CA Technologies and Microsoft Azure Team Up to Enhance Cloud Solutions for...
I want to share some cloud-related news coming out of our relationship with CA Technologies. Today, CA Technologies announced the preview of CA Cloud Storage for System z featuring Microsoft Azure. The...
View ArticleAzure Search Updates: Multilanguage, Azure Portal Index Management & More!
I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about some of the new features that we have recently added to Azure Search.New API Preview “Prototype” VersionWe have made available a new prototype...
View ArticleHow to create bounded tile layers in Bing Maps (JavaScript)
Tile layers are a great way to visualize a lot of data on a map and still have good performance. Depending on the type of data you are displaying as a tile layer, you may find that it is localized to a...
View ArticleAnnouncing Windows ad mediation – maximize your Windows Phone app ad revenue
In-app advertising represents about one third of all Store revenue generated by developers, second only to the fast-growing in-app purchase monetization model. We’re continually looking for ways to...
View ArticleHow to maximize the impact of Windows ad mediation for Windows Phone
As Todd announced earlier, Windows Store today launched a new ad mediation solution designed to help Windows Phone developers who use in-app advertising to increase their fill rates and revenue. In...
View ArticleAzure DocumentDB – edit and query documents in the Azure portal
We’ve released a number of great enhancements to further improve the DocumentDB management experience. Our October 23rd portal update lights up the following new capabilities through...
View ArticleWhere can you meet the team? November 2014 at AngleBrackets and Connect();
We’ve got two big events coming up next week. AngleBracketsNov 10th-13th in Vegas is an exciting open-source web conference that’s collocated with DevIntersections. That means you can register for one...
View ArticleHour of Code will help inspire the next generation of dreamers and developers
The 7,000-strong Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) community will lend its expertise in teaching an Hour of Code to students in classrooms around the world, during Computer Science Education Week from...
View Article[Announcement] OData V4 Client Code Generator 2.1.0 Release
FeaturesOData v4 Client Code Generator now supports the generation of properties whose type, functions whose parameter types and return type are Edm.TimeOfDay or Edm.Date.OData v4 Client Code...
View ArticleBing Predicts beats industry pundits, gets it right in >95% of mid-terms
In early October, the Bing Predicts team took on the U.S. mid-term elections after getting it right in the Scotland Referendum. We set out to forecast who would win the races for state Governor, US...
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Don’t miss the cloud-first, mobile-first, code-first virtual event for developers, streaming live starting November 12th!Join us on Day 1, November 12th and watch keynotes from Scott Guthrie, S....
View ArticleHow to Sync SQL Server Data with Azure Search
A common request we receive in Azure Search is how to extend data in SQL Server databases to Azure Search. This may be because people wish to offload the full-text workload from their on-premises SQL...
View ArticleAzure SQL Database introduces breakthrough business continuity and Disaster...
Last week we introduced breakthrough visualization experiences for the business continuity capabilities in Azure SQL Database. Setting up and administering your geo-replication is easier and more...
View ArticleIntroducing the Visual Studio 2015 Preview for C# and VB
Download Visual Studio 2015 Preview and review the release notes.Over the past several years, our team has been hard at work re-implementing the full language stacks for C# and Visual Basic. While this...
View ArticleAnnouncing Visual Studio 2015 Preview and Visual Studio 2013 Update 4...
Last couple of weeks have been pretty crazy; in addition to the launching the new browser based Load Test Authoring experience at TechEd Europe, hosting the MVP summit, getting Update 4 released we...
View ArticleAnnouncing .NET 2015 - .NET as Open Source, .NET on Mac and Linux, and Visual...
It's happening. It's the reason that a lot of us came to work for Microsoft, and I think it's both the end of an era but also the beginning of amazing things to come. The .NET 2015 wave of releases is...
View ArticleJust Released: Visual Studio Community 2013: The Visual Studio everybody...
Today at the Connect(); Event, Scott Guthrie and Soma Somasegar made a number of important announcements for the cloud-first, mobile-first developer. The first, Visual Studio Community 2013, is a free,...
View ArticleAnnouncing .NET 2015 Preview: A New Era for .NET
Today is a pivotal moment for .NET. With the release of .NET 2015 Preview, we are embarking on a new journey while maintaining our strong commitment to the 1+ billion customers that are using .NET...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2015 Preview is Now Available
Today with the Visual Studio 2015 Preview, one of the big things we've done is improved the C++ experience, adding support for targeting Android, boosting runtime and build-time performance, improving...
View Article.NET Core is Open Source
Today is a huge day for .NET! We’re happy to announce that .NET Core will be open source, including the runtime as well as the framework libraries.This is a natural progression of our open source...
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