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Robert Green - Adventures in DeveloperLand
Episode 65 of Visual Studio Toolbox: Prism for Windows Store Apps
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16 days ago
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I am joined this week by Francis Cheung and Blaine Wastell of the Microsoft Patterns and Practices team. They show us Prism for Windows Store Apps . This project provides guidance to developers who want to create a Windows Store business app using C#...
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Episode 64 of Visual Studio Toolbox: New Tools for Azure Storage and Diagnostics
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23 days ago
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In this show, I am joined by Boris Scholl and Merwan Hade, Program Managers on the Visual Studio Azure Tools team. They provide a high level overview of the just announced new tools in Visual Studio for working with Azure Storage and performing diagnostics...
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Episode 63 of Visual Studio Toolbox: Visual Studio 2012 Update 2
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1 month ago
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Starting with Visual Studio 2012, Microsoft has moved to providing updates to Visual Studio on a regular cadence of shorter intervals. The second such update, Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 , is now available. In addition to bug fixes, Update 2 contains...
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Episode 62 of Visual Studio Toolbox: Virtualization for Developers
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2 months ago
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There's always new stuff to play with, whether a preview version of Windows, a CTP of Visual Studio, or a prerelease of an upcoming version of ASP.NET or Entity Framework. Getting ahead of the curve and learning early sounds great, but how do you do it...
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Episode 61 of Visual Studio Toolbox: Building Great Windows 8 Apps
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2 months ago
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In this show, John Papa and Pete Brown join me for a freewheeling discussion about building great apps. We cover a range of topics including your icon and tile, how you app looks in the Windows Store, how you display information in an app layout, gestures...
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Episode 60 of Visual Studio Toolbox: Entity Framework Tips and Tricks
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2 months ago
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In this show, I am joined by Julie Lerman , the author of several highly acclaimed Entity Framework books. Julie shares a number of Entity Framework tips and tricks including: Overriding the DBContext SaveChanges method EntityFramework Power...
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Saving and Restoring State in a Windows 8 XAML App
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3 months ago
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This post and episode 59 of my Visual Studio Toolbox show cover the same topic. Although I published this and the show on the same day, I wrote this first. When you switch from one Windows 8 app to another, Windows suspends the first app. The app stays...
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Episode 58 of Visual Studio Toolbox: Visual Studio Achievements For Windows Store Apps
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3 months ago
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In this episode, Karsten Januszewski joins me to talk about the latest version of the Visual Studio Achievements extension. Once you install this extension, you can unlock achievements based on things you do in Visual Studio. The latest version adds nineteen...
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Episode 57 of Visual Studio Toolbox: Designing Windows 8 Line of Business Apps Revisited
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4 months ago
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In this episode, I revisit the Windows 8 line of business app I wrote. This app provides the ability for employees to create and submit expense reports—and for managers to view and approve or reject them. I first review the app as you last saw it...
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Episode 56 of Visual Studio Toolbox: Using Azure Mobile Services in a Windows 8 App
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5 months ago
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In this episode , learn how to use Azure Mobile Services in a Windows 8 app. Robert shows how to create a new mobile service and an accompanying database as well as how to connect a Windows Store app to the mobile service. He then demonstrates how to...
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Episode 55 of Visual Studio Toolbox: Visual Studio 2012 Update 1
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5 months ago
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Starting with Visual Studio 2012, Microsoft has moved to providing update to Visual Studio on a regular cadence of shorter intervals. The first such update, Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 , is now available. In addition to bug fixes, Update 1 contains new...
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Episode 54 of Visual Studio Toolbox: Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2012
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5 months ago
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The Productivity Power Tools is an extension pack that delivers powerful tools for improved productivity. With 1.5 million downloads, the Visual Studio 2010 version is the second most downloaded extension in the Visual Studio Gallery. The Visual Studio...
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Episode 53 of Visual Studio Toolbox: Sample Browser Visual Studio Extension
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5 months ago
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Mei Liang returns to the show this week to demonstrate the latest version of the Sample Browser extension for Visual Studio. This extension provides a way for developers to search and download more than 3500 code samples from within Visual Studio, including...
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Using SQLite in Windows 8 Store Apps
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6 months ago
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In episode 52 of my Visual Studio Toolbox show, I showed a sample Windows 8 app that uses SQLite. The app manages customers and their projects. In this post, I will show you how to build that app. [11/28/2012]: I uploaded the sample to the MSDN Code Samples...
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Episode 51 of Visual Studio Toolbox: Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor
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6 months ago
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In this episode, Matthew Johnson shows us the Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor extension. With this extension, you can customize the Visual Studio 2012 color palette, choosing from several available themes or creating your own in order to customize...
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Episode 50 of Visual Studio Toolbox: Collecting IntelliTrace Data in Production
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7 months ago
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IntelliTrace is a great tool. It records and traces your app's code execution and stores this information in a trace file. You can open up that trace file later on and figure out why your app isn't behaving as expected. This can save you huge amounts...
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Episode 49 of Visual Studio Toolbox: Getting Started with Windows Azure
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8 months ago
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There have been a lot of recent developments in the Windows Azure world and those developments are what we've lately been covering on this show. In this episode, however, Dennis Angeline joins me as we take a step back and focus on how Visual Studio developers...
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Episode 48 of Visual Studio Toolbox: Windows Azure Mobile Services
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8 months ago
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In this episode, Josh Twist and Nick Harris introduce us to Windows Azure Mobile Services . This makes it incredibly easy to connect a scalable cloud backend to your client and mobile applications. It enables you to easily store structured data in the...
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Episode 47 of Visual Studio Toolbox: Windows 8 and the .NET Micro Framework
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8 months ago
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In this episode, my colleague Pete Brown (Windows Developer Evangelist and XAML and Gadget Guy) shows us how to write Windows Store apps that use the .NET Micro Framework and advanced socket networking to talk to devices like robots. Very cool!
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Episode 46 of Visual Studio Toolbox: Building Office and SharePoint Apps with "Napa" and Visual Studio
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8 months ago
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In this episode, Jim Nakashima and Saurabh Bhatia show us how to build Office and SharePoint apps using "Napa" Office 365 Development Tools and Visual Studio. If you have an Office 365 account, a browser, and "Napa" you can build apps for Office documents...
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Episode 45 of Visual Studio Toolbox: CSLA.NET
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9 months ago
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In this episode, Rocky Lhotka joins me to talk about CSLA.NET. CSLA is a software development framework that helps you build a powerful, maintainable business logic layer for Windows, Web, service-oriented, and workflow applications. Its primary goal...
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Episode 44 of Visual Studio Toolbox: OData Support and HTML Clients in LightSwitch
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9 months ago
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In this episode, Beth Massi joins me to demonstrate some cool new features in LightSwitch. First, she shows how LightSwtich now has built-in support for OData. Then, she shows how to use the LightSwitch HTML Client Preview to build a cross-browser, mobile...
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Episode 43 of Visual Studio Toolbox: Designing Metro Style Line of Business Apps
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9 months ago
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In this episode, I review a Windows 8 app I built. This line of business app provides the ability for employees to create and submit expense reports, and for managers to view and approve or reject them. I am joined by Nadine Fox of Macadamian , the design...
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Episode 42 of Visual Studio Toolbox: Interview with Billy Hollis is now live
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10 months ago
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In this episode—taped at TechEd North America—I chats with Billy Hollis, a consultant and trainer who is a widely recognized expert on XAML and design. We have a freewheeling discussion that focuses mostly on the design of Windows 8 apps....
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Episode 41 of Visual Studio Toolbox: Interviews with Jay Schmelzer and John Papa is now live
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10 months ago
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In this episode, taped at TechEd North America, I chat with Jay Schmelzer, a Principal Director of Program Management at Microsoft, and John Papa, an independent consultant, speaker, and trainer for Pluralsight. Jay's team owns the business application...
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