August updates for Internet Explorer
The August update for Internet Explorer includes updates to the WebGL and F12 features, in addition to the latest security updates. As discussed on the Windows blog, we’ll continue to use our existing...
View ArticleAuditing Media Assets Lifecycle – Part 3
Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog focused on enabling you to create an asset audit report that shows when Media Assets were created, deleted and copied to media processing VMs. In Part 3, I will cover how...
View ArticleAnnouncing general availability of Mobile Services .NET support
We are proud this week to announce general availability of the Mobile Services .NET backend, which enables you to write your services using the power of ASP.NET Web API and your favorite .NET language....
View ArticleOpportunity: Target Windows with your Unity Games. Hands-on training and...
If you are a game developer today, you know how critical Unity is; the Unity toolset and cross-platform game engine is used by developers to build some of the most compelling games being released...
View ArticleNew: Configurable Idle Timeout for Azure Load Balancer
We are happy to announce that Azure Load Balancer now supports configurable TCP Idle timeout for your Cloud Services and Virtual Machines. This feature can be configured using the Service Management...
View ArticleResetting Expectations – What Business Today Needs To Learn
Today’s new businesses have much in common with their older counterparts. The need to acquire new leads, drive revenue, market their product or service. The need to manage overhead, do more with less...
View ArticleAnnouncing new F12 dev tools features in August update
Today we’re excited to share all the F12 features that shipped in the August update to IE11!In April, we shipped a swath of new features of F12 Developer Tools in Internet Explorer 11 focusing on...
View ArticleIntroduction to Azure Backup
Azure Backup is a part of Azure Recovery Services and provides simple and reliable ways to manage and protect data to Azure in a secure and efficient setting. Azure Backup offers bottomless storage and...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Release Candidates for Web API OData 5.3
The release candidate NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web API OData 5.3 are now live on the NuGet gallery!Download this releaseYou can install or update the release candidate NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Release Candidates for Web API OData 5.3
The release candidate NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web API OData 5.3 are now live on the NuGet gallery!Download this releaseYou can install or update the release candidate NuGet packages for ASP.NET Web...
View ArticleStakeholder license is live
About 6 weeks ago, I announced a plan to make some licensing changes to VS Online and Team Foundation Server that would make it easier for more people to participate in the development process. A few...
View ArticleVisual Studio Online - Stakeholder License
As more and more developer scenarios extend from the desktop to the cloud, we announced last year a new collection of hosted developer services as part of Visual Studio Online. These services...
View ArticleToronto-based developer will leverage Windows 8.1 features to more deeply...
Onome Igharoro is a co-founder of Toronto-based Sterling Games Inc., which makes the hugely successful Xtreme Joyride game. After two years of publishing their games on Windows platforms, Onome and his...
View ArticleAzure Automation: Authenticating to Azure using Azure Active Directory
If you’re a user of Azure Automation, you already know how useful it can be for automating manual, long running, frequently repeated, and error prone tasks that keep your cloud services up and running....
View ArticleStakeholder licensing – Aug 27
A license for StakeholdersWe’re delivering on the new “stakeholder license” that I promised a few weeks ago. With this license, being activated today, any number of users in an account can be assigned...
View ArticleHow to plan your migration to Azure Websites
Migrating to a cloud platform can be a daunting task. There are some key things to consider when using Azure Websites as your hosting solution. This section will showcase the what you need know about...
View ArticleFree and unlimited project stakeholders, and organizational accounts for...
Was just going through my email and noticed the announcement for two new features for Visual Studio Online: **************** Invite stakeholders to a project to keep them informed on what's happening...
View ArticleWeb Spam Filtering
As I mentioned in the July 15 blog introducing Bing Index Quality, one of the key dimensions of our work is web spam detection and filtering. The overview of our approach to this complex problem will...
View ArticleHow we’re addressing misleading apps in Windows Store
As Windows Store expands to reach more customers in more markets with a growing list of great titles, we are continuously looking for ways to improve both customer experience and developer opportunity....
View ArticleHow to purchase VS Online
Brian Keller interviewed James Rice (he's on our business team) for Channel 9 about how to purchase Visual Studio Online. This may clear up any uncertainty you have.http://aka.ms/HowToBuyVSO Brian
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