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Microsoft’s Windows 8 app problem will not be solved by incentivising junk

By tim, on March 20th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has launched a “Keep the cash” offer to developers. Publish up to 20 apps, 10 for Windows Phone and 10 for Windows 8, and get $100 for each of them.

The offer is little use for most of the world. The terms state that “Offer good only to legal residents of the 50

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Microsoft’s Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server get Git integration

By tim, on January 31st, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has announced Git integration in both the Visual Studio IDE and the Team Foundation Service hosted source code management system. According to Technical Fellow Brian Harry:

1. Team Foundation Server will host Git repositories – and more concretely, Team Foundation Service has support for hosting Git repositories starting today.

2. Visual Studio will

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Hacking Windows RT and Surface RT to run desktop apps

By tim, on January 7th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

A developer on the XDA Developers forum, known as clrokr, has figured out how to run unsigned applications on Windows RT (Windows on ARM), including Microsoft’s own-brand Surface RT device.

The technique is described here and involves patching the Windows kernel. Currently it is not possible to jailbreak Windows RT completely, because Secure Boot prevents

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Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML: mainly for mobile

By tim, on January 3rd, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft’s Visual Studio LightSwitch is an innovative development tool that lets you build multi-tier database applications without ever designing the user interface directly. Instead, you work with defining the database and the the features you want on your screens. LightSwitch generates the user interface for you. You can also add code snippets, and advanced developers

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Android up, Apple down, Microsoft so near, so far: 2012 in review

By tim, on December 31st, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

What happened in 2012?

Windows 8

Whether you regard it as the beginning of the end for Windows, or a moment of rebirth, for me it was the year of Windows 8. Microsoft’s new Windows is fascinating on several levels: as a bold strategic move to make a desktop operating system into a tablet operating

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Microsoft scraps Expression Web and Design, blends Blend with Visual Studio

By tim, on December 21st, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft is giving up its long effort to compete with Adobe in the design tools space. The Expression range of products is being discontinued, in favour of enhanced design capabilities in its developer-focused Visual Studio. Blend for Visual Studio continues, as a design tool for Windows Store apps and Windows Phone apps. A future edition

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Microsoft Silverlight: shattered into a million broken urls

By tim, on December 6th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

There has been some Twitter chatter about the closure of silverlight.net, Microsoft’s official site for its lightweight .NET client platform. multimedia player and browser plug-in.

I am not sure when it happened, but it is true. Silverlight.net now redirects to a page on MSDN. Some but not all of the content has been migrated

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Infragistics building cross-platform development strategy on XAML says CEO

By tim, on November 30th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I spoke to Dean Guida, CEO at Infragistics, maker of components for Windows, web and mobile development platforms. Windows developers with long memories will remember Sheridan software, who created products including Data Widgets and VBAssist. Infragistics was formed in 2000 when Sheridan merged with another company, ProtoView.

In other words, this is a company

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Microsoft Build 2012 is done. Now the market gets to judge Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8

By tim, on November 3rd, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I am just back from Microsoft’s Build conference, at the company’s headquarters near Seattle. This is a company in transition and the event had that feel to it. There was not much that we did not know about before, but this is the moment of full release into the market for some key products, and

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How to test and debug an app on Surface RT in a hotel room

By tim, on November 1st, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I wanted to test an app on Surface RT this morning, though I am out of the office with just a Samsung Slate (has Visual Studio), the Surface, and hotel wi-fi.

You can do remote debugging on Surface RT as explained here, however you need a private network.

I set up an ad-hoc network from

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