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Getting Started with Microsoft Big Data, HDInsight & Hive Jump Start June 21
The first of a three-Jump Start series tailored for architects and seasoned developers
Wednesday, Jun 12
Getting Your App into the Windows Store
With the right guidance, getting an application into the Windows 8 Store is surprisingly easy. Bruno Terkaly shows you how in 10 simple steps.
Tuesday, Jun 11
Exploring the JavaScript API for Office Mail Apps
This MSDN Magazine article by Angela Chu-Hatoun includes code snippets to illustrate key features of the API
Tuesday, Jun 11
Code-Sharing Strategies for Windows Store and Windows Phone Apps
You can, and Doug Holland shows you how in this MSDN Magazine article
Tuesday, Jun 11

Microsoft developer blogs

Executive bloggers

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TypeScript 0.9 Preview Release
Over the past few years, we’ve seen JavaScript applications for the web, on the server, and on Windows become much more substantial in size. To addres... more
Tuesday, Jun 18 S.Somasegar

Languages

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Deep Dive into NuGet Native (Part One)
Howdy! Today I thought I’d start explaining how NuGet supports C/C++ packages under the covers, and look into how one could (theoretically) manually c... more
Tuesday, Jun 18 Garrett Serack, MSFT

Visual Studio

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Windows Installer PowerShell Module 2.2.0 Released
Years ago I released PowerShell cmdlets (“command-lets”) that make querying product and patch information easy and robust. Windows PowerShell is a pow... more
Thursday, Jun 13 Heath Stewart

.NET framework

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Exclusive Sneak Peak: The AGENT Smart Watch Emulator and managed .NET code on my wrist!
I'm totally geeked out about Smart Watches. I always have been, from the original Microsoft SPOT watch (from 10 years ago!) to the Pebble, and now the... more
Tuesday, Jun 18 Scott Hanselman

ALM

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Part 3: Unit testing with Traits and code coverage in Visual Studio 2012 using the TFS Build – and the new NuGet adapter approach
The Unit Testing series by one of the ALM MVPs Terje Sandstrom has been some of the highest read posts on the ALM blog…In this post he shows how to ea... more
Tuesday, Jun 11 Charles Sterling

Platform development

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Cross-Post: Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Dynamics GP on Windows Azure Infrastructure Services!
Windows Azure Infrastructure Services - Virtual Machines and Virtual Network - provide on-demand infrastructure that scales and adapts to your changin... more
Tuesday, Jun 18 Craig_Kitterman