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Windows Ecosystem Workshop–Johannesburg
The following events are aimed at targeting specific types of application development across the Windows Ecosystem, Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, and Az... more
Tuesday, May 14
Windows Ecosystem Workshops–Cape Town
The following events are aimed at targeting specific types of application development across the Windows Ecosystem, Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, and Az... more
Tuesday, May 14
[Guest Post] - IntelliTrace Tips and Tricks: IntelliTrace Everywhere–Part 2- Colin Dembovsky
This two-part series of blog posts will show you how to get the most out of IntelliTrace – a historical debugger that allows you to record (and replay... more
Monday, May 13

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An update on the forums refresh
As with any significant change, there is a period of “burn in” the tune it. I want to thank everyone who has already provided feedback and ask that yo... more
Friday, Jun 21 Brian Harry MS

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How to Assign Users, Roles and Permissions to a LightSwitch HTML Mobile Client
I’ve gotten a few questions lately on how to assign user permissions to a LightSwitch HTML mobile app so I thought I’d post a quick How To. The short ... more
Tuesday, Jun 25 Beth Massi

.NET framework

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How to start your first podcast - equipment, editing, publishing and more
<figure></figure> My friend Luvvie and I were speaking at Blogging While Brown this last weekend in New York City, amongst other things and events. ... more
Monday, Jun 24 Scott Hanselman

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Using Visual Studio 2013 to Diagnose .NET Memory Issues in Production
One of the issues that frequently affects .NET applications running in production environments is problems with their memory use which can impact both... more
Thursday, Jun 20 Andrew B Hall - MSFT

Platform development

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Welcome to //BUILD
This year’s BUILD conference is June 26-28 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.  This will be the first broad discussion and distributi... more
Tuesday, Jun 25 ieblog