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Conor vs. Premium Edition in Windows Azure SQL Database (aka SQL Azure)
FYI, I helped write a white paper that got released this week. It relates to a new edition of WA SQL Database that was released this week called the “Premium Edition”. The primary benefit of the...
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Password hash sync simplifies user management for Office 365
Paul Andrew is a Technical Product Manager on the Office 365 team working on identity and commerce.Office 365 uses Windows Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) for managing user login and storing user...
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Advanced Tools and Scripting with PowerShell 3.0
Join our next Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) Jump Start free online training event on August 1, featuring Microsoft’s Jeffrey Snover, Distinguished Engineer and Lead Architect for the Windows Server...
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Enabling IntelliSense for Mobile Services JavaScript in Visual Studio
In a previous post , we shared the new Windows Azure Mobile Services integration and capabilities in Visual Studio 2013. These include the ability to edit your Mobile Services table scripts. In this...
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Hipstamatic Oggl, the popular social photo app, comes to Windows Phone 8
Hipstamatic Oggl is a hugely popular social photo editing app that can transform even ho-hum shots into hip works of art—and then show them off on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Hipstamatic’s own...
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The Nokia Lumia 1020 is now available at AT&T
If taking photos of your friends, kids, family, or travels is something you care about even a little bit—and who doesn’t?—you’ll want to run to the nearest AT&T store and pick up the new Nokia...
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Henry Ford once said that "if everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself." Indeed, the past two weeks have been about moving forward. And they've also been about success....
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Using the new client hooks in WCF Data Services Client
What are the Request and Response Pipeline configurations in WCF Data Services Client?In WCF Data Services 5.4 we added a new pattern to allow developers to hook into the client request and response...
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Build talk of the week: Building apps that connect with devices
One of the most exciting improvements in Windows 8.1 Preview is opening the floodgates for device access. While Windows 8 supported certain device scenarios like print, sensors, and geolocation, access...
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EF/MVC Series updated to EF5/MVC4
Tom Dykstra and I have updated Tom’s popular EF/MVC series to the latest release, that is MVC 4 and EF 5. The biggest change was the addition of code first migrations. What’s great about the updated...
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EF/MVC Series updated to EF5/MVC4
Please come back Monday night, 29 July to see the updates, they won’t be published until then.Tom Dykstra and I have updated Tom’s popular EF/MVC series to the latest release, that is MVC 4 and EF 5....
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Pie in the Sky (July 26th, 2012)
Happy almost-forgot-to-post Friday! Here's a list of links for your weekend reading:CloudA comparative analysis of 5 large cloud IaaS providers: Comparisions of IaaS performance.MobilePhoneGap 3.0...
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Initial Impressions - Intel Haswell 4th Generation Developer Prototype Ultrabook
I've reviewed Intel Ultrabooks before that were sent by the software development team at Intel. I review them from a software developer's point of view, so I'm pretty hard on laptops. I want them to be...
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Upgrade Active Directory to Windows Server 2012 - Phase 2: Build Your Plan
**Be sure to read the entire series on the AD Upgrade**Upgrading or Migrating Active Directory to Windows Server 2012 – Build Your Roadmap NowUpgrade Active Directory to Windows Server 2012 - Phase 1:...
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SWAP space in Windows Azure Virtual Machines running pre-built Linux Images –...
This article was written by Piyush Ranjan (MSFT) from the Azure CAT team.With the recent general availability of Infrastructure Services (Virtual Machines and Virtual Network) on Windows Azure, many...
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Join us for Tuesday’s webinar: What's hot and new with Office Web Apps
In this week’s webinar, you’ll learn how to use the free, browser-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, plus get the scoop on the latest updated features. We start our Office 15-Minute...
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Windows game developers: Build with Unity 4.2 for a chance to win big!
In case you missed the post over on the Windows Phone Developer Blog, we’re celebrating our collaboration with Unity and the release of Unity 4.2 by sponsoring a game-building contest for Windows 8 and...
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Announcing the 2013 MSRC Progress Report featuring MAPP expansions
Over the years, our customers have come to expect a certain regularity and transparency in both our security updates and the guidance that goes with them. One regular piece of communication about our...
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Team Foundation Service Update – July 29
Today we are deploying our sprint 51 build. You will soon be able to read the release notes here. Today’s deployment is what I’d like a lot of deployments to be like – nothing particularly big but a...
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Visual Studio 2012 tools for Git (0.9.5.0) are available
Today we released an update to our Visual Studio 2012 tools for Git. We’ve been iterating on these since the first release in February and each release gets more complete, easier to use and better...
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