MSDN Flash - Volume 18, Number 1: January 13, 2014
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Visual Studio 2013: Introducing Visual Studio Online
Whether you're part of a team or a team of one, with Visual Studio Online you can easily create and monitor seriously demanding applications, from anywhere.
MVA Presents Windows Azure Week January 27 - 31
This free, one-week, real-time intensive virtual conference will help you get answers to your questions with a live Q&A from the people who are building Windows Azure. You'll learn what you need to start moving your existing applications to the cloud today.
Build More Efficient Windows Store Apps Using JavaScript: Error Handling
Eric Schmidt explores fundamental concepts of the Windows Library for JavaScript (WinJS), including promises, asynchronous debugging and error handling. He also demonstrates a new tool in Visual Studio 2013 for tracking down errors in asynchronous promise chains in JavaScript.
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Learn How to Write to and Read from Windows Azure Tables Within Web Applications
Learn how to write to Windows Azure Tables and do simple insertions as well as batch-oriented insertions. The hands-on lab module explores reading from Windows Azure Tables using LINQ. Get US$200 of Windows Azure free with your 1-month trial.
WPF: Build Fault-Tolerant Composite Applications
Learn how to host Windows Presentation Foundation plug-ins in separate processes to improve robustness and increase flexibility.
ASP.NET: Troubleshooting Applications with IIS Logs
Learn useful techniques to help you troubleshoot any application or system running under IIS, no matter what platform it's coded on.
Microsoft DevRadio Community Corner - David Mock, Creator of "North Pole Invasion" for Windows 8
David Mock, founder of GlowPuff, and Joe Healy showcase "North Pole Invasion" for Windows 8 and Windows Phone. Learn how he migrated the app from Windows Phone and what tools he used to create the game's awesome graphics.
TechEd 2014: Are you in?
Join your peers, industry experts, and thought leaders in Houston, May 12 - 15. Advance your product knowledge and boost your proficiency with favorite Microsoft technologies, tools, platforms, and services. If there's one conference you can't miss in 2014, this is it. Register now.
Windows Phone Samples: Learn Through Code
This is a great place to start when developing you apps for Windows Phone. Browse code samples and demo apps to download. New samples are added frequently, in JavaScript, C++, C#, and VB.NET.
Data Points: Code First Goodies in Entity Framework 6
Julie Lerman rounds out her coverage of Entity Framework 6 with a discussion of new Code First features relating to mappings and migrations.
HTML5 Threading with Web Workers and Data Storage with IndexedDB
Explore HTML5 features with a look at Web Workers, a threading object that lets you speed up your client-side applications, and Indexed DB, a client-side data storage mechanism that is the preferred storage approach going forward in HTML5.
Developing for Windows 8 in Half the Time - Getting Started with Blend
Microsoft Technical Evangelist Michael Palermo shows how to get started using Microsoft Blend to develop Windows Store apps. Get free training and tools for developing for Windows 8 and Windows Phone.
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