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Building Windows Phone 8.1 Apps in HTML

April 8, 2014 Apr 8, 2014 04/8/14
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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...

Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2013

December 19, 2013 Dec 19, 2013 12/19/13
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Those following the Visual Studio 2013 launch may have noticed that we've taken your UserVoice feedback seriously and brought more Productivity Power Tools into the core Visual Studio experience. We selected the all-time favorites: Enhanced Scrollbar, Move-line and Brace Completion; polished and improved them for prime-time. Once we wrapped...

Windows Azure SDK 2.2 Release

October 23, 2013 Oct 23, 2013 10/23/13
Visual Studio Blog
Yesterday we announced the release of the Windows Azure SDK version 2.2 for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013. This release includes several new highly requested customer features like Integrated Sign In, Remote Debugging preview, Edit and Continue for Cloud Services, SQL Databases in Server Explorer, and Publishing Cloud Services to Affinity ...

The Story of Synchronized Settings

July 3, 2013 Jul 3, 2013 07/3/13
Visual Studio Blog
As you may have read in our post about signing into Visual Studio 2013, one benefit of signing in is the ability to roam your product’s settings across machines. In this post I’ll tell you more about the Synchronized Settings feature. When looking at feedback from customers or requests for new features that enhance productivity, a few ...

A World of Samples at your Fingertips

June 11, 2012 Jun 11, 2012 06/11/12
Visual Studio Blog
Samples are the primary way that we as developers learn to develop applications for a new platform. We use samples as a starting point to learn about new APIs, we reference them when we hit bugs in our own code and need a comparison, and we share them for others to learn from our discoveries. If a picture is worth a thousand words then a ...

Announcing the Microsoft “Roslyn” June 2012 CTP

June 5, 2012 Jun 5, 2012 06/5/12
Visual Studio Blog
In Soma’s previous blog post, we announced the first CTP of the Roslyn project.   Roslyn is a forward looking project that enables the C# and VB compilers to be used as a service.  Today, as Jason Zander discusses in more detail, we’re excited to announce the second Roslyn CTP – with full support for Visual Studio 2012 RC. You can get...

Roslyn Syntax Visualizers

October 19, 2011 Oct 19, 2011 10/19/11
Visual Studio Blog
Hello everyone! As you may have heard, today we announced the first CTP of the Roslyn project! You can visit the Roslyn MSDN Page to learn more about the project and to download the CTP. You can also read more about Roslyn at the following links - In this post I will present a brief overview of two samples that are ...

Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Search Everywhere

October 11, 2011 Oct 11, 2011 10/11/11
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During usability studies on previous versions of Visual Studio, we found many users were spending quite a lot of time browsing long lists of data from files in Solution Explorer to controls in the Toolbox, errors or warnings in the Error list, menus, bugs, etc. More often than not you know what you want but finding it in the list can be ...

Improving developer productivity with Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview

October 6, 2011 Oct 6, 2011 10/6/11
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One of the things we’ve been doing in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (VS11) is focusing on ways to increase developer productivity and improve the performance of VS. Through careful observation of developers using Visual Studio and through talking to developers, we learned that one of the ways we could improve developer productivity ...

Using Visual Studio to build VB Windows Phone Applications

November 29, 2010 Nov 29, 2010 11/29/10
Visual Studio Blog
by Yang Xiao Today we are announcing the release to web (RTW) of Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools. This walkthrough demonstrates how easy and convenient it is to develop a VB Windows Phone application using the newly released tools. You’ll see that the many new IDE features in Visual Studio 2010, which help you navigate and ...