Improving interoperability with DOM L3 XPath
As part of our ongoing focus on interoperability with the modern Web, we’ve been working on addressing an interoperability gap by writing an implementation of DOM L3 XPath in the Windows 10 Web...
View ArticlePrism grows up
It's been over seven years since the Prism project started, led by the patterns & practices team. It was originally known as the Composite Application Library. Last year, we celebrated our 5th...
View ArticleAllocation Failure and Remediation
When you create a VM, restart stopped (de-allocated) VMs, resize a VM, or when you add new web or worker role instances, Microsoft Azure allocates compute resources to your subscription. You may...
View ArticleAnnouncing Enterprise Site Discovery support on IE8, IE9, IE10 and new...
Rumors of Internet Explorer’s demise have been greatly exaggerated! We encourage all of our customers to stay up-to-date on the latest version of Internet Explorer and we are continuing to make it...
View ArticleHow to make a Windows Store game with C# and XAML, part 2
This guest blog post is the second of a 3-part series written by Windows developer Jani Nevalainen. Please see the original 2nd post on Jani’s blog here, and refer to Part 1 here. Stay tuned for Part...
View ArticleALM webinars, conferences and events
After my last post on upcoming ALM Webinars i received a bunch of emails about other great ALM and DevOps events…So i spent some time putting them in chronological order. Hope this helps next time you...
View ArticleConnect(“Live”); // WPF Team Live Q & A
It’s been a busy week for the .NET teams here at Microsoft. We’ve just concluded our two day, live, free, dotnetConf 2015 event, with 19 sessions from both our product teams and community presenters....
View ArticleJoin Tomorrow’s Azure Announcement with Scott Guthrie
Log in tomorrow 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 developers get more...
View ArticleAnnouncing 100 core support for VSO Cloud Load testing and more!
Cloud Load Testing (CLT) with Visual Studio Online now supports up to 100 cores for a single load test run.Until now in CLT, you could use up to 20 cores (10 agents) in a single load test run. With...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2015 - Share Your Thoughts
Are you using Visual Studio 2015 for cross-platform development? Take our survey! In CTP 6, we've added or updated the following: Support for Android API Level 21 (Lollipop). Improvements to Android...
View ArticlePartnering with Adobe on new contributions to our web platform
In recent releases, we’ve talked often about our goal to bring the team and technologies behind our web platform closer to the community of developers and other vendors who are also working to move the...
View ArticleVisual Studio Tools for Windows 10 Technical Preview
Today we are making available a first preview of the Visual Studio 2015 tools for building Windows 10 applications. Windows Insiders can get access to the Windows 10 Technical Preview tools now, and...
View ArticleWindows 10 developer tooling preview now available to Windows Insiders
Three weeks ago, at Mobile World Congress, we had the opportunity to share with you a first look at the Windows 10 universal app platform. Today I’m excited to announce that we are making the first...
View ArticleVisual Studio Tools for Windows 10 Preview
Today we announced the Visual Studio 2015 Tools for Windows 10 Preview. These tools enable you to build Windows universal apps that run across all Windows 10 devices from Windows Phone to Xbox and...
View ArticleAnnouncing Microsoft Azure for Student Developers
Microsoft brings Azure and the power of the cloud to student developers In today’s mobile first, cloud first world, it’s critical that student developers have access to the latest tools, empowering...
View ArticleAnnouncing Azure App Service
In a mobile first, cloud first world, companies need to ensure their customers, partners and employees are able to seamlessly connect with and consume data across anywhere and on any device. As a...
View ArticleIntroducing Azure API Apps
As part of the Azure SDK 2.5.1 release, a new feature called Azure API Apps were included. This new feature raises the capabilities of ASP.NET Web API, extending it with Swagger metadata while...
View ArticleUpdates from the “Project Spartan” Developer Workshop
Today we’re excited to host some of our top web site partners, enterprise developers and web framework authors at the Microsoft Silicon Valley campus for a "Project Spartan" developer workshop to get...
View ArticleIntroducing the Azure API Apps Tools for Visual Studio 2013
With the Azure SDK 2.5.1 Release we took the opportunity to combine existing Web Publishing techniques with the new Azure Resource Management APIs to support Azure’s newest feature for Web, Mobile, and...
View ArticleTop Media Scenarios for Azure Government Customers
Earlier this month we announced the general availability of Azure Media Services in the Azure Government cloud. We are especially excited about this addition, as the unique capabilities of Azure Media...
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