Announcing the release of Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET

Scott Guthrie announces a big release for the Windows Azure SDK, including Visual Studio tooling updates for Web Sites and Cloud Services, PowerShell automation enhancements, and more.

Announcing the Release of WebMatrix 3

I'm excited to announce the release of WebMatrix 3. WebMatrix is a free, lightweight web development tool we first introduced in 2010, and which provides a great, focused web development experience for ASP.NET, PHP, and Node.js. Today's release includes a ton of great new features.

Announcing the release of Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET

This morning we released the v2.0 update of the Windows Azure SDK for .NET. This is a major refresh of the Windows Azure SDK with some really great new features and enhancements.

Windows Azure: Improvements to Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services and a new Ruby SDK

This morning we released some great enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Virtual Networks : New Point-to-Site Connectivity (very cool!), Software VPN Device and Dynamic DNS S

Windows AzureConf this Tuesday

ASP.NET, Visual Studio, ASP.NET 2.0, .NET

ASP.NET Web API: CORS support and Attribute Based Routing Improvements

We've seen a huge adoption of ASP.NET Web API since its initial release. In February we shipped the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 Update - which added a number of additional enhancements to both Web API and the other components of ASP.NET.

Owin, Katana and Getting Started

Friday, April 05, 2013 9:19 AM Introduction This article describes an emerging open source specification, referred to as Owin - An Open Web Interface for .Net, what it is, and how this might be beneficial to the .Net technology stack. It will also provide a brief, concise look at how to get started with Owin and related technologies.

Windows Azure: General Availability of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

This morning we announced the general availability release of our Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) support for Windows Azure - including our new Virtual Machine and Virtual Network capabilities. This release is now live in production, backed by an enterprise SLA, supported by Microsoft Support, and is ready to use for production apps.

Testing Orchard drivers

If you?ve ever tried to test Orchard part drivers, you may have been blocked by the fact that the methods on drivers are protected. That, fortunately, doesn?t mean they are untestable. Those methods a

A C# helper to read and write XML from and to objects

I really like jQuery?s pattern of attribute getters and setters. They are fluent and work really well with HTML and XML DOMs. If you specify a value in addition to the name, it?s setting, otherwise it

ASP.NET Web Forms Extensibility: Handlers

Ricardo Peres describes three options for registering a handler in ASP.NET Web Forms, explains some common uses, and shows an example which creates an image from a queryst

Scaling Out with the SignalR 1.1 Beta

SignalR 1.1 beta We released SignalR 1.1 yesterday with a bunch of performance improvements and new features (detailed in the release notes). Among these new features, were improvements to the .NET client including the ability to set custom headers, client certificates and a custom JSON serializer.

Windows Azure: Active Directory Release, New Backup Service + Web Site Monitoring and Log Improvements

Today we released some great enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Active Directory: General Availability release of Windows Azure AD - it is now ready for production use! Backup Service: New Service that enables secure offsite backups of Windows Servers in the cloud Web Sites: Monitoring and Diagnostic Enhancements All of these improvements are now available to start using immediately (note: some services are still in preview).

Logging SQL queries in Orchard

ASP.NET Web API Logging and Troubleshooting

Pablo M. Cibraro describes two options for troubleshooting ASP.NET Web API issues: error policy and tracing.

Introducing the new class at the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure

We launched the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure, powered by TechStars , to give early stage startups full access to Windows Azure and to help them succeed by connecting each company to leading

Windows Azure: New Hadoop service + HTML5/JS (CORS), PhoneGap, Mercurial and Dropbox support - ScottGu's Blog

Today we released a number of great enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Mobile Services: HTML5/JS (CORS) Client + PhoneGap + Windows Phone 7.5 + .NET Portable Library support Web Sites: Mercurial Source Control + Dropbox Deployment support HDInsight: New service that enables you to easily deploy and manage Hadoop Clusters on Azure All of these improvements are now available to start using immediately (note: some services are still in preview).

Announcing Web Camps Spring Tour 2013 - Jon Galloway

Announcing Web Camps Spring Tour 2013 Whew! Seems like we just got back from the Winter tour, and we're off again! We've got eleven international events coming up in March and April. Some are already sold out, so register today!

Taking an Orchard site offline while you update it - Tales from the Evil Empire

Taking an Orchard site offline while you update it If your hosted environment does not give you a staging site and the means to swap it easily with the production environment like Azure Cloud Services do, or if you don't have a staging database, or if you just need to take your site offline for the public while you perform data updates in the admin, you may be wondering what solutions you have, if any.

Four new single page application templates - Gunnar Peipman's ASP.NET blog

Four new single page application templates ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 are officially out and although it brings a lot of new stuff to us I want to stop on new Single Page Application templates available by community. I was able to get them all work and now let's take a look at them.