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Register now for the 2013 p&p Symposium
Join us for the next patterns & practices Symposium in Redmond, WA on January 15-17, 2013.
Tuesday, Dec 4
Create apps on your tablet or smartphone
TouchDevelop Web App is a development environment to create apps on your tablet or smartphone, without requiring a separate PC.
Tuesday, Dec 4
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Friday, Nov 30
40 Million Win8 sold in a month, is your app done?
News shared with industry and financial analysts, investors and media at the Credit Suisse 2012 Annual Technology Conference
Friday, Nov 30

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Executive bloggers

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Visual Studio and Internationalization
Our developer customer base for Visual Studio is truly global.  A significant portion of the Visual Studio user base is international, and as a result... more
Wednesday, Dec 5 S.Somasegar

Languages

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F# Community Update
At the Visual F# team, we're glad to be contributors to the broader F# language and community through the Visual F# tools, the free F# Tools for Visua... more
Wednesday, Dec 5 dsyme

Visual Studio

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LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–November 2012
Last year I started posting a rollup of interesting community happenings, content, samples and extensions popping up around Visual Studio LightSwitch.... more
Wednesday, Dec 5 Beth Massi

.NET framework

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My next PC will be an Ultrabook
Darn it all. I didn't want to like this little computer. I've always been a "MOAR POWER" laptop user. For me, laptops are desktop replacements. It's l... more
Tuesday, Dec 4 Scott Hanselman

ALM

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Publishing test results through command line test runner
Generally, a subset of tests are executed as part of a build as Build Verification Tests. You may want to run the full set of automated tests on a loc... more
Thursday, Dec 6 Mathew Aniyan MSFT''''

Platform development

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IE10: Fast, Fluid, Perfect for Touch, and Available Now for Windows 7
IE10: Fast, Fluid, Perfect for Touch, and Available Now for Windows 7 In Windows 8, we reimagined the browser with IE10. We designed and built IE10 to... more
Tuesday, Nov 13 ieblog

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