June 7, 2010
I’m pleased to announce that the June 2010 release of Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio is now available for free download!
New features in this release:
Full support for Visual Studio 2010 RTM
.NET 4 support – You can now build your Windows Azure web apps and services using either .NET 3.5 or the new .NET 4.0 [...]
Tags: Azure, cloud, Microsoft, Visual Studio
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November 17, 2009
Windows Azure, Microsoft’s platform for cloud-based applications, just rolled out a major update to sync with PDC09. We of course also rolled out a major update of the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio in the same push. Jim Nakashima and others will be showing our latest tools at PDC09 this week.
Windows Azure Tools also [...]
Tags: Azure, cloud, cloud tools, Microsoft, PDC, Visual Studio
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October 19, 2009
Microsoft announced today the release of Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 and .NET Framework 4 beta 2! It will be available immediately for download by MSDN subscribers and for general release towards the end of this month.
I can’t begin to describe all the stuff that is new and improved in this beta 2, so check [...]
Tags: .NET Framework, beta, Microsoft, MSDN, release, Visual Studio
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March 19, 2009
Amidst the fanfare and excitement of Mix09 this week, we’ve received reports on the discussion forum from a few folks that were having trouble with the Live Framework SDK and Tools April CTP released last week. Here’s an update on that issue.
Issue: Visual Studio closes unexpectedly when launching Help: About or when creating or opening [...]
Tags: Live Framework, Live Mesh, Mesh, Microsoft, sdk, Visual Studio
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March 12, 2009
I’m pleased to announce that we have released our April CTP release of the Live Framwork SDK and Tools in preparation for MIX09 next week. For full details see the official announcement on the Live Framework blog, but here are the highlights:
You can now run the local client for mesh.com side by side with the [...]
Tags: Live Framework, Live Mesh, Mesh, Microsoft, sdk, Visual Studio
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February 2, 2009
The Live Framework Tools team is pleased to announce the January CTP update. This update contains a number of fixes. Please see below for details. And as always, thank you for using Live Framework.
New in this release
The Live Framework Tools January CTP includes a number of bug fixes. A few of the most notable fixes [...]
Tags: Live Mesh, LiveFX, tools, Visual Studio
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November 19, 2008
Scott Guthrie gives us a status report on the Silverlight 2 deployment and key design wins worldwide. 100 million downloads of Silverlight 2 in the past 4 weeks. Silverlight is now on 1 in 4 PCs on the web. BlockBuster and Netflix both use Silverlight for their online movie players.
Scott also sketches out some details on [...]
Tags: BlockBuster, H.264, NetFlix, Silverlight, Visual Studio
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November 6, 2008
Now that the PDC crowd is back home again and has had a chance to digest the mountains of information collected during the conference, we’re seeing an uptick in blog posts talking about writing apps for Live Mesh using the Live Framework Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio.
Here are a few posts I’ve stumbled into over [...]
Tags: cloud, Live Framework Tools, Mesh, Visual Studio
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November 5, 2008
Oran Dennison has been dissecting the new Live Framework Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (“VS tools”) and raised a few questions about how the VS tools are uploading Live Mesh application files into the cloud.
“Why does VS upload files to the cloud individually instead of as one zip file?”
VS uploads individual files to the cloud because that’s what [...]
Tags: cloud, Live Framework Tools, Mesh, Visual Studio
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November 4, 2008
We’ve discovered a bug in how the Live Framework Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (“VS tools”) set permission values for Live Mesh-enabled web apps uploaded using the VS tools. This results in your mesh app running with fewer permissions than the intended default permission set, which will prevent your app from modifying mesh feeds for contacts or news.
You [...]
Tags: contacts, Live Framework Tools, Mesh, news, permissions, Visual Studio, workarounds
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