An explanation of the Visual Studio Online outage that occurred July 18 was simply Azure SQL Database slowness, but it was a bit more than that.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/31/2014
Support for cross-origin resource sharing now built in via the ASP.NET Web API.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/29/2014
New security-minded Worker Account capability can be written into iOS, Android and OS X apps.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/23/2014
A few features get fine-tuned, including how Visual Studio Online is able to add a directory to an existing account to better centralize identity management.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/22/2014
Database schema comparisons, security among incremental updates made to this July 2014 release of SSDT.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/21/2014
Microsoft and Perfecto Mobile announced new features for mobile app testing in Visual Studio and Microsoft Azure.
Embarcadero's Appmethod goes native in its update for Windows, iOS and Android development.
Two of the biggest snap up security vendors within three weeks of each other.
The upgrade is made possible by using SQLitePCL.
After recent upgrade to latest Hadoop version, HDInsight now gets NoSQL offering.
Microsoft's newest CEO seems to understand the challenges Microsoft faces, and is positioning the company to re-assert its preeminent place in the industry.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 06/04/2014
Gartner also says Azure is still "Microsoft-centric," appealing primarily to .NET developers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/03/2014
It currently only works with new Visual Studio Online accounts, but that will soon change.
The API integrates many third-party tools and cloud-based services using standard Web technologies.
Data from TFS versions as far back as 2010 can be transferred.
ASP.NET vNEXT, Apache Cordova tooling also announced.
Microsoft's Craig Kitterman demonstrated cloud-based load testing and monitoring for applications.
Cloudera and MongoDB also announce the MongoDB Connector for Hadoop.
Microsoft yesterday announced its Database as a Service cloud offering is incorporating new Standard and Basic preview service tiers, along with new performance levels.
The financial report shows Windows Azure and Office 365 with significant growth.