How to deploy Magento on Windows Azure
Magento is a popular open-source e-commerce platform that provides front-end functionality for managing online stores and promotions as well as back-end functionality for handling transactions and...
View ArticleHow to deploy a website using CouchDB on Windows Azure
This tutorial shows you how to create a web site and connect it to a CouchDB replica set, all hosted within Windows Azure. To do this, you use Microsoft WebMatrix 2 to create and publish your code to...
View ArticleHow to deploy a website using MongoDB on Windows Azure
A more up to date tutorial can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/silverlining/archive/2012/10/31/how-to-use-mongodb-from-php-in-windows-azure-web-sites.aspx Overview This tutorial shows you how to...
View ArticleUsing Apache ZooKeeper on Windows Azure Linux Virtual Machines to Manage Solr
Table of Contents · Overview · Prerequisites · About ZooKeeper · Solr with ZooKeeper · ZooKeeper on Windows Azure · Distributed SolrCores using ZooKeeper...
View ArticleTutorial: Building a multi-tier cloud application on Windows Azure using...
About this tutorial This tutorial demonstrates setting up MongoDB-as-a-Service from MongoLab on Windows Azure. When complete you will have a multi-tier cloud-based node.js, Socket.IO and MongoDB...
View ArticleTutorial: Setting up a LucidWorks Search Service on Windows Azure
LucidWorks Search on Windows Azure delivers a high-performance search service based on Apache Lucene/Solr open source indexing and search technology. This service enables quick and easy provisioning...
View ArticleTutorial – Building a Multi-Tier Windows Azure Web application use Cloudant’s...
About this tutorial In this tutorial, we will show you how to build and deploy a multi-tier web application on Windows Azure, highlighting how easy it is to use Cloudant’s CouchDB Azure service in an...
View ArticleNew MVA course: go cross-platform with Visual Studio and Web technologies
A couple of weeks ago we presented a live MVA (Microsoft Virtual Academy) about Cross Platform Development using Web technologies and Visual Studio. This course is now available on demand and will give...
View ArticleCordova Certificate issue: We’re working on it
If you’re trying to build application with Cordova today aiming windows platform, you’ll receive an error message about an Expired Certificate: error APPX0108: The certificate specified has expired A...
View ArticleHow do I run ANGLE on D3D11 Feature Level 9?
Short answer: To initialize your Windows Store App for OpenGL ES using ANGLE, we highly recommend using our Visual Studio templates. These templates perform all of the OpenGL ES API calls necessary...
View ArticleHosting Apache Tomcat on a Linux VM on Microsoft Azure
Apache Tomcat is an open source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. The Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications are developed under the Java...
View ArticleHow to Install Cocos2d-x to Build Windows Store Apps
Since our last contributions to Cocos2d-x [v2 Universal App and v3 Universal App], developers now have two primary ways to create applications for Windows RT (Windows 8.0 and 8.1), Windows Phone 8.0...
View ArticleUsing Windows Runtime Component with Cordova Project
In the CTP3.0 version of Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova there is no way to directly reference a WinRT component in the project. This blog post describe a workaround if you want or need to...
View ArticleUsing Azure Media Services streaming video with Dash.js player
In a recent blog post, we announced the availability of Dash.js v1.3. Now, I wish to show you how to use Azure Media Services to publish video and consume it using in a Dash.js player. This scenario...
View ArticleUsing Dash.js within Cordova apps to Stream content from Azure Media services
In a previous blog post , I highlighted that it is possible to use a Dash.js player with Microsoft Azure Media Services. In this post, I will take the learnings from that tutorial a step further to...
View ArticleUsing CMake for Building OpenCV Libs for Windows Phone and Windows Store
Overview In a previous post, we announced the availability of OpenCV libs for Modern Windows. At that time, I also demonstrated how to use a batch file to automate CMake. Today, I wish to shift focus...
View ArticleTutorial: Using Ant and Jenkins to automate the deployment of Java projects...
While the Azure Toolkit for Eclipse greatly simplifies the initial Java project creation and deployment to Azure, there is often a point at which a need arises for automating subsequent deployments...
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