Archives
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Updates to Windows Azure (Mobile, Web Sites, SQL Data Sync, ACS, Media, Store)
This morning we released a number of enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include:
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Applications are now open for the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure - 2013
In October, I introduced the finalists for the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure, powered by TechStars. Over the past couple of months, these startups have been mentored by business and technology leaders, met with investors, learned from each other, and, most importantly, been building great products. You can learn more about the startups in the first class and how they’re using Windows Azure here.
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Announcing the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 Release Candidate
This week the ASP.NET and Visual Web Developer teams delivered the Release Candidate of the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 update (formerly ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update BUILD Prerelease). This update extends the existing ASP.NET runtime and adds new web tooling to Visual Studio 2012. Whether you use Web Forms, MVC, Web API, or any other ASP.NET technology, there is something cool in this update for you.
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Entity Framework 6: Alpha2 Now Available
The Entity Framework team recently announced the 2nd alpha release of EF6. The alpha 2 package is available for download from NuGet. Since this is a pre-release package make sure to select “Include Prereleases” in the NuGet package manager, or execute the following from the package manager console to install it:
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iOS Support with Windows Azure Mobile Services – now with Push Notifications
A few weeks ago I posted about a number of improvements to Windows Azure Mobile Services. One of these was the addition of an Objective-C client SDK that allows iOS developers to easily use Mobile Services for data and authentication. Today I'm excited to announce a number of improvement to our iOS SDK and, most significantly, our new support for Push Notifications via APNS (Apple Push Notification Services). This makes it incredibly easy to fire push notifications to your iOS users from Windows Azure Mobile Service scripts.
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More Great Improvements to the Windows Azure Management Portal
Over the last 3 weeks we’ve released a number of enhancements to the new Windows Azure Management Portal. These new capabilities include:
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SharePoint Apps and Windows Azure
Last Monday I had an opportunity to present as part of the keynote of this year’s SharePoint Conference. My segment of the keynote covered the new SharePoint Cloud App Model we are introducing as part of the upcoming SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 releases. This new app model for SharePoint is additive to the full trust solutions developers write today, and is built around three core tenants:
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DevIntersection Conference Dec 9th-12th
I’m excited to be presenting a keynote at the DevIntersection conference this coming Dec 9th->12th in Las Vegas. This conference has an awesome set of speakers from a variety of backgrounds. A number of people from my team (including Scott Hanselman, Scott Hunter and Daniel Roth from the ASP.NET team) will be presenting in addition to me. You can learn more about the conference and check out the schedule here.
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Free online Windows AzureConf this Wednesday
This Wednesday, November 14th, we’ll be hosting Windows AzureConf – a free online event for and by the Windows Azure community. It will be streamed online from 8:30am->5:00 PM PST via Channel 9, and you can watch it all for free.
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.NET 4.5 now supported with Windows Azure Web Sites
This week we finished rolling out .NET 4.5 to all of our Windows Azure Web Site clusters. This means that you can now publish and run ASP.NET 4.5 based apps, and use .NET 4.5 libraries and features (for example: async and the new spatial data-type support in EF), with Windows Azure Web Sites. This enables a ton of really great capabilities - check out Scott Hanselman’s great post of videos that highlight a few of them.
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Windows Azure Mobile Services: New support for iOS apps, Facebook/Twitter/Google identity, Emails, SMS, Blobs, Service Bus and more
A few weeks ago I blogged about Windows Azure Mobile Services - a new capability in Windows Azure that makes it incredibly easy to connect your client and mobile applications to a scalable cloud backend.
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Announcing: Improvements to the Windows Azure Portal
Earlier today we released a number of enhancements to the new Windows Azure Management Portal. These new capabilities include:
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Finalists for the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure
Today, I am pleased to announce the ten finalists for the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure powered by TechStars. These startups are about to launch into a three-month program where they will develop new products and businesses using Windows Azure.
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Announcing: Great Improvements to Windows Azure Web Sites
I’m excited to announce some great improvements to the Windows Azure Web Sites capability we first introduced earlier this summer.
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Great Free Courses on Building HTML5 apps using ASP.NET Web API, Knockout.js and jQuery
Pluralsight has developed some great training courses on the new .NET 4.5 and VS 2012 release, including two fantastic courses from John Papa that cover how to build HTML5 web apps using ASP.NET Web API, Knockout and jQuery:
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Announcing Windows Azure Mobile Services
I’m excited to announce a new capability we are adding to Windows Azure today: Windows Azure Mobile Services
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Windows Azure Media Services and the London 2012 Olympics
Earlier this year we announced Windows Azure Media Services. Windows Azure Media Services is a cloud-based PaaS solution that enables you to efficiently build and deliver media solutions to customers. It offers a bunch of ready-to-use services that enable the fast ingestion, encoding, format-conversion, storage, content protection, and streaming (both live and on-demand) of video. Windows Azure Media Services can be used to deliver solutions to any device or client - including HTML5, Silverlight, Flash, Windows 8, iPads, iPhones, Android, Xbox, and Windows Phone devices.
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“Unplugged” LIDNUG online talk with me on Friday (August 10th)
August 14th Update: A recording of this talk is now available here.
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Windows Azure and Office 365
Last week’s Beta release of Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint introduced several great enhancements, including a bunch of developer improvements. Developers can now extend SharePoint by creating web apps using ASP.NET (both ASP.NET Web Forms and now ASP.NET MVC), as well as extend SharePoint by authoring custom workflows using the new Workflow Framework in .NET 4.5.
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Entity Framework and Open Source
The Entity Framework has advanced significantly over the last few years. A little over a year ago we released EF 4.1, which introduced the new DbContext API and EF “Code First” support. Earlier this year we delivered EF 4.3, which provides Code First Migration support that enables developers to easily evolve database schema in a code optimized way. And we are now in the final stages of wrapping up the EF 5 release, which adds enum support, spatial data types, table-valued function support and some significant performance and Visual Studio Tooling improvements.
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aspConf - Free Virtual ASP.NET Conference this week
aspConf is a free, virtual conference dedicated to ASP.NET. It's the sequel to the popular mvcConf conference - expanded to two full days of great content on the entire ASP.NET platform. Best of all you can watch it live online for free.
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Upcoming presentations by me at Windows Azure Events
I recently blogged about a big wave of improvements we recently released for Windows Azure. I also delivered a keynote on June 7th that discussed and demoed the enhancements – you can watch a recorded version of it online.
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Meet the New Windows Azure
Today we are releasing a major set of improvements to Windows Azure. Below is a short-summary of just a few of them:
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Meet Windows Azure on June 7th
As many of you might know, I’ve spent much of my time the past 12 months working on Windows Azure – which is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform (I also continue to run the teams that build ASP.NET, the server framework libraries of .NET, and a few other products too).
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Great Free Course on Building ASP.NET MVC Apps With EF Code First, HTML5 and jQuery
Pluralsight has developed a great training course on Building ASP.NET MVC Apps with EF Code First, HTML5 and jQuery.
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Announcing Windows Azure Media Services
I'm excited to share news about a great new cloud capability we are announcing today - Windows Azure Media Services.
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April 14th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API and Visual Studio
Here is the latest in my link-listing blog series:
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“Unplugged” LIDNUG online talk with me on Monday (April 16th)
April 16th Update: You can listen to an audio version of the talk I did online here.
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ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Razor and Open Source
Microsoft has made the source code of ASP.NET MVC available under an open source license since the first V1 release. We’ve also integrated a number of great open source technologies into the product, and now ship jQuery, jQuery UI, jQuery Mobile, jQuery Validation, Modernizr.js, NuGet, Knockout.js and JSON.NET as part of it.
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ASP.NET Web API (Part 1)
Earlier this week I blogged about the release of the ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta. ASP.NET MVC 4 is a significant update that brings with it a bunch of great new features and capabilities. One of the improvements I’m most excited about is the support it brings for creating “Web APIs”. Today’s blog post is the first of several I’m going to do that talk about this new functionality.
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ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta
A few days ago we released the ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta. This is a significant release that brings with it a bunch of great new features and capabilities.
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TechDays in Belgium and Netherlands
I’ll be presenting at the upcoming Belgium and Dutch TechDays next month. I’ll be doing three tech talks at each of the events:
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Getting Started with Windows Azure
This is the second in a series of posts I’m doing on Windows Azure – which is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform.
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Windows Azure
As some of you might know, I’ve spent much of my time the last 6 months working on Windows Azure – which is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform (I also continue to run the teams that build ASP.NET, core pieces of .NET and VS, and a bunch of other products too).
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“Unplugged” LIDNUG online talk with me on Monday (Jan 16th)
Jan 16th Update: An audio recording of my talk can be listened to here.