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Microsoft Unveils New Container Technologies for the Next Generation Cloud
In today’s cloud-first world, businesses increasingly rely on applications to fuel innovation and productivity. As the cloud evolves, containers are emerging as an attractive way for developers to...
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NoSQL database service Azure DocumentDB now Generally Available
We are pleased to announce that Azure DocumentDB is now generally available. DocumentDB is a fully managed NoSQL document database service that allows applications to query and process JSON data at...
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Introducing Azure Resource Explorer for the Azure Resource Management APIs
When managing Azure resources (Virtual Machines, Web Apps, etc) I like to do most of my work in Azure from the command line using the "Azure xplat cli" - the Azure Cross Platform Command Line...
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Layer Validation in Visual Studio architecture modeling tools may result in...
When you perform Layer Validation using the tools available from the Architecture menu in Enterprise versions of Visual Studio 2012 and 2013, especially when Layer Validation is part of a Build...
View ArticleHow to make a Windows Store game with C# and XAML, part 3
This guest blog post is the final post of a 3-part series written by Windows developer Jani Nevalainen. Please see the original 3rd post on Jani’s blog here, and refer to Part 1 here and Part 2 here....
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Recap of Connect(“Live”); Q&A Events for February & March
Have you attended a Connect(“Live”); event? What? You haven’t? Well, then, here’s the details: These events are 1-hour long, informal, live-streaming chats with the product teams, providing you an...
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Be inspired, learn more and do more through image search
Glacier National Park Photo: Dave Sizer/Creative CommonsPeople discover and explore billions of images every month using Bing Image Search. As we analyzed how people discover images on Bing, talked to...
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Being a Part of the Bing Image Search Ecosystem
Billions of images are discovered by Bing searchers every month. Through Bing.com and our search partnerships with companies like Apple, Amazon and Yahoo, customers are performing more image searches...
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Project Spartan now available in the Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones
As Gabe just announced on the Windows Blog, the latest Windows 10 Technical Preview build for phones is now available. With it, we are delighted to announce that Project Spartan for Windows phones is...
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Bing.com Mobile homepage just got a complete makeover
The Bing Homepage team —the same folks who bring you the gorgeous desktop experience on Bing.com — just completed a significant redesign of the homepage experience for mobile phones. The new version of...
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Card configuration options – Apr 10
Note: The improvements discussed in this post will be rolling out over the next two weeks. Please follow progress of the deployment at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsoservice/.Configure cardsThe first thing...
View ArticleJava at Microsoft – A great selection of cloud options for Java developers
Are you working with Java and want to know where to start on Microsoft Azure? Are you already on Azure but want to take you Java applications to the next level?We have good news for you! Microsoft...
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Microsoft Azure Media Services expands End-to-End cloud video platform with...
Over the last year we have built on the strong momentum of Azure Media Services by adding more innovating features to enable content owners and partners to prepare, protect, distribute and monetize...
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VS Online Update - April 10th
We are deploying our sprint 80 results this week. You can read the release notes on visualstudio.com. There are some very nice improvements for both the Agile tooling and Git. This is an unusual...
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Announcing the 2015 “Project Spartan” Web Summit, May 5th and 6th in Mountain...
In March, the Project Spartan team hosted a small, by-invitation workshop at our Silicon Valley campus with developers attending from popular sites and frameworks based around the Silicon Valley area....
View ArticleAn introduction to Live Encoding with Azure Media Services
Since our release of Live Streaming in Azure Media Services last year, you have had access to the same instantly scalable, always available streaming solution that broadcasters have used time and again...
View ArticleAzure Media Indexer Spanish (v1.2)!
Today I am proud to announce the general availability of Azure Media Indexer v1.2! From a bird’s eye view, this release comprises the following:Support for Spanish LanguageNew configuration xml format...
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Detection keys for Visual Studio 2015
Administrators and developers who need to detect whether Visual Studio 2015 is installed can use similar registry keys as with past releases. This time around, though, we’ve made some changes to the...
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Integrate your on-premises infrastructure with Azure
If you’ve experimented with Microsoft Azure, or are already using it for some of your IT functionality, you may be ready to take that next step and integrate your infrastructure with Azure so you can...
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Easily Import Data to DocumentDB
A common request we’ve heard from customers is, “How can I easily migrate data to DocumentDB?” While there are lots of different approaches, it’s hard to imagine one easier than the DocumentDB Data...
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