In-Memory OLTP Common Design Pattern – High Data Input Rate/Shock Absorber
As the SQL Server 2014 In-memory OLTP team began working with customers we recognized some common design patterns where the In-memory OLTP engine was a great fit. The intent of this blog is to call out...
View ArticleAccessing secured resources from iOS and Android using Azure Active Directory
Chris Risner in Microsoft's Developer and Platform Evangelism team just published a great blog post walking step by step through using Azure AD to access secured resources from iOS and Android devices...
View ArticleInside Windows Phone 63 - Easily Adding Auth and Push to your WP App with...
This blog post was authored by Matthias Shapiro, a technical evangelist at Microsoft. - Larry In this week’s Inside Windows Phone, we talk about ways to simplify building a server component to your...
View ArticleAnnouncing the availability of Team Foundation Server 2013 Power Tools
Today we have released Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 Power ToolsThis release supports Visual Studio 2013 RC Team Foundation Server 2013 RC To download this release please see:-...
View ArticleMSDN Subscribers: Windows Azure Aston Martin Sweepstakes through Sept 30th
Earlier this summer we announced a number of great changes to Windows Azure that make it a fantastic cloud environment to use for Dev/Test scenarios . These Dev/Test capabilities work great even for...
View ArticleUnderstanding Security Features in the SPA Template for VS2013 RC
The blog is based on Visual Studio 2013 RC release.We have completely rewritten the SPA template from the previous version( MVC 4). Here are some of the changes we made:The authentication story has...
View ArticleRD Licensing Configuration on Windows Server 2012
Good morning AskPerf! Today we are going to discuss the steps in installing/configuring Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Services Licensing in your environment using various available options.Adding...
View ArticleRight from the Start: Bing Apps
A few weeks ago, we published a blog post about more than 20 new and improved Microsoft apps and services that will come right from (the) Start on your new Windows device with Windows 8.1. Last week we...
View ArticleNext Up! Talk Time with PASS Program Director Adam Jorgensen
This week, we had the opportunity to have a quick chat with Adam Jorgensen, Director of PASS Programs, about the upcoming event in Charlotte, North Carolina. Adam first joined the PASS Board in 2012,...
View ArticleWant to win an HP PC? Tell us what you’d like to ask Icona Pop - @HP @Windows
In the past year, I’ve been able to up my music IQ from barely functional to a bit of a trend spotter thanks in part to Arjanof ArjanWrites.com and an event put on every few months with Windows and HP...
View ArticleModules Window Search support in VS2013
This post is about a small featurette we added to one of the debugger windows – not a huge item, but sometimes for some people it is the little things that please them and so we decided that it was...
View ArticleOWIN Startup Class Detection
OWIN Startup class is the entry point for any OWIN based application. When you use VS 2013 to create web projects, a Startup class is created for you by VS. Check out how Katana runtime does the OWIN...
View ArticlePie in the Sky (September 20, 2013)
Almost forgot the Friday post again, but caught it on Saturday. Setting an alarm for Friday afternoon going forward so I remember to post what I've written up. :)CloudWindows Azure fully supported by...
View ArticleOrganizational Accounts in Visual Studio 2013 RC
Visual Studio 2013 Preview shipped with support to create new ASP.NET projects that can be easily configured with organizational accounts. This support has been simplified and enhanced in this RC...
View ArticleWeb Publish how to automate multi-project publish with file system
The other day I received an email from a customer with a question which I’ve summarized as below.I have a solution containing multiple web projects. One of the projects, _RootSite, is the top level...
View ArticleWhat is a Product Owner?
Adam Cogan, one of our TFS MVPs, had his company put together a short animated video on the role of the product owner. I thought it was pretty cool so I figured I’d share it. It’s only a few minutes....
View ArticleTFS 2013 Power Tools are available
I apologize for the long wait. But, the TFS 2013 Power Tools are finally available. There’s no new features in this release but there are a fair number of bug fixes and the Power Tools have all been...
View ArticleUsing PowerShell To Gather Performance Data
Those that have read some of my prior posts on Windows Server 2012 would note that I like to write about new features and capabilities. Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 both provide PowerShell...
View ArticleAttribute Routing changes for ASP.NET Web Stack shipped in VS2013 RC
For the VS2013 Preview release, we published two articles about Attribute Routing for Web API 2:· http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/web-api-routing-and-actions/attribute-routing-in-web-api-2·...
View ArticleJoin us for Tuesday’s Webinar: Office Mobile for Android phones
In this week’s webinar, you’ll learn about Office Mobile for Android phones. We’ll go over how to get started and how to access, view and edit Word docs, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint...
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