Top News for August 2015
Hello everyone! Every month we share some top stories from the previous month, and here’s our round-up for August.DevOps tops the list this month! Brian Harry leads the way with his announcement on...
View ArticleLoad Testing from different geographies with Cloud-based load testing
Last week I was asked a pretty common question: “How do you generate and distribute load in a Performance Test across different geographic locations”This person knows our load Testing features well and...
View ArticleSending WebHooks with ASP.NET WebHooks Preview
In the blog Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks Preview, we gave an overview of how to work with Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks. We mentioned that it is not only possible to receive WebHooks from others...
View ArticleUse Bing to “track” an astronaut across Mars
Space travel and adventure return to the big screen this October in one of fall’s most anticipated movies, The Martian. If you haven’t yet seen a preview of the 20th Century Fox film, or read Andy...
View ArticleDynamically detecting features with API contracts (10 by 10)
The Universal Windows Platform (UWP) allows you to write your app once and target multiple device families, while also taking advantage of new APIs introduced on later versions of the OS as well as...
View ArticleAnnouncing Public Preview for Performance/Load testing of Azure Webapp
Poor performance is one of the largest causes of lost business on the Internet. Companies are increasingly more concerned with losing business (like during the upcoming Holiday season) due to...
View ArticleOur Summer Internship on the .NET Team
This post was written by Microsoft Explorer interns Daniel King, Zoë Petard, and Jessica Petty and highlights their project & experiences this summer working on the .NET Roslyn team. We loved...
View ArticleMicrosoft Virtual Academy - Introduction to ASP.NET 5
In 2013, Jon Galloway, Damian Edwards, and myself went up to film a LIVE 8 hour long Microsoft Virtual Academy training session called "Building Web Apps with ASP.NET Jump Start." We returned in 2014...
View ArticleWinTools 1.1, TypeScript 1.6 RTM, and Tools for Apache Cordova Updates
We’ve just released updates to several tools, along with something new for developers working with the Apache Cordova CLI.Tools for Universal Windows apps (v1.1). This update addresses a number of key...
View ArticleLink Explorer Being Retired in Webmaster Tools
Saying Goodbye to Link ExplorerSaying goodbye is never easy, but the time has come to do just that with a member of the Bing Webmaster Tools family: starting October 1st, 2015 we are shutting down Link...
View ArticleLearn about the samples for Universal Windows Platform
One way to learn app development for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) is by taking advantage of the extensive and growing samples collection on GitHub. You can use these samples to learn about...
View ArticleAnnouncing TypeScript 1.6
Today, we're happy to announce the release of TypeScript 1.6. This release adds support for React/JSX, class expressions, and a rich set of new capabilities in the type system. It also provides...
View ArticleWe listened and your top suggestions are now live in the Bing Maps Preview!
Since we shared the Bing Maps Preview* in July, you’ve given us more than 46,000 suggestions and pieces of feedback! Thank you. The team is passionate about the new experience and it means a lot to...
View ArticleDeploy to Azure from GitHub with Application Insights
Browsing GitHub the other day I found an interesting button in README: Deploy to Azure. This button intrigued me to say the least. With one click I can create my own instance of that web app and try it...
View ArticleWe listened and your top suggestions are now live in the Bing Maps Preview!
Since we shared the Bing Maps Preview* in July, you’ve given us more than 46,000 suggestions and pieces of feedback! Thank you. The team is passionate about the new experience and it means a lot to...
View ArticleInitial preview of Silverlight bridge to UWP
Today marks the initial release of Mobilize.NET’s Silverlight bridge, which helps Windows Phone Silverlight app developers bring their WP Silverlight 8.x apps to the Windows 10 Universal Windows...
View ArticleUpdate on Node.js for Windows 10 IoT
Post written by Arunesh Chandra, Sr. Program Manager and Gaurav Seth, Principal Program Manager Lead on ChakraEver since we announced our preview of Node.js support for Windows 10 IoT Core a few months...
View ArticleMore ways to bring your code to fast-growing Windows 10 Store
Windows 10 adoption surpassed 75 million devices in 192 countries within its first month of availability and we’re already seeing a shift in the way people engage with Windows Store and the content...
View ArticleORTC API is now available in Microsoft Edge
In October last year, we announced our intention toimplement ORTC in Microsoft Edge with a focus on video and audio communications, and we have been hard at work on our implementation since then....
View ArticleConcurrency Visualizer for Visual Studio 2015 is now available on the gallery
The Concurrency Visualizer is a tool for Visual Studio that allows you to analyze and improve performance of multi-threaded applications. See the MSDN documentation for more information on using the...
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