Announcing Application Insights Public Preview
I am very excited with all the announcements being made at Microsoft BUILD conference today! As you might have read in Soma’s blog and Brian Harry’s blog, we are announcing Public Preview of Visual...
View ArticleBuild 2015: Azure Storage Announcements!
It’s time for BUILD 2015, and the Azure Storage team has several exciting announcements to make. We hope that these new features will enable you to write more powerful applications with Azure Storage....
View ArticleNew Architecture Blueprint: Large-Scale Computing – Financial Services
We’re pleased to announce a new Azure architecture blueprint for Large-Scale Computing – Financial Services (PDF download). Financial services organizations in insurance, capital markets, and banking...
View ArticleDistributing Windows Apps to the World
Hello from Build 2015 in San Francisco! Earlier today we revealed more details about Windows 10 and the Universal Windows Platform and shared the new ways for building more personal mobile experiences...
View ArticleMicrosoft brings Windows 10 to Makers
We are continually inspired by the enthusiasm and passion for technology represented by the Maker community. Today we are excited to share what’s next for Makers on Windows 10 with Arduino, Raspberry...
View ArticleNew ASP.NET Features and Fixes in Visual Studio 2015 RC
Today Scott Hanselman announced the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2015, Team Foundation Server 2015 and Visual Studio 2013 Update 5. We hope that all //build attendees are enjoying the show, and...
View ArticleBuild 2015 marks an important step in our journey with developers – and it’s...
Kicking off day 2 of BUILD today, I had the pleasure of building on the news and vision that Satya, Scott and Terry shared yesterday. We built upon the big ideas and bold ambitions from day 1 where we...
View ArticleAnnouncing TypeScript 1.5 Beta
We have continued work on the TypeScript 1.5 release, and today we are one step closer. You can now try out the TypeScript 1.5 beta as a download for VS 2015 RC, VS 2013, npm, or as source.The beta...
View ArticleIntroducing the Windows 10 Apache Cordova platform
Apache Cordova allows developers to write apps targeting iOS, Android, Windows, and Windows Phone with a single codebase using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. Today, Apache Cordova support for Windows 10 is...
View ArticleAnnouncing partitioning support in the DocumentDB SDK
We are pleased to announce the release of new functionality in the .NET SDK that makes it easier to develop partition application data using Azure DocumentDB.During the preview of the DocumentDB...
View ArticleHello Minecraft modders! Visual Studio
Earlier today, at BUILD, we announced the public availability of a new open source project meant to simplify the development of Minecraft mods within Visual Studio. This Visual Studio extension can be...
View ArticleWhat’s New in Visual Studio Tools for Universal Windows Apps
Today at //BUILD we are making an update available to the Visual Studio Tools for Universal Windows apps. Windows 10 is an exciting release for developers, with support for Universal Windows apps that...
View ArticleGitHub Integration in Developer Assistant
Developer Assistant for Visual Studio is a productivity plugin that brings the combined power of Bing Code Search capabilities and contextual help to day-to-day developer problems, like resolving code...
View ArticleAnnouncing the GitHub Extension for Visual Studio
Today, Steven Guggenheimer announced Microsoft's collaboration with GitHub and introduced several projects that make it easier for developers on GitHub to work with Visual Studio and Azure. In...
View ArticleUpdates for ASP.NET 4.6 – Web Forms/ MVC 5/ Web API 2
We released Visual Studio 2015 RC which included ASP.NET 5 Preview. Along with ASP.NET 5 Preview we have also been working on improving ASP.NET 4.6 which includes Web Forms, MVC 5 and Web API 2. This...
View ArticleA deeper dive into the Universal Windows Platform
Hello from day 2 of Build 2015 in San Francisco. David Treadwell and I just gave the audience a peek at many of the new capabilities the new Universal Window Platform will enable, along with the...
View ArticleFull-Text Search is now available for preview in Azure SQL Database
With the growing popularity of storing and managing data using Azure SQL Database, demand for full-text search capabilities in a wide variety of applications is rapidly increasing. This article...
View ArticleApplication Insights now supports asp.net v5 applications
We just released the very first preview of Application Insights for the ASP.NET v5 (a.k.a ASP.NET vNext) web applications. You can find the NuGet on nuget.org and will allow you to monitor server...
View ArticleUsing TypeScript in Visual Studio Code
With the recent announcement of Visual Studio Code, there have been a lot of questions about how to get started writing TypeScript. In this quickstart, we’ll create a simple TypeScript project. Out...
View ArticleExtensions for Visual Studio Online, REST APIs for TFS 2015 RC, and more from...
It has been a busy two days here at Build 2015 in San Francisco. Lots of announcements by Microsoft overall, and lots of great stuff for developers (across all platforms). Oh, and if you didn’t feel a...
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