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Top Windows Phone app certification failures and how to avoid them
Thanks to Mike Francis of the Windows Phone Store certification and policy team, who provided much of the content for this blog. -- Bernardo I work very hard to develop, test, and market my Windows...
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Windows Azure Websites Development Stacks Support
Editor's Note: This post comes from Daria Grigoriu, Program Manager on the Windows Azure Web Sites team, and Windows Azure Web Sites Developer Experience partners.The Windows Azure Web Sites (WAWS)...
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Announcing E-book version of Scott Guthrie’s “Building Real-World Cloud Apps...
We have published online and downloadable e-book versions of Scott Guthrie’s presentation titled Building Real-World Cloud Apps with Windows Azure (original video version is available here: part 1,...
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Deprecation of Custom Code in Sandboxed Solutions
Our bad. We’ve been guilty of sending mixed messages about the status of sandboxed solutions in SharePoint development. We’d like to clarify that now.While developing sandboxed solutions that contain...
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Register now for Build 2014
As we announced last month, Build 2014 will take place on April 2-4 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. Registration has just opened up at http://buildwindows.com - we encourage you to sign up...
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Register now for Build 2014
As we announced last month, Build 2014 will take place on April 2-4 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. Registration has just opened up at http://buildwindows.com - we encourage you to sign up...
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Scaffolding ADO.NET Entity Data Model Designer-based-models
The ADO.NET Entity Data Model Designer (Entity Designer) is a GUI tool for editing Entity Framework models. You can use the Entity Designer to visually create and modify entities, associations,...
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Publishing apps for Office and SharePoint to Windows Azure Websites
Windows Azure Websites are a great hosting platform for a variety of applications – and your app can be one of them. Azure Websites are easy to create and offer advanced management, scalability, and...
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AzureDev Community Campaign Winner Announcement
Today we are excited to announce the winners of the AzureDev community campaign and donate $100,000 to five nonprofits focused on technology education. Introduced at Build 2013, the AzureDev campaign...
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Some notes on using Organizational Auth with ASP.NET
In Visual Studio 2013 we shipped support for creating new ASP.NET projects which use Windows Azure Active Directory for Organizational Authentication. Vittorio Bertocci has recently written a great...
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Announcing PCI DSS compliance and expanded ISO certification for Windows...
Today, we are excited to announce two significant milestones that enhance customers’ ability to build secure and compliant applications on Windows Azure. Additionally, we are also announcing the...
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Orchard CMS with Azure Cache on Windows Azure websites (WAWS)
Editor’s note: This post comes from Sunitha Muthukrishna a Program Manager on the Windows Azure Web Sites team.If your current OrchardCMS site is running on multiple instances on Windows Azure...
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Inside Windows Phone 71 – Using NoSQL to store data offline
Rob Tiffany joins Matthijs Hoekstra again to discuss NoSQL, an easy way to store your data offline on your phone. During this conversation Rob explains what NoSQL is, why you would use it and what the...
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Understanding and resolving failures in Windows Store apps
As Windows Store app builders, we’re sure you’re aware that apps can experience a variety of failures: hangs, crashes, unavailable services and resources, and any number of unexpected operating...
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Announcing the Release of ASP.NET MVC 5.1, ASP.NET Web API 2.1 and ASP.NET...
The NuGet packages for ASP.NET MVC 5.1, ASP.NET Web API 2.1 and ASP.NET Web Pages 3.1 are now live on the NuGet gallery!Download this releaseYou can install or update to the released NuGet packages for...
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Successfully crafting a mail app using the Lean Startup methodology
The blog post describes how to use the Lean Startup methodology to develop a real "Who's Who" mail app. IntroductionI am a new program manager (PM) to the Microsoft ecoSystem team. The team focuses on...
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Gartner Recognizes Microsoft as an Application Platform as a Service Leader
2013 was an amazing year for Windows Azure. Every month saw new records for customer usage, and in April we hit a major milestone with the GA of Windows Azure Infrastructure Service, which received...
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IN YOUR OWN WORDS – Eddie Kezeli, ProShot developer
"The results of my single app on Windows Phone exceeded my expectations so much that I quit looking for a job."In less than one year, Eddie Kezeli, the mastermind of ProShot—an innovative camera app...
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WordPress with Memcached on Azure websites
Editor's Note: This post comes from Sunitha Muthukrishna, Program Manager on the Windows Azure Web Sites team, and Windows Azure Web Sites Developer Experience partners. Are you looking to improve the...
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Announcing Reduced Pricing on Storage
As you may recall from the April announcement, we committed to match Amazon Web Services prices for commodity services like compute, storage and bandwidth. Effective March 13, customers will see lower...
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