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Microsoft Launches Windows QuickStart Kit For Mac Developers

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Re: Microsoft Launches Windows QuickStart Kit For Mac Developers

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Post by Aloisius »

Livven wrote: post #16
lanthe wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just do us a favor and don't paste this on any deal sites, or Microsoft will make us turn this off. Only for developers!

There's a very strong hint on the site. If you're a developer you should be able to figure it out easily, if you're not a developer you probably won't know how to "remove the disabled attribute" anyway ;)

It is easy enough to write a small bookmarklet that anyone can paste into the window to flip off the disabled field. Once that gets into the wild, I can't imagine this offer will last.

Re: Microsoft Launches Windows QuickStart Kit For Mac Developers

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Post by Wonderdonkey »

Scramblejams wrote: post #36
Tomdarkness wrote: post #10

Every time I submit the order I just get a javascript alert with "something went wrong :(" No idea if the order went through or not... Edit: Got an order confirmation via email. However, I really think when you are dealing with payments you should implement a more detailed explanation than a javascript alert of "something went wrong"

Hmm, got the same error, but no confirmation email. :( indeed!

Same here. Did it three times, each time with the same error. No confirmation e-mail.

Re: Microsoft Launches Windows QuickStart Kit For Mac Developers

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Post by 2_ghosts »

My checkout experience:

Enabled the button, clicked it, nothing happened. Looked in Firebug at the Network console, saw a failure come back from the 'Pay' step.

Triple-checked my payment info, clicked the button once more. 25-30 seconds later, I got two consecutive "Something went wrong" javascript alerts. A minute or so later, I got two confirmation emails, lacking any useful details. I'm guessing I was charged twice.

Once it is possible to log into the site, I will see what my order status says. Right now /login continues to time-out.

Re: Microsoft Launches Windows QuickStart Kit For Mac Developers

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Post by ja27 »

Besides building Windows 8 apps, I think you can even build Windows Phone 8 apps with this. It looks like Parallels now has support for all the virtualization / SLAT stuff that the WP8 emulator needs. (VMWare Fusion 5 has this as well.)

http://kb.parallels.com/en/115211

Re: Microsoft Launches Windows QuickStart Kit For Mac Developers

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Post by raeliu »

geekbri wrote: post #7

A more direct link to the page to get the kit https://swish.com/swish-frontend/views/buy-devkit.html?p=dev...

Much thanks for the link. Although I also got a "something went wrong" javascript pop up, I managed to submit the order successfully by re-enable the submit button and resubmit it.

Re: Microsoft Launches Windows QuickStart Kit For Mac Developers

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Post by jefflinwood »

2_ghosts wrote: post #43

My checkout experience: Enabled the button, clicked it, nothing happened. Looked in Firebug at the Network console, saw a failure come back from the 'Pay' step. Triple-checked my payment info, clicked the button once more. 25-30 seconds later, I got two consecutive "Something went wrong" javascript alerts. A minute or so later, I got two confirmation emails, lacking any useful details. I'm guessing I was charged twic…

Just did something similar, saw that I was getting an SSL Error in Safari from their JSONP Callback on https://swish.com/swish-backend/..., opened that link in another Safari window and it appeared to go through.

I have one pending charge on my credit card, not sure if anything else will go through, but I did end up getting an order confirmation.

Maybe whatever they're using to route SSL traffic through is falling over?

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