Windows Azure has evolved over the years, and now with the Infrastructure Services (VMs) offered, it makes a lot of sense to leverage Azure for creating development environments and running testing scenarios. In this session, we’ll look at all of the pieces that contributed to using Windows Azure…

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen show you the analysis of a hang. The hang happens in Explorer when Windows-E is pressed - the folder window never appears. We show Andrew's debugging steps to solve the issue.Resources:Debugging Tools for WindowsSkyDrive…

MS Open Tech published a plugin for Apache Cordova (a.k.a. PhoneGap) that brings the Pointer Events model to your Cordova/PhoneGap app. Learn more reading MS Open Tech's blog post

With last week's announcement that Windows 8.1 RTM is available for download by MSDN and TechNet Subscribers and the released of Visual Studio 2013 RC, Download Windows 8.1 RTM, Visual Studio 2013 RC and Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM Today, it seems like it might be a good time to refresh our Windows…

In this 4th episode of my "device to cloud" series I'm introducing the notion of intermediated service-assisted connectivity for devices, whereby the gateway I introduced in the previous episodes gets split into an API layer that device controllers speak to through HTTP(S) and a protocol…

This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss the week's top developer news, including; [00:17] Download Windows 8.1 RTM, Visual Studio 2013 RC and Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM Today (Steve Guggenheimer) [02:11] Announcing the Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate (Soma) [03:22] Announcing the .NET…

Abstract: Jerry Nixon welcomes Sr. Program Manager Thomas Fennel from the Windows Phone team as they discuss the inner workings of Notifications for your Windows Phone. Tune in as they chat about how to make your apps dynamic with live tiles and push notifications by laying out practical advice,…

Today's Hardware Friday post about another Channel series that I want to make sure all you hardware boys, girls and dogs (Cats? Are you kidding? That's why they have humans...), Clemens Vasters' Subscribe! Device to Cloud, Hands-On. Part 1: Prototyping Platforms Subscribe! is back after a long…

Learn how to set up Multi-Factor Authentication with Active Directory Federation Services to authenticate cloud applications using on-premises credentials.

Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication is easy to set up, manage, and use - enabling companies to meet their security and compliance requirements while providing a simple sign-in experience for their users. Watch this video to see how the service works and how it is enabled for both…