If you're coding Azure Functions in Visual Studio 2017 to work with Azure Storage, one tool that can assist when running functions locally is the Microsoft Azure Storage Emulator, as shown in this ...

Microsoft has developed a "cloud-scale emulator" meant to help engineers eliminate cloud networking downtime. According to Microsoft, CrystalNet was developed over two years by the Microsoft Azure and ...

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One of the Azure SQL-related announcements that did not get a lot of publicity at May's Microsoft Build conference was the Azure SQL Database local database experience. With all the hype around SQL ...

In part 1 of this series, we have been through the process of signing up with Windows Azure. In this part, we will setup the development environment required to get ...