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A free event for the Windows Azure community featuring a keynote presentation by Scott Guthrie. Streamed live on Channel 9.
Monday, Mar 25
Stephen Oliver and Eric Schmidt discuss how to access data and handle events in the JavaScript API for Office.
Sunday, Mar 24
In this article, Joel Fjordén shows WPF/Silverlight developers how they can implement the MVVM pattern in Windows Store apps
Sunday, Mar 24
How the different layers of an application communicate especially between the ViewModel and the view using the MVVM Light Messenger event bus
Sunday, Mar 24
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Today, we released the results of Sprint 45 on Team Foundation Service. You can check out the release notes to learn more about today’s release. The... more
Friday, Mar 22 Brian Harry MS
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Hi, my name is Sumit Kumar and I am a Program Manager on the Visual C++ team at Microsoft. We are conducting a survey to understand what can we do to ... more
Friday, Mar 22 SumitMSFT
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Welcome to the 4th installment of the Signed-In app walkthrough! Here are the previous posts: Signed-In Part 1 – Introduction Signed-In Part 2 – Upco... more
Monday, Mar 25 LightSwitch Team
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When you've got an idea for an app, it's likely that you've got the idea for that app in more than one place. By this I mean, you'll start with a phon... more
Thursday, Mar 21 Scott Hanselman
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Kanban customizable columns was made publicly available in VS Update 2. You can read the release notes for an overview of the feature itself, and you ... more
Tuesday, Mar 19 Ewald Hofman - TFS Product Team
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Tom Dykstra and I have published a really cool tutorial on creating a MVC FB birthday app. You can test the app out by clicking on the FB link below: ... more
Monday, Mar 25 Rick_Anderson
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