Introducing Win2D: GPU accelerated 2D graphics programming in the Windows...
This blog was written by Shawn Hargreaves, Principal Dev Lead at Microsoft.Today I’d like to share some information about work we are doing to make hardware accelerated 2D graphics APIs available to C#...
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Meet XiaoIce, Cortana’s Little Sister
Last month, we announced the expansion of Windows Phone 8.1 with Cortana to China (nicknamed “Xiao Na”). As you can read about here, the team did a tremendous amount of work to tailor the experience...
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It’s Fantasy Football Season…on Windows Phone!
It’s Fantasy Football Season…on Windows Phone!This is the time of year when football fans really start to get revved up for (American) football. Whether it involves going to a game, hosting a party at...
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Making the web “just work” with any input: Mouse, Touch, and Pointer Events
We recently announced support for the Touch Event API in Internet Explorer for Windows Phone 8.1 Update as a part of our commitment to make the Web “just work” for our users. This means IE now supports...
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Announcing the 0.5.0-beta preview of Microsoft Azure WebJobs SDK
We are releasing another preview of the Microsoft Azure WebJobs SDK, which was introduced by Scott Hanselman. To read more about the previous preview, read this announcement post.This release has the...
View ArticleManaging Concurrency in Microsoft Azure Storage
Modern Internet based applications usually have multiple users viewing and updating data simultaneously. This requires application developers to think carefully about how to provide a predictable...
View ArticleExtend your App Studio app’s reach with Azure Mobile Services
Windows App Studio Beta allows you to download your complete source code package to be edited in Visual Studio, providing countless opportunities for the types of apps that can be built. Adding Azure...
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On C++ AMP Remappable Shader
This blog post describes C++ AMP remappable shader feature and the changes that it brings to the compilation/execution model in Visual Studio 2014. This feature improves C++ AMP code compilation speed...
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Don't Check Your Email in the Morning
In my productivity talk "How to Scale Yourself and Get More Done Than You Thought Possible" I include a challenge to the listener. It's kind of insane, but it's actually proven very useful to me when I...
View ArticleEverything You Ever Wanted to Know About Data Protection and More
Your data in Azure benefits from multiple layers of security technologies, operational practices, and compliance policies in order to enforce data privacy and integrity. A new white paper provides...
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September 2014 .NET Security Updates
The .NET team released a security bulletin and a security advisory today as part of the monthly “patch Tuesday” cycle. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-053 - Important, Vulnerabilities in .NET...
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Farewell, EnableViewStateMac!
The ASP.NET team is making an important announcement regarding the September 2014 security updates.All versions of the ASP.NET runtime 1.1 - 4.5.2 now forbid setting <%@ Page...
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VSTO Runtime Update to Address Premature WPF UI Thread Shutdown
In the VSTO Runtime released a month and a half ago (version 10.0.50701), a small regression was inadvertently introduced, which is fixed in today’s update to the runtime.The issue impacts add-ins that...
View ArticleSearch Faster on the Latest iPhone with Bing
Today, Apple unveiled the latest incarnation of the iPhone.Underscoring Bing’s increasingly important role as a service layer across Microsoft and beyond, we’re excited to support the release as Bing...
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September 2014 updates for Internet Explorer
The September update for Internet Explorer is focused on bringing the latest security updates to our users:Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-052 - This critical security update resolves one publicly...
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Writing a Site Extension for Azure Websites
The Azure Websites site extension feature allows developers to essentially write “apps” that can be run on an Azure Website to add administrative functionality to it. These extensions can also be...
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Announcing Microsoft.AspNet.Facebook 1.1 beta
This past June we released the first version of the Microsoft.AspNet.Facebook NuGet package and the corresponding Visual Studio template. Today we released an update to this package:...
View ArticleURL Keyword Stuffing Spam Filtering
As we alluded to in last week’s Index Quality blog, today’s update will focus on one specific spam filtering mechanism we rolled out a few months ago that targets a common spam technique known as URL...
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How to Export Data to Microsoft Word with the LightSwitch HTML Client – Part...
In the previous articles, we have covered how to add a web controller to the Server project that can route requests and allow use to generate a Word document with record details using OpenXml and...
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Get Around Town Faster with Bing Maps Preview App
Let’s face it. Sometimes using public transportation can be a bit nerve wracking. Am I taking the fastest route? Will I miss my bus? How long will it take me walk to the nearest subway stop? This is...
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