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• Microsoft publie le Patch Tuesday du mois de novembre, qui corrige quatre vulnérabilités

  Microsoft vient de publier le Patch Tuesday du mois de novembre Qui corrige quatre vulnérabilités Le Patch Tuesday survient le deuxième mardi du mois ; Microsoft publie des correctifs de sécurité à destination de ses clients. Le patch de novembre corrige quatre vulnérabilités (CVE-2011-2004, CVE-2011-2013, CVE-2011-2014, CVE-2011-2016), toutes signalées confidentiellement à Microsoft. Une est considérée comme critique, une comme modérée et les deux dernières comme importantes. La première vulnérabilité, référencée CVE-2011-2013, permet via un integer overflow d'un compteur dans la pile TCP/IP de Windows, une exploitation de code arbitraire en mode noyau.

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• Imagine Cup : Microsoft annonce les gagnants qui représenteront la France lors de la finale mondiale

  Imagine Cup : Microsoft annonce les gagnants qui représenteront la France lors de la finale mondiale de Juillet en Pologne Depuis 8 ans, l'Imagine Cup de Microsoft, la plus grande compétition mondiale pour les étudiants, est disputée par des équipes d'informaticiens en herbe de plus de 100 nationalités différentes. Cette année, ce sont plus de 225 000 étudiants qui se sont mobilisés pour ce concours, dont la finale mondiale se tiendra en Pologne xxxxxx En Mai, la finale France du championnant a eu lieu au siège parisien de Microsoft. A cette occasion, une vingtaine d'équipes d'étudiants venants de toute la France se sont affrontées en présentant leurs projets au jury. Ce sont les catégories «*Concepti...

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• Les premières informations détaillées à propos d'Office 15 apparaissent, Microsoft prépare déjà le s

  Les premières informations détaillées à propos d'Office 15 apparaissent, Microsoft prépare déjà le successeur d'Office 2010 Même si les informations à ce sujet se font rare, on sait que Microsoft travaille déjà activement au développement d'Office 15 (le successeur d'Office 2010, dont le nom de code était Office 14). Le Net relaie néanmoins quelques rumeurs sur la nouvelle mouture de la site bureautique, qui se voudrait améliorée en collaboration, mobilité et connectivité avec Outlook. Plusieurs offres d'emploi publiées par Microsoft laissent filtrer quelques informations. Par exemple, à la recherche d'un test engineer, la firme explique "Outlook est incroyablement complexe. Il se connecte à différents serveurs ...

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• Apple vaut désormais plus que Microsoft en bourse, et devient la troisième capitalisation boursière

  Apple vaut désormais plus que Microsoft en bourse, et devient la troisième capitalisation boursière mondiale La journée d'hier s'est clôturée avec une capitalisation totale de marché (le prix d'une action multiplié par le nombre d'actions) à hauteur de 222.12 milliards de dollars pour Apple, contre «*seulement*» 219.18 milliards pour Microsoft. A onze heures passées de cinquante deux minutes (heure de Paris), Les deux firmes n'étaient plus séparées que par un tout petit milliard de dollars. Les analystes voyaient leurs prédictions se réaliser. En effet, le dépassement de Microsoft par Apple avait été largement anticipé. Alors que la capitalisation de son stock market dépassait toujours celle de la firme à la pomme, l...

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• Microsoft propose un kit gratuit d'initiation à Windows Phone 7 pour développer des applications et

  Microsoft propose un kit gratuit d'initiation à Windows Phone 7 Pour développer des applications et des jeux sur son nouvel OS mobile Microsoft a bien conscience que la bataille des OS pour smartphones se gagnera sur le front des applications. Et que derrière les applications, il y a les développeurs. Une réalité d'autant plus vraie pour Windows Phone 7 que la rétro-compatibilité avec Windows Mobile 6.x est rompue. Depuis avril, Microsoft avait sorti un kit de développement, baptisé Windows Phone Developer Tools. Aujourd'hui, c'est ce SDK et tout un ensemble d'outils complémentaires, de démos et de tutoriels

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• Microsoft lance de nouvelles initiatives pour aider les développeurs à créer leurs applications et leurs entreprises

  Microsoft va lancer de nouvelles initiatives pour aider les développeurs A créer leurs applications et leurs entreprises Lors de sa rentrée des classes, Microsoft France a fait le point sur l'ensemble des évènements qu'il propose ? et qu'il va proposer ? en rapport avec l'innovation technologique et le développement. Ces initiatives concernent aussi bien les tous petits ? avec une classe numérique ? que les professionnels aguerris avec des Master Class (Dev Camp, accélérateurs, etc). Comme elles sont nombreuses et foisonnantes, il nous a paru intéressant de faire un point récapitulatif. Commençons par les plus petits. Cette année, Microsoft v...

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• Another year of being a Microsoft MVP

  - by Vincent Maverick Durano

  Yes, Just got an email from Microsoft that I have been re-awarded as an ASP.NET/IIS Microsoft MVP for 2012. The last year for sure was very busy with projects and I’m glad I made it again and able to contribute to the ASP.NET community. It is really a big surprise to me! Wohooo!! =) I am looking forward to contribute more in the community. BIG thanks to Microsoft, my MVP Lead Lilian Quek, family, friends, readers, and everyone who has supported me!!!

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• Les Office Web Applications officiellement annoncées par Microsoft, la version gratuite en ligne d'O

  Mise à jour du 17/05/10 Les Office Web Applications officiellement annoncées par Microsoft La version gratuite en ligne d'Office 2010 concurrencera les Google Docs Le 15 juin prochain, la version gratuite en ligne de Word, Excel, PowerPoint et OneNote sera disponible pour tous. L'annonce vient d'être faite officiellement par Chris Capossela, cadre chez Microsoft, lors d'un gala à New-York la semaine dernière. Cette date correspond également au lancement de la suite complète en version desktop de Microsoft Office 2010. Pour accéder aux Office Web Apps, il faudra disposer d'un compte Windows Live et accepter la publicité....

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• Une variante de Kinect adaptée aux ordinateurs sortira en 2011, Asus remplacera Microsoft dans ce projet

  Une variante de Kinect adaptée aux ordinateurs sortira en 2011, Asus remplacera Microsoft dans ce projet PrimeSense. Ce nom ne vous dit rien ? Il s'agit de l'entreprise israélienne qui a vendu les technologies clés du Kinect à Microsoft. Cette dernière travaille actuellement au développement d'un appareil similaire pour les PC... mais sans Microsoft ! A la place, la compagnie a décidé de s'associer avec le fabriquant Asus, pour offrir dans les mois à venir une interface de contrôle gestuel pour les ordinateurs (qui fonctionnera d'ailleurs avec toutes les machines, et pas seulement celles d'Asus). Le produit répondra au nom de Wavi Xtion et ne sera pas axé vers les jeux, mais plutôt vers la navigation (...

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• IE10 : Microsoft dévoile les détails du navigateur dans Windows 8, tuiles de navigation, ergonomie et sécurité

  IE10 : Microsoft dévoile les détails du navigateur dans Windows 8 tuiles de navigation, ergonomie, support du tactile et améliorations de la sécurité Microsoft a publié depuis quelques semaines déjà la Consumer Preview de Windows 8 avec un nombre important de nouveaux composants. Parmi ceux-ci, figure la Platform Preview 5 d'Internet Explorer 10. Quoi de neuf pour la future version du navigateur dans cette mouture de l'OS ? C'est à cette question que répond Microsoft au travers du blog Windows 8, qui revient sur les améliorations et nouveautés d'IE 10 dans le système d'exploitation. La firme se concentre principalement sur la version Metro d'IE 10. Pour rappel IE 10 se décl...

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• Microsoft finalise Windows Server 2012 Essentials, l'OS serveur pour petites entreprises disponible gratuitement en version d'évaluation

  Windows Server 2012 Essentials sort en Release Candidate la version finale sera publiée avant la fin de l'année Microsoft vient d'annoncer la sortie de la Release Candidate de Windows Server 2012 Essentials. La version Essentials des systèmes d'exploitation serveur de Microsoft est destinée aux petites et moyennes entreprises, avec une limite de 25 utilisateurs et 50 appareils. Elle offre un accès facile au Cloud, mais ne dispose pas de fonctionnalités de virtualisation. Windows Server 2012 Essentials rationalise la gamme des produits serveur de Microsoft en direction des PME, qui s'est désolidarisé des éditions Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2011 et Windows Home Server....

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• La Cour refuse d'examiner l'appel demandé par Microsoft, dans l'affaire qui l'oppose à i4i

  Mise à jour du 02.03.2010 par Katleen La Cour refuse d'examiner l'appel demandé par Microsoft, dans l'affaire qui l'oppose à i4i La bataille semble en très mauvaise voie pour Microsoft. Suite à la condamnation que la firme a écoppé (voir news précédentes ci-dessous), elle avait fait appel auprès de la US Court of Appeals du circuit fédéral. Mais les 12 juges de cette Cour ont refusé de ré-entendre le cas. Ultime et dernier recours pour la firme de Redmond : la Court Suprême. Microsoft n'a pas encore annoncé si oui ou non il saisira cette option de la dernière chance. Pour l'instant, l'entreprise se dit juste non satisfaite du refus essuyé. Avant d'évoquer la possi...

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• Que pensez-vous de Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online ? Testez gratuitement pendant 30 jours la solution CRM de Microsoft et partagez votre opinion

  Que pensez-vous de Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online? Testez gratuitement pendant 30 jours la solution CRM Cloud de Microsoft et partagez votre opinion La CRM (Customer Relationship Management) se situe de nos jours comme un outil indispensable pour capter, traiter, analyser les informations relatives aux clients dans le but de les fidéliser. Parmi les solutions de CRM actuellement disponibles sur le marché, figure en bonne place Microsoft Dynamics CRM. [IMG]http://rdonfack.developpez.com/images/MicrosoftDynamicCRM.jpg[/IMG] Le service bénéficie des fonctionnalités de Cloud Computing, permettant un accès instantané à vos données, où que vous soyez, à partir d'u...

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• Windows Embedded Standard 7 est disponible, Microsoft l'a distribué aux OEMs

  Windows Embedded Standard 7 est disponible, Microsoft l'a distribué aux OEMs Microsoft vient d'annoncer la sortie de Windows Embedded Standard 7, qui intégrera Media Center (pour permettre aux fabricants de développer des produits comme des récepteurs numériques avec un contenu multimédia centralisé.) ainsi que des interfaces multimouvements tactiles et des applications context-aware avec Windows Touch. De plus, le système sera tourné vers le vert avec des API de management de puissance permettant de développer des solutions allant dans le sens de la green IT. Des analystes spécialisés estiment que les parts de marché potentielles pour Microsoft dans le domaine des médias digitaux (magnétoscopes numériques, TVs à écrans plats, etc....

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• Yahoo va migrer ses annonceurs vers l'adCenter de Microsoft, quels changements à venir pour les publ

  Mise à jour du 17.05.2010 par Katleen Yahoo va migrer ses annonceurs vers l'adCenter de Microsoft, quels changements à venir pour les publicitaires ? Dans le cadre de l'accord entre les deux firmes, Yahoo s'apprête à transférer ses annonceurs vers l'adCenter de Microsoft. Ce mouvement à venir provoque beaucoup de questionnements chez les professionnels, puisque les deux plateformes n'ont pas exactement les mêmes règles de fonctionnement. Alors, qu'est-ce qui va changer sous le commandement de Microsoft ? L'achat de mots clés relatifs à l'alcool, comme "whisky" ou "liqueur", sera-t-il toujours possible ? (ils sont actuellement int...

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• Good book about advanced programming techniques [closed]

  - by Luca

  I am looking to a book covering adavnced programming techniques, covering different practical scenarios and describing the different challanges with the relative solutions. As example, which are the best ways to implement a module for buying on a web application with credit card or how to manage responsivenes for the frontend of the web application itself (dealing with cache, optimeze plugins, etc). On the web there are tons of tutorials about these topics, but I am looking for a book where such cases are collected all together and treated by real professionists. If the book would provide some code samples, that would be a plus (especially if C# .NET), but I am more interested in the approach/solution rather than the code details. I could not find any of these cases in the general book about programming, therefore I hope someone might point me in the right direction. EDIT: I have 4 years experience as web developer, mainly with Microsoft (C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server) and client side technologies (jQuery, HTML/CSS).

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• New Microsoft Office Coming with a Twist

  On May 12 Microsoft will unveil the newest version of its popular Office line with the 2 1 edition. New York s NBC Studios will be the location for the special launch and this time around Microsoft is changing things up a bit. Although the May 12 launch is mostly just for business customers who wish to buy the product Office 2 1 will be available on a wider scale for other customers sometime this June. As for the change Microsoft will be introducing a new Office Web Apps version as well in an effort to roll with the changing technological climate.... Autodesk - Civil 3D - Transportation Accelerate Projects with Integrated Data Sources & Automatic Documentation.

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• Noob Rails ? about learning Rails

  - by user271916

  Hi All I have been programming for a while and for the past 3 or 4 months have been learning ruby. I am not an expert by any means but I believe I have the basics down. I decided to start learning RoR and bought the "Agile Web Development with Rails 3rd Edition" and have been dutifully going through the chapters one by one. Currently I am in chapter 8 and have had no problems so far. My question is I know I have learned several things so far and I know that I am starting to get a sense of the Rails framework I have this fear that I am just not learning as much as I should. Some things I get and understand the interconnections while I feel on other things I am just going through the motions and don't fully comprehend the total interconnectivity. Now, there is still a large amount of the book for me to complete. I guess I am just wondering if I complete this book what should I expect to be able to accomplish on my own and what should be my next steps. Thanks

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• How should I go about learning Python?

  - by user345690

  I am currently learning PHP and want to learn about OOP. *1.*I know Python is a well-organized and is all OOP, so would learning Python be a wise choose to learn OOP? The thing is I am more towards web development then just general programming, and I know Python is just a general purpose language, but there is Django. *2*So how should I go about learning Python if I am lending towards web development? Is there any good books/websites that help me learn Python for web development? 3. Is there any free webhosting companies that allow Python? I never used Python before, only PHP, and not sure how it works? Can I run Python on a localhost?

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• Best Advice Ever: Learn By Helping Others

  - by Argenis

  I remember when back in 2001 my friend and former SQL Server MVP Carlos Eduardo Rojas was busy earning his MVP street-cred in the NNTP forums, aka Newsgroups. I always thought he was playing the Sheriff trying to put some order in a Wild Wild West town by trying to understand what these people were asking. He spent a lot of time doing this stuff – and I thought it was just plain crazy. After all, he was doing it for free. What was he gaining from all of that work? It was not until the advent of Twitter and #SQLHelp that I realized the real gain behind helping others. Forget about the glory and the laurels of others thanking you (and thinking you’re the best thing ever – ha!), or whatever award with whatever three letter acronym might be given to you. It’s about what you learn in the process of helping others. See, when you teach something, it’s usually at a fixed date and time, and on a specific topic. But helping others with their issues or general questions is something that goes on 24x7, on whatever topic under the sun. Just go look at sites like DBA.StackExchange.com, or the SQLServerCentral forums. It’s questions coming in literally non-stop from all corners or the world. And yet a lot of people are willing to help you, regardless of who you are, where you come from, or what time of day it is. And in my case, this process of helping others usually leads to me learning something new. Especially in those cases where the question isn’t really something I’m good at. The delicate part comes when you’re ready to give an answer, but you’re not sure. Often times I’ll try to validate with Internet searches and what have you. Often times I’ll throw in a question mark at the end of the answer, so as not to look authoritative, but rather suggestive. But as time passes by, you get more and more comfortable with that topic. And that’s the real gain.  I have done this for many years now on #SQLHelp, which is my preferred vehicle for providing assistance. I cannot tell you how much I’ve learned from it. By helping others, by watching others help. It’s all knowledge and experience you gain…and you might not be getting all that in your day job today. Such thing, my dear reader, is invaluable. It’s what will differentiate yours amongst a pack of resumes. It’s what will get you places. Take it from me - a guy who, like you, knew nothing about SQL Server.

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• How do you take into account usability and user requirements for your application?

  - by voroninp

  Our team supports BackOffice application: a mix of WinForm and WPF windows. (about 80 including dialogs). Really a kind of a Swiss Army Knife. It is used by developers, tech writers, security developers, testers. The requirements for new features come quite often and sometimes we play Wizard of Oz to decide which GUI our users like the most. And it usually happens (I admit it can be just my subjective interpretation of the reality) that one tiny detail giving the flavor of good usability to our app requires a lot of time. This time is being spent on 'fighting' with GUI framework making it act like we need. And it very difficult to make estimations for this type of tasks (at least for me and most members of our team). Scrum poker is not a help either. Management often considers this usability perfectionism to be a waste of time. On the other hand an accumulated affect of features where each has some little usability flaw frustrates users. But the same users want frequent releases and instant bug fixes. Hence, no way to get the positive feedback: there is always somebody who is snuffy. I constantly feel myself as competing with ourselves: more features - more bugs/tasks/architecture. We are trying to outrun the cart we are pushing. New technologies arrive and some of them can potentially help to improve the design or decrease task implementation time but these technologies require learning, prototyping and so on. Well, that was a story. And now is the question: How do you balance between time pressure, product quality, users and management satisfaction? When and how do you decide to leave the problem with not a perfect but to some extent acceptable solution, how often do you make these decisions? How do you do with your own satisfaction? What are your priorities? P.S. Please keep in mind, we are a BackOffice team, we have neither dedicated technical writer nor GUI designer. The tester have joined us recently. We've much work to do and much freedom concerning 'how'. I like it because it fosters creativity but I don't want to become too nerdy perfectionist.

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• What's the lowest cost, legal, Microsoft server stack you can assemble?

  - by McKAMEY

  Assuming that you have an app infrastructure that generally only requires: ASP.NET MVC / C# / .NET Database or NoSQL data store (must be accessible from C#) Here's the challenge to you server gods: What is the least expensive configuration that will allow you to deploy to production in a way that doesn't break any licensing rules? In what ways does this solution differ from the "standard" Microsoft deployment scenario? Where does this solution's performance break down once the app begins to scale? I'm not concerned about the hardware, only the server software itself. I would love to hear about any solutions you've personally put into production. Especially if they are unique alternatives. For ideas, consider some of the possible variations, a) any Microsoft server solutions where they have lowered the barrier to entry to compete with OSS, or b) any OSS alternatives to Microsoft products which perform at a similar level. An example of a): SQL Server 2008 Express Edition SP1 is a 100% free version of SQL Server which will scale to the needs of many smaller / early stage applications. An example of b): running the Mono Framework on Linux. An example of differing from the "standard" stack: running Mono on Linux will require a completely different server OS familiarity. None of the Windows-based knowledge really transfers. An example of breaking down under scale: SQL Server Express will only scale to 1GB of memory and 4GB of disk storage. After that point, the application will need to move to one of the paid versions of SQL Server.

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• Overview of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor

  - by Akshay Deep Lamba

  Problem Like most organizations, we are planning to upgrade our database server from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008. I would like to know is there an easy way to know in advance what kind of issues one may encounter when upgrading to a newer version of SQL Server? One way of doing this is to use the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor to plan for upgrades from SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005. In this tip we will take a look at how one can use the SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor to identify potential issues before the upgrade. Solution SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor is a free tool designed by Microsoft to identify potential issues before upgrading your environment to a newer version of SQL Server. Below are prerequisites which need to be installed before installing the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor. Prerequisites for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor .Net Framework 2.0 or a higher version Windows Installer 4.5 or a higher version Windows Server 2003 SP 1 or a higher version, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP SP2 or a higher version, Windows Vista Download SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor You can download SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor from the following link. Once you have successfully installed Upgrade Advisor follow the below steps to see how you can use this tool to identify potential issues before upgrading your environment. 1. Click Start -> Programs -> Microsoft SQL Server 2008 -> SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor. 2. Click Launch Upgrade Advisor Analysis Wizard as highlighted below to open the wizard. 2. On the wizard welcome screen click Next to continue. 3. In SQL Server Components screen, enter the Server Name and click the Detect button to identify components which need to be analyzed and then click Next to continue with the wizard. 4. In Connection Parameters screen choose Instance Name, Authentication and then click Next to continue with the wizard. 5. In SQL Server Parameters wizard screen select the Databases which you want to analysis, trace files if any and SQL batch files if any.  Then click Next to continue with the wizard. 6. In Reporting Services Parameters screen you can specify the Reporting Server Instance name and then click next to continue with the wizard. 7. In Analysis Services Parameters screen you can specify an Analysis Server Instance name and then click Next to continue with the wizard. 8. In Confirm Upgrade Advisor Settings screen you will be able to see a quick summary of the options which you have selected so far. Click Run to start the analysis. 9. In Upgrade Advisor Progress screen you will be able to see the progress of the analysis. Basically, the upgrade advisor runs predefined rules which will help to identify potential issues that can affect your environment once you upgrade your server from a lower version of SQL Server to SQL Server 2008. 10. In the below snippet you can see that Upgrade Advisor has completed the analysis of SQL Server, Analysis Services and Reporting Services. To see the output click the Launch Report button at the bottom of the wizard screen. 11. In View Report screen you can see a summary of issues which can affect you once you upgrade. To learn more about each issue you can expand the issue and read the detailed description as shown in the below snippet.

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• ASP.NET AJAX Modal Popup on Mouse Over

  - by Latest Microsoft Blogs

  Today’s customer question concerns client side predicates for showing a Modal Popup control. I’m happy to be getting these kind of questions because it shows how ASP.NET developers are continuing to evolve their web development perspective and separate Read More......(read more)

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• Microsoft Channel 9 Interviews Mei Liang to Introduce Sample Browser Extension for Visual Studio 2012 and 2010

  - by Jialiang

  This morning, Microsoft Channel 9 interviewed Mei Liang - Group Manager of Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework - to introduce the newest Sample Browser extension for Visual Studio 2012 &2010.   This extension provides a way for developers to search and download more than 4500 code samples from within Visual Studio, including over 700 Windows 8 samples and more than 1000 All-In-One Code Framework customer-driven code samples. Mei shows us not only the extension, but also the standalone version of the Sample Browser.   http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Sample-Browser-Visual-Studio-Extension   Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework, working in close partnership with the Visual Studio product team and MSDN Samples Gallery, developed the Sample Browser extension for both Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2010.  As an effort to evolve the code sample use experience and improve developers' productivity, the Sample Browser allows programmers to search, download and open over 4500 code samples from within Visual Studio with just a few simple clicks.  If no existing code sample can meet the needs, developers can even request a code sample easily from Microsoft thanks to the free “Sample Request Service” offered by Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework.  Through innovations, the teams hope to put the power of tens of thousands of code samples at developers’ fingertips. In short 3 months, the Sample Browser Visual Studio Extension has been installed by 100K global users.  It is also selected as one of the six most highly regarded and commonly used tools for Visual Studio that will make your programming experience feel like never before.   Got to love the All-In-One Code Framework team! You guys know this is THE go to source for code samples. Get this extension and you'll never need to leave VS2012 (well except for bathroom trips, but that's TMI anyway... ;) Read More... From: Greg Duncan (Author of CoolThingOfTheDay) 9/6/2011 12:00 AM The one software design pattern that I have used in just about every application I’ve written is “cut-and-paste,” so the new “Sample Browser” – read sample as a noun not an adjective – is a great boon to my productivity. Read More... From: Jim O'Neil (Microsoft Developer Evangelist) 9/28/2011 12:00 AM Install: http://aka.ms/samplebrowservsx Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework also offers the standalone version of Sample Browser.   The standalone version is particularly useful to Visual Studio Express edition or Visual Studio 2008 users, who cannot install the Sample Browser Visual Studio extension.   From Grassroots’ Passion for Developers to the Innovation of Sample Browser This Sample Browser has come a very long way improving the code sample use experience.  The history can be traced back to a grass-root innovation three years ago.   In early 2009, a few MSDN forum support engineers observed that lots of developers were struggling to work in Visual Studio without adequate code samples. Programming tasks seem harder than they should be when you only read through the documentation.  Just a couple of lines of sample code could answer a lot of questions.   They had a brilliant idea: What if we produce code samples based on developers’ frequently asked programming tasks in forums, social networks and support incidents, and then aggregate all our sample code in a one-stop library to benefit developers?  And what if developers can request code samples directly from Microsoft, free of charge?  This small group of grassroots at Microsoft devoted their nights and weekends to prototyping such a customer-driven code sample library.  This simple idea eventually turned into “Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework”, aka. OneCode.  With the support from more and more passionate developers at Microsoft and the leaders in the Community and Online Support team and Microsoft Commercial Technical Services (CTS), the idea has become a continually growing library with over 1000 customer-driven code samples covering almost all Microsoft development technologies.  These code samples originated from developers’ common pains and needs should be able to help many developers.  However, if developers cannot easily discover the code samples, the effort would still be in vain.  So in early 2010, the team started the idea of Sample Browser to ease the discovery and access of these samples.  In just two months, the first version of Sample Browser was finished and released by a passionate developer.  It was a very simple application, only supporting the basic sample offline search.  Users had to download the whole 100MB sample package containing all samples first, and run the Sample Browser to search locally.   Though developers could not search and download samples on-demand, this simple application laid a solid foundation for the team’s continuous innovations of Sample Browsing experience. In 2011, MSDN Samples Gallery had a big refresh.  The online sample experience was brought to a new level thanks to its PM Steven Wilssens and the gallery team’s effort.  Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework Team saw the opportunity to realize the “on-demand” sample search and download feature with the new gallery.  The two teams formed a strong partnership to upload all the customer-driven code samples to MSDN Samples Gallery, and released the new version of Sample Browser to support “on-demand” sample downloading in April, 2011.  Mei Liang, the Group Manager of Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework, was interviewed by Channel 9 to demo the Sample Browser.  Customers love the effort and the innovation!!  This can be clearly seen from the user comments in the publishing page.   It was very encouraging to the team of All-In-One Code Framework. The team continues innovating and evolving the Sample Browser.  They found the Visual Studio product team this time, and integrated the Sample Browsing experience into the latest Visual Studio 2012.  The newly released Sample Browser Visual Studio extension makes good use of Visual Studio 2012 IDE such as the new Quick Launch bar, the code editor, the toolbar and menus to offer easy access to thousands of code samples from within the development environment.   The Visual Studio Senior Program Manager Lead - Anthony Cangialosi, the Program Manager - Murali Krishna Hosabettu Kamalesha, the MSDN Samples Gallery PM – Steven Wilssens, and the Visual Studio Senior Escalation Engineer - Ed Dore shared lots of insightful suggestions with the team.  Thanks to the brilliant cross-group collaboration inside Microsoft, tens of new features including “Local Language Support” and “Favorite Samples”, as well as a face-lifted user interface, were added to further enhance the user experience. Since the new Sample Browser Visual Studio extension was released, it has received over 100 thousand downloads and five-star ratings.  A customer told the team that he officially falls in LOVE with Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework.   The Sample Browser Innovation for Developers Never Stops! The teams would never stop improving the Sample Browser for developers’ easier lives.   The Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework, Visual Studio and MSDN Samples Gallery teams are working closely to develop the next version of Sample Browser.  Here are the key functions in development or in discussion.  We hope to learn your feedback of the effort.  You can submit your suggestions to the official Visual Studio UserVoice site.  We look forward to hearing from you! 1) Offline Sample Search This is one of the top feature requests that we have received for Sample Browser.   The Sample Browser will support the offline search mode so that developers can search downloaded code samples when they do not have internet access.  This is particularly useful to developers in Enterprises with strict proxy settings. 2) Code Snippet Support and Visual Studio Editor Integration Today, the Sample Browser supports downloading and opening sample project.   However, when developers are searching for code samples, a better user experience would be to see the code snippets in the search result first.  Developers can quickly decide if the code snippet is relevant.   They can also drag and drop the code snippet into the Visual Studio Editor to solve some simple programming tasks.  If developers want to learn more about the sample, they can then choose to download the sample project and open it in Visual Studio. 3) Enterprise Sample Sharing and Searching Large enterprises have many code samples for their own internal tools and APIs that are not appropriate to be shared publicly in MSDN Samples Gallery.   In that case, today’s Sample Browser and MSDN Samples Gallery cannot help these Enterprise developers.  The idea is to create a Code Sample Repository in TFS, and provide an additional Visual Studio extension for Enterprise developers to quickly share code samples to TFS.  The Sample Browser can be configured to connect to the TFS Code Sample Repository to search for and download code samples.  This would potentially enable the Enterprise developers to be more productive. 4) Windows Store Sample Browser With the upcoming release of Windows RT and Microsoft Surface, developers are facing a completely new world of application platform.   Not like laptop, people would often use Microsoft Surface in commute and in travel.  Internet may not be available.  Today’s Visual Studio cannot be installed and run on Windows RT, however, our enthusiastic developers would hope to spend every minute on code.  They love code!   The idea is to create a Windows Store version of Sample Browser. Search and download samples from the online Samples Gallery when the user has internet access. Browse the sample code files and learn the sample documentation of downloaded samples with or without internet access.   In addition to the "browse” function, the Sample Browser could further support “bookmark”, “learning notes”, “code review”, and “quick social sharing". Make full use of the new touch and Windows Store App UI to give developers a new “relaxing” code browsing and learning experience, anytime, anywhere. With Windows Store Sample Browser, developers can enjoy A new relaxing and enjoyable experience for developers to learn code samples You do not have to sit in front of desk and formally open Visual Studio to read code samples.  Many developers get sub-health due to staying in front of desk for a very long time.  With Windows RT, Microsoft Surface and this Windows Store Sample Browser combining with the online MSDN Samples Gallery, developers can sit in a sofa, relaxingly hold the tablet and enjoy to learn their beloved sample code with detailed documentation. Anytime, anywhere Whether you have internet access or not, whether you are at home, in office, or in commute/airplane, developers can always easily access and browse the sample code. Lightweight and fast Particularly for learning a small sample project, the Windows Store Sample Browser would be more lightweight and faster to open and browse the sample code. Please submit your feedback and suggestion to Visual Studio UserVoice.  We look forward to hearing from you and deliver a better and better sample use experience.  Happy Coding!   Special Thanks to People working behind the latest release of Sample Browser Visual Studio Extension and the great partnerships!

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