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Toward a Visual F# 4.0 release
To the Visual F# Tools development community –Over the past months, we have made an impressive amount of progress together on F# 4.0 and the next version of the Visual F# Tools. There is still plenty...
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Azure Virtual Network Gateway Improvements
At TechEd Europe 2014, we announced several improvements to the Azure Virtual Network Gateway:High Performance gateway SKUOperation logs for Azure Virtual Network GatewaysSupport for PFS (Perfect...
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GoingNative 32: C++17 Sneak Preview
From Sneak Preview of C++17 Channel9: Join us with ISO Committee member (and Microsoft as well, of course =P) Gabriel Dos Reis, who graciously took the time to give us the inside scoop of some things...
View ArticleMonetize your Windows and Windows Phone 8.1 apps with the Smaato SDK
Windows partner Smaato, a global mobile advertising monetization platform for Windows app developers, recently announced the availability of its SDK that now supports XAML apps for Windows Phone 8.1...
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EF7 - Priorities, Focus, and Initial Release
We all know, you don’t get to write software in a vacuum. Aside from the technical task we are trying to achieve there are things such as dependencies, stakeholders, release dates, etc. that impact the...
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Outage on Monday Nov-24
Just Friday, the week before, I was speaking to Buck about the incident we had the previous week and expressing a strong desire to avoid another incident anytime soon. We agreed to postpone the VS...
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Visual Studio Online Update – Dec 2nd
This week we are rolling out the sprint 74 updates to VS Online. You can read details about the features on the service news page.There’s nothing huge here. After the larger announcements we made at...
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Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.0 Preview
Two weeks ago during the Connect() event we announced the release of the Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.0 Preview. VSTU is Microsoft’s free Visual Studio add-on that enables a rich programming and...
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Scaling a Multi-Tenant Application with Azure DocumentDB
Best Practices for Tenant Placement and Load BalancingIntroductionA question that we are frequently asked is “How do I design a multi-tenant application on top of Azure DocumentDB?” There are many...
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Bing Pulse 2.0 gives consumers a voice, delivers real-time audience insights...
Since the dawn of democracy we have valued our ability to be heard. Since the explosion of social media, we have grown accustomed to having a real-time voice and being active participants in collective...
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Getting ready for the future with the Microsoft .NET Portability Analyzer
.NET has been getting more and more portable. Not only is .NET Open Source going forward (read Announcing .NET 2015 - .NET as Open Source, .NET on Mac and Linux, and Visual Studio Community) but you of...
View ArticleAzure Media Indexer Version 1.1.6.7 Release Notes
UpdatesSince our release this September, we have been collecting tons of valuable user feedback. Today, I am proud to announce a series of updates to Azure Media Indexer! FeaturesRecognizabilityNow in...
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The real and complete story - Does Windows defragment your SSD?
There has been a LOT of confusion around Windows, SSDs (hard drives), and whether or not they are getting automatically defragmented by automatic maintenance tasks in Windows.There's a general rule of...
View ArticleDockerCon Europe 2014 announcements opens up new opportunities for Azure...
Today at the DockerCon Europe 2014 keynote, Docker Inc. made two exciting announcements: new orchestration APIs for Docker containers and Docker Hub Enterprise. These are valuable technologies for...
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iOS Build & Debugging with the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova
The Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova enables developers to easily build a mobile app that targets iOS, Android, and Windows with web standards technologies. At the Connect() event in...
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Focusing community discussions for IE development on StackOverflow
In an effort to focus Web development discussions for Internet Explorer in one place, we have starting migrating IE development discussions from MSDN forums to Stack Overflow. This has started with...
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Matt Fara’s Motive is social, innovative, and built on Windows
Matt Fara is more than just a fan of all things Microsoft; as a developer of Windows apps for the past five years, he walks the talk. Fara is a Toronto-based enterprise developer by day who recently...
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Introducing .NET Core
At connect(), we announced that .NET Core will be entirely released as open source software. I also promised to follow up with more details on .NET Core. In this post, I’ll provide an overview of .NET...
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Torque 2.0 adds shake to search on Android phones, new answers
After introducing Torque in October, we heard lots of feedback from active, passionate users that we’ve taken to heart. We have incorporated that feedback into Torque 2.0 and added support for Torque...
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Developing Native-Activity (Android) applications
Overview Visual Studio 2015 preview (download here) introduces the ability for developers to create Android Native Activity application as a part of the cross-platform mobile development. Android...
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