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Publish Apps, Keep the Cash
Publish up to 10 apps in the Windows Store and/or Windows Phone Store and fill out the form at build.windowsstore.com/keepthecash to participate.
Monday, May 20
Port your iOS and Android apps to Windows
Sign up for App Builder and select “Port an Existing App to Windows” for resources and tools to port your app to the Windows platform.
Monday, May 13
CodeProject’s Azure Cloud Challenge
CodeProject is running a cloud challenge with great prizes. Completing all challenges results in a web app hosted on Azure using everything a modern c... more
Monday, May 13
Understanding and Using the SharePoint 2013 REST Interface
This article shows you how you can integrate SharePoint into your applications using the REST interface.
Thursday, May 9

Microsoft developer blogs

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New Windows Dev Center release
Yesterday we launched a new Windows Dev Center.  You might ask “Why are you telling us about that, Brian?”  Well, the answer is that my team is respon... more
Thursday, May 16 Brian Harry MS

Languages

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F# on FreeBSD
Through Jack Pappas, the F# Software Foundation (an F# community group also known as fsharp.org) has recently made F# more readily available on FreeBS... more
Monday, May 13 dsyme

Visual Studio

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Use Your MSDN Benefit to Convert Your Office 365 Developer Preview
The easiest way to get started developing SharePoint apps with LightSwitch is to sign up for a free trial of an Office 365 Developer account at dev.of... more
Monday, May 20 Beth Massi

.NET framework

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New Workflow Manager 1.0 Getting Started Tutorial
A new Getting Started Tutorial for Workflow Manager 1.0 has been posted here: Workflow Manager 1.0 Getting Started Tutorial This is a 3 step tutorial ... more
Thursday, May 16 Steve Danielson

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Announcing the ability to Test Windows Phone 8 applications with Experitest SeeTest
For testing Heterogeneous and mobile environments we have relied on world class partners. SeeTest from Experitest now enables Microsoft developers tes... more
Friday, May 17 Charles Sterling

Platform development

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Use your HTML5 skills, port your PhoneGap app to Windows Phone, and win prizes
Many of you have heard about PhoneGap (aka Apache Cordova), the popular open source framework you can use to create mobile apps using HTML, CSS, and J... more
Monday, May 20 JC Cimetiere