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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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Team Foundation Service Update – June 19
Today we updated the service with our sprint 49 work.  You can read the details of the significant improvements on the news blog.  In the grand scheme... more
Wednesday, Jun 19 Brian Harry MS

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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They WILL take your photos and they WILL use them and you WILL like it.
This is hardly a tragic story and it's not even a good photo, but it's interesting because it happens a few times a year. Perhaps it's happened to you... 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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Introducing the Windows App Builder blog!
Hey everyone, I wanted to let you know that we’re bringing the Windows 8 app developer and Windows Store blogs together into the new Windows App Build... more
Wednesday, Jun 19 Windows 8 Team

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