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Azure Developer Camp - March 5 in Tampa
Windows Azure Developer Camp: Make It Happen In The CloudJoin us for a Windows Azure Developer Camp on March 5 in Tampa and leave with code running in the cloud! This is a free, one-day Windows Azure...
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How intelligent systems partners are chipping away at high healthcare costs
Posted By Kristin FlandreauAmericas Business Group LeadThe U.S. spends about $2.8 trillion annually on health expenses. That’s about $8,915 per person and amounts to 17.2 percent of gross domestic...
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Azure Storage Bindings Part 1 – Blobs
The Azure WebJobs SDK provides model binding between C# BCL types and Azure storage like Blobs, Tables, and Queues. The SDK has a JobHost object which reflects over the functions in your assembly. So...
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Introducing ASP.NET Project “Helios”
In late 2013 we made available a prerelease NuGet package which allows running a managed web application directly on top of IIS without going through the normal ASP.NET (System.Web) request processing...
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Supplemental to ASP.NET Project “Helios”
This is a supplemental document to my earlier Introducing ASP.NET Project “Helios” post. It contains extra information that might be of interest to the advanced developer but which didn’t make it into...
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New Skills for New Jobs: Challenges and Opportunities for People with...
The following blog post was written by James Thurston – Director of International Accessibility Policy at Microsoft. James works with Microsoft’s global subsidiaries, NGOs, and governments around the...
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Setting up Eclipse for Windows Azure Mobile Services Development
There were no detailed instructions for this and I ran into some problems when following our tutorial for this so here are my super easy to follow instructions. I did this on Windows 8.1 64bit OS...
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Azure Storage Bindings Part 2 – Queues
I previously described how the Azure Webjobs SDK can bind to Blobs. This entry describes binding to Azure Queues. (Binding to Service Bus Queues is not yet implemented)You can see some more...
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Florida Dev Events Feb 18 and Forward
Here's a quick callout for the all the upcoming Florida Microsoft Developer focused events I'm aware of. If you don't see your events here send me an email - jhealy@microsoft.com. Hope to see you out...
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New CodedUI course from Pluralsight
One of the ALM MVPs, Marcel de Vries, has been spending a ton of time writing CodeUI Tests. Thankfully Marcel decided to take this hard earned knowledge and convert it into a class on best practices...
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App Experiment : What drives Downloads?
“What drives Downloads ?” Is an experiment I conducted at the end of the year. At the end of 2013 I did a little of experiment. The purpose of the experiment was build 2 apps that performed...
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.NET: NGEN, explicit loads and load-context promotion
If you want to know the conclusion and want to skip the details jump to the end for the climax :). If you care to see this feature in, please vote for this at...
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Top 10 issues discovered from Dynamics AX Code Review
Three years ago, the Premier Field Engineer team started the delivery of the Dynamics AX Code Review for Premier customers. It has been quite an interesting journey seeing many customization from...
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Winter ISO C++ Meeting Trip Report
Herb Sutter posted highlights from the Winter ISO C++ meeting held last week in sunny Issaquah, WA: The major work of this meeting was to complete processing of the national body comments received in...
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Can education customers get Yammer free?
We announced recently that Yammer for education customers will be free of charge from 1st April 2014, through your Office 365 for Education subscription (which is also free). Which means that...
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Application Insights Maintenance: Thursday, 20 Feb
We will be performing some upgrades to Application Insights infrastructure on Thursday, 20 Feb starting at 20:00 UTC. During the maintenance window, customers may see data latency or errors in the...
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Introduction to Windows Azure Virtual Machines
OverviewUsing Windows Azure as your Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform, will enable you to create and manage your infrastructure quickly, provisioning and accessing any host ubiquitously. Grow...
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How to encourage Inquiry Based Learning in your classroom
Image from: http://www.youthlearn.org/learning/planning/lesson-planning/how-inquiry/how-inquiry You and I both know that teachers are always looking for ways to engage and enthuse students in the...
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SERVER PLATFORM – February 2014 Readiness Update
New “R2” exam study guidesMicrosoft Learning has updated the exam question pool for the MCSA: Windows Server 2012 certification exams to target additional exam objectives on new features in Windows...
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Drip, Drip, Drip time to patch SQL 2012 SP1
For those Dynamics customers on SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 or above, Cumulative Update 7 is released http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2894115 . There are 2 memory leaks that have been patched that...
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