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Once upon a time there was World Read Aloud Day…
Happy World Read Aloud Day! You may notice that today’s Bing homepage features the National Library of China, with hotspots related to literacy. This is no coincidence. The Bing team wants to inspire...
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Moving TFS to cloud cadence and Visual Studio Online
We get quite a few questions from customers on how we made the transition to shipping both an on-premises product and a cloud service. We moved from shipping every 2-3 years to shipping Visual Studio...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Linux and Open-Source Computing Page
The new Linux and Open-Source Computing page is live! This page is a comprehensive collection of documentation and tutorials for running Linux and open-source workloads on Azure. We’re working hard to...
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Angular 2: Built on TypeScript
We're excited to unveil the result of a months-long partnership with the Angular team.This partnership has been very productive and rewarding experience for us, and as part of this collaboration, we're...
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Top News from February 2015
The Visual Studio team takes great effort to ensure that our developer community is engaged and informed through various social networks, including channels on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc. and as...
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TypeScript
Three years ago, we introduced TypeScript, a typed superset of JavaScript for application development at scale offering compile-time type checking and richer tooling integration.Since then, we’ve seen...
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Bing Round-up: Bing brings better help to Office; offers new ways to explore...
Bing now powers Help search in Microsoft OfficeLooking to get the most out of Word or Excel? Now Bing can help.At Bing, we’re always looking for ways to bring you the right information when and where...
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Initiate a Load Test from Hosted Build work-around
We are gathered this week in a “Hackfest”, defined as a time constrained, joint coding effort that focused on solving a technical challenge based around a specific topic and can involve one or more...
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Accessing the Bing Maps REST services from various JavaScript frameworks
On the Bing Maps forums [CP1] I often come across developers who have difficulty accessing the Bing Maps REST services using different JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery and AngularJS. One common...
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Introducing Premium Encoding in Azure Media Services
Video encoding can be a complex and complicated space. I often get requests from customers asking for ways to transcode formats that are used primarily in broadcast studios, or in the movie industry....
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Azure Search is now Generally Available
I am happy to announce that Azure Search is now generally available (GA)! Azure Search is a search-as-a-service solution that helps developers to build sophisticated search experiences into web and...
View ArticleNew A10/A11 Azure Compute Sizes
Today, we’re announcing support for two new compute-intensive sizes: A10 and A11. These new instances are available immediately for both Virtual Machines and Cloud Services. You can deploy them through...
View ArticleDocumentDB moving to general availability
Today, we are thrilled to announce the upcoming general availability of Azure DocumentDB – Microsoft’s fully managed NoSQL document database service.Available now as Preview and Generally Available on...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure enabling business transformation with updated search and...
For businesses to maintain a competitive edge in this complex and fast-changing climate they need innovative ways to deliver the best customer experience with their products and services. Today, we are...
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Next Generation Sports Network launches global sports streaming, powered by...
This week, Next Generation Sports Network (NGSN) launched the beta version of their sports website and mobile apps that will allow for subscribers in the United States to view their favorite major...
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How to Use Premium Encoding in Azure Media Services
Premium encoding is an exciting new technology in Azure Media Services that can solve your most complicated encoding workflows. I have provided you an overview of the new premium encoding capabilities...
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Creating unit test method stubs with "Create Unit Tests"
In Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 we are introducing the "Create Unit Tests" feature that provides the ability to create unit test method stubs. The feature allows easy configuration of a test project, and...
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How to make Token authorized AES encrypted HLS stream working in Safari
Azure Media Services provides capability for customers to generate an AES encrypted HLS stream with Token authorization configured on the AES key retrieval. However, as we know, Safari handles HLS...
View ArticleAzure Notification Hubs – new samples & guidance
I am excited to announce a whole slew of new Notification Hubs samples and guidance documents which I’ll summarize in this post.Notification Hubs – Frequently Asked Questions : This FAQ document...
View ArticleSimplifying Virtual Machine Troubleshooting using Azure Log Collector
Have you run into a scenario where something has gone wrong with your virtual machine or with your cloud service application and you have to collect logs from different role/VM instances for...
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