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• BrowserSwarm Testing Tool

  Developed in collaboration with AppendTo and Sauce Labs, BrowserSwarm is powered through the cloud, allowing developers to save time setting up multiple browser or device testing environments and precious server resources, Microsoft said.

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• Visual Studio 2013– New and Improved

  Visual Studio 2013 is new and improved.

  Visual Studio 2013 provides support for Windows 8.1 App development.

  It includes features to make it easier to develop across all Visual Studio languages and platforms:  tools, controls and templates, new Coded UI test support for XAML apps, UI Responsiveness Analyzer and Energy Consumption profiler for XAML & HTML apps, enhanced memory profiling tools for HTML apps, and improved integration with the Windows Store.

  Blend for XAML has been enhanced with significant new capabilities for Windows Store app design. Blend includes the addition of rulers and custom guides for more precise content layout as well as improved styling capabilities. Blend for HTML also inherits these enhancements and adds specific new capabilities for building Windows Store apps with HTML, such as the new timeline for animating changes in CSS.

  Visual Studio 2013’s One ASP.Net unifies your web project experience so that you can create ASP.NET web applications using your preference of ASP.NET component frameworks in a single project. This new unified experience includes the ability to easily create hybrid applications that include improved versions of ASP.NET WebForms, MVC or Web API, all in a single project. Now you can mix and match the right tools for the job within your web projects, giving you increased flexibility and productivity when developing for the web.

  ‘Browser Link’ syncs HTML and CSS changes in Visual Studio with one or more open browsers‘Browser Link’ allows you to connect Visual Studio 2012 to one or more open browsers.

• VB RSS Feed Aggregator

  A RSS feed aggregator aggregates syndicated web content such as online newspapers, blogs, podcasts, and video blogs (vlogs) for various purposes e.g. to provide one location for easy viewing.

  The VB module provides a code sample for one way you can create a RSS feed aggregator with VisualBasic.

  Module Module1
      Const feedUrl As String = "http://+:8086/VBfeeds/"
  
  
      Sub Main()
          Dim listener As New HttpListener
  
          listener.Prefixes.Add(feedUrl)
          listener.Start()
  
          'Open a browser pointing at the feeds being served.
          System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("iexplore.exe", "http://localhost:8086/VBfeeds/")
  
          'Serve requests.
          While True
              Dim context As HttpListenerContext = listener.GetContext()
              Dim body As XElement = GetReplyBody()
              context.Response.ContentType = "text/xml"
  
              Using writer As XmlWriter = New XmlTextWriter(context.Response.OutputStream, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8)
                  body.WriteTo(writer)
              End Using
          End While
  
      End Sub
  
      Function GetReplyBody() As XElement
          Dim feeds() As String = {"http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/rss.aspx?Tags=VB6_5F00_Migration_2F00_
                                   "http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdata/rss.xml", _
                                   "http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/rss.aspx?Tags=IDE&AndTags=1"}
  
          Return 
                     
                         
                         http://+:8086/VBfeeds/
                         VB Team Members
                         XLinq-based RSS aggregator using VB Only Super Cool XML Literals Feature
                         
                     
                 
      End Function
  End Module

• IE11 Real-world Performance

  The W3C Web Performance working group has standardized the Navigation Timing, Resource Timing, User Timing, and Performance Timeline interfaces to help you understand the real-world performance of navigating, fetching resources, and running scripts in your Web application.

  The interfaces are supported in IE11.

  Read more here.

• Windows 8.1 Back Button

  Windows 8.1 includes the new Back button control. The BackButton provides a way for you to add backward navigation to your app.

  
  <button data-win-control="WinJS.UI.BackButton" >button>

  You don't have to write any code.  The BackButton automatically checks the navigation stack to determine whether the user can navigate backwards. If there is nothing to navigate back to, the button disables itself. When the user clicks the button or uses keyboard shortcuts (such as Alt+Left or the BrowserBack keys), it automatically calls the WinJS.Navigation.back function to navigate backwards.