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Jason Zander
Corporate Vice President
Windows Phone 7 Useful Links for Tile Push Notifications
Thursday, Dec 23

Doug Turnure
Principal Program Manager
Giving feedback on Visual Studio - some best practices
Wednesday, Dec 22

Willy-Peter Schaub
Solution Architect
Going AWOL and heading North … see you on December 27th
Friday, Dec 17

Buck Hodges
Principal Development Manager
Join the TFS development team and help shape the industry
Thursday, Dec 16

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So now that I am using a #WP7 lib I am not able to get #VisualStudio to generate Unit Test :-\ I probably should start simpler.
Friday, Dec 24 by codebum@twitter.com (Jesse Freeman)
Nice, here is a Git plugin for #VisualStudio http://bit.ly/igN4en
Friday, Dec 24 by codebum@twitter.com (Jesse Freeman)
#MSDN Forum-Thread: Don't understand how VisualStudio formats my code http://bit.ly/eINnUN #VisualStudio #VS
Friday, Dec 24 by MSDN_Foren@twitter.com (MSDN Forum Germany)
RT @fpscomponents: A post about licenses.licx common issue met by .NET developers with using #VisualStudio http://fpscomponents.com/KB/licx-file-license.aspx
Friday, Dec 24 by freezepro@twitter.com (Oleh Mykhaylovych)
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