Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, June 18th

*S.Somasegar: TypeScript 0.9 Preview Release *Michael Taylor: Environmental Config Transforms, Part 1 *Lee Stott: Windows Azure for Game Developers *Jezz Santos: Automated Code Signing *David Rousset: Tutorial part 3: learning how to write a 3D soft engine in C#, TS or JS – loading meshes exported from Blender *Windows 8 Team: Optimizing ListView item rendering *Visual Studio Toolbox

TechEd NA 2013 interviews with MVPs Elias Mereb and Herve Roggero

Windows Expert-IT Pro MVP Elias Mereb and Windows Azure MVP Herve Roggero offer their impressions of TechEd North America 2013 in two exclusive interviews on the event floor.    TechEd NA 2013: Elias MerebTechEd NA 2013: Herve Roggero

Sync Framework for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8

One of the DPE's from France Sebastien Pertus has done an excellent job by porting the SyncFx 4.0 to run against Windows Store and Windows Phone 8 apps. As a local database his code is using the SQLite database which as you know is available for both platforms. Check out Sebastien's walkthrough here:http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mim/archive/2013/06/18/sync-framework-with-sqlite-for-windows-store-ap

Excel PowerPivot Example

For the analysts out there who haven’t embraced PowerPivot and Power View in Excel, there is a great tutorial to help you get started: _PivotTable data analysis using a Data Model in Excel 2013_. However, if you just want the finished spreadsheet, I have created one that is the result of walking through the tutorial, with only two minor modifications: *Worksheets have names and colors. The

Advertising is a key monetization option for app developers

This week we launched a new format designed to create interactive and panoramic adverts within applications the following verge article is nice summary. As part of the opportunity of developing advertising as a monetization option I wanted to share some guidance on including advertising in general. 1.  Download and read the Ads 101. 2. Designing a good advertising user experienceFollo

Advertising is a key monetization option for app developers

This week we launched a new format designed to create interactive and panoramic adverts within applications the following verge article is nice summary. As part of the opportunity of developing advertising as a monetization option I wanted to share some guidance on including advertising in general. 1.  Download and read the Ads 101 . 2. Designing a good advertising user experience Follow these gui

Developing titles for Xbox live for Windows (PC/Tablet), Web, and Windows Phone

Developing Games for Windows (PC/Tablet), Web, and Windows Phone Microsoft Studios mission is to pioneer hit innovative experiences that deliver on the promise of Microsoft Gaming Platforms. Microsoft Studios has multiple initiatives available for Xbox LIVE enabled games around Windows (PC/Tablet), Web, Windows Phone, and Xbox LIVE Arcade platforms. Game App HubGet the free tools to make

Developing titles for Xbox live for Windows (PC/Tablet), Web, and Windows Phone

Developing Games for Windows (PC/Tablet), Web, and Windows Phone Microsoft Studios mission is to pioneer hit innovative experiences that deliver on the promise of Microsoft Gaming Platforms. Microsoft Studios has multiple initiatives available for Xbox LIVE enabled games around Windows (PC/Tablet), Web, Windows Phone, and Xbox LIVE Arcade platforms. Game App Hub Get the free tools to make games an

Think twice before you text that photo

Most of us already know this, but it’s worth repeating: When you email or text photos to another person, that person can save the pictures on his or her phone or hard drive forever.New apps like Snapchat claim that there are ways to send photos so that they will automatically “disappear,” but people have found technical and nontechnical ways to get around this. For example, someone could simp

Note to self–SQL Alias on x64–you need to set both 32/64 cliconfg.exe

1. Start “C:\windows\system32\cliconfg.exe”2. Start “C:\windows\syswow64\cliconfg.exe”

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 address this trend, last October we released the initial version of TypeScript, which enables application-scale JavaScript, providing high-fidelity interaction with existing JavaScript libraries, and giving developers the direct power and flexibility of

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 construct a package without using the CoApp PowerShell tools.As I mentioned before, C/C++ packages built for NuGet didn't require a whole lot of change in NuGet itself—primarily because if we had made the Package Manager do all the complex work

Bind multiple sites on same IP address and Port in SSL

Until IIS 7.5, the major limitation of IIS is that IIS will allow you to bind only one site for one IP: Port combination using an SSL certificate.  If you try to bind a second site on the IP address to the same certificate, IIS will give you an error when starting the site up stating that there is a conflict. In order to assign a certificate to be used by multiple IIS sites on the same IP addres

Announcing TypeScript 0.9

Today, we’re excited to be releasing TypeScript 0.9.0.  This release represents the largest update to TypeScript to date, bringing significant changes to the language, compiler and tools.  These span from highly requested new language features like Generics, to a new compiler infrastructure that lays the foundation for TypeScript tools scalability, to hundreds of bug fixes and general improvemen

Managing Hive Job Submissions With PowerShell

In my previous post, I talked about “Managing Your HDInsight Cluster with PowerShell”. In this post I made no mention of using Hive. I hope to re-address this balance by specifically talking about how you can submit Hive jobs from the same local management console.As before all the scripts mentioned in this and the previous post can be downloaded from here.To run the samples mentioned in t

New book: Exam Ref 70-332: Advanced Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013

_Exam Ref 70-332: Advanced Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013_ by Michael Doyle is available for purchase. Prepare for Exam 70-332—and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013. Designed for experienced IT Professionals ready to advance their status, _Exam Ref_ focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the M

Forecasting Sales data with Excel mining - Step by Step Guide

Mining is a service and can be coded.  This means that it is enterprise ready. Mining can be done using*Excel *SSDT *PowerShell and *SSMS Analysis Services service should be "ON" for mining to runUsing a combination of basic PowerPivot and Mining Plugins for Excel 2013, let us create a forecasting model.*Open Excel 2013 *Click on PowerPivot Tab *Click on Manage – Manage he

Project Server 2010: June CU–Possible timesheet issue

I maybe sounding the alarm bells too soon, and of course you all test Cumulative Updates before deploying to production, right?  But we have seen a few cases so far where after applying the June 2013 CU for Project Server 2010 is leading to timesheet submit problems.  The timesheet submit will go into a failed and blocking state and clicking the error will give something like:GeneralQueueJobF

Microsoft Dynamics GP on Windows Azure!

I’m excited to announce that Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 is now available from partners in the cloud hosted on Windows Azure! This means that starting today Microsoft Dynamics GP customers can take advantage of easy to use, quick to implement business solutions from Microsoft with the added benefit of knowing their solution is hosted on secure, enterprise-class cloud infrastructure from a trusted

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 changing business needs. Whether you are creating new applications or running existing applications in Virtual Machines, we provide the best cloud economics through per-minute billing with no minimum usage requirements. A great example of an existing work

Upgrading SharePoint 2010 to the December 2012 CU or Later

The SharePoint 2010 December 2013 Cumulative Update (CU) and all subsequent updates introduced an upgrade check that verified all the lists in the farm conformed to the SharePoint 2013 list schema requirements.  If you have any lists in the farm that violate those thresholds, the content database upgrade will fail, as this issue is flagged as an upgrade blocker.  The ONLY resolution is to reduce

Update Rollup 3 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 has been released

Today we have released update rollup 3 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 (Build 34902). Update rollup 3 includes all application and platform hotfixes and regulatory features that have been released for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013. Local hotfixes for France and Italy have been added to update rollup 3 and the update rollups now include hotfixes that apply to all countries and hotfixes specific

Roadmap for Apps for Office, VSTO, and VBA

_Note:  This post is simultaneously published both to the VSTO blog and to the apps for Office blog.  To learn more about apps for Office, visit http://dev.office.com.___With all the buzz around the new apps for Office programming model, developers might be wondering: What benefits does the new app model bring, and which of the three technology choices―apps for Office, managed VSTO add-ins

Santander, Spain: Where “smarter” meets “healthier”

_Today, we're blogging a guest post from our Worldwide Health Industry Senior Director - Elena Bonfiglioni. It touches upon a topic many healthcare teams have to tackle - how to combine different health applications into one system. Elena has found a city in Spain which has been doing just that and is using innovation to make sure the city is 'smarter' and 'healthier'..._Is a smart city also

Roadmap for Apps for Office, VSTO, and VBA

With all the buzz around the new apps for Office programming model, developers might be wondering: What benefits does the new app model bring, and which of the three technology choices―apps for Office, managed VSTO add-ins, or VBA macros―are best suited for particular scenarios?Apps for Office is a recognition that the technology landscape around us is changing: that ubiquitous connectivity,

A refresh of our forums

We’ve just completed and launched a new version of the Microsoft forums.  We’ve worked really hard to substantially improve the experience both for people looking for answers and those providing them.  We started by making it easier to find what you are looking for.  Instead of navigating categories to find those that might be relevant, we’ve started with search as the entry.  You can search dir

Huge collection of Free Microsoft eBooks for you, including: Office, Office 365, SharePoint, SQL Server, System Center, Visual Studio, Web Development, Windows, Windows Azure, and Windows Server

Last summer I put up a post that offered a collection of free Microsoft eBooks across a variety of topics and the response was incredible. Because of the phenomenal response, I followed it up with a second post that contained another set of free eBooks for people to download. After these posts went live, over 1,000,000 free eBooks were downloaded by people around the world! Well, I thought I

Now Available – Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Dynamics GP on Windows Azure!

Head over to The Edge blog for a very exciting announcement from Paul White, Senior Director, Microsoft Dynamics ERP. Here’s an excerpt…I’m excited to announce that Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 are now available from partners in the cloud hosted on Windows Azure! This means that starting today Microsoft Dynamics GP and NAV customers can take advantage of easy to

Sync Framework With SQLite for Windows Store Apps (WinRT) and Windows Phone 8

Hi AllFor French people, here is a French PDF version : Synchroniser votre Windows Phone 8 et votre application Windows store avec SQLiteToday, I publish a new version of my adaptation of the Sync Framework Toolkit, that I realized at the beginning for WinRT. This new version adds support for synchronization with WinRT and Windows Phone 8 :As usual, you can grab the new version on the

API Mashup Series: Part II

In the previous post we already explored the basics behind the API MASH.In the second post of the series we will study more details of the Univision Starter Kit, and we will check its technical details to help you develop similar apps.This app was developed with C# and XAML. Unlike some of the other API MASH kits, it is not waiting for a JSON package from the API. The expected response is