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How It Works: FileStream (RsFx) Garbage Collection–Part (2)
In a previous post I outlined the basics of File Stream, garbage collection: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2011/06/23/how-it-works-filestream-rsfx-garbage-collection.aspxThis post continues...
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2014 Microsoft Research Awards for SEIF announced
2014 Microsoft Research Awards for SEIF announcedOut of 129 high-quality proposals from nearly 30 countries, 12 proposals were selected for this year’s Microsoft Research Awards for the Software...
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Turn your insights into action with Power BI for Office 365
Power BI Q&A brings data to everyone. Just ask a question and get a visualized answer instantly. Power BI Sitesallows you to upload the reports you created and share them with anyone on your...
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Image Overlays with Bing Maps (Native)
A while back I wrote a blog posts called Image Overlays with Bing Maps (JavaScript). In this blog post we saw a couple of different ways to overlay an image on the map and bind it to a bounding box...
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Developer– Virtual Machine Capabilities unleashed in BUILD 2014 specifically...
Developers can create, destroy and debug VMs to their hearts content in Azure Cloud. Well the key is you can do this right from Visual Studio. To see this in Action go to Server Explorer in VS and...
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Announcing release of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC and Azure SDK 2.3
Today, we are excited to announce the releases of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC and the Azure SDK 2.3 for .NET. These releases add a number of great features for Azure development:Visual Studio 2013...
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BUILD 2014
This week's conference included a slew of new announcements on Microsoft platforms. You can see the complete list of recorded sessions on Channel 9, but here are links to the gaming and DirectX related...
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Integrated End-To-End DevOps LifeCycle from the Azure Portal
This changes a lot of things regarding how apps are developed and deployed. This is just mind blowing for a development team, on all of the new things that you can do from within the Azure Portal....
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Session Integrator Distributed Deployment
I ran across an error while doing some testing with Session Integrator in a distributed deployment scenario. By “distributed deployment”, I am referring to a deployment where you have a Session...
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Introducing Web Hosting Plans for Azure Web Sites
Editor's Note: This post was written by Byron Tardif, Program Manager on the Windows Azure Web Sites TeamWith the latest release of Azure Web Sites and the new Azure Portal Preview we are introducing a...
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Troubleshooting PHP Performance in Microsoft Azure Web Sites with Xdebug
Slow application performance issues tend to be challenging to troubleshoot regardless of the platform in which your application is running. This is due in great part to the sometimes random nature of...
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Windows Management Framework V5 Preview
The Windows Management Framework V5 Preview is out! Check out Jeffrey Snover's announcement here. The preview contains updates to PowerShell Desired State Configuration, as well as two new features:...
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The Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2
Release candidate of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 is now available to download. This update supports TFS 2013 Update 2 RTM as well as the Windows 8.1 Update 1 and Windows Phone 8.1 platform releases...
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Node.js Tools for Visual Studio 1.0 Beta
Over the last few years, Node.js has become a popular JavaScript-based server-side development language. We've had great support for Node.js in Azure via Azure Web Sites and Azure Mobile Services for...
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Maintenance Monday, 7 Apr - Wednesday, 9 Apr - Scheduled
We’ll be shipping another update to Visual Studio Online from Monday, 7 Apr 19:00 UTC through Wednesday, 9 Apr 08:00 UTC. We will disable new account creation during some stages of this update....
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Pie in the Sky (April 4th, 2014)
It's the weekend I wanted to go see a movie, so of course I now have a cold. Well at least there's lots of //build videos to watch. Here's a list of some of the more interesting links I found this...
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Java on Azure Web Sites
Editor's Note: This post was written by Chris Compy, Program Manager on the Windows Azure Web Sites TeamMicrosoft is launching support for Java-based web sites on Azure Web Sites. This capability is...
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OneNote Support for ShareKit
Today, we are happy to announce that we have added OneNote support to the popular iOS ShareKit open source project.Originally started by Nate Weiner, who is the Founder and CEO of Pocket, ShareKit is a...
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Cloud Load testing with Visual Studio Online - Launching General Availability
As announced with the build conference we are launching the General Availability for cloud load testing using Visual Studio Online. With the integration of the Application Insights and Cloud Load...
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Analyzing Azure Table Storage data with HDInsight
HDInsight was optimized from the start to be able to quickly analyze data on Azure's blob storage service using Hadoop by using the WASB file system to expose the data there as a native Hadoop file...
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