The RDBMS formerly known as SQL Server vNext is now out as SQL Server 2017 Community Technology Preview 2.0.
Azure Functions get you beyond the traditional client/server approach to app creation, right into the cloud. Let’s first look at triggers.
- By Jason Roberts
- 04/12/2017
Azure Service Fabric team hopes to spur improvements to Service Fabric .NET SDK through the open source community. ASF and the SDK have also recently been updated.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/27/2017
.NET developers now have another option for the streamlined creation of cloud apps, now that Google App Engine has announced support for the Microsoft developer stack.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/14/2017
Now that Azure Stack Technical Preview 3 is out, Visual Studio developers building apps in the Azure cloud platform can take it for a spin.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/03/2017
Even though this new data sciences exam is aimed at MCSEs, Microsoft Learning is seeking out developers and data scientists to beta test it.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/01/2017
Last VS Code update of 2016 has hot exit and a number of other code-focused enhancements and improvements.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/10/2017
Amazon offers solutions specifically for Visual Studio developers who want to start deploying services on its cloud. Here's a guide to do it with minimal effort and all it takes is digging into the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio.
Document databases are a form of NoSQL database that may store all of the information for a given object in a single instance in the database.
- By Jason Roberts
- 12/12/2016
The Azure developer exam discounts are part of a broader initiative by the Microsoft Partner Network to narrow the Azure deployment and development skills gap.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/09/2016
Amazon and Microsoft are anticipating the serverless computing space to heat up, with support and developer tools.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/09/2016
In a Q&A preview of her session at Live! 360, veteran Visual Studio Live! presenter Rachel Appel shares her thoughts on the benefits of working with SignalR.
The ability to embrace U-SQL jobs via authoring, scripting, extensibility via the VSCode environment and using C# is the key to this tooling preview.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/17/2016
Visual Studio Team Services is at Sprint 108 this week, and it might seem like a lightweight with mainly fixes, but it does pack quite a few new features -- integrating Team-based collaboration features, build and replace enhancements, Docker support -- to be worthy of attention.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/10/2016
Changes take effect immediately, and MCP transcripts are being evaluated now. Also, new rule: New MCSE and MCSD titles will no longer expire (but there's a catch).
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/08/2016
Polybase, Query Store, dynamic data masking, row-level security, and temporal data JSON support -- just some of the new features that veteran SQL Server Live! presenter Leonard Lobel covers in this exclusive Q&A with Lafe Low.
Fresh from Ignite, the Azure teams have been on a DevOps-heavy kick with a number of new tools for managing Azure services.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/13/2016
Microsoft is making it so much more convenient for developers to get hands-on experience building Windows 10- and UWP-based apps -- via preconfigured Windows 10-based virtual machines.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/05/2016
From VSLive!: Microsoft's Matt Nunn demonstrated some use cases for the modern cloud platform, one that opens up options for businesses to tranform the way they do business internally and externally.
From Microsoft Ignite: Shum will lead new group formed out of Microsoft Research and others that will study the implications of artificial intelligence on future innovations in computing and development.