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A Penny Saved is a Ton of Serverless Compute Earned

May 21, 2018 May 21, 2018 05/21/18
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Scott Guthrie recently shared one of my favorite anecdotes on his Azure Red Shirt Tour. A Microsoft customer regularly invokes 1 billion (yes, that’s with a “B”) Azure Functions per day. The customer reached out to support after the first month thinking there was a bug in the billing system, only to find out that the $72 was in fact ...

.NET Highlights in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 Preview 4

April 18, 2018 Apr 18, 2018 04/18/18
.NET Team
As you know we continue to incrementally improve Visual Studio 2017 (version 15), and our 7th significant update is currently well under way with the 4th preview shipping today. As we’re winding down the preview, we’d like to stop and take the time to tell you about all of the great updates that are coming in Visual Studio version 15.7 for...

Explore Azure Cosmos DB with .NET Core and MongoDB

April 9, 2018 Apr 9, 2018 04/9/18
Jeremy Likness
Have you had to design general purpose "metadata" tables in your SQL database that basically store column names and values? Do you often serialize/de-serialize XML or JSON from your SQL tables to handle volatile schemas and data? .NET developers have traditionally worked with relational database management systems (RDMS) like SQL Server. RDMS ...

Azure Blob Storage as a Network Drive

February 26, 2018 Feb 26, 2018 02/26/18
Aaron Roney
Many applications make use of a network drive to backup and store files. When I was in university I found myself constantly coding for fun, and one example took the form of a network share for my roommates to share files wrapped in a handy little app. Unfortunately, that particular app has long since been erased from whichever hard drive it ...

64 bit ASP.NET Core on Azure App Service

January 9, 2018 Jan 9, 2018 01/9/18
Glenn Condron [MSFT]
When creating an Azure App Service .NET Core is already pre-installed. However, only the 32 bit .NET runtime is installed. In this post we will look at a  few ways that you can get a 64 bit runtime on Azure App Service During the 2.1 timeframe we are hoping to have both 32 and 64 bit runtimes installed as well as enabling the portal ...

Modernize existing .NET apps with Windows Containers and Azure

November 1, 2017 Nov 1, 2017 11/1/17
Cesar De la Torre
(image) As part of the series of posts announced at this initial blog post (.NET Application Architecture Guidance) that explores each of the architecture areas currently covered by our team, this current blog post focuses on introducing the new "Modernize existing .NET applications with Windows Containers and Azure" eBook which you can ...

Experiment with Azure for FREE!

October 19, 2017 Oct 19, 2017 10/19/17
.NET Team
What is Azure? What can it do for me? Do I need it? How do I find out? How do I use it? Will it help my business? Can it help my career? With all the things Azure can do, it's hard to know where to start answering these important questions. But there's a really easy way to explore the potential of Azure completely free and at your own pace: ...