Developing Facebook’s Messenger with Visual Studio
Facebook’s Messenger app, a leading mobile app running on Windows Phone, was built using Visual Studio. In this interview just published on Channel 9, Messenger Technical Lead Nick Reynolds shares his...
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Smart Unit Tests - Test to Code Binding, Test Case Management
In an earlier post we had mentioned how Smart Unit Tests can emit a suite of tests for a given code-under-test, and how it can manage this test suite as the code-under-test itself evolves. For any...
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UPDATED for 2015: How to install the nodejs Ghost blog software on Azure Web...
What? Didn't I blog about this before? Yes, in fact, in 2013 I did an article showing how to get Ghost - a lovely nodejs-based blogging app - running on Azure. The instructions involved making some...
View ArticleAnnouncing Azure Service Fabric: Reducing Complexity in a Hyper-scale World
Cloud computing continues to change the way that businesses reach their customers. In today’s hyper-competitive environment, ISVs and startups are on the leading edge of this change. They are...
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After Hours @ Build in San Francisco–April 29th
Hey-ya folks in the Bay Area! Our team is speaking at a free community event on April 29th that I’m pretty excited about. We’ll have plenty of experts from the .NET, ASP.NET and Managed Languages teams...
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Using RequireJS with Visual Studio
As applications become richer and more complex, it becomes important to structure code so that it’s easy to refactor components independently. To understand how one piece of code depends upon another,...
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Come meet the Azure DocumentDB team at Build, April 29 – May 1 in San Francisco
Exciting news! Microsoft Azure DocumentDB is hosting a great session at this year’s Build Conference in San Francisco, CA.Who doesn’t love playing Buzzword Bingo at tech conferences?Well, the...
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A Comprehensive Tool for Azure Media Services
With most of the key components of Azure Media Services (AMS) currently or soon to be in GA (General Availability), the author would like to share his comprehensive AMS tool.This is a comprehensive...
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Visual Studio 2013 continuously repairs producing many small log files
If you have Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Professional, Premium, or Ultimate editions installed and are finding many small MSI*.log files in your %TEMP% directory, you may find you are running low on...
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TFVC & Git support
I got a question on a blog post about differences in TFVC and Git support in TFS and VS Online. Here’s a link to the question for context:...
View ArticleBuild your Application Development agenda at Ignite!
New development technologies, new connected devices, and new cloud-oriented business models create extraordinary opportunities for application developers to drive greater innovation. Whether you build...
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Leveraging Azure Site Recovery with SQL Always On Availability Groups for...
Azure Site Recovery provides a single, workload-aware disaster recovery solution for heterogeneous IT environments. Critical applications and workloads, whether running on Hyper-V or VMware virtual...
View ArticleVisual Studio for Game Development: New Partnerships with Unity, Unreal...
Windows game developers now have the benefit of easier Visual Studio setup alongside top gaming engine installers from partners Unity Technologies, Epic Games and Chuckong Technologies. Last year’s...
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Furthering Azure Security at the RSA Conference
Today at the RSA Conference, Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President, Trustworthy Computing for Microsoft delivered a keynote focused on Enabling Greater Transparency and Control in the Cloud. Scott...
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The Bing Image Graph – Powering the Next Generation of Image Search
This month, we released a new Bing image search experience designed to help customers be inspired, learn more, and do more with image search. We discover billions of images on the Internet, but...
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Celebrate Earth Day with Bing Maps
Today is Earth Day, an annual event first celebrated in 1970 to bring attention to the state of our planet’s environment. We at Bing Maps have the incredible opportunity to focus on the earth every day...
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Eco-Friendly Startups Make Going Green a Reality with Azure
The first order of business for a startup is recognizing that there is a problem to be solved. From that point onward, early stage companies need to translate that vision and helping others understand...
View ArticleExtending Microsoft Online Services Bug Bounty Program to Azure
Today, we are announcing the addition of Azure to the Microsoft Online Services Bug Bounty Program. Azure is excited to join Office 365 and others in rewarding and recognizing security researchers who...
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Looking for NASCAR? Bing’s got you covered.
If you find yourself driving faster than usual, could it be because it’s NASCAR season? As you gear up for the Toyota Owners 400 this weekend, Bing’s got you covered. Our search results for NASCAR...
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PyCon 2015 in review
A couple weeks ago we headed off to PyCon 2015. If you missed PyCon, there is another opportunity to come see us. PyData Seattle is hosted at Microsoft’s Redmond campus in July 24-26. The call for...
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