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How to distribute your existing Desktop Applications via Windows Store to Windows 10 PCs – including the new Windows 10 S configuration

June 21, 2017 Jun 21, 2017 06/21/17
Vahe Minasyan
Windows 10 S is a specific configuration of Windows 10 Pro that offers a familiar, productive Windows experience that’s streamlined for security and performance. By exclusively using apps in the Windows Store and ensuring that you browse safely with Microsoft Edge, Windows 10 S keeps you running fast and secure day in and day out...

Add Push Notifications to iOS Apps with Azure Notification Hubs

June 21, 2017 Jun 21, 2017 06/21/17
Vahe Minasyan
Push Notifications have become ubiquitous in mobile apps since they were first introduced. One of the major advantages of push notifications is being able to deliver a contextual notification without having the app manually check (or poll) a server; this saves a lot of battery life due to reduced CPU usage. Another key advantage of push ...

Enable client side monitoring in Azure with Application Insights

June 21, 2017 Jun 21, 2017 06/21/17
Vahe Minasyan
With the Application Insights JavaScript SDK you can collect and investigate the performance and usage of your web page or app. Historically we have offered onboarding through manually adding a script to your application and redeploying. Manually adding the script is still supported, but recently we have added the ability to add client-side ...

Visual C++ Team Blog

June 21, 2017 Jun 21, 2017 06/21/17
Vahe Minasyan
C++ tutorials, C and C++ news, and information about the C++ IDE Visual Studio from the Microsoft C++ team...

5 Ways to Boost Xamarin.Forms App Startup Time

June 16, 2017 Jun 16, 2017 06/16/17
Vahe Minasyan
The Xamarin SDKs for iOS and Android provide an extremely performant foundation upon which to build Xamarin.Forms cross-platform applications. As you work to tune the speed and responsiveness of your Xamarin.Forms application, keep in mind that the same principles that improve the experience of your apps built with the Xamarin SDKs for iOS and...

Solve Node.js issues faster with Application Insights for Node.js

June 16, 2017 Jun 16, 2017 06/16/17
Vahe Minasyan
Azure Application Insights is an application performance management (APM) platform which provides performance and diagnostic information about your running services and applications to help you discover and diagnose issues quickly. Use App Insights wherever your Node.js application runs containers, PaaS, IoT, and even Electron desktop apps. ...

Take your web app to Azure

June 16, 2017 Jun 16, 2017 06/16/17
Vahe Minasyan
You’ve built your web app. It’s running, and getting good traffic. Now you need to move on to solving the ‘good problems’ to have. You want to scale your app to support more users, but only at peak times. Or you need better hardware and simply don’t want to manage that hardware… or software, or even the network. What if you just ...

View tags for git repositories

June 16, 2017 Jun 16, 2017 06/16/17
Vahe Minasyan
Git repositories now show tags that allow you to mark important points in your repo’s history. Now you can easily bookmark a specific commit in your git repository to compare to other commits in the future. In this post, I will talk about how you can easily manage following git tag related tasks in VSTS...