Take advantage of Azure Functions to run small pieces of code that can be triggered by events in the Azure cloud. Azure Functions is the serverless compute offering in the Microsoft Azure cloud.

Microsoft Azure is a sophisticated cloud computing solution that lets you easily build and deploy databases, hosted services, and entire Web apps on your choice of technology stack -- from Windows and ...

Visual Studio has always been a big product with a raft of features that grew with each release. Visual Studio 2015 extends that trend in ways I never expected to see from Microsoft. Cross-platform ...

There used to be a time when Microsoft would release new versions of its Visual Studio development environment every two years or so, with maybe a service pack in the middle. Since the release of ...

Microsoft is embracing other platforms with its latest IDE, with robust support for Android, iOS, web, and cloud development. While keeping its software exclusive to Windows made sense when Windows ...

SharePoint Application Pages provide truly flexible functionality across all the sites within a SharePoint front end. You can use Visual Studio to create those pages, with the added bonus of securing ...

Visual Studio 2015 offers productivity gains and cross-platform development Your email has been sent After looking at the preview of Visual Studio 2015, Tony Patton says his overall first impressions ...

Microsoft has announced the release of the third update for its development environments Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2013. While previous updates have focused on enhancing the capacity of ...

Since Satya Nadella took over as CEO of Microsoft, the company has dramatically shifted its strategy. Instead of focusing solely on Windows, other platforms are now being treated as first-class ...