During Build! 2017 Microsoft has announced the availability of Azure IoT Edge, which would bring in some of the cloud capabilities to edge devices/networks within your Enterprise. This would enable industrial devices to utilize the capabilities of IoT in Azure within their constrained resources . With this Microsoft now makes it easier for developers to… Continue reading
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.
Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company’s 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires…
Azure CosmosDB – a multi-model, multi-API for highly scalable applications
Azure Cosmos DB is the next generation globally distributed multi model database from Microsoft. Cosmos DB has been built from scratch in mind with efficient global distribution and horizontal scalability aspects as the core. Azure Cosmos DB guarantees single-digit-millisecond latencies at the 99% availability across the world with Enterprise Level SLAs. Offers a set of… Continue reading
Visual Studio for Mac–Final–Released / Download Here
Microsoft has released Visual Studio for Mac, a revamped and renamed version of Xamarin Studio with little bit look and feel changes to make it look like Visual Studio product line has been released. With Visual Studio for Mac, you should be able to develop .NET/C#/ASP.NET based apps and XAMARIN Native and Forms based apps… Continue reading
.NET Framework 4.7–Released for All versions of Windows
Microsoft has released next version of .NET Framework (do not get confused with .NET Core) . Though the .NET Framework 4.7 was released as part of Windows 10 Creators Update a month ago. You can now install the .NET Framework 4.7 on other versions of Windows Download the: .NET Framework 4.7 – Web installer | … Continue reading
IoT Central–Microsoft’s SaaS solution for IoT
Microsoft has today released their IoT SaaS offering for customers and partners called as “Microsoft IoT Central”. IoT Central enables powerful IoT scenarios without requiring cloud solution expertise and also simplifies the development process and makes customers to make quick time to market solutions, making digital transformation more accessible to everyone without overhead of implement… Continue reading
Visual Studio 2017 Install error– 0x80131500 – Failed to Deserialize packages
I was frustrated by this error when I am trying to reinstall Visual Studio 2017 after my visual studio got corrupted/failed during upgrade to 15.1 ( or after a previous installation failed due to low disk space). There is a file called ‘state.json’ , in below mentioned path, which is creating this particular issue. %ProgramData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages\Instances\<instance> … Continue reading
Azure SDK for .NET 3.0 available for Visual Studio 2015/2017
Windows Azure SDK for .NET, which include SDKs, basic tools, and extended tools for Visual Studio development for Azure Cloud enabled applications. Microsoft has released latest Azure SDK for .NET along with Visual Studio 2017 (RTW). The new version v3.0 will support only Visual Studio 2015/2017, if you are using Visual Studio 2013 you can… Continue reading
Creating Visual Studio 2017 Offline Installer
In my earlier article, I shared the details to download various Visual Studio Editions. This is an online installer which would require associated packages to be downloaded from online Microsoft sources. Means Microsoft is not providing an Offline ISO as a download like in Visual Studio 2015. This would be a time consuming process depending… Continue reading
Visual Studio 2017 Released
Microsoft has released today the latest version of Visual Studio. The new Visual Studio 2017 will help you develop apps for Android, iOS, Windows, Web, and Cloud. It will also help you use version management, be agile, and collaborate effectively. Includes support for Xcode 8.3, iOS 10.3, watchOS 3.2, and tvOS 10.2 tools and APIs in… Continue reading
Microsoft Azure IoT Suite–Provisioned solutions for Faster Time to Market IoT enabled solutions
Microsoft Azure IoT Suite Provisioned solutions will help you create your own fully integrated solutions tailored for your specific needs in the following 3 sections. Using these ready to consume solutions will accelerate your time to market IoT(Internet of Things) requirements. Remote Monitoring – Connect and monitor your devices to analyze untapped data and improve… Continue reading