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Yeoman generators for ASP.NET 5
Hi everyone, this post is in my name but it’s authored by Sourabh Shirhatti. He was a Program Manager Intern from the University of Texas at Austin that I’ve had the pleasure of working with this...
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Bing offers a glimpse of the future with 2015 predictions
December is a traditional time for casting our eye over the moments that made our year and with Bing’s Top Searches of 2014 we’ve enjoyed recapping the moments that mattered – from the biggest star to...
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Microsoft’s Windows App Studio and TouchDevelop integrate. Mobile First....
Windows App Studio Beta today released its most impactful update since the move to universal Windows apps last April. Many of you have already tried TouchDevelop, a powerful, touch-friendly programming...
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Build and Run using Cordova CLI
With Apache Cordova, web developers can achieve maximal code re-use by building cross-platform mobile applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. For details on how Apache Cordova works, read this...
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A new Visual Studio Online and Team Foundation Server Features Timeline
We are always working on ways to communicate more effectively with customers about what we have done, what people like and don’t like, what they want, what we’re planning, etc. A year or so ago we...
View ArticleFinal Root Cause Analysis and Improvement Areas: Nov 18 Azure Storage Service...
On November 18, 2014, many of our Microsoft Azure customers experienced a service interruption that impacted Azure Storage and several other services, including Virtual Machines. Following the...
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Quick code editing, backlog filtering, and more – Dec 17
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/.Before we jump into the changes...
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Visual Studio Online Update – Dec 17
This week we are deploying our sprint 75 results. You can read details on the VS Online release notes.For whatever confluence of reasons, a lot of things came together in this sprint an there’s a ton...
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Adding New Items to Your ASP.NET 5 Project with Yeoman Subgenerators
Hi Sayed here, this post is graciously authored by Shane Boyer who is a member of the ASP.NET community that I've been working with lately. Enjoy. Sourabh Shirhatti did a great write up on the use of...
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ASP.NET MVC 5.2.3, Web Pages 5.2.3 and Web API 5.2.3 Beta releases
While the MVC team is working hard on MVC 6 as part of the ASP.NET 5 effort, we also keep working on the 5.x packages. Today we are releasing a Beta of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.3, Web Pages 5.2.3 and Web API...
View ArticleBring your Windows Phone Silverlight apps to Windows Runtime XAML; prepare...
With the release of Windows Phone 8.1 last year, we introduced the concept of universal Windows apps. Windows 10 will build on our commitment to provide a common Windows platform with one API layer...
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How to deploy the Cloudera Evaluation Cluster in Azure
Last month Microsoft and Cloudera announced the certification and availability of Cloudera Enterprise in the Azure Marketplace, giving you a quick, easy and optimized way to deploy Cloudera to the...
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[Announcement] WCF Data Services 5.6.3 RTM Tools Installer Release
We are happy to announce the release of WCF Data Services tooling version 5.6.3. It enables “Add Service Reference” to work with .NET 4.5.2 for consuming OData V1-3 services. Previously, when you try...
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Bing apps get a makeover fit for a new iPhone or iPad
Heading into the holidays, we suspect there will be a few iPhone and iPad-shaped boxes under all that gift wrapping. One free gift you might want to look at, right out of the box, is the Bing app. And...
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Improved Welcome/Wiki experience
I mentioned this in my post on the sprint 75 deployment and I wanted to include a video but it wasn’t ready. Now it is and I want to share it. Keep in mind that the deployment is still in progress so...
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Azure Automation: Run tasks on Azure Virtual Machines – without opening ports
One great thing about Azure Automation is its ability to interact with your Azure resources using the included Azure PowerShell module. Querying, adding, changing and deleting resources is never more...
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Windows Store is first to bring carrier billing to China, India and Brazil
It is estimated that 93% of people who live in fast-growth emerging markets around the world do not have a credit card (Source: Measuring Financial Inclusion, The Global Findex Database), making it...
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Azure HDInsight Makes Cluster Customization Generally Available And Provide...
In November, we announced the public preview of Script Action giving you the ability to customize your HDInsight clusters with projects available from the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. It allows you to add...
View ArticleAnnouncing General Availability of Mobile Offline Sync
When writing modern mobile apps, developers have to consider the reality that end users may not always have network access. This can be due to a transient network issue, or it could be a mobile app...
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Bing round-up: AMBER Alerts and new local features for mobile
As we head into the holidays, we have a few things to share with you that released this week.AMBER AlertsFollowing the abduction and murder of 9-year-old Amber Hagerman in 1996, a national child...
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