including pretty much the entire NuGet team. I also could attend to the hackathon they organized, and I got...

Using Visual Studio 2012 Web Publish For Staging On The Internet

peterkellner.net, May 18, 2013
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Lets say you have a production code like http://siliconvalley-codecamp.com and you want to have a test site on the internet that will not be seen by anyone unless they login (or maybe even login as an...

Getting started with Cinder for Windows Store Apps

MSDN: Coding4Fun, May 14, 2013
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What is different on Windows 8Legacy software written for Windows 7 and prior targeted the traditional Windows API, often referred to as Win32. They resulting apps would be a combination of an executa...

Scripting ease with Script Packs

Brendan Tompkins, May 14, 2013
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Script Packs are a really cool extensibility point we added into scriptcs. A pack delivers a bundle of functionality that makes frameworks more palatable to consume from script. They are available as ...

LLBLGen Pro v4.0 feature highlights: Visual Studio integration

Frans Boumas blog, May 13, 2013
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This is the first post of a series about the new features in LLBLGen Pro v4.0, which was released on April 6th, 2013. Starting with v4.0, the LLBLGen Pro designer is usable both as standalone (as it w...

Publish Individual Files to your Server in Visual Studio 2012.2

Rick Strahls WebLog, May 10, 2013
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In Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 there's a sweet little new gem, that I championed for some time in the past, and that has finally made it into the VS box: You can now publish individual files to the se...

Digging into your code with the free Microsoft Code Digger and the power of Pex

MSDN: Coding4Fun, May 8, 2013
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Have Visual Studio 2012?Building Portable Libraries?Wonder what all the weird and wild code paths your code might have, but it hurts your brain to try to write every possible path in your unit tests?W...

Announcing the release of Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET

ScottGus Blog, April 30, 2013
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This morning we released the v2.0 update of the Windows Azure SDK for .NET. This is a major refresh of the Windows Azure SDK with some really great new features and enhancements.  These new capab...

Xamarin.iOS Visual Studio Plugin Article

Wallace B. McClure, April 22, 2013
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Url: http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2013/04/01/ios-development.aspxDevelopers working with Xamarin MonoTouch have been stuck with developing on a Macintosh and working with MonoDevelop. Thi...

Inside Portable Class Libraries

Simple Talk, April 19, 2013
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Portable Class Libraries were introduced with Visual Studio 2010 SP1 to aid writing libraries that could be used on many different platforms – the full .NET 4/4.5 framework, Windows Phone, Silverlight...

Speed your Phone App Dev with the Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit

MSDN: Coding4Fun, April 15, 2013
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Today's Mobile Monday is a toolkit by Pedro Lamas that will help speed up your Windows Phone 7.x and 8 app development.Yeah, I know it feels like I've been doing allot frameworks recently, but in my w...

C++, three parts, 3D and the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit

MSDN: Coding4Fun, April 10, 2013
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Five months ago we highlighted the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, Getting started with C++/3D/WinStore Game Dev with the "Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit." Today we're going to highlight parts one and t...

Clouds would be bad today, since when we're talking "NetDuino Solar Monitor"

MSDN: Coding4Fun, April 5, 2013
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I've been on this house hardware kick recently haven't I? Well today's no different! MUAHAHAH... Well, okay, kind of different. No clouds, no Azure. Today Graham Ross is going to help us scratch our G...

Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Now Available

Somasegars WebLog, April 4, 2013
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We finished the RTM release of Visual Studio 2012 in August 2012 and launched it in September.  At that time, we committed to releasing new value into Visual Studio via a regular cadence of Visua...

Text Editor Associations/Extensions in Visual Studio getting lost

Rick Strahls WebLog, March 23, 2013
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Here's something that's coming up frequently since I maintain a framework that requires custom script map extensions: So you create a custom script map for your application and then map that script ma...

8 Great Tools in the Developer's Toolbox: Where does he get those wonderful toys?

the telerik blogs, March 18, 2013
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I know I have a number of unique add-ins and tools in Visual Studio, and I wanted to describe the tools that I have installed for those that may want to use them as well. ...

Building a Simple REST Controller with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and WebAPI

peterkellner.net, March 13, 2013
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Three Part Series(Part 1) Building a Simple REST Controller with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and WebAPIUsing Sencha ExtJS 4.2 and Sencha Architect 2.2, Build a Simple REST client (to feed WebAPI serv...

Using Sencha ExtJS 4.2 and Sencha Architect 2.2, Build a Simple REST client (to feed WebAPI server)

peterkellner.net, March 13, 2013
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Three Part Series(Part 2) Building a Simple REST Controller with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and WebAPIUsing Sencha ExtJS 4.2 and Sencha Architect 2.2, Build a Simple REST client (to feed WebAPI serv...

Using Sencha ExtJS 4.2, Sencha Architect 2.2, Add CRUD to REST client for calling Microsoft WebAPI server

peterkellner.net, March 13, 2013
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Three Part Series (Part 3) Building a Simple REST Controller with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and WebAPIUsing Sencha ExtJS 4.2 and Sencha Architect 2.2, Build a Simple REST client (to feed WebAPI ser...

Power your projects with Telerik - Now with the Convenience of NuGet

the telerik blogs, March 11, 2013
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Telerik now supports NuGet! Read this post to find out how to set up your own NuGet feed as well as find out where to download Telerik NuGet packages!...

Amp Up Your Visual Studio Productivity

the telerik blogs, March 11, 2013
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Check out all the great new features in the Just family: Youll learn about LESS support and improved handling of code analysis errors and warnings in JustCode, additional automocking power with JustMo...

Getting Started with EF5 New Course on Pluralsight

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., March 6, 2013
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While EF5 did not bring a huge amount of change to Entity Framework, one small change in the EF Designer in Visual Studio 2012 made a huge difference for people getting started with Entity Framework. ...

Aversion to Version Control

Simple Talk, February 28, 2013
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Why shouldn’t we enjoy the benefits of distributed version control systems (DVCS) on Windows? I agree that we’ve made a start, now that, at last, we have a measure of integration into TFS and Visual S...

Visual Studio Web Publish Lockup? Check for invisible Window

Rick Strahls WebLog, February 21, 2013
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Today, while sitting through the MVP 2013 sessions and watching Scott Gu's Azure demos I decided to finally try quickly setting up a free Azure Web site and publish it. The process is super easy. Crea...

Windows 8 Conference BuddyBe A Sharing Target

the telerik blogs, February 21, 2013
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Creating a sharing target might be fairly complex were it not for the template available in Visual Studio that turns it into a snap....

Reporting Release History : Q1 2013 (version 7.0.13.220)

Telerik News RSS Feed, February 20, 2013
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Telerik Reporting Q1 2013 (7.0.13.220) What's New: Graph (Telerik.Reporting.Graph) report item (BETA): The new Graph report item is available in Microsft Visual Studio, through the Telerik Rep...

Trust and NuGet

youve been HAACKED, February 19, 2013
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How can you trust anything you install from NuGet? Its a simple question, but the answer is complicated. Trust is not some binary value. There are degrees of trust. I trust my friends to warn me befor...

The Evolution of DevLabs

Somasegars WebLog, February 19, 2013
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A little over four years ago, we created the DevLabs portal on MSDN.  The idea behind this site was to provide a hub for Microsoft teams to publicly share prototypes of innovative tools for devel...

Visual Drawing.Net

The Code Project Latest Articles, February 13, 2013
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Create fascinating shapes, which integrate with .net applications and Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010/20012 and all related Express Editions...

Mango + Apollo = The Mangopollo Windows Phone Library

MSDN: Coding4Fun, February 11, 2013
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With Windows Phone 7.8 rolling out to devices, I thought this this library something you all might find interesting. If you want to live in both worlds, 7.x and 8, this library/toolkit looks like it m...

A Caveat with NuGet Source Code Packages

youve been HAACKED, February 10, 2013
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The other day I needed a simple JSON parser for a thing I worked on. Sure, Im familiar with JSON.NET, but I wanted something I could just compile into my project. The reason why is not important for t...

Creating a WinJS Project Template

the telerik blogs, February 5, 2013
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Now that you have the perfect starting point for your WinJS projects, make it into a Visual Studio Template!...

A quick look at Git support in Visual Studio 2012

JonGalloway.ToString(), February 1, 2013
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I use Git a lot these days. My team uses it exclusively for internal work, collaboration with vendors, and public open source releases. I've got several public and private repos on CodePlex, GitHub an...

Improving the Modern Application Lifecycle

Somasegars WebLog, January 30, 2013
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This week in Redmond, Microsoft is hosting the 3rd annual ALM Summit, a gathering of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) practitioners interested in learning more about the craft and sharing their ...

Publishing a Web App to Windows Azure

JohnPapa.net, January 26, 2013
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Often I like to test my web apps in a real website. For me, Windows Azure is ideally suited for this. I can spin up a site as needed, publish my demo, test it on a variety of devices, and tear it down...

AvalonDock v2

MSDN: Coding4Fun, January 23, 2013
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Today's project by Adolfo Marinucci is one that you might of seen and not even known it. It's used in a number of places/app's and lets you create professional looking and interacting applications wit...