Month: May 2016

NOTE This post is part of a series on a deployment of Apache Drill on the Azure cloud. Azure Storage Blobs – aka WASB after the WASB in Hadoop for accessing it – provide a low-cost means to store files in Azure. As Drill is commonly used to query data residing in file systems, it would…

App Installer – An easy way to install your Universal Windows Apps on Windows Desktop! New in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update: Installing Universal Windows Apps was not always the most intuitive experience on Windows Desktop for a typical user. You either needed to run a .ps1 script or type in a command into PowerShell….

New in Anniversary Update (build 14352 or newer): Notification Listener is a new feature in the Anniversary Update of Windows 10 that allows apps to access the user’s notifications on Mobile and Desktop. Note that you must target SDK 14332 or newer to use the Notification Listener. Smartwatches can use Notification Listener to send the…

NuGet is the package manager for the Microsoft development platform including .NET. It recently surpassed 1 billion downloads. In this episode, I am joined by Phil Haack, Jeff Fritz and Hari Menon to talk about NuGet, its origins and the important role it plays in software development.

Introduction As part of App Service Certificate (ASC) offering, we now support certificate deployment through Azure Key Vault (AKV). ASC stores the private certificate into a user provided Key Vault Secret (KVS). When an ASC is deployed into a Web App, Web App Resource Provider (RP) actually deploys it from the KVS associated with ASC….

In this episode, I am joined by Stacey Haffner, co-owner/dev of What Up Games, who will show us how to build a Unity game that includes simple mechanics such as audio, animations, AI and UI. The game is Super Space Shooter and it involves shooting enemy spaceships. In part 3 of this 4 part series,…

Microsoft Japan Data Platform Tech Sales Team 清水 みなさん、こんにちは。 2 回目は、 Microsoft Azure で作成可能な Windows 仮想マシン ( 以降仮想マシン ) の種類やサイズと、これらを選択する際のポイントについてお伝えしました。 今回は、実際に仮想マシンを作成する際のポイントをお伝えします。  

The Azure Government Onboarding presentations have been refreshed with a new theme and updated content.  If you are an Azure Government customer and have not already scheduled your complimentary onboarding, we highly recommend that you schedule a time (see full instructions below).   The onboarding session will provide an overview and highlight best practices for Azure…

I was testing Azure Functions by creating a simple proof of concept with a Xamarin.Forms client and since there’s not much info about “using Azure Functions from Xamarin” I thought it was a good idea to publish this Getting Started or Walkthrough in my MSDN blog. Make no mistake about it, you consume an Azure…

As part of the announcement during the keynote at SAPPHIRE NOW to support SAP on Linux on Azure we released 5 Azure Quickstart Templates on github and 4 PowerShell cmdlets. For a description of the Azure Quickstart Templates, read the blog Azure Quickstart Templates for SAP Azure PowerShell cmdlets SAP on Linux on Azure is only…