Diagnosing Errors on your Cloud Apps
One of the most frustrating experiences is when you have your app working on your local machine, but when you publish it it’s inexplicably failing. Fortunately, Visual Studio provides handy features...
View ArticleIn case you missed it: January 2018 roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from January of particular interest to R users. Josh Katz and Peter Aldhous used R to analyze the content and presentation of the most recent State of...
View ArticleWindows Developer Day Returns on March 7th!
Windows Developer Day is back! Join us via livestream on March 7th starting at 9:00 AM PST to find out what’s being released in the next Windows 10 Update. Tune into the keynote by Kevin Gallo, Vice...
View ArticleGoats up high
Let me start with a little background. Every year, we have new goats born on the farm – generally in March/April. Last year, we had about 10 or so. They live in the field with their moms until...
View ArticleWhy should I care about Kubernetes, Docker, and Container Orchestration?
A person at work chatted me, commenting on my recent blog posts on the Raspberry Pi Kuberentes Clusters that are being built, and wondered "why should I care about Kubernetes or Docker or any of that...
View ArticleFile nesting in Solution Explorer
We are excited to share with you a new capability in Visual Studio that was a clear ask from you, the community. Visual Studio has been nesting related files in Solution Explorer for a long time now,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure IP Advantage: Our first year
One year ago, we announced Azure IP Advantage, the industry’s leading program to help cloud service customers stay focused on their digital transformation journey and avoid IP issues. The program has...
View ArticleFirst System Center Semi-Annual Channel release now available
I am excited to announce that System Center, version 1801 is now available. Based on customer feedback, we are delivering new features and enhancements in this release including improved Linux...
View ArticleOMS Monitoring solution for Azure Backup using Azure Log analytics
We previously announced the preview of Azure Backup reporting and gave customers the ability to generate their own reports and build customizations using Power BI. Today, we are pleased to let you know...
View ArticleCustom Speech: Code-free automated machine learning for speech recognition
Voice is the new interface driving ambient computing. This statement has never been more true than it is today. Speech recognition is transforming our daily lives from digital assistants, dictation of...
View ArticleDataExplorer: Fast Data Exploration With Minimum Code
by Boxuan Cui, Data Scientist at Smarter Travel Once upon a time, there was a joke: In Data Science, 80% of time spent prepare data, 20% of time spent complain about need for prepare data. — Big Data...
View ArticleNew Feature: Free-form pricing in Dev Center
Pricing your app or add-ons correctly is key to your success on Microsoft Store. As a community, you have been asking for increased flexibility when pricing your products, and the Dev Center team is...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2017 Version 15.6 Preview 4
Today, we are excited to share the final Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6 feature preview, which builds upon earlier previews of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6. This preview contains new features, bug...
View ArticleTwo Lesser Known Tools for Local Azure Development
If you’re developing applications that target Azure services (e.g. Web Apps, Functions, Storage), you’ll want to know about two powerful tools that come with Visual Studio 2017 and the Azure...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2018.02.09
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Updates from the DevOps VSTS Bot – Jeffrey OpdamDear community, I want to...
View ArticleIntroducing Social Login for Bing Webmaster Tools
Bing is actively listening to you, our customers, to improve our user experience and to understand what features you want within Bing Webmaster Tools. One of the top requests we have received is to...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Bon Voyage, Starman
TSpaceX's Elon Musk had a plan: to launch his original Tesla Roadster into orbit around Mars, atop the new Falcon Heavy rocket. And on Wednesday, the plan went into effect. The Falcon Heavy launched...
View ArticleAzure IoT SDKs released new Long-Term Support branch
The Azure IoT SDKs now have a new Long-Term Support (LTS) Branch. While we develop our SDKs on public GitHub repositories and ship a new version every other week to give developers access to the latest...
View ArticleAzure Redis Cache geo-replication is now generally available
We are very happy to announce the general availability of geo-replication support for Azure Redis Cache. Redis Cache is Microsoft Azure’s Cache-as-a-Service offering, based on the popular open source...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure Data Lake Storage in Storage Explorer – public preview
Providing a rich GUI for Azure Data Lake Storage resources management has been a top customer ask for a long time, we are thrilled to announce the public preview for supporting Azure Data Lake Storage...
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