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Learn how Kevin made $30K in Jan on his Windows 8 Apps.
Tips on how to maximize and sell your apps in the Windows Store and a guiding book on "Windows 8 Application Development with C# and XAML".
Thursday, Mar 7
Online Now - MSDN Magazine March Issue
Using XAML with DirectX and C++ in Windows Store Apps, Exploring JavaScript API for Office, Moving Your Applications to Windows Azure, and more
Friday, Mar 1
Generation App Lightening Reviews
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Friday, Mar 1
MVA Jump Start: Programming in C# - March 13th
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Wednesday, Feb 27

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Windows Azure Updates: Android Support, SQL Reporting Services, Active Directory, More…
This past weekend we released a number of enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Mobile Services: Android support, East As... more
Tuesday, Mar 5 ScottGu
Languages

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Connecting to Live with the C++ REST SDK
Hi, I’m Andy Rich, a QA on the C++ team.  Earlier this week, the C++ team released the C++ REST SDK (codename “Casablanca”) on CodePlex (http://casabl... more
Monday, Mar 4 Andy Rich
Visual Studio

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A New User Experience (Heinrich Wendel)
After releasing the preview of our HTML Client to a broader audience, it became pretty clear from your feedback that we had to work on the user experi... more
Tuesday, Mar 5 LightSwitch Team
.NET framework

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Update to Immutable Collections
Thanks a lot for your great feedback! Two months ago, we shipped a NuGet package with support for immutable collections. We’ve also talked about it on... more
Wednesday, Mar 6 Immo Landwerth [MSFT]
ALM

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Use Git 0.8.0.0 to run scheduled builds and resolve conflicts
--> // By: Andy Lewis and Matthew Mitrik Today we released Visual Studio Tools for Git 0.8.0.0. Install this release to get not only fixes to numero... more
Wednesday, Mar 6 Andy Lewis - MSFT
Platform development

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Visual Studio Web Deployment Tutorial Series Updated for Windows Azure and LocalDB
This week we published an updated version of the popular 12-part tutorial series that shows how to deploy an ASP.NET web application with SQL Server d... more
Wednesday, Mar 6 Tom Dykstra - MSFT