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9 Things You Should Know About SQL Azure Databases

by bill-s, 2016-10-19T18:42:02.000Z

SQL Azure Databases are one of the most useful relational databases on the cloud, and their flexibility makes them easy to implement into any software project. I consider the following 9 features to be most notable in SQL Azure Databases:

Building your C++ application with Visual Studio Code

by bill-s, 2016-10-23T01:43:09.000Z

Over the last few months, we have heard a lot of requests with respect to adding capability to Visual Studio Code to allow developers to build their C/C++ application.

Azure Weekly

by bill-s, 2016-10-19T18:50:04.000Z

Are you having difficulty keeping up to date on all the frequent changes and updates in the Microsoft Azure space? Then the Build Azure Weekly has the solution you’re looking for. Build Azure Weekly is a weekly blog post that includes all the latest Microsoft Azure Service Updates from the week in addition to links to many other blog articles, podcasts and videos from all over the Internet.

Data Science with Microsoft SQL Server 2016

by bill-s, 2016-10-22T07:59:03.000Z

The world around us—every business and nearly every industry—is being transformed by technology. SQL Server 2016 was built for this new world and to help businesses get <span class="morecontent"><span class="content">ahead of today’s disruptions. With this free ebook, learn to install, configure, and use Microsoft’s SQL Server R Services in data science projects. R is one of the most popular, powerful data analytics languages and environments in use by data scientists.</span></span>

Exploring ServiceStack's simple and fast web services on .NET Core

by bill-s, 2016-10-23T01:39:31.000Z

I've been doing .NET Open Source since the beginning. Trying to get patches into log4net was hard without things like GitHub and Twitter. We emailed .patch files around and hoped for the best. It was a good time.

Google releases .Net APIs for Google Cloud

by bill-s, 2016-10-23T01:43:46.000Z

Google recently announced .Net support for Google Cloud APIs. This includes C# bindings and PowerShell cmdlets. A Visual Studio extension is also available, allowing to browse Google Cloud resources and to deploy Asp.Net applications on Google Compute Engine.

Extending a Universal Windows Platform Media App

by bill-s, 2016-10-22T07:58:11.000Z

The Universal Windows Platform (UWP) makes it easy to build rich media-based apps leveraging either the built-in MediaElement, or the <a href="https://playerframework.codeplex.com/" target="_blank">Player Framework</a>supported by Microsoft. However, beyond defining what the visual appearance of the player is within the app, there are some additional ways that users can interact with a media app, taking advantage of voice and other hardware controls on the device. In this article I'll walk through working with the System Media Transport Controls (Media Controls) and controlling playback using voice commands via Cortana.

How Many Developers Use C++ vs. C# vs. Other Programming Languages

by bill-s, 2016-10-23T01:44:04.000Z

A customer recently asked me a question on C++ vs. C# in terms of developer populations while deciding whether or not to recode a C++ app using C#.

Improved overall Visual Studio “15” Responsiveness

by bill-s, 2016-10-22T07:56:37.000Z

In this post we will highlight some of the improvements we’ve made in the Preview 5 release that make using Visual Studio more responsive as part of your daily use. We’ll first talk about improvements to debugging performance, Git source control, editing XAML, and finally how you can improve your typing experience by managing your extensions.

Instant Loading with IndexedDB (Building a PWA, Part 2)

by bill-s, 2016-10-19T18:52:04.000Z

Last week's article was Part 1 (of 3) in my series on how I built a Progressive Web Application for this blog.

Microsoft Ignite

by bill-s, 2016-10-19T18:16:37.000Z

Microsoft Ignite: Watch keynotes and sessions on demand

Microsoft Open Sources P

by bill-s, 2016-10-19T18:49:16.000Z

Microsoft has made P, its event-driven programming language, open source. P is designed to give developers a way to write safe asynchronous event-driven programs.

Why the Command Line? Why now?

by bill-s, 2016-10-23T01:42:16.000Z

Modern developers are often polyglots — they dabble in different operating systems, programming languages, frameworks and tools as they build the next generation of applications. On top of that, modern applications run on a variety of platforms and devices, all leading to very mixed developer skill sets and tools of the trade.

SQL SERVER – Displaying SQL Agent Jobs Running at a Specific Time

by bill-s, 2016-10-23T01:42:44.000Z

Recently I was troubleshooting at a customer location something that looked trivial. When the customer approached me for a consulting requirement wherein they were saying their system was going unresponsive every day in the morning around a certain time.

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