Managing SSH-Enabled Linux Hosts with Azure Automation
Our team is frequently asked about Linux support by customers interested in unifying their workloads by using Azure Automation to manage not only Windows hosts, but Linux hosts as well. Today, we are...
View ArticleBringing componentization to the web: An overview of Web Components
Editor’s note: This is part one of a two-part series by Microsoft Edge engineers Travis Leithead and Arron Eicholz. Part two will be coming tomorrow, July 15th.Four of our five most-requested platform...
View ArticleHow to use Azure Search with D3.js to Build Interactive Data Visualizations
Helping users visualize data can have a big impact on improving the overall user experience of a web or mobile application. With Azure Search, a primary goal is to help developers build amazing search...
View ArticleUsing Azure Resource Manager in Azure Automation Runbooks
Due to the many exciting capabilities of Azure Resource Manager (ARM), many customers are asking how they can take advantage of ARM PowerShell cmdlets within Azure Automation runbooks.Currently, the...
View ArticleManage your Azure Linux VM logs through Operations Management Suite
Recently I shared details on how to enable diagnostics and monitoring for Azure Linux Virtual Machines through the Azure monitoring extension – see June blog on Azure Linux VM Infrastructure Monitoring...
View ArticleExpanding Linux and OSS Support on Azure
Azure is a first class platform for Linux and open source technology, with a growing list of OSS solutions in the marketplace, Linux extensions, and Azure services like HDInsight running on Linux. But...
View ArticleWindows SDK for Facebook
We’re pleased to announce a new open source library for integrating Facebook into your Windows apps. The Windows SDK for Facebook is geared towards app developers creating Universal Windows apps on...
View ArticleHow to install Visual Studio to another directory when a pre-release is...
If you’ve installed pre-release versions of Visual Studio – or even another edition of the same release – you may find you can’t change the installation target directory. This is because once a set of...
View ArticleASP.NET Community Standup - July 14, 2015
This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of...
View ArticleSTL Fixes In VS 2015, Part 2
In addition to implementing a whole bunch of features in VS 2015's C++ Standard Library, we've also fixed a whole bunch of bugs. A year ago, I listed the STL fixes in VS 2015 CTP1 . Now, it's time to...
View ArticleFirst .NET Port Award
Recently, we shared quite a bit how we make progress on our open source journey (Roslyn's First Year of Open Source and .NET Core Open Source Update). We all feel highly privileged to be on the .NET...
View ArticleAzure HDInsight launches ISV Partner Program at WPC
Today at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, we are announcing a new partner program for Hadoop independent software vendors (ISVs) to expand their offerings on the Microsoft Azure cloud. This...
View ArticleNew version of ASP.NET Merge Tool
The ASP.NET Merge tool (Aspnet_merge.exe) enables you to combine and manage the assemblies that are created by the ASP.NET compilation tool (Aspnet_compiler.exe). It was built on top of a Microsoft...
View ArticleWPC: Disrupt or be Disrupted
Today, I’m at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Orlando, Florida. When it comes to talking to our partners, what is top of mind for me is ensuring Microsoft empowers our partners’ success and...
View ArticleConfiguring Barracuda Web Application Firewall for Azure App Service Environment
Azure App Service Environments gives customers an environment with greater isolation and scaling characteristics for their applications. To improve security for your App Service Environment we have...
View ArticleImporting Data to DocumentDB Just Keeps Getting Better
The Azure DocumentDB Data Migration Tool is an open source solution that imports data to DocumentDB, Azure’s NoSQL document database service. The latest release of the tool opens up not only...
View ArticleMicrosoft Edge and Web Components
Editor’s note: This is part two of a two-part series on Web Components by Microsoft Edge engineers Travis Leithead and Arron Eicholz. To read more about our viewpoint and background on web components,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Band and Health developer platform
New to Microsoft Band and Health? Let’s start with a short summary. Microsoft Band is Microsoft’s first wearable device that helps you live healthier and be more productive. Powered by Microsoft Health...
View ArticleWorking with Marketplace Images on Azure Resource Manager
Hi again! As you may have already heard, we have launched a few new features at Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) 2015 to help improve the VM deployment experience using the Resource Manager...
View ArticleSearch improvements in Bing Maps Preview
Search is a core feature of Bing Maps because we understand how important it is to find places of interest quickly and easily. That’s why we made search a focus in the new Bing Maps Preview*.Search...
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