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Bing leads adoption of safe preference for child safety
At Bing, we’re committed to making search better and safer for kids. Bing is the first major search engine to support a proposed new web safety standard known as safe preference. Websites and services...
View ArticleUse free “house ads” to promote your Windows apps
Today Microsoft Advertising released ‘house ads,’ a new capability that enables developers that have two or more Windows or Windows Phone apps in the Store, to promote one of the apps in the other...
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New whitepapers for migration and security … with more to come
We are pleased to announce two new whitepapers have landed, sharing real-world experience and research feedback. Extracting effective permissions from TFS whitepaper and samplePractical guidance and...
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Better together: Visual Basic 14 and the Visual Studio 2015 Debugger
"Lambdas! Lambdas! Lambdas! Lambdas! ..."If you hadn't heard, Visual Studio 2015 will support the use of lambda expressions in the debugger windows.We're all very excited to deliver on this...
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Better together: C# 6 and the Visual Studio 2015 Debugger
"Lambdas! Lambdas! Lambdas! Lambdas! ..."If you hadn't heard, Visual Studio 2015 will support the use of lambda expressions in the debugger windows.We're all very excited to deliver on this...
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Debug JNI Android Applications using Visual C++ Cross-Platform Mobile
With Visual Studio 2015 preview (download here) we have introduced the ability for developers to create cross-platform mobile applications with Visual C++. For the Android platform specifically this...
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Application Insights: Exception Telemetry
Application Insights lets you monitor your live application for its availability, performance and usage. Exception telemetry is of course, a central piece of this. In this blog, we’ll look at the...
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[Announcement] ODataLib 6.9.0 Release
We are happy to announce that the ODataLib 6.9.0 is released. Detailed release notes are listed below.New Features:[GitHub issue #7, #24, #25]ODataUriParser now can parse the complex value, entity,...
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Incorporate “Big Data” Within Your Visual Studio App Using Azure HDInsight
To help make it easier to work with “big data” in your apps, we added support for Hive queries and management of data clusters with Azure HDInsight, the Microsoft Azure Hadoop cluster solution for...
View ArticleAzure Virtual Machines : Using Chef, Puppet and Docker for managing Linux VMs
This post provides information on creating Linux VMs in Azure and using tools like Chef, Puppet and Docker for managing Linux VMs.Microsoft Virtual Academy hosted the Azure IaaS for IT Pros web...
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Bing predicts The Voice finals
Throughout the last year, we have been applying the intelligence of Bing to predict things like the mid-term election results and the NFL playoffs. Bing makes predictions by taking into account a...
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Authoring Integration Modules for Azure Automation
If you’re familiar with Azure Automation, you’re probably aware that PowerShell is the fundamental technology that makes Azure Automation great. But PowerShell itself is great due to its extensibility...
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Application Insights - Metric Explorer (ME) – Part 2
Segmentation is one of my favorite features in Metrics Explorer in Application Insights. It helps you slice and dice the telemetry about what users are doing with your application, as well as helps you...
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Classes in JavaScript: Exploring the Implementation in Chakra
The Windows 10 Technical Preview November build and RemoteIE includes many changes and additions to Internet Explorer from the next edition of the JavaScript standard, ECMA-262 6th Edition (ES6)....
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Azure Backup – Announcing Support for Windows Client Operating System
We are excited to announce the support for backing up data to Azure from Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 machines, using Azure Backup. You can find more details on the supported client operating...
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Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio
Today we are releasing the RTM version of Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio! To get started, download Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio 2013 or Bing Developer Assistant for Visual...
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Azure Data Factory Updates: Integration with Azure Machine Learning!
We listened to your feedback, and last week Azure Data Factory released a powerful enhancement enabling integration with Azure Machine Learning. You now have the ability to run your finished Azure...
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Wyoming-based independent developer doubles his income in one year on the...
Nathan Darst became an independent developer three years ago when he left his job at a helicopter contracting company to build games on the Windows platform. This decision, the Wyoming-based Darst has...
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Custom TraceSource and debugging using IntelliTrace
IntelliTrace in Visual Studio Ultimate comes with support for tracing out of the box. All you have to do is make sure the appropriate IntelliTrace events are enabled in VS settings and IntelliTrace...
View ArticleEnhanced Windows Dev Center reporting
This week, Windows Dev Center is releasing enhancements to two reports for Windows Store: Downloads and In-app purchase.We know having data as soon as possible is important to make decisions about your...
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