Collaborating on Natural Capital
Microsoft greatly values partnerships and recognizes that, particularly in areas that have a global impact like environmental sustainability, collaborative efforts are essential to having a greater...
View ArticleEpisode 90 of Visual Studio Toolbox
This is the first of a four part series on building cross platform apps using Xamarin and C#. In this episode I am joined by James Montemagno, a developer evangelist at Xamarin, who discusses how to...
View ArticleAnother step forward again: Premier Field Engineer
HiAfter almost two years working as a Support Escalation Engineer SharePoint for developers and administrator support (5 years in Customer Technical Support), Two weeks ago I joined the Premier Field...
View Article“Everybody Lies”
Today we present EricLaw’s 2nd law of Software:“If your software platform is sufficiently popular, and it offers a GetVersion API, that API probably lies.”Recently, a user of Telerik’s automated web...
View ArticleDistributed Cache Service cannot be started
Today we ran into an interesting problem. The distributed cache service was no longer working. As it was a single server environment, we removed the service instance and reprovisioned it...
View ArticleHow your history can help you improve your future? Come to Convergence 2014...
HINT: It’s an 8 letter word. I will be presenting Supercharging performance with Performance Analyzer for Microsoft Dynamics at: Wednesday March 5 3:30pm – 4:30PM Thursday March 6 2:00pm – 3:00pm I...
View ArticleWho wrote that blob?
One of my favorite features of the Azure WebJobs SDK is the “Who wrote this blob?” feature. This is a common debugging scenario: you see your output is incorrect (in this case, a blob) and you’re...
View ArticleSpecial offer for Unity3D Devs Targeting Windows
Building Games for Windows Using Unity3d? We've got an incentive offer for you. Unity devs can receive complimentary store registrations, Windows 8 licenses, and phone and tablet devices to work with....
View Article5 things you need to know about tech support scams
If someone calls you from Microsoft tech support to help you fix your computer, mobile phone, or tablet, this is a scam designed to install malicious software on your computer, steal your personal...
View ArticleTop 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Arun Ramachandran: ASP.Net – How to map virtual path to physical path?Bing Dev Center: Calling All Coders: Bing Code Search ArrivesAll-In-One Code Framework: How to share data between Javascript files...
View ArticlePart III: 3D Chess game using HTML5 and CSS3 now available (Windows Store...
The 3D chess app is a hybrid HTML5 and CSS3 app. The board is animated using CSS3 perspective transforms and hardware-accelerated rotations. CSS3 animations are also used to add, move, capture, and...
View ArticleIs it a bug?: ClientWebSocket
The following program always fails for me with the web socket reaching the aborted state within a couple seconds. class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { ClientWebSocket...
View ArticleLets visualize Beer because it’s 5 pm somewhere
Just chanced on an excellent source of brewery and beer distribution data maintained by the folks over at Seek A Brew . They have some interesting geospatial visualization of beer distribution. Seek A...
View ArticleBeginning LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2013 - Address Book HTML Sample
I just uploaded the completed sample that you build step-by-step in the Beginning LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2013 Article Series. If you’re completely new to LightSwitch or HTML5/JavaScript...
View ArticleVideo streaming without plug-ins or special servers
I’ve been covering mostly canvas so far here, but I recently finished a sample and article in the media area. It’s on how to create a simple MPEG-DASH streaming player. The cool thing about DASH is...
View ArticleGetUser Now Returns Microsoft account in UserName field
We recently got a bug report that after users migrated to using Microsoft account for authentication, the GetUser operation was still returning their former Bing Ads user name in the UserName element...
View ArticleVSO Hosted Build Experiencing Issues - Mitigated-2/19
Update Thurs, Feb 20 2014 2:00 AM UTCThe issue with VSO Hosted Build Service is mitigated. Service is now back to normal operation and customers should not experience any issues queuing their builds....
View ArticleDell announces new solution for Windows Server 2012 R2
Last week Dell announced the Dell Wyse Datacenter for Microsoft VDI and vWorkspace that can scale from ten to tens of thousands of seats. Dell’s platform supports the RemoteFX virtual graphics...
View ArticleIntegrating Moodle and Office 365 for Education
We’re continuing to build the list of integration resources that we provide for Moodle, so that schools, TAFEs and universities can integrate their Moodle platforms more securely with the rest of their...
View ArticleDisplay Specific Line in Sales Order Processing
This will be a 2-for-1 post today as the example given solves a frequently asked question and was used to solve a customer issue.The question I've seen a number of times before and been meaning to...
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