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February 2015 security updates for Internet Explorer
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS15-009This critical security update resolves one publicly reported and 40 privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. For more information, please see...
View ArticleInvestigating Timeout Exceptions in StackExchange.Redis for Azure Redis Cache
StackExchange.Redis uses a configuration setting named “synctimeout” for synchronous operations, which is a default value for it is 1000 ms. This setting means that if a synchronous call doesn’t...
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New page on VS Online Agile Tooling
We’re in the process of trying to significantly upgrade the content on our Visual Studio website. We’re starting with the pages that describe what VS Online is and why you might want to use it. The...
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Improve performance by optimizing queries for ASP.NET Identity and other...
If your application is using ASP.NET Identity or other membership systems such as SQL, Universal or Simple membership, then you might be running into the following issue.If you are using ASP.NET...
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Understanding and Testing: Implicit Local Queries
For this post, we spent some time with Wei Wang, a Senior Program Manager in the Mobile Relevance team here at Bing and asked him to explain some of the basic things they face when answering “local”...
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New ways to quickly create a Code Map
Code Maps, previously known as Directed Graph Documents, are a great way to visualize the relationships and interdependencies between the components of your applications. They make it much easier to...
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Build Futures
At the Connect() developer event in November 2014 we showed a sneak peek at the investments we are making for our build automation features in TFS and Visual Studio Online. These new capabilities will...
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EF6.1.3 Beta 1 Available
Today we are making Beta 1 of the EF6.1.3 release available. This patch release contains only high priority bug fixes. What are the 6.1.3 release timelines?At this stage we are planning for our next...
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Internet Explorer in the Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones
Last year, we committed to the principle that the mobile web should just work for everyone, and introduced hundreds of targeted improvements to Internet Explorer in the Windows Phone 8.1 Update to...
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High-PPI maps now available in the Bing Maps AJAX Control
Have you ever wondered if it’s possible to get high-PPI (high pixel density) map tiles from the Bing Maps AJAX Control? Wonder no more. By simply setting a parameter in your Bing Maps AJAX Control code...
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Reporting enhancements for Windows Phone developers
Today Windows Dev Center released reporting changes to Windows Phone Appdownloads and In-app products reports. We know having data as soon as possible is important to make decisions about your apps, so...
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Code Search on VS Online
In November, at our Connect(); event, I gave a sneak peek at a few features/services coming to VS Online, and ultimately Team Foundation Server. Among the things I demoed was a new source code search...
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Bing takes on the world’s second-most-watched sport, as the world’s...
At Bing, we want to give a fresh perspective on the events that matter most. When it comes to big sporting moments, few global events rival the upcoming cricket tournament, which runs from February 13...
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JavaScript Has Won: Run Flash with Mozilla Shumway and Develop Silverlight in...
Well this is some amazing news that has been a long time coming. You can take your Flash apps and run them without Flash, and take your Silverlight apps and (almost) run them without Silverlight. If...
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Find Your Favorite Library for C++ in NuGet
Many of you may know that NuGet is the “go-to” library repository for .NET development, but what about using it for C++? The answer here may surprise you as many of the top open source C++ libraries...
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Release Management Service Futures
In November 2014, at Connect(), we unveiled the Release Management Service in Visual Studio Online. We have received a good amount of feedback since, and here, I will share some of the big ticket items...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure: The first cloud computing platform to conform to ISO/IEC...
Earlier this month, we highlighted a number of new compliance milestones for Microsoft Azure. Among these developments was that the British Standards Institution (BSI) validated that Azure incorporates...
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New features in Azure Backup – Long term retention, offline backup seeding...
We are excited to announce a slew of features in our February 2015 Azure Backup update. The key capabilities are:Long term retention – cloud as tape replacementOffline seeding – complete your initial...
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HTTP Strict Transport Security comes to Internet Explorer
As part of our ongoing commitment to help build an interoperable, secure web that “just works,” we're excited to announce support for HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) in Internet Explorer. This...
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NuGet Package of the Week: A different take on ASP.NET MVC Forms with...
One of the nice things about any modular system (like ASP.NET) is the ability to swap out the parts you don't like. As the authors of ChameleonForms state, HTML forms is a pain. It's repetitive, it's...
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