WCF Data Services (Pre-Release) announcements
Web Development in Visual Studio in the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP announcements
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Hi - I'm Bradley Millington, Lead Program Manager for the Visual Web Developer ("Web Tools") team. I'll be one of the moderators on this forum.
We have provided this forum to gather your feedback on the scenarios described in the walkthroughs that shipped with Visual Studio 2010 CTP. At this stage in the release, we are interested in hearing your thoughts on the design of features presented in these walkthroughs. We'll be taking more general feedback on the product when we get to the Beta release.
We will be discussing the following walkthroughs:
- Using HTML Code Snippets
- Packaging & Deploying a Web Application which uses IIS
- Packaging & Deploying a Web Application which uses VS Development Web Server (Cassini)
- Transforming Web.Config for Deployment
- Targeting Multiple Versions of ASP.NET
You can go to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=129231 to download the CTP and walkthroughs.
We look forward to hearing your feedback!
Web Sandbox - General announcements
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August 11, 2010
This update focuses on a few performance issues.
- Only initialize the window once, not for each sandbox instance.
- Fix to work-around WebKit's CSS DOM performance issues (huge performance improvement).
- Fix global stylesheet clean-up.
- Fix to more accurately test that a method is natively implemented versus defined by the Host Page (reduces potential for conflict between the sandbox and outer page).
July 21, 2010
This is a fairly large update to improve support for common web frameworks and libraries. Below highlights a few of the fixes
- Fixes for input elements including
<button type="...">
support and IE'sdocument.createElement("<tag property='value'>")
syntax. - Added support for
getComputedStyle(element,null).getPropertyValue.memberName
. - NamedNodeMaps can access members by member name (similar to the fix for getComputedStyle above).
- Fixed support for cancelling a hyperlinks default action by returning false to the event.
- Executing a regular expression against a regular expression type now works.
- Fixed issues with prototype inheritance. This should fix the extend pattern used by most frameworks.
- Event object fixes including relatedTarget and added custom property support to the event object.
- Support for hasOwnProperty method.
- Default value of calculated opacity is now 1 in all browsers.
- Support for getBoundingClientRect.
- Fixed a dynamic script loading timing issue to support YUI's dynamic loader.
- Support for invoking document.all() as a method in addition to the traditional [] notation.
- Fix bug in the scoping of Array.forEach.
- Support for HSL and HSLA colors (passes through to the browser so assumes browser support)
- Support for more CSS3 background properties.
- Support for textContent and getElementsByClassName on browsers that have native support.
- A number of other minor bug fixes.
June 29, 2010
This update focuses on the CSS.
- CSS2 attribute selectors are now parsed.
- RGB and RGBa values are now parsed.
- Rounded corners and box-shadows (including the webkit and mozilla proprietary equivalents) are now enabled.
- In Internet Explorer, all samples are run in the latest browser mode (Sandboxed Canvas not working in IE9 is a known issue).
June 25, 2010
We are working on improving the fidelity of the original document structure. This update includes the following changes:
- We are working on properly supporting the DOM for head elements. This update supports the TITLE, META, and SCRIPT elements. Script elements are properly represented relative to their document location.
- The
scripts
collection as well as attributes on individual SCRIPT elements are properly exposed. We now ignore SCRIPT elements are specified via the TYPE attribute to not contain JavaScript. - The document
anchors
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collections are now properly supported. - Line-breaks in TEXTAREA and PRE elements are fixed.
- For the media attribute on LINK and STYLE elements, only sheets that target the screen or all media types are supported. Print stylesheets are on our TODO list.
- Other small bug-fixes in prototype chain handling.
May 25, 2010
Today we released a refactored Sandbox script. This update has a much cleaner, more optimized policy file that uses 20K less code, signficantly less JavaScript closures, and enforces more consistency through a prescribed definition pattern. We also keep expanding support for more API's, have started on some of the HTML 5 features, and are focusing on supporting the various framework libraries.
Below are some of the highlights:
- Every method by definition exposes its corresponding property.
- Enable Firefox'es funky
if (documennt.all) // return false
test even though document.all is supported. - Better support for routing keyboard events to the document.
- Fixes to support JQuery better (still a work in progress).
- Improved inner/outerHTML, regular expression, and mouse positioning support.
- Support for Canvas (requires browser support).
- Support for hyperlink javascript-based URL's in the initial HTML.
March 1, 2010 - Catching Up!
Over the past few months, we have been quietly updating the Sandbox script. Below highlights some of the more significant changes:
- Lots of bug fixes (e.g., getVarDate, NaN.toString(), regular expression issues, prototype inheritance, styling input elements, and more).
- Added better host integration events (onbeforeqos, onxmlrequest, onerror, onformsubmit, and more). We are working on the host integration documentation.
- Introduced a new isolate policy that matches the IFrame behavior providing full isolation of content from the surrounding page.
- Basic support for the IFrame element. IFrame contents are now generated and encapsulated in their own sandbox.
- Enable support for dynamically loading the sandbox library.
- Huge performance improvements for processing stylesheets and the initial HTML.
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Today, we are announcing that we are making much of the source code for the Web Sandbox project available under the Open Source Apache License 2.0.
Since the initial release of Web Sandbox we have received a great deal of feedback from the web security community. We have also been collaborating with a number of customers, partners and the standards communities that would like to adopt the technology when it is ready. Our goal is to achieve widespread adoption of Web Sandbox and to help foster interoperability with complementary technologies like script frameworks.
See the Web Sandbox site for additional licensing details. Thank you for your input to the project so far, and we are excited to continue our collaboration with you.
(Note: While we are using an Apache License, the Web Sandbox project is not sponsored or endorsed by the Apache Software Foundation and is not an ASF project.)
-Dragos
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The following items represent work in progress. Consequently until we check them off they could be regarded as current limitations. They are due to our implementation rather than the sandbox architecture.
- The gadget's HTML must be well-formed.
- document.write is partially implemented and not fully debugged.
- JavaScript's with statement is unsupported.
- The XML proxy allowing gadgets to invoke back-end services is not enabled (now supported!).
- The Dynamic loading of script is unsupported (now supported!).
- Silverlight and Flash objects are unsupported.
- Depending on operations, the performance overhead varies between 1.5 and 4 times.
Should you run into other unexpected surprises we either missed something from the above list or you discovered a bug. Keep us posted.
-Dragos
Windows Developer Preview: General OS questions (Locked) announcements
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With the release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview, the Windows General OS Forum is no longer the supported destination for general questions related to Windows 8. For Developer related questions please continue to select from the list of forums under the MSDN Windows Metro app style category. IT Pros can now select from a list of dedicated TechNet forums under the Windows 8 IT Pro category. General consumers can get support from our Microsoft Answers community. This forum will remain as a read-only resource but we encourage you to leverage our other community support resources for new questions.
Windows Events announcements
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I am pleased to announce that the MSDN documentation for the Windows Event Log has been updated last week. The updates include an improved “Using Windows Event Log” which will be helpful for those looking to create an event provider for the first time or consuming data from the Windows Event Log.
Also check out the “What’s New” for Windows 7.
Please check it out and give us feedback (via the “Send comments about this topic to Microsoft” links).
Kevin
Windows Live Search: Development announcements
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With the launch of our new search technology, Bing, this forum has been moved to http://www.bing.com/community/forums/default.aspx?GroupID=12 and no longer will be moderated and cannot be posted to. Please refer to the new Bing Community forums for the most recent information.If you are new to Bing, refer to the FAQ for answers to common questions:
http://help.live.com/help.aspx?mkt=en-us&project=searchdevctr&querytype=keyword&query=faq
We appreciate your interest.
Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK Bugs and Suggestions announcements
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We are happy to announce that Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK v1.5 is now Live! Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK 1.5 offers several improvements over the old Microsoft MultiPoint SDK 1.1 including:
- Now supports Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 operating systems.
- Now supports 32 bit and 64 bit applications and operating systems by leveraging AnyCPU Intermediate Language (IL).
- New cursor capabilities were added: you can specify a cursor color, assign a custom image to a cursor, or hide cursors.
- New templates for Visual Studio 2008 were added to simplify the creation of MultiPoint Mouse applications.
- The namespace changed from Microsoft.MultiPoint to Microsoft.Multipoint to comply with capitalization conventions for .NET
- The number of DLLs was reduced from five to two (Microsoft.Multipoint.Sdk.dll and Microsoft.Multipoint.Sdk.Controls.dll)
- The object model was simplified, reducing the number of exposed classes, methods, and properties.
- The sample code was simplified and made to be compliant with good coding practices, such as FxCop guidelines to help further reduce programming errors.
- The sample code for allocating mouse cursors and the number and quality of cursor icons was improved making it easier to allocate custom cursors when creating an application.
Visit our brand new website today www.microsoft.com/multipointmouse and download the new Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK today!
Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK Troubleshoot announcements
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We are happy to announce that Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK v1.5 is now Live! Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK 1.5 offers several improvements over the old Microsoft MultiPoint SDK 1.1 including:
- Now supports Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 operating systems.
- Now supports 32 bit and 64 bit applications and operating systems by leveraging AnyCPU Intermediate Language (IL).
- New cursor capabilities were added: you can specify a cursor color, assign a custom image to a cursor, or hide cursors.
- New templates for Visual Studio 2008 were added to simplify the creation of MultiPoint Mouse applications.
- The namespace changed from Microsoft.MultiPoint to Microsoft.Multipoint to comply with capitalization conventions for .NET
- The number of DLLs was reduced from five to two (Microsoft.Multipoint.Sdk.dll and Microsoft.Multipoint.Sdk.Controls.dll)
- The object model was simplified, reducing the number of exposed classes, methods, and properties.
- The sample code was simplified and made to be compliant with good coding practices, such as FxCop guidelines to help further reduce programming errors.
- The sample code for allocating mouse cursors and the number and quality of cursor icons was improved making it easier to allocate custom cursors when creating an application.
Visit our brand new website today www.microsoft.com/multipointmouse and download the new Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK today!
Windows Presentation Foundation - Release Candidate announcements
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This forum will be retired in a few days. Please do not post new thread here.
April 22, 2011
Windows Workflow Foundation 3 announcements
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This forum has been retired. It is locked, but is still available for review in the Archived Forums folder. Any new posts on this topic should be put in the Windows Workflow Foundation forum.
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In .NET 4 the Workflow Team released an all new Workflow engine in the System.Activities namespace. With the release of .NET 4.5 Beta we are marking the types in the “WF 3” System.Workflow namespace as obsolete. The following assemblies have one or more public types that will be deprecated:
- System.Workflow.Activities.dll
- System.Workflow.ComponentModel.dll
- System.Workflow.Runtime.dll
- System.WorkflowServices.dll
- Microsoft.Workflow.DebugController.dll
- Microsoft.Workflow.Compiler.exe
- Wfc.exe
As a result, customers who are using the deprecated WF 3 APIs will encounter build warnings with a message similar to “ Warning BC40000: X is obsolete: ‘WF 3 types are deprecated. Please use WF 4 instead.’ ” We will remove the types from the .NET Framework in a future release, but we have not yet determined that timeframe (not in 4.5). This current step allows us to communicate our direction to our customers and allow them plenty of time to move to the new WF4 model. We will, of course, continue to support these WF 3 types under the Microsoft Support Lifecycle Policy.
Rules related types (e.g. System.Workflow.Activities.Rules), which do not have a replacement in WF 4.5, have not been deprecated.
Customers who want to migrate their applications to WF 4 will find help in the WF 4 Migration Guidance articles on MSDN and the WF Migration Kit on the WF CodePlex site. - System.Workflow.Activities.dll
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Hello all,
This Forum will handle questions for all of the 3.0 and 3.5 versions of Workflow. With the release of Visual Studio 2010 and the .Net Framework 4, we have created a new Forum for the latest version of Windows Workflow Foundation here. Please do not post any questions in here that do not pertain to Windows Workflow.
Thanks,
Ed
Working with Data and XML in the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP announcements
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Hello, and Welcome to the Data and XML 2010 CTP feedback forum!
I am Irinel Crivat, Program Manager for the Data Programmability team in SQL Server. I'll be one of the moderators on this forum. We have provided this forum to gather your feedback on the scenarios described in the walkthroughs that shipped with Visual Studio 2010 CTP. At this stage in the release, we are interested in hearing your thoughts on the design of features presented in these walkthroughs. We'll be taking more general feedback on the product when we get to the Beta release.
The XSLT Profiler is a performance analysis profiler tool that assists in the development and debugging of XSLT documents. The XSLT Profiler allows developers to measure, evaluate, and target performance-related problems in XSLT code by creating detailed XSLT performance reports. The XSLT Profiler includes a wealth of useful hints for XSL and XSLT style sheet optimizations, which are essential for XSLT-based applications that demand maximum performance.If you need to develop reliable and robust software, the XSLT Profiler is capable of detecting the performance errors and defects in coding so that they are corrected at an early stage in the development. This is essential in reducing the overall cost of developing software applications. The XSLT Profiler tool is fully integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio to provide a seamless and approachable user experience, combining several Microsoft technologies, including Microsoft XML Editor and XSLT Debugger, Visual Studio Team System, F1 (Performance Suites), and more.
If you have not downloaded or would like more information about the CTP, please visit http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=129231.
You can find the walkthroughs on the VPC disk: C:\users\Public\documents\CTPWalkthroughs\Visual Studio.Please let us know what you think! We'd love to get your feedback so we can make the next release even better. Thanks for the help!
Irinel Crivat
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My name is Tim Laverty and I'm the Program Manager for the new XSD Designer in the VS 2010 CTP. For the last five years I've worked in various groups at MS ranging from Visual Studio to Games to SQL Server.
Our team is super excited to have the new XSD Designer in the CTP. We want to hear what you think of it, what we're missing, what we got right, and what we didn't. We're ~60% done in this build and feedback you give us can and will directly affect what we eventually ship at RTM so please don't hold back.The walkthrough included in the CTP gives a quick view into features in the designer. We essentially show four views over schema sets:
XML Schema Explorer: This shipped w/ VS 2008 SP1 and offers a hierarchal view of the schema set.
Start View: This gives stats and offers a launching point for running common queries over sets.
Graph View: This gives an overview of global elements, types, and relationships between them.
Content Model View: This gives a detailed "compiled" view of schema set node content models.
For more information about the CTP and to get the download & walkthroughs please go to: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=129231.
Thanks, Tim Laverty
PM, SQL Server XML Tools
Working with Data in WPF Applications in the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP announcements
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Hi!
My name is Milind Lele. I am a Program Manager for Visual Studio.
We are very pleased to announce improvements we have made to Visual Studio to enable developers to work with data in WPF applications. This CTP includes some of these improvements. We are working on improving these, but we would love to hear your feedback.
We have created a few walkthoughs to get you started. This forum is setup to discuss the following:
Walkthrough: Using the Designer to Bind WPF Controls to Data in a Dataset
Walkthrough: Using the Designer to Bind WPF Controls to Data in an Entity Data Model To report bugs please use the Connect website.
Sincerely,
Milind Lele
PM, Visual Studio
http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdata
Building Windows Store apps with HTML5/JavaScript (Windows 8.1 Preview and RTM) announcements
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Thank you.
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Hello and welcome to the Building Windows Store apps with HTML5/JavaScript (Windows 8.1 Preview) forum. Please feel free to post your questions or start discussions here.
Please remember to follow the rules outlines in our code of conduct:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/Page/faq#faqCodeConduct
Thank you,
Microsoft Communities Team
Building Windows Store apps with C++ (Windows 8.1 Preview and RTM) announcements
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Hello and welcome to the Building Windows Store apps with C++ (Windows 8.1 Preview)
forum. Please feel free to post your questions or start discussions here.
Please remember to follow the rules outlines in our code of conduct:
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Microsoft Communities Team
Building Windows Store apps with C# or VB (Windows 8.1 Preview and RTM) announcements
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Please remember to follow the rules outlines in our code of conduct:
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Microsoft Communities Team
Building Windows Store games with DirectX (Windows 8.1 Preview and RTM) announcements
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forum. Please feel free to post your questions or start discussions here.
Please remember to follow the rules outlines in our code of conduct:
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Microsoft Communities Team
Tools for Windows Store apps (Windows 8.1 Preview and RTM) announcements
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forum. Please feel free to post your questions or start discussions here.
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Windows App Studio Beta announcements
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Hello everyone,
First we would like to apologize for the inconvenience that the failing cert has caused for any of you.
Next, We would like to let you know that the problem is now resolved. We had loaded the wrong cert into the latest site revision, which is now fixed.
Please go ahead and load the cert again, and it will now allow you to properly load it as well as your app package.
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When attempting to sideload Windows App Studio Beta apps using the Installable Package, some devices are returning a "Can't Install Company App" error. We are investigating and will resolve the error shortly. In the meantime, you can sideload Publish Packages using the Windows Phone SDK deployment tool.
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Making the move to the Windows Phone Store?
Now that you've used App Studio to jump start building your killer app, are you ready to launch it to the world on the Windows Phone Store? Before you go, make sure you've scrubbed out any leftover template items.
If your app uses template images or titles, still has placeholder text (like [insert name here]) or uses template metadata (such as the icon, long description or keywords), it won't meet app certification requirements. Use a template to learn how to do it, then change it into your app, and you'll be off to a good start on your way to the store.
Here's a handy checklist of examples to remember.
Use:
- Your own titles
- Your own iconography (app Logo, Pin to start tile)
- Your own long description
Don’t use:
- Template placeholder text ([insert name here])
- Template app content
Have fun building your app in Windows Phone App Studio, and we'll see you in the Windows Phone Store!
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Windows Phone MVP, Maciej Grabek (http://maciejgrabek.com), put together this great tutorial on Windows Phone App Studio. Maciej, great work on this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBBkO3AtExQ
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To publish your app on Windows Phone Store and share it with the world, you need three things:
A) Your signed .XAP file (created for you in Windows Phone App Studio after you've generated your app by Download Publish Package)
B) Your app tile in 300x300 PNG format (same one you already created as your 'app icon' in the 'describe your app section of Windows Phone App Studio)
C) At least one screenshot in 768X1280 PNG format (this is not created automatically, so here you go. You can create this in many methods, but this is one way to do it without opening visual studio)
1) Install your app on your device by scanning the QR code generated in Windows Phone App Studio.
2) Launch your app and take a few screenshots of the app by pressing the Power button and the Start button.
3) Find those screenshots in your "albums" under "screenshots" then save to your SkyDrive.
4) Download from Skydrive and open with Paint.
5) In Paint resize (under Home) to 768X1280 pixels if needed
6) When you are ready publish in Dev Center and you have to "upload images", just use WXGA option and check "Automatically create lower resolution screenshots from WXGA"
You can also do this using the emulator or the snipping tool. Check it out at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/gg442300(v=vs.105).aspx.
Now, you are ready to publish at https://dev.windowsphone.com/publish
Community, please reply if you have a better way to do this. I'm all ears!
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How do I find the image that's too large to edit it?
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Dynamic Resources>Static Resources
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How to create different store page for package flights?
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Generate AppxManifest.xml from command line
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How to sing up for appstudio
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Is this the right place for help?
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After adding groove data source, I am unable to find no groove music artist. when I searched for an artist it shows "something went ...
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What is 'Dynamic collections'?
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WCF Data Services (Pre-Release) announcements
Web Development in Visual Studio in the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP announcements
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Hi - I'm Bradley Millington, Lead Program Manager for the Visual Web Developer ("Web Tools") team. I'll be one of the moderators on this forum.
We have provided this forum to gather your feedback on the scenarios described in the walkthroughs that shipped with Visual Studio 2010 CTP. At this stage in the release, we are interested in hearing your thoughts on the design of features presented in these walkthroughs. We'll be taking more general feedback on the product when we get to the Beta release.
We will be discussing the following walkthroughs:
- Using HTML Code Snippets
- Packaging & Deploying a Web Application which uses IIS
- Packaging & Deploying a Web Application which uses VS Development Web Server (Cassini)
- Transforming Web.Config for Deployment
- Targeting Multiple Versions of ASP.NET
You can go to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=129231 to download the CTP and walkthroughs.
We look forward to hearing your feedback!
Web Sandbox - General announcements
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August 11, 2010
This update focuses on a few performance issues.
- Only initialize the window once, not for each sandbox instance.
- Fix to work-around WebKit's CSS DOM performance issues (huge performance improvement).
- Fix global stylesheet clean-up.
- Fix to more accurately test that a method is natively implemented versus defined by the Host Page (reduces potential for conflict between the sandbox and outer page).
July 21, 2010
This is a fairly large update to improve support for common web frameworks and libraries. Below highlights a few of the fixes
- Fixes for input elements including
<button type="...">
support and IE'sdocument.createElement("<tag property='value'>")
syntax. - Added support for
getComputedStyle(element,null).getPropertyValue.memberName
. - NamedNodeMaps can access members by member name (similar to the fix for getComputedStyle above).
- Fixed support for cancelling a hyperlinks default action by returning false to the event.
- Executing a regular expression against a regular expression type now works.
- Fixed issues with prototype inheritance. This should fix the extend pattern used by most frameworks.
- Event object fixes including relatedTarget and added custom property support to the event object.
- Support for hasOwnProperty method.
- Default value of calculated opacity is now 1 in all browsers.
- Support for getBoundingClientRect.
- Fixed a dynamic script loading timing issue to support YUI's dynamic loader.
- Support for invoking document.all() as a method in addition to the traditional [] notation.
- Fix bug in the scoping of Array.forEach.
- Support for HSL and HSLA colors (passes through to the browser so assumes browser support)
- Support for more CSS3 background properties.
- Support for textContent and getElementsByClassName on browsers that have native support.
- A number of other minor bug fixes.
June 29, 2010
This update focuses on the CSS.
- CSS2 attribute selectors are now parsed.
- RGB and RGBa values are now parsed.
- Rounded corners and box-shadows (including the webkit and mozilla proprietary equivalents) are now enabled.
- In Internet Explorer, all samples are run in the latest browser mode (Sandboxed Canvas not working in IE9 is a known issue).
June 25, 2010
We are working on improving the fidelity of the original document structure. This update includes the following changes:
- We are working on properly supporting the DOM for head elements. This update supports the TITLE, META, and SCRIPT elements. Script elements are properly represented relative to their document location.
- The
scripts
collection as well as attributes on individual SCRIPT elements are properly exposed. We now ignore SCRIPT elements are specified via the TYPE attribute to not contain JavaScript. - The document
anchors
andlists
collections are now properly supported. - Line-breaks in TEXTAREA and PRE elements are fixed.
- For the media attribute on LINK and STYLE elements, only sheets that target the screen or all media types are supported. Print stylesheets are on our TODO list.
- Other small bug-fixes in prototype chain handling.
May 25, 2010
Today we released a refactored Sandbox script. This update has a much cleaner, more optimized policy file that uses 20K less code, signficantly less JavaScript closures, and enforces more consistency through a prescribed definition pattern. We also keep expanding support for more API's, have started on some of the HTML 5 features, and are focusing on supporting the various framework libraries.
Below are some of the highlights:
- Every method by definition exposes its corresponding property.
- Enable Firefox'es funky
if (documennt.all) // return false
test even though document.all is supported. - Better support for routing keyboard events to the document.
- Fixes to support JQuery better (still a work in progress).
- Improved inner/outerHTML, regular expression, and mouse positioning support.
- Support for Canvas (requires browser support).
- Support for hyperlink javascript-based URL's in the initial HTML.
March 1, 2010 - Catching Up!
Over the past few months, we have been quietly updating the Sandbox script. Below highlights some of the more significant changes:
- Lots of bug fixes (e.g., getVarDate, NaN.toString(), regular expression issues, prototype inheritance, styling input elements, and more).
- Added better host integration events (onbeforeqos, onxmlrequest, onerror, onformsubmit, and more). We are working on the host integration documentation.
- Introduced a new isolate policy that matches the IFrame behavior providing full isolation of content from the surrounding page.
- Basic support for the IFrame element. IFrame contents are now generated and encapsulated in their own sandbox.
- Enable support for dynamically loading the sandbox library.
- Huge performance improvements for processing stylesheets and the initial HTML.
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Today, we are announcing that we are making much of the source code for the Web Sandbox project available under the Open Source Apache License 2.0.
Since the initial release of Web Sandbox we have received a great deal of feedback from the web security community. We have also been collaborating with a number of customers, partners and the standards communities that would like to adopt the technology when it is ready. Our goal is to achieve widespread adoption of Web Sandbox and to help foster interoperability with complementary technologies like script frameworks.
See the Web Sandbox site for additional licensing details. Thank you for your input to the project so far, and we are excited to continue our collaboration with you.
(Note: While we are using an Apache License, the Web Sandbox project is not sponsored or endorsed by the Apache Software Foundation and is not an ASF project.)
-Dragos
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The following items represent work in progress. Consequently until we check them off they could be regarded as current limitations. They are due to our implementation rather than the sandbox architecture.
- The gadget's HTML must be well-formed.
- document.write is partially implemented and not fully debugged.
- JavaScript's with statement is unsupported.
- The XML proxy allowing gadgets to invoke back-end services is not enabled (now supported!).
- The Dynamic loading of script is unsupported (now supported!).
- Silverlight and Flash objects are unsupported.
- Depending on operations, the performance overhead varies between 1.5 and 4 times.
Should you run into other unexpected surprises we either missed something from the above list or you discovered a bug. Keep us posted.
-Dragos
Windows Developer Preview: General OS questions (Locked) announcements
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With the release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview, the Windows General OS Forum is no longer the supported destination for general questions related to Windows 8. For Developer related questions please continue to select from the list of forums under the MSDN Windows Metro app style category. IT Pros can now select from a list of dedicated TechNet forums under the Windows 8 IT Pro category. General consumers can get support from our Microsoft Answers community. This forum will remain as a read-only resource but we encourage you to leverage our other community support resources for new questions.
Windows Events announcements
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I am pleased to announce that the MSDN documentation for the Windows Event Log has been updated last week. The updates include an improved “Using Windows Event Log” which will be helpful for those looking to create an event provider for the first time or consuming data from the Windows Event Log.
Also check out the “What’s New” for Windows 7.
Please check it out and give us feedback (via the “Send comments about this topic to Microsoft” links).
Kevin
Windows Live Search: Development announcements
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With the launch of our new search technology, Bing, this forum has been moved to http://www.bing.com/community/forums/default.aspx?GroupID=12 and no longer will be moderated and cannot be posted to. Please refer to the new Bing Community forums for the most recent information.If you are new to Bing, refer to the FAQ for answers to common questions:
http://help.live.com/help.aspx?mkt=en-us&project=searchdevctr&querytype=keyword&query=faq
We appreciate your interest.
Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK Bugs and Suggestions announcements
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We are happy to announce that Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK v1.5 is now Live! Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK 1.5 offers several improvements over the old Microsoft MultiPoint SDK 1.1 including:
- Now supports Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 operating systems.
- Now supports 32 bit and 64 bit applications and operating systems by leveraging AnyCPU Intermediate Language (IL).
- New cursor capabilities were added: you can specify a cursor color, assign a custom image to a cursor, or hide cursors.
- New templates for Visual Studio 2008 were added to simplify the creation of MultiPoint Mouse applications.
- The namespace changed from Microsoft.MultiPoint to Microsoft.Multipoint to comply with capitalization conventions for .NET
- The number of DLLs was reduced from five to two (Microsoft.Multipoint.Sdk.dll and Microsoft.Multipoint.Sdk.Controls.dll)
- The object model was simplified, reducing the number of exposed classes, methods, and properties.
- The sample code was simplified and made to be compliant with good coding practices, such as FxCop guidelines to help further reduce programming errors.
- The sample code for allocating mouse cursors and the number and quality of cursor icons was improved making it easier to allocate custom cursors when creating an application.
Visit our brand new website today www.microsoft.com/multipointmouse and download the new Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK today!
Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK Troubleshoot announcements
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We are happy to announce that Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK v1.5 is now Live! Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK 1.5 offers several improvements over the old Microsoft MultiPoint SDK 1.1 including:
- Now supports Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 operating systems.
- Now supports 32 bit and 64 bit applications and operating systems by leveraging AnyCPU Intermediate Language (IL).
- New cursor capabilities were added: you can specify a cursor color, assign a custom image to a cursor, or hide cursors.
- New templates for Visual Studio 2008 were added to simplify the creation of MultiPoint Mouse applications.
- The namespace changed from Microsoft.MultiPoint to Microsoft.Multipoint to comply with capitalization conventions for .NET
- The number of DLLs was reduced from five to two (Microsoft.Multipoint.Sdk.dll and Microsoft.Multipoint.Sdk.Controls.dll)
- The object model was simplified, reducing the number of exposed classes, methods, and properties.
- The sample code was simplified and made to be compliant with good coding practices, such as FxCop guidelines to help further reduce programming errors.
- The sample code for allocating mouse cursors and the number and quality of cursor icons was improved making it easier to allocate custom cursors when creating an application.
Visit our brand new website today www.microsoft.com/multipointmouse and download the new Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK today!
Windows Presentation Foundation - Release Candidate announcements
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This forum will be retired in a few days. Please do not post new thread here.
April 22, 2011
Windows Workflow Foundation 3 announcements
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This forum has been retired. It is locked, but is still available for review in the Archived Forums folder. Any new posts on this topic should be put in the Windows Workflow Foundation forum.
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In .NET 4 the Workflow Team released an all new Workflow engine in the System.Activities namespace. With the release of .NET 4.5 Beta we are marking the types in the “WF 3” System.Workflow namespace as obsolete. The following assemblies have one or more public types that will be deprecated:
- System.Workflow.Activities.dll
- System.Workflow.ComponentModel.dll
- System.Workflow.Runtime.dll
- System.WorkflowServices.dll
- Microsoft.Workflow.DebugController.dll
- Microsoft.Workflow.Compiler.exe
- Wfc.exe
As a result, customers who are using the deprecated WF 3 APIs will encounter build warnings with a message similar to “ Warning BC40000: X is obsolete: ‘WF 3 types are deprecated. Please use WF 4 instead.’ ” We will remove the types from the .NET Framework in a future release, but we have not yet determined that timeframe (not in 4.5). This current step allows us to communicate our direction to our customers and allow them plenty of time to move to the new WF4 model. We will, of course, continue to support these WF 3 types under the Microsoft Support Lifecycle Policy.
Rules related types (e.g. System.Workflow.Activities.Rules), which do not have a replacement in WF 4.5, have not been deprecated.
Customers who want to migrate their applications to WF 4 will find help in the WF 4 Migration Guidance articles on MSDN and the WF Migration Kit on the WF CodePlex site. - System.Workflow.Activities.dll
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Hello all,
This Forum will handle questions for all of the 3.0 and 3.5 versions of Workflow. With the release of Visual Studio 2010 and the .Net Framework 4, we have created a new Forum for the latest version of Windows Workflow Foundation here. Please do not post any questions in here that do not pertain to Windows Workflow.
Thanks,
Ed
Working with Data and XML in the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP announcements
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Hello, and Welcome to the Data and XML 2010 CTP feedback forum!
I am Irinel Crivat, Program Manager for the Data Programmability team in SQL Server. I'll be one of the moderators on this forum. We have provided this forum to gather your feedback on the scenarios described in the walkthroughs that shipped with Visual Studio 2010 CTP. At this stage in the release, we are interested in hearing your thoughts on the design of features presented in these walkthroughs. We'll be taking more general feedback on the product when we get to the Beta release.
The XSLT Profiler is a performance analysis profiler tool that assists in the development and debugging of XSLT documents. The XSLT Profiler allows developers to measure, evaluate, and target performance-related problems in XSLT code by creating detailed XSLT performance reports. The XSLT Profiler includes a wealth of useful hints for XSL and XSLT style sheet optimizations, which are essential for XSLT-based applications that demand maximum performance.If you need to develop reliable and robust software, the XSLT Profiler is capable of detecting the performance errors and defects in coding so that they are corrected at an early stage in the development. This is essential in reducing the overall cost of developing software applications. The XSLT Profiler tool is fully integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio to provide a seamless and approachable user experience, combining several Microsoft technologies, including Microsoft XML Editor and XSLT Debugger, Visual Studio Team System, F1 (Performance Suites), and more.
If you have not downloaded or would like more information about the CTP, please visit http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=129231.
You can find the walkthroughs on the VPC disk: C:\users\Public\documents\CTPWalkthroughs\Visual Studio.Please let us know what you think! We'd love to get your feedback so we can make the next release even better. Thanks for the help!
Irinel Crivat
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My name is Tim Laverty and I'm the Program Manager for the new XSD Designer in the VS 2010 CTP. For the last five years I've worked in various groups at MS ranging from Visual Studio to Games to SQL Server.
Our team is super excited to have the new XSD Designer in the CTP. We want to hear what you think of it, what we're missing, what we got right, and what we didn't. We're ~60% done in this build and feedback you give us can and will directly affect what we eventually ship at RTM so please don't hold back.The walkthrough included in the CTP gives a quick view into features in the designer. We essentially show four views over schema sets:
XML Schema Explorer: This shipped w/ VS 2008 SP1 and offers a hierarchal view of the schema set.
Start View: This gives stats and offers a launching point for running common queries over sets.
Graph View: This gives an overview of global elements, types, and relationships between them.
Content Model View: This gives a detailed "compiled" view of schema set node content models.
For more information about the CTP and to get the download & walkthroughs please go to: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=129231.
Thanks, Tim Laverty
PM, SQL Server XML Tools
Working with Data in WPF Applications in the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP announcements
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Hi!
My name is Milind Lele. I am a Program Manager for Visual Studio.
We are very pleased to announce improvements we have made to Visual Studio to enable developers to work with data in WPF applications. This CTP includes some of these improvements. We are working on improving these, but we would love to hear your feedback.
We have created a few walkthoughs to get you started. This forum is setup to discuss the following:
Walkthrough: Using the Designer to Bind WPF Controls to Data in a Dataset
Walkthrough: Using the Designer to Bind WPF Controls to Data in an Entity Data Model To report bugs please use the Connect website.
Sincerely,
Milind Lele
PM, Visual Studio
http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdata
Building Windows Store apps with HTML5/JavaScript (Windows 8.1 Preview and RTM) announcements
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After Windows 8.1 is released on October 17, this forum will be archived. The URL will stay the same in case you have it bookmarked, but it will be moved to the Archived category. It will be made read-only so you can still search for questions/answers, but not create new threads or posts. Instead, please contribute to the community by asking and answering Windows Store apps questions in the applicable forum in the Windows Store apps category. Please respond to this thread if you have any questions about this.
Thank you.
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Hello and welcome to the Building Windows Store apps with HTML5/JavaScript (Windows 8.1 Preview) forum. Please feel free to post your questions or start discussions here.
Please remember to follow the rules outlines in our code of conduct:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/Page/faq#faqCodeConduct
Thank you,
Microsoft Communities Team
Building Windows Store apps with C++ (Windows 8.1 Preview and RTM) announcements
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Thank you.
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Hello and welcome to the Building Windows Store apps with C++ (Windows 8.1 Preview)
forum. Please feel free to post your questions or start discussions here.
Please remember to follow the rules outlines in our code of conduct:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/Page/faq#faqCodeConduct
Thank you,
Microsoft Communities Team
Building Windows Store apps with C# or VB (Windows 8.1 Preview and RTM) announcements
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Thank you.
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Hello and welcome to the Building Windows Store apps with C# or VB (Windows 8.1 Preview)
forum. Please feel free to post your questions or start discussions here.
Please remember to follow the rules outlines in our code of conduct:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/Page/faq#faqCodeConduct
Thank you,
Microsoft Communities Team
Building Windows Store games with DirectX (Windows 8.1 Preview and RTM) announcements
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Thank you.
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Hello and welcome to the Building Windows Store games with DirectX (Windows 8.1 Preview)
forum. Please feel free to post your questions or start discussions here.
Please remember to follow the rules outlines in our code of conduct:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/Page/faq#faqCodeConduct
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Microsoft Communities Team
Tools for Windows Store apps (Windows 8.1 Preview and RTM) announcements
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forum. Please feel free to post your questions or start discussions here.
Please remember to follow the rules outlines in our code of conduct:
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Windows App Studio Beta announcements
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Hello everyone,
First we would like to apologize for the inconvenience that the failing cert has caused for any of you.
Next, We would like to let you know that the problem is now resolved. We had loaded the wrong cert into the latest site revision, which is now fixed.
Please go ahead and load the cert again, and it will now allow you to properly load it as well as your app package.
Again we are very sorry for the inconvenience.
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When attempting to sideload Windows App Studio Beta apps using the Installable Package, some devices are returning a "Can't Install Company App" error. We are investigating and will resolve the error shortly. In the meantime, you can sideload Publish Packages using the Windows Phone SDK deployment tool.
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Making the move to the Windows Phone Store?
Now that you've used App Studio to jump start building your killer app, are you ready to launch it to the world on the Windows Phone Store? Before you go, make sure you've scrubbed out any leftover template items.
If your app uses template images or titles, still has placeholder text (like [insert name here]) or uses template metadata (such as the icon, long description or keywords), it won't meet app certification requirements. Use a template to learn how to do it, then change it into your app, and you'll be off to a good start on your way to the store.
Here's a handy checklist of examples to remember.
Use:
- Your own titles
- Your own iconography (app Logo, Pin to start tile)
- Your own long description
Don’t use:
- Template placeholder text ([insert name here])
- Template app content
Have fun building your app in Windows Phone App Studio, and we'll see you in the Windows Phone Store!
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Windows Phone MVP, Maciej Grabek (http://maciejgrabek.com), put together this great tutorial on Windows Phone App Studio. Maciej, great work on this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBBkO3AtExQ
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To publish your app on Windows Phone Store and share it with the world, you need three things:
A) Your signed .XAP file (created for you in Windows Phone App Studio after you've generated your app by Download Publish Package)
B) Your app tile in 300x300 PNG format (same one you already created as your 'app icon' in the 'describe your app section of Windows Phone App Studio)
C) At least one screenshot in 768X1280 PNG format (this is not created automatically, so here you go. You can create this in many methods, but this is one way to do it without opening visual studio)
1) Install your app on your device by scanning the QR code generated in Windows Phone App Studio.
2) Launch your app and take a few screenshots of the app by pressing the Power button and the Start button.
3) Find those screenshots in your "albums" under "screenshots" then save to your SkyDrive.
4) Download from Skydrive and open with Paint.
5) In Paint resize (under Home) to 768X1280 pixels if needed
6) When you are ready publish in Dev Center and you have to "upload images", just use WXGA option and check "Automatically create lower resolution screenshots from WXGA"
You can also do this using the emulator or the snipping tool. Check it out at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/gg442300(v=vs.105).aspx.
Now, you are ready to publish at https://dev.windowsphone.com/publish
Community, please reply if you have a better way to do this. I'm all ears!