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Git vulnerability with .git\config
Today the Git community disclosed an issue in Git that, in the worst case, could allow a developer’s machine to be taken over. This is an issue that manifests across much of the Git ecosystem and is...
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Microsoft Azure Government Meets Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS)...
Last week I spoke in Washington D.C. at an event announcing the general availability of Microsoft Azure Government. At the event, which was keynoted by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, we announced a lot...
View ArticleClient tooling updates for Azure SQL Database
With the announcement of the preview of the Latest Version of Azure SQL Database, we’re excited to announce that we’ve updated the support within our primary client-based tools. SQL Server 2014...
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Get your stocking ready, it’s time to track Santa!
You’d better watch out, you’d better not cry, you’d better not pout, we’re telling you why – you guessed it, Santa Claus is coming to town. The countdown is almost over – and that means it’s almost...
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Announcing Azure Media Services Live Streaming With PlayReady encryption...
One month after we announced AES dynamic encryption for live streaming, today we are excited to add PlayReady encryption for your live streams as well. With Azure Media Services, our supported...
View ArticleRunning Critical Application Workloads on Microsoft Azure D-Series Virtual...
On the Azure Customer Advisory Team (AzureCAT), we’ve been testing the performance of one of the latest generations of hardware components now being introduced into our public cloud called the...
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Windows and Windows Phone Store Trends – December 2014 Update
This blog is the latest in a recurring series that provides details about recent Store trends across categories, markets, and more. Understanding these trends can help you determine what types of apps...
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EF6.1.2 RTM Available
Today we are pleased to announce the availability of EF6.1.2. This patch release includes a number of high priority bug fixes and some contributions from our community. What’s in EF6.1.2?EF6.1.2 is...
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IntelliTrace Standalone Collector and Application Pools running under Active...
You will often configure an ASP.NET web site to run as an Active Directory (AD) user so that the site can access that user’s network resources (e.g. a file share). This is accomplished by changing the...
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Getting Started with Robots for kids and children in STEM this holiday season
Now's the perfect time to buy your kids/nieces/cousins some robots. Robots are a great way to get children excited about computers. Robots get them stoked in a way that a simple Hello World console app...
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The Most Popular Bing Homepages of 2014
Each day, a new Bing Homepage image transports you to a different corner of the globe or introduces you to some of the world’s most amazing creatures. As 2014 comes to a close, the Bing team wanted to...
View ArticleCreating Developer Opportunity with Windows Store in 2015
As we all turn our attention to the year ahead I thought I’d take this opportunity to say thank you and share some insight into our plans for building on a very successful 2014. We began the year with...
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Understanding symbol files and Visual Studio’s symbol settings
Symbols are a fundamental requirement for debugging and other diagnostic tools. Fortunately in most cases when you are building and launching your application in Visual Studio you don’t have to think...
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Build & Load Test pricing changes are in effect
The changes to the VS Online build and load testing services that I described a few weeks ago are now complete. This represents a substantial reduction in price for both services.We’ve also removed...
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RBAC and Azure Websites Publishing
The new Role Based Access Control (RBAC) available in Azure enables organizations to easily manage employee and partner access to their cloud resources. More information about RBAC, the Azure Active...
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[Tutorial & Sample] ODataLib Custom Payload Format
This post is to guide you through the custom payload format support in ODataLib, which was introduced in ODataLib 6.9.0 release.All the sample codes in this post have been put to ODataSamples project,...
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IE test VMs on modern.IE get a refresh
To help web developers test versions of Internet Explorer more easily, we’ve had a suite of virtual machines available on modern.IE since January of 2013. Today we released another refresh of the VMs...
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How to Provision and Deploy Multiple Websites from your Cloud Deployment Project
The Cloud Deployment project is extremely useful, in that it gives us a quick way to get a website up and running allowing us to focus on the development of the web application and not how to get it...
View ArticleIntroducing the Azure DocumentDB Java SDK
We are pleased to announce the release of the Azure DocumentDB Java SDK! The Java SDK allows you to easily create, read, update, and delete various DocumentDB resources as well as manage advanced...
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Targeting Android with the C++ REST SDK
Right before the holidays we put together a new release, version 2.4.0, of the C++ REST SDK . One of the new features added in the library is support for targeting Android using the Visual Studio 2015...
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