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Finding show times and theater for a movie you want to see is easy on Bing. Simply type in the movie and voila, we will display the information right in the search results. But what about those...
View ArticleMobile Services Beta iOS SDK Released
We’ve just released a new beta version of the iOS offline SDK, which adds support for accessing Table Storage when using a .NET backend Mobile Service.In order to add this support, we made a minor...
View ArticleConsole Improvements in the Windows 10 Technical Preview
This post was written by Rich Eizenhoefer, a Program Manager in the Microsoft Developer Tools and Runtimes team.I have some good news about the Windows command line console, conhost.exe. In this blog...
View ArticleWhere can you meet the team? November 2014 at AngleBrackets and TechEd
We on the Web Tools team love hanging out with the community. We thought it would be cool to start sharing exactly where we will be and what conferences or user groups you can join us at!The .NET...
View ArticleIntroducing the Azure Automation Runbook Gallery
Creating polished Azure Automation runbook solutions to automate your Cloud OS processes can take time to perfect, and may feel a bit intimidating at first. Now the time it takes to create functional,...
View ArticleMGC Spam Filtering
In today’s edition of the Bing Index Quality blog we will delve into one particular spamming technique – MGC (short for ‘machine generated content’.) We will discuss what it is, why & how spammers...
View ArticlePlex for Xbox One is here and my life is complete - Plus Synology setup how-to
I love my Synology NAS, and I love Plex. I also love my Xbox One. Finally, today these three things are working together to give me a lovely unified view of my media library.I have a Synology 1511 (the...
View ArticleAzure Traffic Manager available within Azure in China
We are happy to announce the recent availability of Azure Traffic Manager within Azure in China. Azure Traffic Manager is a traffic management solution enabling resilience, performance and scalability...
View ArticleHTTP/2: The Long-Awaited Sequel
Ready to speed things up? Here at Microsoft, we’re rolling out support in Internet Explorer for the first significant rework of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol since 1999. It’s been a while, so it’s...
View ArticleManaging Media Workflows with the new Azure Media Services Explorer Tool
Several months ago, a broadcaster asked me to provide a tool with a User Interface to upload, encode and manage assets with Azure Media Services. They wanted to easily, and without code, test our cloud...
View ArticleSupport Site Extension for Azure Websites (Preview Release)
We are delighted to announce the preview release of new Support Site Extension for Azure Websites. With this initiative we are trying to improve customers experience in troubleshooting, diagnostics and...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2010 for C++ Development Survey Follow Up
Thanks to the over hundreds of developers who completed our upgrade survey and the select group that agreed to be contacted and spoke to us 1:1. As always, we appreciate the breadth of participants and...
View ArticleAnnouncing key advances to JavaScript performance in Windows 10 Technical...
The Windows 10 Technical Preview brings key advances to Chakra, the JavaScript engine that powers Internet Explorer and store based Web apps across a whole range of Windows devices – phones, tablets,...
View ArticleHow to add custom auto complete functionality to your map app
More and more developers want to add auto complete to their map applications, and for good reason. It’s convenient for users and can help make your map application a user-friendly delight. In this blog...
View ArticleAzure DocumentDB: Profile of MSN Health and Fitness
MSN.com is one of the most trusted web brands. It is the #1 portal across 26 markets worldwide and currently supports over half a billion monthly users across the world. MSN.com, which is part of the...
View ArticleBuilding Cross-Platform Apps with Xamarin and Azure Mobile Services
The Azure Mobile Services team is sponsoring a booth and mini-hackathon at Xamarin Evolve in Atlanta! We’ll also be presenting a session on Mobile Services at Evolve on Thursday.Xamarin and Mobile...
View ArticleAuditing for Azure SQL Database now with more manageability options
We’re excited to share that you can now manage Auditing from the Azure portal and via PowerShell commands where previously, Auditing was introduced and available in the new Azure preview portal....
View ArticleHiLo Desktop sample updated
Hey, all! Doug Erickson from the Visual Studio content and samples team here. We’ve made a couple spot fixes to the popular HiLo C++ sample, and converted it to a Visual Studio 2013 project. Hopefully,...
View ArticleNot a Bing Ads User? Get $100 in Ad Credit to Become One!
Since our June 2012 re-launch of Bing Webmaster Tools, many webmasters, site owners, and search marketers like yourself have joined our program and use the tools to stay up-to-date on how their web...
View Article_references.js file’s auto sync feature
In VS2013 RTM, we shipped a not well known feature for _references.js file: /// . If we specify /// in the beginning of ~/scripts/_references.js, then any addition, rename, deletion of JavaScript files...
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