The context is also scoped to a certain operation, such as processing a request or an index batch. Because of that, even if we need to grow the arena, that is limited to however many operations we have to do inside that scope.

Today we're pleased to announce the release of Durandal 2.2.0. This release updates Durandal's Knockout dependency and fixes a number of bugs. If you are currently using Durandal, we hope that you will consider updating to Aurelia in the near future. In fact, before Aurelia was given its

Julia Jacobs recently asked a question in the WatchMeCode community slack, about some asynchronous code she wanted to clean up. In this question, she wanted to know of good options for restructuring deeply nested promises without introducing any new libraries. Would it be possible to clean up the code and only use ES6 features?

This post follows on from my previous post about localising an ASP.NET Core application. At the end of that article, we had localised our application so that the user could choose their culture, which would update the page title and the validation attributes with the appropriate translation, but not the form labels.

Below come details of what’s new in the first build

calls failed and upon closer inspection it was due to the fact that the CORS headers weren't getting sent

Today we are excited to announce the public preview of Azure Monitor, a new service making inbuilt monitoring available to all Azure users

When you run a cloud-based load test, the load testing service automatically provisions the necessary machines (load agents) for generating the load to your application. Once the load test run has completed, these resources are torn down. This works well for the most part for a large set of customers.

Today, we are excited to announce the General Availability of Azure DNS

This week at Ignite, we’re unveiling many new Azure capabilities and you’ll see a common meme across these – enabling IT with cloud infrastructure, security capabilities, holistic management, and world-class support for open source

This post was authored by the Azure Stack Team. We're excited to share that the second technical preview of Microsoft Azure Stack (TP2) is now available to explore, learn about, and prepare for the power of Azure Services in your datacenter. Read the announcement blog post on our Hybrid Cloud blog for details.

I am excited to announce today that Azure Service Fabric for Windows Server will be generally available for download at no cost

In my last post, I talked about how we want to make porting to .NET Core easier. In this post, I'll focus on how we're making this plan a reality with .NET Standard. We'll cover which APIs we plan to include, how cross-framework compatibility will work, and what all of this means for .NET Core.

When talking about the botframework, and chatbots in general, people usually assume that these are all using some clever logic and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to deliver a chunk of business logic via a natural language interface.

This week we are announcing several new Azure networking services and features to provide customers greater performance, higher availability, better security and more operational insights.

Exactly 7 years ago today, I wrote my first blog post titled Why online identities are smart career moves. That's a pretty self-explanatory title and I wrote it while gainfully employed in a job I'd been in for 8 years at the time, but it's worth a quick read as

We would like to introduce you to our next generation command-line tools for Azure: Azure Command-Line Interface (Azure CLI) 2.0 Preview.

Today we released RC2 of TFS "15". The key links are here: You can check out the release notes for details of what's new. The release notes are a union of everything new in TFS 15 but you can identify changes since RC1 by looking for items tagged " New in TFS "15" RC2 ".

Since the new version of Release Management was introduced in TFS 2015 Update 2, it has been in "trial mode". Any user with Basic access level was able to access all features of Release Management. For the last few months, we have been hard at work to finalize the pricing model for Release Management in time for the release of TFS "15" RTM.

This week I have to give an introductory talk on DevOps and Docker and therefore I decided to prepare a simple Step by step: ASP.NET Core on Docker sample. Assuming you have Docker installed and running, follow these 4 simple steps: Yu can get a copy of the docker file here: https://github.com/cmendible/dotnetcore.samples/tree/master/docker.helloworld Hope it helps!

Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the SmartBear blog. Check out the original here, at their site. While you're there, take a look around at the pieces written by other authors as well. A certain ideal of rugged individualism has always permeated programmer culture, at least in some circles.

When you have a farm like I do, with a lot of pastures, a lot of fence lines and a lot of trees, you inevitably spend a lot of time clearing dead trees, fallen limbs, etc. from your fences and fields. It's a never ending job.

Now IT Pros can see the health of applications monitored Visual Studio Application Insights. Application Insights can now send app data to Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS), enabling the app developer and their IT Pro counterpart to each monitor the health of critical applications in the tool they are most experienced with.

We are excited to announce availability of the new H-series virtual machines in Azure. With the availability of these new VM sizes we continue our mission to deliver great performance for HPC applications in Azure. H-series VM sizes is an excellent fit for any compute-intensive workload.

The other day I saw someone mention me in a pull request for a client's GitHub repository (probably on my phone). When I had some time to look into the issue,