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Bing Maps provides more accurate trip times worldwide
Bing Maps now provides more accurate trip times when calculating directions around the globe. Bing Maps now supports traffic-aware routing worldwide, including Clearflow technology that predicts...
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One Week of Open Source
Last Wednesday, we announced the new .NET 2015 Preview and our plans to fully open source .NET Core. What an awesome week!Thank you!We knew that you guys would really dig open source but we didn’t...
View ArticleInside Windows Platform – Inside Microsoft OCR Libraries
In this episode of Inside Windows Platform, we talked with Ivan Stojiljkovic, the Dev Lead of the OCR team at Microsoft.OCR is acompelling developer scenario which can empower all sorts of useful...
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Native Memory Diagnostics in VS2015 Preview
In Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 and also in the earlier CTP releases of Visual Studio 2015, we released a memory diagnostic tool that allowed developers to take heap snapshots of their application and...
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Avoiding Visual Studio Fakes Build break
If you are using Visual Studio Fakes in your Unit Testing, and you created your test project from any of the below versions of Visual Studio, then if you upgrade to Visual Studio 2013 Update 4, you may...
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Bing’s new recipes features help you make the perfect Thanksgiving feast
Thanksgiving is almost here and that means two things, family and food. We understand how difficult it can be to cook such a huge feast. Whether you are looking for a new dish for this year’s table or...
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Content negotiation in MVC 6 (or how can I just write JSON)
IntroIn this blog, I intend to provide a simplified how-things-work and how-to-change-the-behavior. It is not intended as a deep dive into content negotiation.Since Web API 1 controller code can return...
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Not Travelling this Thanksgiving? Try a Virtual Family Visit Instead.
With Thanksgiving just a few days away (and the winter holiday season right around the corner) thoughts turn to family traditions of years past. If you can’t make it home for the holidays Bing Maps...
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Advisory Council Proposal -- Call for Community Feedback Extended to December...
This is a cross post from the .NET Foundation blog and written by Gianugo Rabellino. --ImmoThe increased openness of .NET has sparked widespread interest in the .NET Foundation. As a result, its Board...
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Introducing the Child Process Debugging Power Tool
We’ve heard your feedback that you want the Visual Studio debugger to support child process debugging. Child process debugging means that when the application you are debugging creates another process,...
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Chocolatey with Custom Script Extension on Azure VMs
This blog gives an overview of how to run Chocolatey commands on a remote Azure VM using Custom Script Extension.Chocolatey is a package manager for windows (similar to Yum/Apt-Get) used by Azure...
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Windows App Studio adds Twitter and Instagram OAuth integration
More than 2.2 million users around the world have used Windows App Studio to quickly build apps for any phone, tablet, or PC running Windows 8.1. Today App Studio added the much-anticipated Twitter...
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Introducing the Azure Automation Script Converter
By now you’ve probably learned about the new Azure Automation service, which recently became generally available. You’ve learned how you can use Azure Automation to automate all your management...
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iOS / Linux Cross-Platform C++ Survey
We want you to take another survey . Many of you continue to participate in our surveys and opt-in for one-on-one conversations about your development habits. Your feedback helps us better understand...
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Bing vs. NFL Players for Bragging Rights on Thanksgiving
Over the past few months, Bing has correctly predicted everything from The World Cup to midterm elections, all with uncanny accuracy. Now, we’re turning our attention to the gridiron and arguably the...
View ArticleAzure HDInsight now Generally Available in China, Australia, and Japan East
In September, we announced that Microsoft was the first global cloud provider to have a publicly available cloud Hadoop offering in China in public preview. Today, Microsoft is pleased to announce that...
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An End-to-End Prototype of AES Encryption with ACS Authentication and ACS...
IntroductionThis is a “sequel” to the author’s previous post An End-to-End Prototype of PlayReady Protection with ACS Authentication and ACS Token Authorization.In certain cases, full DRM protection...
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Migrating Existing Services to Regional Scope
In May 2014 we announced the general availability of Regional Virtual Network. This enabled users to utilize their virtual network at regional scale and enjoy new features such as ‘Reserved IPs’,...
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OmniSharp - Making cross-platform .NET a reality, and a pleasure
In case you missed it, make sure to read Announcing .NET 2015 - .NET as Open Source, .NET on Mac and Linux, and Visual Studio Community because there's been some big stuff going on. Here's the summary...
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A new identity control – Dec 2
Note: The improvements discussed in this post will be rolling out throughout the week. Please follow progress of the deployment at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsoservice/.We’ve got another sprint packed...
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