New Networking Capabilities for a Consistent, Connected and Hybrid Cloud
This week at Ignite, we announced several new Azure networking services and features that makes Azure more powerful than ever before. These capabilities will let you design your network topologies with...
View ArticleNew DocumentDB SQL Keywords, Operators and Functions
We’re pleased to announce some enhancements to the DocumentDB SQL grammar, including new keywords, operators and functions. The latest service update includes support for the IN and BETWEEN keywords,...
View ArticleA break from the past, part 2: Saying goodbye to ActiveX, VBScript, attachEvent…
We recently posted “A break from the past: the birth of Microsoft’s new web rendering engine”, an in-depth look at the background and motivation behind building a new rendering engine to power...
View ArticleBUILD 2015 ASP.NET 5 Training Videos - Introduction and Deep Dive
First, here's a few great annoucments and little details that you might have missed during the BUILD Conferenceapalooza last week. Amidst all the Windows 10 and the Holograms, Microsoft also did these...
View ArticleRecap: Bing Maps at //Build/ 2015
First off we would like to say thanks to those who attended the Bing Maps sessions during //Build/ 2015 in person or online. We would also like to say thanks to those who came by the Bing booth and to...
View ArticleAzure Automation: New Graphical and Textual Authoring Features
In the latest Preview release of Azure Automation we introduce a new feature – graphical authoring – that allows you to author runbooks using a graphical tool and a graphical programming model, with no...
View ArticleBringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge
A couple of months back, we announced that we had started development on Asm.js. Support for Asm.js has been one of the top 10 most-requested items at the Microsoft Edge Developer Suggestion Box on...
View ArticleReal World Cross-Platform Development with Visual Studio 2015: Synergex
The Visual C++ team welcomes opportunities to help partners, customers and the community (future customers) realize the benefits of Visual C++ and Visual Studio 2015. Recently, we have been fortunate...
View ArticleBuild 2015 Session Recap
Now that we’ve recovered from the excitement of Build 2015 last week, with its many keynotes packed with important announcements and 200 sessions, there’s much to digest, and we wanted to make it...
View ArticleTop News from April 2015
This top trending post is a collection of what we think are some of the top stories in April. This is our third such post (top news from February 2015, top news from March 2015) and we would love to...
View ArticleWant to learn more about Cloud Foundry on Azure?
Last week during /build, we announced support for Open Source Cloud Foundry among a slew of solutions which run great on Azure. We are excited that Cloud Foundry was part of this announcement, as we’ve...
View ArticleA look at new feedback-driven improvements to the network tool in our F12...
In January this year, we described new features and experiences for developers in the F12 developer tools that enable you to be more effective with a range of updates (e.g. new performance and network...
View ArticleBing gets you ready for summer blockbusters movies
It may still be spring, but this summer’s blockbuster movies are already heating up. This past weekend we watched as Iron Man, Captain America, and Black Widow topped the U.S. box office in “Avengers:...
View ArticleBuilding vorlon.JS with the help of the developer community and what’s next
Recently at //BUILD/ 2015 and in the Microsoft Edge Web Platform Summit, we have talked about how our focus on bringing our teams and the technologies behind our web platform closer to the broader...
View ArticleTargeting the .NET Framework 4.6 RC
The .NET Framework 4.6 is the latest version of the .NET Framework. The .NET Framework 4.6 exposes new APIs that you can use in your app or library. You can also use it to run existing apps.Using...
View ArticleUsing Fiddler to monitor network traffic from the VS Emulator for Android
In today’s cloud-connected world, it’s hard to find an app that doesn’t make use of an internet connection in some way or another. Whether you’re collecting app usage telemetry, making calls to a web...
View ArticleKnown Issue for Diagnostics Tool window in Visual Studio 2015 RC: “The...
The Diagnostic tools window is the home of IntelliTrace, debugger events and the Memory Usage tool. If you’ve run into an error when trying out the Diagnostic Tools window, first make sure you’re...
View ArticleVS Online hosted in Australia
Today, we are expanding our VS Online footprint to include an instance in Australia. This adds to the several instances we have in the US and the one we have in Europe. It is part of our drive to...
View ArticleMicrosoft Invests in Subsea Cables to Connect Datacenters Globally
I’m at International Telecoms Week (ITW) today, talking about how the telecoms industry is in the midst of a change to accommodate the growing trend of data consumption. As we look at how people and...
View ArticleApplication Insights: Public preview announced, iOS and Android Support, and...
Application Insights is now in Public Preview, and what a journey it has been getting here. Public Preview was announced at //Build/, along with our Pricing Plans. For more on the Public Preview...
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