Comment by mvark on Azure Service Fabric vs Azure Container Services
@masnider That article is indeed good and possibly the only one available currently that compares ACS & ASF and I appreciate that the author shared his notes. I didn't get a chance to watch the...
View ArticleComment by mvark on what is the difference between virtual machine classic...
Link for the todo in your answer: "Microsoft recommends that you use Resource Manager for all new resources." - learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/…
View ArticleComment by mvark on Best way to display a pdf cross browser
@raduanastase Not sure what you mean by "Google Docs Viewer is not supported". Though it is not relevant to OP, I've been using it on & off and it works as of today -...
View ArticleComment by mvark on How can I use Cognitive Services in Azure Government?
Glad you were able to access it through Powershell. It is not my fault if the "Products available by region" tracker is not updated
View ArticleComment by mvark on How to get subtitles' currently displayed text
As the subtitle text is possibly part of the DOM, can JavaScript code be used in the browser's Developer Console to extract the text after detecting the time at which it was paused? Is there any way to...
View ArticleComment by mvark on How can I achieve bookmarklet functionality in Microsoft...
In Edge v44, the "Add to reading list" option in the context menu is disabled for Bookmarklet links. Therefore the above method no longer works.
View ArticleComment by mvark on How can I achieve bookmarklet functionality in Microsoft...
In step 2, "Copy link" from the context menu can also be used to get the bookmarklet code. I created an Edge specific bookmarklet of my own & deployed it in this way in Edge v44 -...
View ArticleComment by mvark on RequestThrottled: You are submitting requests too...
The reason "You are submitting requests too quickly" is misleading as it is actually caused by lack of referring sales. Amazon should correct the wording of the error message & be less restrictive....
View ArticleComment by mvark on Azure pronunciation/fluency assessment for non-native...
Currently Pronunciation assessment is only available for en-us & en-uk locales but I guess you can change the language locale to the variant of English say en-in (when it becomes available) instead...
View ArticleAnswer by mvark for binding data web service public url to dropdown in...
You may have run into a JavaScript cross-domain data access issue as you're trying to access a remote address from you Office 365 Preview site. If the return type of the request to the remote address...
View ArticleAnswer by mvark for Why arent both of these functions working for my html js...
To attach event handlers to dynamic elements, use the jQuery .on() method if you're using jQuery 1.7+. If you are using older versions, choose among .bind(), .delegate(), and .live() jQuery methods.
View ArticleAnswer by mvark for How do I test geolocation javascripts?
Chrome now (tested in version 25) supports Geolocation spoofing via Developer Tools
View ArticleAnswer by mvark for How can I send multiple values of a HTML control (like...
Try using this to join the elements of an array into a string after checking that it doesn't contain a blank value -$('CityId').val().join(",")
View ArticleAnswer by mvark for How to mobilize all links with...
I wrote this Google Mobilizer bookmarklet as I had a itch to scratch.You can adapt the code to suit your requirement.
View ArticleHow to hide application key in page.js file of Windows Azure Mobile Services
In the Azure portal Getting Started HTML5/JavaScript sample that comes with Windows Azure Mobile Services, the page.js file has this line where the application key is visible -var client = new...
View ArticleAnswer by mvark for YQL Weather Forecast
I have posted a complete sample here - https://gist.github.com/mvark/5231461Check the Yahoo Weather API documentation for more details about the API
View ArticleAnswer by mvark for How to run PowerShell remotely on Azure Website
Web Jobs now natively support PowerShell scripts. You can upload a zip file containing a .ps1 file and it will be executed without further configurations.
View ArticleAnswer by mvark for SQL Azure - synchronous replication to second database?
A recent development - Microsoft's Active-Geo Replication support for SQL Database lets users create up to four readable, secondary databases in any Azure region. If you've got active-geo replication...
View ArticleAnswer by mvark for Best way to get meaning of a word online programmatically
Check the big list of Dictionary APIs compiled by Programmableweb. Wordnik's API looks useful.
View ArticleAnswer by mvark for Increase Accuracy IE 11 Geolocation
Different browsers use different geolocation service providers to get an estimate of your location and that could explain why you're seeing different results with Google Maps. Google Chrome similarly...
View ArticleIs there a Windows 8 App directory website (not the one accessible from...
Is going through the Windows Shop within Windows 8 the only way to know about the apps that are currently available (and if an app idea is already taken)? I've seen Windows 8 app links like this one...
View ArticleAnswer by mvark for Is there a Windows 8 App directory website (not the one...
Update - It is now possible to search for Windows Store& Windows Phone apps even from non-Windows 8 machines and also view apps by category from the official Microsoft websites.As @mamata-dalal...
View ArticleAnswer by mvark for add cursor: pointer to audio element
Different browsers react differently to styling of the audio element.I tested this sample in Chrome 39 & IE 11 on Windows 8.1. audio { width:45px; height:25px; cursor:pointer}The cursor property...
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Answer by mvark for What software runs on a Azure PaaS server on a rack to...
This TechEd session has some great info on Java on Microsoft Azure. Java web applications can be run using a PaaS Worker role or on Azure Websites both of which have some form of Windows Server OS....
View ArticleWhat is the selector to extract first image within infobox of a Wikipedia...
I wish to extract the the first image within infobox - the table with the class name infobox that is on most Wikipedia pages, using Wikipedia/Mediawiki APIHere's what I've tried so far...
View ArticleAnswer by mvark for Do you need 2 instances of Azure websites for SLA like...
A developer on the Azure Websites team has replied here that the SLA for any Azure Website on the Basic or Standard tier is 99.95%Just having one instance of the site is enough
View ArticleAnswer by mvark for How To Shorten All Links In RSS Feed?
Have you actually tried the Socialize option with the Publicize tab of FeedBurner? What didn't work?TwitterFeed, dlvr.it and IFTTT are also good alternatives
View ArticleNeed help understanding results returned by Bing Web Search API v5
I've updated the following snippet that I created earlier with the beta version of the Bing Web Search API to use the newer domain name: api.cognitive.microsoft.com/bing/v5.0/search that Bing Web...
View ArticleRunning Service Fabric on non-Azure clouds
I have just started exploring Azure Service Fabric & I'm finding the concepts involved a little overwhelmingConsider these 2 statements -"Service Fabric is agnostic to the underlying hosting...
View ArticleAWS Dedicated instance equivalent in Azure
The footnotes for Standard_D15_v2, Standard_G5, Standard_L32s Azure instance types in the official documentation says this "Instance is isolated to hardware dedicated to a single customer". Can these...
View ArticleHTTP PATCH operation fails in IE 11, works in Chrome, Firefox
This is the snippet related to the PATCH operation from a larger working samplefunction restPatch(food) { $.ajax({ url: 'https://example.azure-mobile.net/tables/food/'+ food.id, type: 'PATCH',...
View ArticleIs there a cost for Azure Site Recovery if you finish one-time migration from...
"Customers can replicate on-premises workloads to Azure with Azure Site Recovery for 31 days at no charge, effectively making migration to Azure free."While the above statement from a Microsoft blog...
View ArticleAnswer by mvark for Is there any NoSQL data store that is ACID compliant?
Google Cloud Datastore is a NoSQL database that supports ACID transactions
View ArticleWhat is the SLA for a single instance VM on Basic / Standard tier of Azure...
This has been asked before differently last year but it has not received an authoritative answer.The updated SLA says - "We guarantee that all websites running in a customer subscription will respond...
View ArticleAnswer by mvark for Where can I download english dictionary database in a...
Check if these free resources fit your need -FOLDOC - dictionary source is a single plain text file.ObjectGraph has a SQL Server database version of the WordNetlexical database from Princeton University
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