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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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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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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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Adapting the Items Page template in a Windows Runtime app

By tim, on October 14th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

A while back I adapted a sample application in order to create an app for Windows 8. I am mulling over putting it in the Windows Store, but it needed some work. In particular, I wanted to add a Twitter feed to the front page. There is plenty of space:

Sounds easy; but inspecting

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Visual Studio 2012 hits and misses

By tim, on October 8th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

A few quick reflections after writing a rather large review of Visual Studio 2012, Microsoft’s development tool for everything Windows.

Several things impressed me. The Graphics Diagnostics Tools for Direct3D, for example, is amazing; you can capture a frame, select a pixel, and drill down into why it is the colour it is. See Amit

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Platform churn? If it is in Windows 8, we are committed to it says Microsoft

By tim, on September 20th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I interviewed Corporate VP of Microsoft’s developer division Soma Somasegar at the Visual Studio 2012 launch last week; see the article on the Register here. I asked about the inconsistency of the Microsoft platform, and the way the platform story has changed over the years (Win32, .NET, WPF, Silverlight and now Windows Runtime). Can developers

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Visual Studio 2012 launch: focus on Modern Apps

By tim, on September 12th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft is holding a launch event in Seattle for Visual Studio 2012, attended by selected Microsoft-platform developers as well as press from around the world.

Corporate VP Soma Somasegar kicked off the keynote, saying that Visual Studio 2012 has already been downloaded 600,000 times since its release to the web around one month ago

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Telerik releases Kendo UI components for ASP.NET MVC

By tim, on July 12th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Component vendor Telerik has released an updated version of Kendo UI, its HTML5 framework. This is the first non-beta release with support for ASP.NET MVC server wrappers, with components including Grid, ListView, calendar and date controls, tree view, menu, editor and more. Kendo UI supports the MVVM (Model View ViewModel) pattern popular with Microsoft developers.

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Visual Studio LightSwitch to get HTML5 support

By tim, on June 11th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft’s Visual Studio LightSwitch is a rapid application development tool designed to create database-oriented, browser hosted applications with little code.

LightSwitch is intriguing because it does model-driven development. You design the model, LightSwitch generates the application. Microsoft’s idea was that non-specialist developer would like the tool, though there is little evidence of that. However, it

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Developers like coding in the dark

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

Many developers prefer to code against dark backgrounds, according to this post by Monty Hammontree, Director of User Experience in Microsoft’s developer tools division.

Many of you have expressed a preference for coding within a dark editor. For example, dark editor themes dominate the list of all-time favorites at web sites such as http://studiostyl.es/ which

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