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Top News from July 2015
Hello everyone! Every month we share some top stories from the previous month, and here’s our round-up for July.Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download. Within the Visual Studio team,...
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Visual Studio Online Update – Aug 7th
This week we are rolling out our Sprint 86 work. You can read details on the VSO release notes. Included is the next set of work to improve our Agile planning experiences and availability of a NuGet...
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Using App Service Web Apps continuous deployment with GitHub organizations
Continuous Deployment support for repositories hosted on GitHub has been a requested feature on our User Voice site. I’m excited to say we’ve recently enabled this functionality in the Azure Preview...
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The Evergreen Web
I visited a website on my company's Intranet today using Microsoft Edge (the new "evergreen" browser in Windows 10*) and got an interesting warning. "This website needs Internet Explorer." At first I...
View ArticleUpdate on .NET Framework 4.6 and Azure
An exciting time for developersA few weeks ago, we released Visual Studio 2015 RTM and the latest version of our cloud development tools in the Azure 2.7 SDK for .NET. Included with Visual Studio was...
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Introduction to Debugging
Whenever those of us in Visual Studio give talks or write blog posts about debugging, we typically focus on tips and tricks and new features that take for granted you already know the basics of...
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Azure HDInsight now available in the Azure Preview Portal
Today, we are announcing Azure HDInsight will be available in the Azure Preview Portal in addition to the existing Azure portal.The Azure Preview Portal was announced last year and delivers a...
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August 2015 .NET Security Updates
The .NET team released two security bulletins today as part of the monthly "Update Tuesday" cycle. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS15-080 - Critical, Vulnerability in .NET Framework Could Allow Remote...
View ArticleManaging multiple Azure SQL Databases just got easier with Elastic Database Jobs
Elastic Database jobs keeps getting better. Now with the preview release of the PowerShell cmdlets for jobs, you can create custom database groups, define schedules to allow for recurring jobs such as...
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PowerShell module for the OMS Search API
In a previous blog post I described a scenario and use case for the Hybrid Runbook Worker for those without an easy way to upload to Azure Automation and leverage on-premises resources. Using the...
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Getting noticed and installed more often (10 by 10)
Welcome to the first week of our Windows 10 by 10 series. To kick things off, let’s begin where your customer engagement starts – with the Windows Store.To help ensure that your apps are getting...
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Contextual sensing in Windows 10
This blog was written by Rinku Sreedhar, Senior Program ManagerIn Windows 10, we are very excited to introduce several APIs for contextual sensing that can help you build apps to improve your...
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Bing predicts what’s top of mind this back-to-school season
It’s August, which means parents and students are starting to think about the start of a new school year. The return to the classroom brings a mix of excitement and nervousness. To better understand...
View ArticleAzure Files Preview Update
At Build 2015 we announced technical support is now available for Azure Files customers with technical support subscriptions. We are pleased to announce several additional updates for the Azure Files...
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New CDN features – country filtering, compression and analytics
We’re happy to announce new Content Delivery Network features, now generally available for all customers:Country filtering By default, your content can be accessed from all countries. In some cases,...
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Azure Backup enables backup of large volumes, VMs, databases and more
We are happy to announce Azure Backup has increased the size of datasources that can be protected from 1700 GB to 54400 GB. For customers with large volume fileservers (greater than 2TB) that want to...
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SmartOffice4TFS and inteGREAT4TFS available for Visual Studio Enterprise with...
Managing requirements is an incredibly important part of the software development process for everyone. Different teams approach the problem very differently – from very lightweight/informal ways to...
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Visual Studio Online Process Customization: Private Preview or vNext?
Process customization is very important to our customers’ ability to adopt Visual Studio Online. In May we announced our “Private Preview” that is intended for organizations that are currently using...
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Azure Data Factory is generally available
Azure Data Factory (ADF) is now generally available. ADF is a fully managed cloud-based service that automates the movement and transformation of data. You can quickly create, schedule, monitor and...
View ArticleUpdate: Azure Media Indexer v1.3.2
Today we released an update to Azure Media Indexer with some minor fixes for specific workflows:FIX: AIB file now supports querying of strings with special characters/punctuationFIX: Old configuration...
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