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Your guide to Azure services for apps built with Xamarin
When talking about app development today, the cloud is almost always part of the conversation. While many developers have an idea of the benefits that cloud can offer them – scalability, ready-to-use...
View ArticleMachine Learning in R with TensorFlow
Modern machine learning platforms like Tensorflow have to date been used mainly by the computer science crowd, for applications like computer vision and language understanding. But as JJ Allaire...
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Unlock Query Performance with SQL Data Warehouse using Graphical Execution Plans
The Graphical Execution Plan feature within SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is now supported for SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW)! With a click of a button, you can create a graphical representation of...
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The Squishy Side of Open Source
A few months back my friend Keeley Hammond and I did a workshop for Women Who Code Portland called The Squishy Side of Open Source. We'd done a number of workshops before on how to use Git and the...
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Monitor network connectivity to applications with NPM’s Service Endpoint...
As more and more enterprises are hosting their applications in cloud and are relying more on SaaS and PaaS applications to provide services, they are increasingly becoming dependent on multiple...
View ArticleNew VSTS Messaging Extension for Microsoft Teams
Today we are releasing our new Messaging Extension to add to the integrations between Microsoft Teams and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). The messaging extension allows you to search, find, and...
View ArticleGet started with Azure Cosmos DB through this technical training series
Are you building a new application which requires low latency at any scale? Or are you in the process of migrating your NoSQL databases to the cloud? Or looking for the right resources to help you get...
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LUIS.AI: Automated Machine Learning for Custom Language Understanding
This blog post was co-authored by Riham Mansour, Principal Program Manager, Fuse Labs. Conversational systems are rapidly becoming a key component of solutions such as virtual assistants, customer...
View ArticleUsing AI to automatically redact faces in videos
In the last few years, many law enforcement agencies have adopted body worn cameras. In this blog post, I will provide some background on what is driving the growth and will talk about how AI can help...
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VNet service endpoints for Azure SQL Database now generally available
This blog post was co-authored by Anitha Adusumilli, Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking. We are excited to announce the general availability of Virtual Network (VNet) Service Endpoints for...
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Deploying WordPress application using VSTS and Azure – part one
This post is the first part of two blog posts, describing how to setup a CI/CD pipeline using VSTS for deploying a dockerized custom WordPress website working with Azure WebApp for Containers and Azure...
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Analyzing accelerometer data with R
Using your smartphone (any modern phone with a built-in accelerometer should work), visit the Cast Your Spell page created by Nick Strayer. (If you need to type it to your phone browser directly,...
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az webapp new – Azure CLI extension to create and deploy a .NET Core or...
The Azure CLI 2.0 (Command line interface) is a clean little command line tool to query the Azure back-end APIs (which are JSON). It's easy to install and cross-platform: Install on Windows Install on...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2018.02.23
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Post 2- Value Stream Mapping for ALM Ranger’s VSTS Extensions Work Stream –...
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How to set up a sparklyr cluster in 5 minutes
If you've ever wanted to play around with big data sets in a Spark cluster from R with the sparklyr package, but haven't gotten started because setting up a Spark cluster is too hard, well ... rest...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Faster Than Light
Faster than Light, a short film by Adam Stern, captures a single idea as well as any good sci-fi short story. It's also very pretty, and surprisingly moving. Well worth your 15 minutes. (Via Kottke)...
View ArticleArithmetic overflow checks in C++ Core Check
We’ve improved the C++ Code Analysis toolset with every major compiler update in Visual Studio 2017. Version 15.6, now in Preview, includes a set of arithmetic overflow checks. This article discusses...
View ArticleWindows Community Standup discussing Multi-instancing, Console UWPs and...
During our February Windows Community Standup, we discussed three long-awaited features that add a new dimension to how you build UWP apps. Based on developer feedback these topics are top of mind –...
View Article#ifdef WINDOWS – How to enable WebVR with just two lines of code with BabylonJS
BabylonJS is a very powerful JavaScript framework for building 3D apps and games with web standards, used by game developers to build some amazing experiences that can run on any platform and device....
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Upgrading a 10 year old site to ASP.NET Core’s Razor Pages using the...
My podcast has over 600 episodes (Every week for many years, you do the math! And subscribe!) website was written in ASP.NET Web Pages many years ago. "Web Pages" (horrible name) was it's own thing. It...
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