Application Insights and Azure WebSites
Azure WebSites is a popular “fully managed Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that enables you to build, deploy and scale enterprise-grade web Apps in seconds” (see more about Azure WebSites here)....
View ArticleApplication Insights support for Multiple Environments, Stamps and App Versions
Application Insights can collect telemetry from your application at any stage in its development, from debugging to live production. By default, all these different streams will go into the same bucket...
View ArticleRefresh Your PC in Windows, AppData, and my missing Minecraft worlds
I thought I lost everything today. Well, not really, I have a very regular Backup Strategy (stop reading this blog post NOW and back your stuff up!) so I could get stuff back if I really needed to.But...
View ArticleAzure Virtual Machine Images for Visual Studio
Over the last year we have been constantly expanding our Visual Studio image offerings for the Microsoft Azure virtual machine gallery. The images have proven to be very popular not only for evaluating...
View ArticleFinding great books just got easier with Bing best-sellers search
If your resolution is to read more, you’re going to love the newest Bing feature: the best-sellers carousel. Search on best-sellers in categories including fiction, non-fiction, even manga, and the New...
View ArticleIntroducing Docker in Microsoft Azure Marketplace
Today marks another exciting milestone of Microsoft Azure integration with the Docker container technology and ecosystem. We are announcing the first Ubuntu image fully integrated with the Docker...
View ArticleLargest VM in the Cloud
Today, we’re announcing the release of a new series of VM sizes for Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines called the G-series. G-series sizes provide the most memory, the highest processing power and the...
View ArticleAzure is now bigger, faster, more open, and more secure
In October, we outlined how Microsoft is delivering the industry’s most complete cloud platform and discussed many enhancements to our hyper-scale, enterprise-grade and hybrid Azure platform. Azure is...
View ArticleUnderstanding Exceptions while debugging with Visual Studio
If you have spent any time coding, odds are that you have had to deal with Exception Handling. In Visual Studio, when exceptions are thrown or end up unhandled, the debugger can help you debug these by...
View ArticleAPI review process for .NET Core
Happy new year! Three weeks ago we published a proposal for an API review process on GitHub and asked for your feedback. The process is now in-place and documented in our developer wiki.Review...
View Article[Announcement] RESTier - A turn-key solution to build OData services
What is RESTierRESTier is a RESTful API development framework for building standardized, OData V4 based REST services on .NET. It can be seen as a middle-ware on top of Web API OData. RESTier is built...
View ArticleThe commenting system is not working
Dear OData blog readers,The commenting system is not working. The MSDN support team has been reached out to and the rough fix timeline is early Feb.During this time, any advice or suggestion please...
View ArticleNew features added to simplified browser-based Load Test authoring
We are happy to let you know that over the last couple of weeks we have added a set of new features to our simplified browser-based authoring and configuration experience for Cloud Load Testing.In...
View ArticleInside Windows Platform – How to Add Push Notifications to Your App
Adding push notifications is simple to do, using Azure Mobile Services. In this video, Yavor Georgiev walks through the easy four step process involved in setting it up.Building and deploying a server...
View ArticleIncrediBuild and the Visual Studio 2015 Preview
As a reader of this blog, you already know that Visual Studio 2015 Preview is available and has been for a few months. Many of you have downloaded the preview and tried out the many new productivity,...
View ArticleWe're moving to GitHub!
It’s official. We’re moving to GitHub!We are moving the Roslyn OSS code from CodePlex to GitHub. GitHub has a vibrant open source community that we want to actively be a part of and contribute to. We...
View ArticleWe're moving to GitHub!
It’s official. We’re moving to GitHub!We are moving the Roslyn OSS code from CodePlex to GitHub. GitHub has a vibrant open source community that we want to actively be a part of and contribute to. We...
View ArticleHow to consume SQL Spatial Data with Web API V2.2 for OData V4
IntroductionToday, along with the increasing demands of Location-Based Services (LBS), it becomes more and more important to provide functionalities on SQL Spatial Data through a unique, robust and...
View ArticleUsing Setup and Cleanup Script in Cloud Load Test
Performance and load testing is a very important part of the Application Lifecycle. You’d want to do this at least every time prior to deploying the latest changes to production. To determine how well...
View ArticleMicrosoft + GitHub: Free Tools for Student Developers
When we launched the new Visual Studio Community 2013 edition last year, we talked about students being one the audiences this product is really great for. Free access to the tools that professional...
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