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Using Visual Studio to build Universal XAML Apps

April 14, 2014 Apr 14, 2014 04/14/14
Visual Studio Blog
At the Build conference, we announced the release of the new converged Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1 platforms. As a developer, this means you can now build XAML and HTML universal apps that run on both Phone and Tablets by sharing a significant amount of code and content. To enable building universal apps, we added a number of new ...

Building Windows Phone 8.1 Apps in HTML

April 8, 2014 Apr 8, 2014 04/8/14
Visual Studio Blog
Last week at the BUILD conference, we announced that you can now build apps for Windows Phone 8.1 using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript using much the same techniques you use for building Windows 8.1 Store apps today. To help you build these apps, we’ve made many improvements to Visual Studio 2013 and Blend for Visual Studio 2013. In this post, we...

The Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2

April 4, 2014 Apr 4, 2014 04/4/14
Visual Studio Blog
Release candidate of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 is now available to download. This update supports TFS 2013 Update 2 RTM as well as the Windows 8.1 Update 1 and Windows Phone 8.1 platform releases announced yesterday. Checkout Somasegar’s blog where he talks about these new releases, the .NET Native preview release, TypeScript 1.0 and more...

Windows Embedded Compact 2013 now available for Visual Studio 2013

March 31, 2014 Mar 31, 2014 03/31/14
Visual Studio Blog
As announced recently on the Windows Embedded blog, the Windows Embedded Compact 2013 product is now generally available. This update release includes integration to the latest Visual Studio 2013 through updated platform builder and application builder, inbox WiFi device driver for TI SDP44xx and debugging features. Visual Studio 2013 ...

Improving High-DPI support for Visual Studio 2013

March 19, 2014 Mar 19, 2014 03/19/14
Art Leonard
Visual Studio has had support for High-DPI modes for some time. Visual Studio 2010 adopted WPF as its primary UI framework, which addressed many existing high-DPI issues. Some of our components which leverage Win32, however, had not been fully updated to incorporate high-DPI awareness. At the beginning of 2013, Microsoft shipped the Surface Pro which supported 210 pixels per inch and with a default DPI scaling of 150%. Later that year, 4k resolution displays debuted at CES in Las Vegas. We committed to making sure we were ready for these devices.

Blend for HTML Behaviors and Actions

March 13, 2014 Mar 13, 2014 03/13/14
Visual Studio Blog
Blend for Visual Studio 2013 introduces a feature to HTML developers that may be familiar to those who already work with XAML: Behaviors. When attached to HTML elements, Behaviors add life to an application by executing a JavaScript event handler. Developers can choose from a wide variety of ready-to-use Behaviors or create their own. For ...

Announcing Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – March 2014 Update

March 3, 2014 Mar 3, 2014 03/3/14
Visual Studio Blog
Today at SharePoint Conference 2014, we are thrilled to announce that Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – March 2014 Update is available to download! The March 2014 Update ships with a ton of new features that improves support for Office 365 Cloud Business App and apps for Office/SharePoint in Visual Studio 2013. Download the ...

Visual Studio Online early adoption period extended!

February 28, 2014 Feb 28, 2014 02/28/14
Visual Studio Blog
When we announced Visual Studio Online back in November of 2013 , we wanted to thank all those developers who trusted the service from the beginning—ever since the early Team Foundation Service bits were deployed. That’s why we decided that all of the Visual Studio Online early adopters should enjoy the service without limitation until ...

Introducing Bing Code Search for C#

February 17, 2014 Feb 17, 2014 02/17/14
Visual Studio Blog
Download the extension now from the Visual Studio Gallery Update: For the folks who have extensions that replace the Visual Studio IntelliSense experience, you can still access the feature using 'ALT-A' as a shortcut or assign the 'Tools.LaunchSnippetSearch' command to a shortcut of your choosing (under Tools->Options->Environment->...