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MSDN Magazine January 2013 Issue
Read online articles covering Online Services with Windows Runtime, TypeScript, C# memory model, ASP.NET Web API, TFS Client Object Model Version Cont... more
Wednesday, Jan 2
Stakes raised in Rock Paper Azure
Learn the cloud and build a killer bot . Weekly prizes just for playing plus three grand prizes at the end of the six-week challenge. It’s a fresh cha... more
Friday, Dec 28
Win the Ultimate Experience ∙ Make an App and Go Backstage
Want to win the chance to visit Microsoft Studios, meet the Windows 8 Games Studios team, and join the developers in a coding session? ... Read more
Thursday, Dec 20
Introduction to Fabric.js - Part 3
Read this Script Junkie article to get to know more advanced features of Fabric; groups, serialization, deserialization and classes.
Wednesday, Dec 19

Microsoft developer blogs

Executive bloggers

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Team Explorer Extensibility
We redesigned the Team Explorer window in TFS 2012.  Previously, it was simple tree control with limited flexibility.  In 2012, we made it richer page... more
Wednesday, Jan 2 Brian Harry MS

Languages

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Roaming Settings: Give Us Your Feedback!
Let's kick off 2013 with a survey J We have been researching roaming Visual Studio settings and have a few questions that will help gain insights into... more
Wednesday, Jan 2 Eric Battalio

Visual Studio

MSDN – the Microsoft Developer Network

Enhancing LightSwitch Controls with jQuery Mobile (Michael Zlatkovsky)
One of my favorite things about the LightSwitch HTML Client is how easy it is to create forms over data the “LightSwitch way”, and then jump straight ... more
Wednesday, Dec 19 LightSwitch Team

.NET framework

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When in doubt, turn on Tracing
One of my favorite posts that I've done is "The Internet is not a black box. Look inside." I really want to encourage folks to look inside "black box... more
Monday, Dec 31 Scott Hanselman

ALM

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Content Index for Coded UI Test
I have been collecting various resources related to Coded UI Test since its release. I have updated this Content Index for features we released in Vis... more
Sunday, Dec 30 Mathew Aniyan MSFT''''

Platform development

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Reflecting on 2012: scale and opportunity
As the year draws to a close, I can’t help but reflect on what we’ve accomplished together in 2012. Our big goal this year was to establish a new, sca... more
Wednesday, Dec 26 Todd Brix