Developer tools

I am really excited to announce the availability of Tableau Server in the Azure Marketplace.

We’re excited to announce a new release of Azure SDK for .NET. This post includes details for each feature area and how the new functionality will improve your Azure development experience within Visual Studio.

The Microsoft PowerApps engineering team will host a special Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) on r/Azure, Wednesday, December 9, 2015 from 10:00 – 11:00 am PST.

Today, we’re excited to announce Azure SDK 2.8 for Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio 2015. This post summarizes the updates and how the new tools will improve your Azure development experience.

Azure makes it easy to set up a dev-test environment for your applications and all of their components: web app, database, database server, storage, and any third-party services.

Today marks the launch of Microsoft Mechanics our official new show and video platform for IT professionals and tech enthusiasts.

There’s a much faster way to create the infrastructure you need to deploy and test a tiered, web-based line-of-business application (LOB app). Azure makes it easy to simulate a LOB app production environment from your location on the Internet.

As part of your hybrid cloud environment for testing, Azure helps you set up a SharePoint farm you can use to develop SharePoint applications, test for capacity and performance, or create an IT pro proof-of-concept configuration for learning and experimentation prior to deploying SharePoint in

Creating dev-test environments that mimic production often present challenges due to scalability and complexity, especially for hybrid applications and workloads. Azure makes it easy to create a cross-premises virtual network that connects to and extends your on-premises network.

There’s a simpler way to speed up the process of creating a dev-test environment. Azure makes it easy to create virtual machines and network them together—the first steps in creating your own dev-test environment.

Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) are a great place to start exploring dev-test capabilities in the cloud.

Dev-test in Azure is ideal for collaborative teams and gives you agile management over your environment.