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Visual Studio 2012 RC Web Tooling Extensions update
If you have been following our blog and twitter accounts then you most likely have heard that some of the Web components of Visual Studio 2012 are now “Out of...
Targeting Multiple Platforms with Portable Code: Overview
As programming with .NET has become prevalent on all Microsoft platforms, targeting multiple platforms at once becomes a critical desire amongst developers. In...
New .NET Diagnostic info added to Process Explorer
Productivity is the hallmark of programming with managed code. So often productivity boils down to figuring out why something isn’t working – diagnostics...
Visual Studio 2010 Web Publish Updates
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 ...
ASP.NET providers and SQL Azure
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 ...
Database settings in the VS Publish dialog
In Visual Studio 2010 we introduced a database publishing experience in the Package/Publish SQL (PP/SQL) properties page. This support relies on generating ...
VS Publish dialog Update Database dialog disabled
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...
Async in 4.5: Enabling Progress and Cancellation in Async APIs
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 ...
Introducing the .NET Framework 4.5 RC
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. ...