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Azure DocumentDB: JavaScript as Modern Day T-SQL
Azure DocumentDB’s database engine is purposefully designed from the ground up to provide first class support for JSON and JavaScript. Our vision is for JavaScript developers to build applications...
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ASP.NET Community Standup - August 18, 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 ArticleMeet AzureCon
We’re excited to announce AzureCon, a virtual event on September 29. AzureCon is for the Azure community—developers and IT professionals who want to learn about the latest Azure innovation and...
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.NET Native – What it means for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) developers
This blog was written by Daniel Jacobson, Program ManagerWhat is .NET Native?.NET Native is a precompilation technology for building Universal Windows apps in Visual Studio 2015. The .NET Native...
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Azure Site Recovery is now available in Central US, North Central US, South...
We are pleased to announce that we have expanded the availability of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) to all non-government regions in the United States.In order to cater to the ongoing demand of our...
View ArticleWhy Your Private Cloud is Failing – Join Me at OpenStack Silicon Valley
Gartner analyst Tom Bittman recently posted a blog showing that the majority of corporate private clouds are failing,“I was a little surprised that 95% of the 140 respondents (who had private clouds in...
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Connecting and Extending Office with Microsoft Office Developer Tools for...
Today, we are excited to announce the Office Developers Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – August 2015 Update. Along with the Visual Studio 2015 RTM; you can now get the latest Office development features...
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Azure Mobile Apps August 2015 update
Last month, we released an update to the Azure Mobile Apps .NET server SDK making it easier to get started and facilitated use of the SDK with any ASP.NET project. Today, we’re announcing changes to...
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Row-Level Security for SQL Database is Generally Available
Row-Level Security (RLS) for SQL Database is now generally available. RLS enables you to store data for many users in a single database and table, while at the same time restricting row-level access...
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The future of Unity
This post was written by Christopher Bennage (@bennage), a member of the Microsoft patterns & practices team.A few months ago, we announced that we were handing Prism over to new owners. We put a...
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Using promotional codes for your apps: a walkthrough and suggested uses
On July 29, we launched a highly requested new feature in Dev Center: promotional codes. Today I want to share more details about this feature, how and when to best use it.Promotional codes enable...
View ArticleCloud Foundry on Azure Preview 2 Now Available
Following on the footsteps of the Cloud Foundry on Azure Preview, we are excited to announce the release of an update incorporating feedback received over the past few months from the community. Today,...
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Windows 10 IoT Core controlling a Raspberry Pi 2 Robot
My 7 year old sat down and built a little robot from instructions listed at Microsoft's IoT Hackster site.To build the robot, you will need the following:Wooden Robot Frame in 7 pieces - Get the...
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New Azure IT Workload: Web-based, line of business application
The new High-Availability Line of Business Application content set guides you through the end-to-end process so you can:Understand the value of hosting a web-based, line of business application in...
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Local Tile Layers in Bing Maps WPF
Earlier this year the Bing Maps WPF control was updated with a number of performance and bug fixes. Most notably, navigating the map using touch works much better in Windows 8 than it did before. This...
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Azure Backup update – New features in IaaS VM backup support
Today we are excited to announce new features to Azure Backup’s support for Azure IaaS VM backup, which was previewed earlier this year. The new set of features include support for virtual machine...
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Get the DocumentDB SQL query cheat sheet
Azure DocumentDB lets you query JSON documents using familiar and friendly SQL syntax. If you know SQL, you can get up and running quickly with Azure DocumentDB – and we have an easy to print reference...
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Using Cortana to interact with your customers (10 by 10)
This week’s theme in our Windows 10 by 10 development series is extending customer engagement using the Windows 10 without your users even entering your app. Last week’s topic, Live Tiles and...
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A Day in the Life of Visual Studio Send a Smile Feedback
Last time we talked about the Feedback Tools in Visual Studio 2015 RTM and I shared how you can send us feedback. In this post, I am going to share what happens to the feedback after you send it to...
View ArticleAzure Media Services Java SDK gets a major update
We are pleased to announce a new update (V.0.8.0) of Azure Media Services SDK for Java to including new features like content protection and support for more entities/operations (StreamingEndpoint,...
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