Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 3 Released
Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 3 released today, primarily focuses on bug fixes. The release notes and knowledge base article have the complete list of features and fixes.As always, please give us...
View ArticleAzure SQL Database Elastic Scale preview – Update Available
An update to the Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale preview is now available for integrating into your applications. Elastic Scale is designed to simplify development and management of transactional...
View ArticleIntroducing the Application Insights SDK for Java
When you publish a Java web application, you want a clear view of what users are doing with it and how it’s performing. Your most effective plan for future work comes from a deep understanding of how...
View ArticleSearching for text with DocumentDB
A common ask among DocumentDB customers is, “How do I search for documents containing some string value?” In this post, will explore two different ways of doing this, depending on what you are trying...
View ArticleEditing the IntelliTrace collection plan
As you probably already know, Visual Studio offers an enhanced debugging experience through the use of IntelliTrace. Your application’s execution is recorded by IntelliTrace and you can navigate...
View ArticleLoad testing Applications behind Firewall using Trusted IP
Cloud-based Load Testing Service can be used for performance and scale testing of an application by generating load from Azure.It is often observed that application is deployed in the internal...
View ArticleTrack Certificates to Help Users Stay Safe
Today, I am delighted to announce an exciting new feature in Bing Webmaster Tools pertaining to security. Track Certificates (Preview) — which was built in collaboration with Microsoft OSG Enterprise...
View ArticleTools for Apache Cordova Update: Windows Phone 8.1 Debugging Support
For those of you running Visual Studio 2013, yesterday we released Tools for Apache Cordova CTP 3.1. This release contains a large number of performance and reliability improvements (many of which...
View ArticleAnnouncing General Availability of iOS Offline Sync SDK
Don’t you hate it when your mobile app suddenly stops working, just because you’ve stepped on an elevator? Or, maybe you’re a traveling sales rep who needs quick access to customer data, even when...
View ArticleSlam Dunk: Bing teams up with the NCAA® as Official Bracket Data Partner for...
At Bing, we’re constantly looking for ways to help people find the information they need to make confident decisions. From the 2014 midterm elections, to the NFL season, and more recently, the Grammy’s...
View ArticleCertificate Reputation for website owners
Last year, we introduced a new mechanism that Microsoft is building to better protect you against fraudulent certificates on the Web. In this blog post, we are going to explain how we will enable the...
View ArticleGoing Native: Build Throughput, PCH Tool
The Visual C++ team is committed to improving your build throughput in VS2015, and we’re not just talking about shaving-off-a-few-seconds-chump-change. Check out our latest GoingNative video for a slew...
View Article@CurrentIteration query token, Kanban reordering and DoD – Mar 10
Current iteration query token Let’s start with an item that’s been on our backlog for quite some time—the ability to specify a token that represents the current iteration in iteration-based queries. As...
View ArticleMicrosoft Furthers Open Networking Specification
The Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) team at Microsoft is excited to announce that we will showcase our first implementations of the specification at the Open Compute Project Summit, which kicks off...
View ArticleWelcome Back! - The AJAX Control Toolkit March 2015 Update
Welcome Back! - The AJAX Control Toolkit March 2015 UpdateIts been 15 months since a significant update was released for the AJAX Control Toolkit on CodePlex. In the time since then, our friends at...
View ArticleWant to learn more about Open Source Automation on Azure using Chef?
Please join us by registering for the upcoming OpenSource Automation on Azure using Chef webinar taking place on March 19th at 9am PST. This webinar will introduce you to creating Linux workloads in...
View ArticleArduino 101 with an Intel Edison - Hooking up JSON to an LCD Screen
Hanselminutes and CodeNewbie are teaming up to produce two new podcast episodes a week for the month of March, featuring incredible makers in the hardware space. There will be new content every weekday...
View ArticleEF6.1.3 RTM Available
Today we are pleased to announce the availability of EF6.1.3. This patch release contains only high priority bug fixes. What’s in EF6.1.3?EF6.1.3 just contain fixes to high priority issues that have...
View ArticleSave the date for news from the Azure team on March 24
Log in on Tuesday, March 24th at 11am PDT for a virtual event with Scott Guthrie. He’ll be joined by Bill Staples to unveil the latest work from the Application Platform team that will help app...
View ArticleNew simulated hybrid cloud test environment topic
In my New set of hybrid cloud test environment topics blog post, I described the new articles that show you how to create a functioning, hybrid cloud dev/test environment, complete with a site-to-site...
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