Reactive Extensions (Rx) announcements

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  Rx tutorials at YOW!
  head.in.the.box Monday, November 19, 2012 4:06 PM

  Has your interest in Rx piqued because of the recent open sourcing (http://rx.codeplex.com/)?
  Do you want to want a first-person account of the history and design philosophy of Rx?
  What about some pair programming with Dr Rebcabin http://rebcabin.wordpress.com/?
  Or hear about using Rx in the real world from our special guest TheMechanicalBride (http://themechanicalbride.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-rx-linq-to-events.html, http://www.yowconference.com.au/general/details.html?speakerId=3541), the longest living Rx user on the planet?
  .....
  
  Then, sign up for the Rx tutorials at YOW!
  http://www.yowconference.com.au/general/registration.html

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  Rx tutorial with @headinthebox and @xpaulbettsx at QCON
  head.in.the.box Wednesday, October 10, 2012 6:21 PM

  Here is your chance to learn Rx and interact with @headinthebox and@xpaulbettsx (the co-author of the gentle Category Theory-free introduction to Rx and LINQ) http://qconsf.com/sf2012/presentations/show_presentation.jsp?oid=4602. We'll make the course super hands-on and try to answer all your questions.

  If you sign up using discount code "meij100", we will take you out for drinks afterwards so you can even ask more questions.

  Looking forward to see many of the Rx users in person.

  
  

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  Welcome to the Reactive Extensions (Rx) forum
  Rx team Thursday, August 16, 2012 5:17 AM

  Reactive Extensions (Rx) is a library available for .NET and developers, used to compose event-based programs using observable sequences and LINQ-style query operators. Visit the Rx product website to download the bits, read more details and watch in depth videos about the technology.

  Feel free to post any questions regarding Rx on this forum.

  
  
  
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  Download Reactive Extensions v2.0
  Rx team Thursday, August 16, 2012 5:16 AM

  We're thrilled to announce the availability of Reactive Extensions v2.0 for the following platforms:

  • .NET Framework 4
  • .NET Framework 4.5
  • .NET Framework 4.5 for Windows Store apps
  • Silverlight 5
  • Windows Phone 7.5

  You can download the SDK installer from the Download Center or use NuGet to install the packages.

  More information about the release can be found in this blog post.

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  Download Reactive Extensions v1.x
  Bart De Smet [MSFT] Saturday, June 11, 2011 5:09 AM

  We're happy to announce the first official release of Reactive Extensions v1.0 Stable and the latest release of v1.1 Experimental:

  • Reactive Extensions v1.0.10621 SP1 Stable Release
    • This is our official v1.0 product release, including the first Service Pack. How exciting is that?
  • Reactive Extensions v1.1.11111 Experimental Release
    • This is where we continue to experiment with new ideas. Stay tuned for more...

  
  

Register and Manage Account announcements

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  Windows Phone 8.0 Device Unlocks
  Donielle S.-MSFT Thursday, May 14, 2015 5:16 PM

  Starting today, no Windows Phone 8.0 device will be able to be developer unlocked.  You have three options to continue testing Windows Phone 8.0 packages:

  -       - updating the phone to Windows Phone 8.1 and unlocking it for developer testing

  -       -  submitting the apps as beta through the Windows Dev Center and testing in Windows Phone 8.0 devices, or

  -       -  testing your Windows Phone 8.0 apps via the Windows Phone emulator.

   

  Any Windows Phone 8.0 device currently unlocked will continue to be unlocked and work as a test device until its certificate expires. 

  Note that this change has no impact on apps available in the Windows Phone Store, nor will it impact customers with Windows Phone 8.0 devices.

   

  Windows Store team

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  Unifying Developer Registration: Windows and Windows Phone
  Donielle S.-MSFT Wednesday, November 6, 2013 9:16 PM

  Over the last month, we’ve brought the Windows Store and the Windows Phone Store together into a single marketing and operations team to deliver a better experience for developers, end users and partners. Our focus remains to improve the way we help you reach new users and better monetize your apps, all while reducing friction and cost. Today we are making a set of changes that will simplify doing business with us. 

  I’m pleased to announce a unified registration experience for both Windows Store and Windows Phone developers, available at a lower cost. As a result of these changes, Windows Store developers are now also Windows Phone developers, and Windows Phone developers are also Windows Store developers. Welcome all! 

  Here’s what you can expect: 

  • Registered Windows Store developers can now submit apps to the Windows Phone Store, using the same Microsoft account.
  • Registered Windows Phone developers can now submit apps to the Windows Store at no additional cost, using the same Microsoft account.
  • New developers can register and existing developers can renew their account using the same Microsoft account. Developers will enter registration information just once and pay a single lower price of $19 for an Individual and $99 for a Company account, providing access to publish
    apps for both Windows and Windows Phone users.
  • Developers already registered with both Windows Store and Windows Phone using the same Microsoft account will receive a code via email this month, valid for a free one-year
    renewal when their existing registration is up for renewal.
  • Students continue to be supported through the DreamSpark program.

  You will continue to use the separate Windows Store and Windows Phone Dev Center Dashboards to submit and manage your apps. You can expect some differences in the steps you take to renew your account. The most notable for some of our Windows Phone developers is the addition of a credit card to validate all new account and renewals. You can read more about today’s changes on the Windows and Windows Phone Dev Centers. 

  Publish your app for both Windows Store and Windows Phone and earn prizes

  With the holiday selling season approaching, this is an ideal time to tune-up and publish your apps for both Windows and Windows Phone to help increase your downloads and revenue. Last year holiday sales of paid apps grew 40% over baseline, and we expect an even more robust Holiday 2013 due to an even larger base of Windows and Windows Phone users with more ways to pay for apps. 

  As an added incentive, we’ve partnered with Nokia via the DVLUP community to give you an easy way to learn more and complete challenges as you develop for both the Windows Store and Windows Phone. Along the way, you’ll earn points that can then be redeemed for great prizes (for example, Nokia Lumia phones and more).  DVLUP is currently open to developers in more than 20 countries. To participate, register for the DVLUP program and take advantage of the two new challenges available today: 

  Publish a new app for Windows Phone 8, or port an existing Windows Store app
  or
  Bring your Windows Phone app to Windows 8.1

  I’m hopeful that the steps we’ve taken will encourage you to publish your apps for both Windows and Windows Phone users around the world. I’ll share more in the weeks ahead, so stay tuned.

  Quoted from Todd Brix on the 'Windows Phone Developer Blog'( http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2013/11/06/unifying-developer-registration-windows-and-windows-phone.aspx)
  

Reporting announcements

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  Forum Migration
  Patrick Gale (MSFT) Monday, August 1, 2016 2:30 PM

  Please be advised that in an effort to provide a more unified Dev Center experience the ads-in-apps forums have been moved as of August 01, 2016 into the same location housing the other Dev Center forums.
  
  If you already have links to the forums for App/Ad Unit Management, Promote Your App, and AdSDK they should continue to work. The Payout and Reporting forums have been combined and content migrated with the Dev Center Payout and Reporting Forum. All of the original posts and replies still remain and can be found in the new locations.

  If you have any specific questions regarding the forum migration please contact support via the Dev Center Support Portal.

Script Junkie Discussion announcements

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  Welcome to the Script Junkie Forum
  Rey Bango Monday, June 7, 2010 6:39 PM

  We'd like to welcome you to the Script Junkie forum. Here you'll find a fantastic place to engage with others who have a passion for JavaScript, HTML, CSS and the emerging standards that are changing the face of web development. We urge you to share the web development experiences and techniques that have made your projects fun and exciting.

  Also, please let us know your feelings about the SJ content so that authors can get the feedback they need to continuously enhance their works. We want to know what works and what topics you'd like to see in the future and this forum is a great place to share your ideas.

  It's our hope that the SJ forum breeds many incredibly useful discussions and provides a hub for developers to work together to build amazing applications.

  - The Script Junkie Team

   

SDK for Home Server 2011, SBS 2011 Essentials, Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials announcements

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  Great new, Step by step guidance on How to list your applications on Microsoft Pinpoint
  Ning Kuang Friday, January 20, 2012 11:05 AM

  If you have an Add-in, or an application that works with SBS 2011, WHS 2011 or Windows Storage Server Essentials, there are muliple options to list them online, and make it discoverable by your target customers.

  Here is a step by step guidance on how to list it on Microsoft Pinpoint:

  Listing your Applications for Discovery in Microsoft Pinpoint (for Small Business Server, Windows Home Server and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials)

  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/6886.listing-your-applications-for-discovery-in-microsoft-pinpoint-for-small-business-server-windows-home-server-and-windows-storage-server-2008-r2-essentials.aspx

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  Windows Home Server Development Kit 2
  Nick Asseloos Thursday, April 21, 2011 9:07 PM

  To get you started with developing addins, I created a Development Kit with some samples and information on how to create/build/install and addin for Windows Home Server 2011.

  You can download it here.
  There are also some articles on my blog.

  Have fun,
  Nick Asseloos
  MVP Windows Home Server
  http://www.asoft.be

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  Welcome to the forum for Windows Server Solutions SDK!
  Jonas Svensson -FST- Thursday, April 21, 2011 7:30 PM

  This forum is for the discussion of the Windows Server Solutions SDK.  It can be found on MSDN at the following link:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg513958.aspx

  Thanks!

Service Bus announcements

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  Service Bus 1.1 is now GA !
  zivraf Tuesday, June 25, 2013 5:13 PM

  start here : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn282144.aspx
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  Service Bus explorer supports Service Bus 1.0 for Windows Server
  zivraf Wednesday, December 26, 2012 10:44 PM

  Check the latest update to Service Bus explorer at: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazure/Service-Bus-Explorer-f2abca5a

  Beside many new features which were recently added to Service Bus and now available in the tool, the tool now supports both cloud and on-premise versions for Service Bus !