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Microsoft has announced ASP.NET WebHooks preview as a new addition to the ASP.NET family. WebHooks is a lightweight HTTP pattern providing a simple pub/sub model for wiring together Web APIs and SaaS services. When an event happens in a service, a notification is sent in…

Microsoft has announced the General Availability of its Live Encoding service as part of several of updates announced for the Azure Media Services suite. Live Encoding allows broadcasters to send a single video stream to Azure Media Services, where it is encoded into an adaptive…

On the .NET Blog Microsoft announced that MSBuild is now open source, and it is going cross-platform: “The .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”) has been open source for a while now, Microsoft is taking .NET open source and cross-platform, and the ASP.NET 5 Runtime is open…

According to research company Gartner, the market for enterprise application software, led by SaaS, will increase by 7.5% in 2015 to $149.9 billion worldwide and will further increase to more than $201 billion in 2019. Bianca Granetto, research director at Gartner said, “The majority of…

Microsoft has released the SharePoint 2016 IT Preview, which can be downloaded here. Of the release, Microsoft says, “SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview has been designed, developed, and tested with the Microsoft Software as a Service (SaaS) strategy at its core. Drawing extensively from that…

Today Microsoft announced that Row-Level Security (RLS) for SQL Database is now generally available. In the Microsoft Azure Blog Tommy Mullaney, Program Manager for Azure SQL Database says, “RLS enables you to store data for many users in a single database and table, while at…

SharePoint 2016 is planned for general availability release in Q2 2016. According to an article on infoworld.com, SharePoint 2016 will increasingly rely on, or encourage the use of, cloud services. It states, “Although Microsoft has yet to release a beta version (one is expected by…