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Not enough Space combat in Windows Azure!
A quick post-mortem of Fridays world record attempt. We didn’t get enough people into the game to break the record. Our peak player count was 997 concurrent players – we needed 4,076 – we were...
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Event-Driven Logging and Binding to XAML
Status tracking of computationally intensive tasks keeps users informed of progress and possible errors as your background thread(s) execute. Calling a worker on its own thread is simple enough, but we...
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Copy business process diagrams
Today, we released a new feature that enables you to copy diagrams between libraries. It's quick and easy to use.Simply open any process model in your library, right-click on a task, and then click...
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Friday Five - March 14, 2014
1. CloudSix API: add cloud storage support to your app in a nutshell By Windows Phone Development MVP Rudy Huyn2. What’s on the 2014 Roadmap for Microsoft Dynamics CRM? By Dynamics CRM MVP...
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The .NET Backend Help Page and Test Client
When developing a .NET backend service for your Mobile Azure Service, it is often useful to be able to try things out by sending HTTP requests and see what comes back – not to mention being able to...
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Australia Partner In Person & Virtual Training (March–June 2014)
Below is a list of all the Australian training sessions to help you and your team skill up on the latest technology, solutions and news. This training is designed to help you stay current on Microsoft...
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Async talks on Channel 9
Even though I work on .NET interop and WinRT these days, async/await is still the one topic that gets me confused from time to time. It's a great concept logically but difficult to grasp once you start...
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Dog-fooding Journal #2 – Train-Research-Planning (TRP) Sprint … assembling...
As part of the preparations we have to commit the team, which often creates a dilemma of having too many volunteers See I volunteered for a project, but am booked on another voyage … why?. commit,...
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SQL Swiss Army Knife #13 – Exploring the plan cache – Part 2
Hello all,This is long overdue, but here it is, the follow up on plan cache exploration queries part 1 post. There are many "hidden" gems inside a query plan XML that allow us to know our workloads in...
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Get free audio tools if you're an indie game developer
Two major audio companies announced this week that they have released free audio tools for indie game developers.Firelight Technologies has made FMOD Studio free for indies with small budgets, and in...
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Making an awesome website 101
Your website is often the author of a customer's first impression of your startup - they're so important! The good news is that making an awesome website doesn't need to be as complicated and difficult...
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适用于 Windows 8.1 的 HCK QFE 07 现已发布
有关 QFE 更新的信息，请参阅 Windows 硬件认证工具包 QFE 更新。要获得 Windows HCK 的最新 QFE，请运行 HCKSetup.exe。Windows HCK 下载包括所有先前的 QFE 更新。了解 QFE 中的内容下载并安装 HCK 以获取 QFE立即下载 QFE注意：在应用 QFE 前，请关闭所有活动的 HCK Studio 会话。应用此 QFE...
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宣布正式发布 Windows Azure 上的 Oracle 软件以及 Windows Azure Traffic Manager 更新
Windows Azure 的核心原则之一就是为客户提供一个开放、灵活的平台。今天是一个令人振奋的里程碑，因为我们与 Oracle 的合作又向前迈进了一步。Oracle Database、Oracle WebLogic Server 和 Java 现在均可通过内置包含许可证的虚拟机映像使用。这些映像位于 Windows Azure 镜像库中，可方便地获取。不管您是 Oracle 管理员还是 Java...
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Life in the cloud seems… overrated
You can call me cynical but the latest digital revolution – putting your life in the cloud where you interact with it using devices – seems overrated to me.You know what I mean; if you’re a member of...
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How to resolve the issue that my pinned apps and the store are not available...
In recent days, many Xbox One users are reporting that the pinned apps an the store becomes unavailable in Xbox One with the message:"Your store aren’t available. Sorry about that. They should be back...
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One advantage of life in the cloud
As I mentioned in my previous post, I recently went to Taiwan with my wife to visit her parents and extended family. And as I said in my previous post, I was really underwhelmed by the promise of “life...
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Microsoft CityNext: How technology can help cities focus on citizens
Discussions about the future of cities tend to focus on huge systems –infrastructure, bureaucracy, the economy. Those things are important – but doesn’t it make more sense to focus on people first?...
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Identity in Your Own Apps with Windows Azure Active Directory - Part 4
Editor’s note: The following post was written by Office 365 MVP Martina Grom and Client Development MVP Toni Pohl. This is the conclusion of the 4 part series. Read part 1, part 2 and part 3Identity in...
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ALM Days 2014–Videos und Folien zum Download
Ende Februar hat sich die ALM Community zum ersten mal in Düsseldorf getroffen. Die neue Lokation hat mir persönlich sehr gut gefallen und ich bin schon mit neuen Ideen gedanklich im Design der ALM...
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EF6.1.0 RTM Available
Since the release of EF6 our team has been working on the EF6.1 release. This is our next release that includes new features. What’s in EF6.1EF6.1 adds the following new features:Tooling consolidation...
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