Monthly Archives: May 2012

Windows 8 Windows 8 Release Preview (Microsoft) “It’s Windows reimagined and reinvented from a solid core of Windows 7 speed and reliability. It’s an all-new touch interface. It’s a new Windows for new devices. And it’s easy to try now—whether you’re installing it for the first time, or moving from Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Get [...]

Visual Studio 11 LightSwitch Tips & Tricks on Query Performance (Beth Massi) “LightSwitch allows you to connect to multiple data sources, relate them together, and create screens to edit the data. These data sources can be a variety of databases like SQL Server and SQL Azure, SharePoint, and custom RIA services. With the release of [...]

Visual Studio 11 Visual Studio Dark Theme (The Visual Studio Blog) “Leading up to our being engineering complete for RC we focused most of our design attention on optimizing the light theme experience, because that’s what our telemetry indicates the majority of you are currently using. Once that was complete, we turned our attention to [...]

Metro App Development Preparing for the Windows 8 Opportunity (Jon Box) “Yes, there’s a new O/S coming from Microsoft. It’s more different than any Windows before. Windows is truly reimagined. It’s also a big opportunity for our customers and our partners, across the whole ecosystem. As my DPE friends and I work with partners to [...]

Visual Studio 11 Visual Studio 11 Performance: Improvements in Typing and Editing Responsiveness (The Visual Studio Blog) “After the beta release, we published several posts on the performance improvements in Visual Studio 11. Since the beta release, we have made a number of additional enhancements, continuing our quest to improve the performance of Visual Studio. [...]