ASP.NET Core 2.1 roadmap
Five months ago, we shipped ASP.NET Core 2.0 as a foundational release for our high performance, cross-platform web framework for .NET and .NET Core. Since then we have been hard at work to deliver the...
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.NET Core 2.1 Roadmap
The .NET team has been working on the .NET Core 2.1 release for the last several months on GitHub. We know that many of you have been using .NET Core 2.0 since it shipped in August of last year and...
View ArticleEntity Framework Core 2.1 Roadmap
As mentioned in the announcement of the .NET Core 2.1 roadmap earlier today, at this point we know the overall shape of our next release and we have decided on a general schedule for it. As we approach...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Time for Sushi
Why not end your week with a strangely calming dose of the bizarre: the short film Time for Sushi, by David Lewandowski. That's all for us for this week. Have a great weekend, and we'll be back next...
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Build email notifications for SQL Database Automatic tuning recommendations
After reading this blogpost, you will be able to build your own custom email notifications for SQL Database Automatic tuning recommendations. We have listened to our customers requesting this...
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Everyone should get a Dashcam
I've put Dashcams in both my car and my wife's car. It's already captured two accidents: one where I was rear-ended and one where someone fell asleep as they were driving a few cars ahead of me on the...
View ArticleGo serverless for your IoT needs
If you are building an IoT solution in the cloud, chances are your focus is on the devices and what you can accomplish with them. You might want to process data coming from a network of devices in real...
View ArticleBing Speech API extends its text to speech support to 34 languages
Voice is becoming more and more prevalent as a mode of interaction with all kinds of devices and services. The ability to provide not only voice input but also voice output or Text-to-speech (TTS), is...
View ArticleLast week in Azure: Event Grid GA, Ansible in Cloud Shell, and more
Last week in Azure, Azure Event Grid, a fully managed, scalable and flexible event routing service became generally available. Event Grid enables you to build reactive, event-driven apps with a fully...
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Learn how to do Image Recognition with Cognitive Services and ASP.NET
With all the talk about artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) doing crazy things, it’s easy to be left wondering, “what are practical ways I can use this today?” It turns out there are...
View ArticleAnnouncing .NET Framework 4.7.2 Early Access build 3052!
Today, we are happy to share the .NET Framework 4.7.2 Early Access build 3052 for your feedback. .NET Framework 4.7.2 is the next version of the .NET Framework. It is currently feature-complete and in...
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Brand Detection in Microsoft Video Indexer
We are delighted to announce a new capability in Microsoft Video Indexer: Brand Detection from speech and from visual text! If you are not yet familiar with Video Indexer, you may want to take a look...
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Welcoming Progressive Web Apps to Microsoft Edge and Windows 10
A little over a year ago, we outlined our vision to bring Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to the more than half a billion devices running Windows 10. We believe PWAs are key to the web’s future, and...
View ArticleA new experiment: Browser-based web apps with .NET and Blazor
Today I’m excited to announce a new experimental project from the ASP.NET team called Blazor. Blazor is an experimental web UI framework based on C#, Razor, and HTML that runs in the browser via...
View ArticleVcpkg: introducing installation options with Feature Packages
We are happy to announce a new feature for vcpkg in version 0.0.103: Feature Packages. Vcpkg is a package manager to help acquiring and building open source libraries on Windows; vcpkg currently offers...
View ArticleThe AI Show: Data Science Virtual Machine
The Data Science Virtual Machine was featured on a recent episode of the AI Show with Seth Juarez and Gopi Kumar. If you want a quick and easy way to spin up a virtual machine with all of the data...
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Toward a More Intelligent Search: Bing Multi-Perspective Answers
In December, we launched several new Intelligent Answers that go beyond the traditional Q&A style of search and offer answers to more complicated questions. We received so much interest in...
View ArticleAzure Search service upgrades: New hardware, unlimited document counts, and...
Today we are happy to announce performance upgrades to all paid service tiers in Azure Search. For the exact same price, these upgraded Azure Search services have roughly double the compute power of...
View ArticleAzure #CosmosDB Graph API now generally available
Azure Cosmos DB Graph API is the first cloud database to provide graph functionality over a globally distributed managed service. This has enabled users to explore new ways of consuming their data with...
View ArticleMicrosoft offers SAP HANA supportable VMs in UK with the Azure M/B/V3-series
Microsoft becomes the first hyperscale cloud provider to offer SAP HANA supportable VMs in the UK. Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) customers can now take advantage of the Azure M/V3/B-series of VM sizes...
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