Become a Bot Builder with Microsoft Bot Framework

by bill-s, 2017-04-21T18:33:26.000Z

The way in which customers expect to be able to interact with companies is changing. We'll look at this change and how you can take advantage of it by creating chatbots using the Microsoft Bot Framework.

DocumentDB

by bill-s, 2017-04-21T18:31:38.000Z

DocumentDB is Microsoft's cloud-first database solution for schema-less data. With DocumentDB you can query any collection of JSON data with SQL and JavaScript, and because it's designed for the cloud, you get guaranteed low latency, global replication, unlimited scale and a usage-based pricing model based on storage and throughput.

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Develop Cloud Connected Mobile Apps with Xamarin and Microsoft Azure

by bill-s, 2017-04-21T21:48:58.000Z

Welcome to my first book. It's free, it's open source, and it's comprehensive. Those attributes also describe two of my favorite technologies. The first is Xamarin Forms , a technology that allows you to develop cross-platform mobile applications using C# and the .NET framework. The second is Azure Mobile Apps, a technology that allows you to connect your mobile app to resources that are important in cloud connected mobile applications such as table data, authentication, and push notifications.

High-performance .NET by example: Filtering bot traffic

by bill-s, 2017-04-22T20:53:52.000Z

This post walks through a series of various performance optimization steps: from BCL API usage to advanced data structures, from bit twiddling hacks to addressing CPU cache misses.

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Microsoft announces native Linux containers for Windows

by bill-s, 2017-04-21T21:48:54.000Z

Microsoft today joined Docker on stage to announce that they will make Linux containers run natively on Windows Server through our Hyper-V isolation technology.

Learning JavaScript Design Patterns

by bill-s, 2017-04-21T21:48:55.000Z

Design patterns are reusable solutions to commonly occurring problems in software design. They are both exciting and a fascinating topic to explore in any programming language.

Microsoft + Docker – Investing in the future of your applications

by bill-s, 2017-04-21T04:42:55.000Z

Did you know when you combine Docker’s cross platform support of Linux and Windows containers and Microsoft cloud technologies, you get a comprehensive offering that can support virtually every enterprise workload?

So what’s this GraphQL thing I keep hearing about?

by bill-s, 2017-04-21T04:42:57.000Z

If you’re like me, you probably go through three stages when hearing about a new technology: 1. Dismissal One more JavaScript library?! Just use jQuery already! 2. Interest Hmm, maybe I should check out this new library I keep hearing about… 3. Panic Help! I need to learn this new library right now or I’ll be completely obsolete!