A First Look at Azure SQL Data Warehouse

by bill-s, 2015-12-04T01:25:37.000Z

Today's episode of Data Exposed welcomes to the studio Stuart Padley, Group Program Manager in SQL Engineering, and Miso Cilimdzic, Principal Software Engineering Manager to give us a first look at Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Microsoft's fully-managed, scalable, data warehouse service.

Essential .NET - Designing C# 7

by bill-s, 2015-12-05T19:42:56.000Z

By the time you read this, the C# 7 design team will have been discussing, planning, experimenting and programming for about a year. In this installment, I’ll sample some of the ideas they’ve been exploring. In reviewing, be mindful that at this time these are still ideas for what to include in C# 7. Some of the ideas the team has simply talked about, while others have made it as far as experimental implementations.

Announcing PowerApps with Azure App Service

by bill-s, 2015-12-05T19:40:52.000Z

Today at the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en/convergence/">Convergence Conference</a> in Spain, <a href="http://blogs.microsoft.com/?p=62871">Bill Staples announced</a> <a href="http://www.powerapps.com/">PowerApps</a>. The team I work on doesn't just make ASP.NET, we also make tools and services for Azure App Service and for the last year the team has been building PowerApps. PowerApps makes it easy to quickly create new business apps, connect systems and then share those apps with anyone on your team.

Introducing Visual Studio Dev Essentials

by bill-s, 2015-12-04T01:24:02.000Z

Visual Studio Dev Essentials is a new free developer offering from Microsoft. A free membership to this program gives you access to a range of benefits including developer tools and services, training and support.

Riding the Modern Web: 5 things to consider as a web developer

by bill-s, 2015-12-04T01:23:31.000Z

Every day millions of users are commuting on the electronic highway. For you as a web developer you want to ensure that your website is adapted to the needs of the modern user and that you're not putting up road blocks, forcing users to take side roads.

Scaling Across Platforms and Devices with Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio

by bill-s, 2015-12-04T01:24:46.000Z

Recently I spoke with Scott Atherton, president of the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA), which is based in Daytona Beach, FL. Atherton explained to me how IMSA has used Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio to create an engaging app experience that scales across platforms, devices, and services. Here are some key takeaways from our conversation and a video interview with the IMSA team.

Visual Studio Code Extensions

by bill-s, 2015-12-05T19:43:54.000Z

Visual Studio Code now supports extension! In this session we'll show you how easy it is to add to the core functionality by creating an extension (a spell checker for Markdown).  We will edit, run and debug the extension just like any other TypeScript program and close by publishing to the gallery.

XAML Behaviors, open source and on UWP

by bill-s, 2015-12-05T19:41:44.000Z

Your requests to grow the XAML Behaviors platform and bring them forward to support UWP app development have been heard. Today we announce the next step: XAML Behaviors natively supported for UWP and shipping as a NuGet package (for both <a href="https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Xaml.Behaviors.Uwp.Native/">native</a> and <a href="https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Xaml.Behaviors.Uwp.Managed/">managed</a> projects). Additionally, to build a vibrant community around the platform, <a href="https://github.com/Microsoft/XamlBehaviors/">Behaviors are open source and on GitHub</a>. Now, you can help influence the future direction of Behaviors.