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Microsoft's Satya Nadella expands the company's vision with the concept of "conversations as a platform." That's where Skype, HoloLens, and Cortana now need developers to usher those tools deeper into the conversation,, which means tools aplenty now and to come.
03/30/2016
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Docker last week announced a beta release of Mac and Windows developer tools for working with its Docker container technology.
03/29/2016
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HoloLens, anyone? How about developing for Xbox apps? Not sure if those will be featured, but Microsoft developers are expecting an expanded device universe for which to develop new apps.
03/23/2016
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SONiC is the company's open source framework that will allow application developers to extend network switches to work across disparate hardware platforms.
03/16/2016
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Announced at EclipseCon: More tools and support for open source Eclipse platform coming in Microsoft's Azure and Visual Studio tools.
03/08/2016
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Microsoft's Scott Guthrie said that the company's RDBMS could be running on the Linux platform some time in 2017. He plans to preview a new SQL Server Stretch Database service at a New York event this week.
03/08/2016
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When your goal is 99.999-percent uptime, there's a small crack in the window for downtime. That happened with Visual Studio Team Services last week. And it happened within a span of two days.
02/09/2016
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Peter revisits an earlier column on how to display a dynamic dialog box to your browser-based users, this time using the JavaScript library that comes with ASP.NET MVC: Backbone.
02/05/2016
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Visual Studio developers who are part of the Essentials Program now have access to more than $300-worth of Azure credits over a year, as well as the addition of mobile development courses from Xamarin University.
02/04/2016
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The Windows-based Big Data tools and frameworks suite adds support for Apache Spark, Apache HBase and Scientific Python.
02/03/2016
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Use Node.js or .NET to write data-accessible apps that target Azure Mobile App on the back end with this new plugin.
01/25/2016
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It's no small feat to be able to customize work items, right from the Web. The functionality is due to process inheritance, which is a function of Team Process Templates.
12/22/2015
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Microsoft packages a handful of developer-related services into an Essentials-style pack, and submits Visual Studio Code to beta testing. Oh yeah, and it's also being open sourced.
11/18/2015
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Pivotal's Cloud Foundry 1.6 platform allows .NET apps to run on Pivotal's cloud, as well as on a number of ALM toolchain products.
11/06/2015
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Vast list of improvements and changes across the board for the Microsoft developer tools platforms as the products get closer to final Web release: support for iOS 9 and Android Marshmallow in Tools for Apache Cordova, and a number of improvements specific to Visual C#, Visual C++and Node.js Tools for VS.
11/05/2015
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By Jeffrey Schwartz
Microsoft and Red Hat join forces to provide more Red Hat solution capabilities in the Azure public cloud, as well as .NET Framework integration with Red Hat platform offerings.
11/04/2015
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Latest sprint comes with new dashboard capabilities that are meant to replace the Team Overview page, as well as improved pull request and testing features.
11/03/2015
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Sprint 89 now has support for Azure Active Directory Groups, and previews a new work item form that will be the basis for work item forms moving forward.
10/19/2015
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By Sam Nasr
Organizations that encountered security breaches have lost large sums of money, both directly and indirectly in terms of damaged reputations, layoffs, fines, etc. With so much at stake, developers need to turn to IT security, which is now a must for any IT department.
10/15/2015
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By Lafe Low
Microsoft's Brian Harry offers a look deep inside the evolution of the company's development operations as it transformed itself into a cloud-centric organization.
09/30/2015
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Microsoft fills in the gaps on its Big Data offering with previews of its Azure Data Lake and Language Services, which includes the brand-new U-SQL language for crunching the incoming explosion of data.
09/28/2015
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A September update to the .NET Server SDK include automated OWIN setup and improved middleware authentication processes.
09/24/2015
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Microsoft makes significant progress with its Azure App Service by extending Node.js support by releasing a Node SDK for Azure Mobile Apps.
09/10/2015