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Oct 9, 2013
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LightSwitch Performance Win in Visual Studio 2013

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

With the release of Visual Studio 2013 RC, we on the LightSwitch Team have made some changes in how much bandwidth our HTML Client and Server use when communicating. Let’s take a look at what we did and how it can be useful to both developers and users of LightSwitch applications. A Slimmer ODATA Format LightSwitch uses a REST-based protocol call...

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Oct 2, 2013
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Visual Studio Start Page: Through the ages

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

When we started planning the first truly integrated version of Visual Studio (prior to that Visual Studio was predominantly a collection of tools boxed together) we wanted to help developers get started with the new version. To do this we introduce a common start page for Visual Studio. Visual Studio.NET Figure 1 Visual Studio .NET ...

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Sep 18, 2013
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Designing pixel perfect layouts in Visual Studio 2013 and Blend

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

It’s a familiar scenario. You’re developing your application and you’ve got a design in mind. It may have come from a professional designer or a sketch on the back of a cocktail napkin, but you need to move from a concept to a working, implemented design. This can be easier said than done. When your design calls for the baseline of that text to ...

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Sep 16, 2013
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Notifications in Visual Studio 2013

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

One of the benefits to having a connected IDE is that your environment can be kept up to date easily by presenting you with notifications of updates and relevant account information. Visual Studio will not only keep your environment up to date but also keep you in control of your preferred configurations. There are two main avenues for presentin...

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Sep 12, 2013
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Supercharged Styling: Quickly Finding and Setting a CSS Property in Blend

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

A core goal of Blend for Visual Studio is to make it fast and easy for developers who care about the quality of their markup to create professional looking apps. One of the many ways that the HTML Designer in Blend can speed up the CSS editing experience when developing Windows Store apps is by providing immediate visual feedback and enabling direc...

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Sep 9, 2013
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Visual Studio 2013 RC available now!

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

Today, we announced that the Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate is now available for download on our Visual Studio product site. We are also excited to share that the Visual Studio 2013 Launch is on Nov 13th 2013. Save the date to participate in all the excitement, more details about the event can be found on the events page. Visual Studio ...

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Sep 3, 2013
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What’s new for HTML Developers in Blend for Visual Studio 2013

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

At Windows’ Build conference in June, we introduced Visual Studio and Blend 2013 Preview to the world. With this release, we significantly expanded Visual Studio’s support for creating Window Store Apps using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. In addition to the client-side diagnostics and debugging tools found in Visual Studio, Blend also added...

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Aug 15, 2013
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What’s new in Visual Studio 2013 and InstallShield Limited Edition

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

UPDATE: We’re happy to announce the availability of the Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension. This extension provides support for Visual Studio Installer projects in Visual Studio 2013. You can download the extension from the Visual Studio Gallery. To learn more check out this blog post on Visual Studio Installer Projects extension.  ...

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Aug 9, 2013
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XAML Editor Improvements in Visual Studio 2013

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

While many of you like creating XAML using our visual tools, many prefer creating XAML in the code editor as well. Your feedback was heard loud and clear and we have taken a crack at the top XAML editor feature requests in Visual Studio 2013. This blog post describes the new editor features in detail and how you can use them! IntelliSense for Data...

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Aug 8, 2013
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Update for Extension Authors: VSIX Manifest Version Range Attribute

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

In Visual Studio 2010 we introduced a new deployment model for extensions, the VSIX format. This format is based on the Open Packaging Conventions and enables extension developers to create a single package that can be easily installed by Visual Studio and contain all the appropriate files to describe the extension. For Visual Studio 2012 we wante...

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