Where’s Santa? NORAD tracks Santa with the help of Bing Maps
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – and Microsoft is excited to be partnering again with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (“NORAD”) to create their annual Santa Tracker web site! A...
View ArticleGaming and Open Source for your Windows Phone and Windows Apps
This post was written by Corey Goff, Program Manager II on the Dev Platform team here at Microsoft.Middleware enables game developers to build on top of a base layer of code by abstracting pieces (or...
View ArticleNow easier to create a sample Azure SQL Database and develop schema in Visual...
We’re excited to let you know that we recently extended the database creation workflow in the preview Azure management portal to support two new scenarios – create from sample and create from backup....
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Where We Are and the Road Ahead
A few weeks ago at Connect() in New York, we made several announcements around the future of .NET & Visual Studio. We announced that we’re making the .NET Core server stack open source and...
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Getting started with Cloud-based Load Test REST APIs
REST API’s are pretty cool, enabling you to do things like write your own custom reports, write your own interfaces and of course integrating load tests into your build. Looking at the sample...
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Jethro Tull superfan builds app with Windows App Studio
More than 50,000 apps have been published using Windows App Studio Beta. We’ve seen a number of musicians, artists, and bands who build apps to connect with their fans and share their craft with a...
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Office 365 Client APIs for Hybrid Mobile Apps
The Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova enable developers to build mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows using web standards technologies. When used with the Office 365 API Tools for Visual...
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Hitting the stores or the all-you-can-eat buffet, Bing makes getting there easy
Bing is there for the things that matter this holiday season, from making the dash to the sales where every second counts, to getting you to that cool place you just heard of for some downtime or...
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Introducing Microsoft Imagine for Student Developers of All Ages
We’ve been supporting student developers in universities for many years with great programs like Imagine Cup - and Microsoft Student Partners, which have provided free tools, contests, and...
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Gifts for map and geography geeks
This holiday season, are you looking for gift ideas for someone who loves maps or geography? Or are you looking for a unique gift for someone who is hard to buy for? There are all kinds of great gift...
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Two Powerful ways to use Azure to Back Up your Enterprise
Our primary goal with Azure Backup has been to make it so simple and cost effective for our customers, the Cloud becomes their preferred backup target. It has also been our aim to make cloud backup...
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The Role of Content Quality in Bing Ranking
In today’s post we take a look at how the Bing ranking algorithm considers content quality for ranking web documents. There are often many web documents on the web that are relevant for any given user...
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Status roadmap update: srcset, element, and date inputs in development
Today we’re updating our platform roadmap with a few more features that we’ve started working on:Responsive Images: image srcsetTo take advantage of high resolution screens, it’s desirable to provide...
View ArticleRecommended Reading: The Role of Content Quality in Bing Ranking
You’ve heard us talk about quality quite a bit on this blog and we can all agree that creating quality content is the only sustainable strategy in attracting and retaining visitors. Naturally, as a...
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Channel 9 interview on open sourcing .NET
Curious to where we are with open sourcing .NET Core? Do you want to know which libraries are next? Interested in a white boarding session with David Kean? Then you should check out this video on...
View ArticleAuditing for Azure SQL Database Generally Available and with more...
We are excited to announce that a few weeks ago we made Auditing for Azure SQL Database generally available. Auditing for Azure SQL Database tracks and logs all events that occur on your database, such...
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New Language Features in Visual Basic 14
"Visual Basic 14" is the version of Visual Basic that will ship with Visual Studio 2015. In this blog post I'll talk specifically about the VB language improvements in this release. (Separately, there...
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Visual Studio 2015 Preview: Work-in-Progress Security Feature
Background The Preview for Visual Studio 2015 was announced on November 12, 2014. It includes a new, work-in-progress feature, called Control Flow Guard . By simply adding a new option to your Project,...
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Bing it on with the Bing Fans!
A guest post from Gayatri Bhaskar, Bing Fan. I was recently invited to a ‘Bing Fans’ event, a pilot hosted by the Bing team at Microsoft. I guess that is just one of the perks of being a ‘Bing Fan’. I...
View ArticleAnnouncing General Availability of Microsoft Azure Government
Today we are excited to announce the general availability of Microsoft Azure Government. We announced the Private Preview of Azure for Government at the Microsoft Federal Executive Forum in March,...
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