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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 ...

LightSwitch Performance Win in Visual Studio 2013

October 9, 2013 Oct 9, 2013 10/9/13
Visual Studio Blog
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 ...

Enabling IntelliSense for Mobile Services JavaScript in Visual Studio

July 26, 2013 Jul 26, 2013 07/26/13
Visual Studio Blog
In a previous post , we shared the new Windows Azure Mobile Services integration and capabilities in Visual Studio 2013. These include the ability to edit your Mobile Services table scripts. In this post, we describe how you can enable IntelliSense on your server side scripts in Visual Studio. This is a capability that isn’t integrated in ...

Now Available – SQL Server Data Tools and Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012

March 7, 2013 Mar 7, 2013 03/7/13
Lisa Feigenbaum
This week we released two new sets of tools, which help Visual Studio 2012 users take advantage of the latest Microsoft development platforms. SQL Server Data Tools Yesterday we released SQL Server Data Tools - Business Intelligence for Visual Studio 2012 (or “SSDT BI” for short). This release includes project templates for SQL Server ...
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Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop is Here

September 12, 2012 Sep 12, 2012 09/12/12
Visual Studio Blog
A few months ago, Soma announced plans for a Visual Studio Express 2012 edition for Windows Desktop. Today, we are happy to share that this new Express product is available for download. (You can find the system requirements and download details here.) This post is written by Jennifer Leaf, one of the program managers working on the new ...

F# Code-First Development with Entity Framework 4.1

April 4, 2011 Apr 4, 2011 04/4/11
Visual Studio Blog
By Jack Hu As the word “code-first” implies, the EF 4.1 offers a code centric data programming paradigm. From a coder’s point of view, it requires little effort to map a very clean object model to a database. This style of programming is idea for explorative, bottom-up kind fsharp programmers. Since EF 4 CTP4 release, there have ...

Building on Cross targeting scenarios and 64-bit MSBuild

May 7, 2010 May 7, 2010 05/7/10
Visual Studio Blog
UPDATE: Most issues around MSBuild support for cross-bitness and 64-bit builds are fixed in .NET 4.5. As always, feedback is welcome! Please leave your comments in this blog post and report any bugs on Microsoft Connect.   During the Visual Studio 2010 development cycle a push to make the build experience better on Cross compilation...

Dynamic in C# 4.0: Introducing the ExpandoObject

September 30, 2009 Sep 30, 2009 09/30/09
Visual Studio Blog
You have probably already heard about the new dynamic feature in C# 4.0 and how it is used to support COM interop. If you haven't, I strongly recommend reading the following MSDN articles: Using Type dynamic and How to: Access Office Interop Objects by Using Visual C# 2010 Features. Well, where else can you use this new feature? What are the ...