Autoscaling Windows Azure Applications
Editor's Note: This post comes from the Windows Azure Monitoring Team.One of the key benefits of Windows Azure is that you can quickly scale your application in response to changing demand. In the...
View ArticleIntroducing IE11: The Best Way to Experience the Web on Modern Touch Devices
As part of today’s Windows 8.1 Preview, Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) Preview is now also available. Fast, fluid and perfect for touch, IE11 continues our vision of providing the best Web experience...
View ArticleASP.NET updates to support Windows Azure Active Directory
Today we released an update to the Visual Studio 2013 Preview which enables you to create ASP.NET applications which use Windows Azure Active Directory for authentication.In this post I will describe;...
View ArticleHTML Editing Features in Visual Studio 2013 Preview
The Preview Release of Visual Studio 2013 contains a surprising addition: a brand new HTML editor! In fact, VS 2013 contains two HTML editors. The story’s a little complicated, so this article will do...
View ArticleAnnouncing the General Availability of Windows Azure Mobile Services, Web...
We strive to deliver innovation that gives developers a diverse platform for building the best cloud applications that can reach customers around the world in an instant. Many new applications fall...
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View ArticleAnnouncing Visual Studio 2013 Preview and .NET 4.5.1 support
For those who've been following the announcements at BUILD these past two days, Visual Studio 2013 Preview has now been officially released.For Office developers, the VS 2013 Preview release means that...
View ArticleThe Windows Store for Windows 8.1
Yesterday at Build, we announced improvements we’re making to the Windows Store. With a new design, new developer features and new promotional opportunities, we’re making the Windows Store an even...
View ArticleIntroducing ASP.NET Identity – A membership system for ASP.NET applications
ASP.NET Identity is the new membership system for building ASP.NET web applications. ASP.NET Identity allows you to add login features to your application and makes it easy to customize data about the...
View ArticleChanging the World Through Code #AzureDev
There’s no doubt who the hero is at //Build 2013. Developers are the heart and soul of our industry and we celebrate all that they do and all that they are. Before Satya Nadella walked on stage for...
View Article//build/ 2013 recap
Here in San Francisco //build/ 2013 is winding down. The last sessions finish up this afternoon and after that we turn it over to you, the developers, to start using all the improvements we’ve talked...
View ArticleBuild 2013 Windows Phone Session Round-Up
Windows Phone presented an enormous amount of content at Build 2013 this week. All of this is now available online for you to view at your leisure on Channel 9. FoundationalWindows Phone: Introducing...
View ArticleTelemetry basics and troubleshooting
Editor's Note: This post comes from Silvano Coriani from the Azure CAT Team.In Building Blocks of Great Cloud Applications blog post, we introduced Azure CAT team series of blog posts and tech articles...
View ArticleMake VS2012 MVC4 VSIX template to work for Visual Studio 2013 preview
Visual Studio 2012.2 supports customized MVC4 template, you can get a walkthrough here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/yjhong/archive/2012/12/13/custom-mvc-4-template-walkthrough.aspx . But the created...
View ArticleUpdates to the Internet Explorer Testing Center
With the release of Internet Explorer 11 Preview as part of the Windows 8.1 Preview, we have updated the IE Testing Center to include new test cases for the standards supported in IE11, advancing...
View ArticleBuild talk of the week: Beautiful apps at any size on any screen
Many tasks performed on slates, laptops, and desktops require using more than one app. As a user, you may have found yourself referencing documentation while writing code, copying a funny quote from a...
View ArticleRunning the Windows Phone Emulator on Windows 8.1 Preview
With Windows 8.1 Preview now available, we would like to highlight a compatibility issue with the Windows Phone Emulator included in the Windows Phone SDK 8.0. When you start the Windows Phone 8.0...
View ArticleUser Experience Design Competency coming to the Microsoft Partner Network
In the past few years, we've focused on improving the user experience and design of our platforms, making them more intuitive, familiar and enjoyable to engage with. Our point of view is embodied in...
View ArticleGoing ‘Cloud First’ with Windows Azure
There’s no doubt that the cloud is providing tremendous opportunity to our partners, with businesses forecast to spend $98 billion on public cloud services by 2016 worldwide, according to IDC. Today at...
View ArticleLive from WPC: Office Store announces support for 22 additional markets
Today on the Office Blog, Dene Cleaver announced Office Store support for 22 additional markets across 4 additional languages. Developers can submit French, German, Spanish, and Japanese-language apps...
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