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LightSwitch Performance Win in Visual Studio 2013
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 ...
Visual Studio Start Page: Through the ages
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...
Designing pixel perfect layouts in Visual Studio 2013 and Blend
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...
Notifications in Visual Studio 2013
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 ...
Supercharged Styling: Quickly Finding and Setting a CSS Property in Blend
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...
Visual Studio 2013 RC available now!
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 ...
What’s new for HTML Developers in Blend for Visual Studio 2013
At Windows’ Build conference in June, we introduced Visual Studio and Blend 2013 Preview to the world. With this release, we significantly expanded Visual...
What’s new in Visual Studio 2013 and InstallShield Limited Edition
UPDATE: We’re happy to announce the availability of the Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension. This extension provides support for Visual Studio ...
XAML Editor Improvements in Visual Studio 2013
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...