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Targeting Multiple Platforms with Portable Code: Overview

July 6, 2012 Jul 6, 2012 07/6/12
Brandon Bray
As programming with .NET has become prevalent on all Microsoft platforms, targeting multiple platforms at once becomes a critical desire amongst developers. In fact, we see the future of library development moving to supporting an intersection of platforms rather than targeting just one version of the .NET Framework at a time. Mircea Trofin, ...

New .NET Diagnostic info added to Process Explorer

June 26, 2012 Jun 26, 2012 06/26/12
Brandon Bray
Productivity is the hallmark of programming with managed code. So often productivity boils down to figuring out why something isn’t working – diagnostics. The CLR provides one of the best foundations for diagnostics. In this post, Richard Lander – a program manager for the Common Language Runtime – shows how more than just ...

Visual Studio 2010 Web Publish Updates

June 15, 2012 Jun 15, 2012 06/15/12
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Last week we rolled out some updates for our Visual Studio 2010 Web Publishing Experience. This post will give you an overview of the new features which we released. In the coming weeks there will be more posts getting into more details regarding individual features. You can get these updates in the Windows Azure SDK for Visual Studio 2010. ...

ASP.NET providers and SQL Azure

June 14, 2012 Jun 14, 2012 06/14/12
Web Development Tools Microsoft
We have two sets of ASP.NET providers which currently exist; the ASP.NET SQL providers, and the ASP.NET Universal Providers. In VS 2010 the SQL providers were in only providers used for our project templates. In VS 2012 we have switched to using the Universal Providers. One of the drawbacks of the SQL providers is that it leverages DB objects ...

Database settings in the VS Publish dialog

June 14, 2012 Jun 14, 2012 06/14/12
Web Development Tools Microsoft
In Visual Studio 2010 we introduced a database publishing experience in the Package/Publish SQL (PP/SQL) properties page. This support relies on generating create scripts from the source database and then executing those scripts when you publish your web application. For more details regarding this feature take a look at Package/Publish SQL ...

VS Publish dialog Update Database dialog disabled

June 14, 2012 Jun 14, 2012 06/14/12
Web Development Tools Microsoft
If you have tried out our new Web Publish experience in Visual Studio you may have noticed that the Update Database checkbox is disabled. See the image below. (image) The intended behavior of this checkbox is to enable you to incrementally publish your database schema from the source (the connection string in web.config) to the destination...

Async in 4.5: Enabling Progress and Cancellation in Async APIs

June 6, 2012 Jun 6, 2012 06/6/12
Brandon Bray
The apps developers want to develop today are fast and fluid and the async features in .NET make this easier than ever. The world is also highly connected now which makes waiting for data a real concern for building great customer experiences. Alok Shriram from the .NET Base Class Library program management team continues his discussion on the...

Introducing the .NET Framework 4.5 RC

May 31, 2012 May 31, 2012 05/31/12
Brandon Bray
Update (2017): See .NET Framework Releases to learn about newer releases. This release is now unsupported. Today, we are announcing the .NET Framework 4.5 RC. We are also announcing Visual Studio 2012 RC, as you can read on Jason Zander’s and Soma’s blog. Please visit the Visual Studio 2012 RC downloads page to install both products. We ...

.NET for Metro style apps

April 17, 2012 Apr 17, 2012 04/17/12
Brandon Bray
.NET is now a core part of several Microsoft platforms, and each has focused on specific subset of APIs. A lot of thought has been put into crafting each API surface area. Many of you have asked how the .NET APIs available for Metro style apps were chosen. In the following post, Immo Landwerth – a program manager on the CLR’s Core ...