Monitoring your existing Applications
Sometimes you want to monitor a web application that’s already installed and running – without updating the code or redeploying it. Maybe it has some kind of performance issues or is throwing...
View ArticleHackathon with Kubernetes on Azure
Microsoft recently held its first company-wide hackathon, where we created a new visualizer tool for Kubernetes deployment on Azure. Alongside today’s announcement that Kubernetes can be used to manage...
View Article헬로우 월드 (Hello, World)
In October 2012, I was sent on a mission to get coverage for Korea in Bing Maps. And, let me tell you…it was not easy. When I started my mission, our maps looked a little something like this:Having...
View ArticleUsing Visual Studio 2010 for C++ Development? We want to talk!
This has been the Summer of Surveys for the Visual C++ team. We love surveys because they give us a chance to talk to a bunch of real-world customers and community members about their development...
View ArticleUse Bing Rewards, Get Free 2 Day Shipping from Microsoft Store
Looking for an Xbox One or a new all-in-one PC? How about a Surface 3 or an HTC One? We’re teaming with the Microsoft Store to make that easier. Starting today and running through November 1st,...
View ArticleAzure Search Scenarios and Capabilities
To follow up on the announcement of Azure Search last week, I wanted to take a minute to give a bit of framing on why we built Azure Search and how we picked its current capabilities.ContextMany...
View ArticleUsing WCF in .NET Native
This post was authored by Ron Cain, a Software Development Engineer on the WCF team.In our previous post, we mentioned that some of the client components of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) had...
View ArticleASP.NET vNext - August 2014 Status Rollup
Work on the next version of ASP.NET continues. It's a world of Alpha software, Git commits, breaking changes, and daily builds. If you're not one for risk, this blog post is for you. Read about all the...
View ArticleAzure SQL Database Geo-Restore
This post continues our series on the Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery (BCDR) capabilities of Azure SQL Database and will discuss the geo-restore feature.Geo-restore in detailIn the previous post...
View ArticleApplication Insights SDK (0.10.0-prerelease)
What is it? Application Insights SDK lets you send telemetry to the Application Insights portal, where you can find out what users are doing with your application.0.10.0 is the latest SDK release for...
View ArticleLightSwitch Community and Content Rollup – August 2014
Notable Content this MonthWith the close of summer, the LightSwitch community has been cranking out useful content. We have several articles and even a new extension and a new sample for this month’s...
View ArticleNetworking Infrastructure Setup for Microsoft Azure as a Disaster Recovery Site
Azure Site Recovery (ASR) allows Microsoft Azure to be used as a disaster recovery site for your virtual machines. You can read up on the blog from Brad Anderson about announcement of preview of...
View ArticleScratch and Win Over 5,000 Prizes with Bing Rewards
Bing Rewards is now offering yet another way to use your credits and turn them into fabulous prizes with a new Scratch & Win game. For 3 credits, you get a chance to ‘scratch’ and win an Xbox One,...
View ArticleIntroducing Microsoft Migration Accelerator
I’m excited to announce the limited preview of the Migration Accelerator (MA), for Azure. Spawned from the technology of our InMage acquisition the MA is designed to seamlessly migrate physical,...
View ArticleThe Art of IntelliSense: Three ways to use IntelliSense with Bing Maps APIs
Do you find that you spend more time digging through documentation trying to figure out what properties do rather than spending time building great apps? IntelliSense can help.A few weeks ago, someone...
View ArticleVisual Studio Online Update – Sept 4th
We’ve recently started bring some larger Microsoft teams into VS Online. That has been a very enlightening experience. It has particularly highlighted issues with fit and finish for high bandwidth...
View ArticleCan you hear me now? Unmute your microphone
I've been working remotely now, from home, for over half a decade. I work in my home office, from cafes, from my tethered mobile, basically anywhere I can be productive and not feel like a phony.Here's...
View ArticleGPU Usage tool in Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 CTP1
After shipping a number of improvements to Graphics Diagnostics in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RC , the team has been working to bring you more profiling tools for DirectX applications. In Visual...
View Article[Announcement] ODataLib 6.7.0 Release
We are happy to announce that the ODL 6.7.0 is released and available on NuGet. Detailed release notes are listed below:New FeaturesEdmLib supports a list of additional core vocabulary terms -...
View ArticleSimplifying working with Azure Notification Hubs
Close to 97% of Service Bus namespaces today have either a Notification Hub or one of the messaging entities (Queue, Topic, Relay or Event Hub) in it and very rarely both together. In order to simplify...
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