VSTS and TFS roadmap update
This week we updated the roadmap (Feature Timeline) for Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server. Check it out to see many of the significant improvements we are working on/planning. If...
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The UWP Community Toolkit v2.2
I am extremely excited to announce the latest update of the UWP Community Toolkit, v2.2. The credit for this release, as always, goes to the community, who have continued to support and improve the...
View ArticleThe R Consortium has funded half a million dollars to R projects
The R Consortium passed a significant milestone this month: since its inception, the non-profit body has provided more than US$500,000 in grant funding to project proposed by the R Community. The R...
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Bing Maps Dev APIs Winter Update 2018
The Bing Maps team has been working hard this winter and have added some very useful features. So far this year the team has announced many improvements in geocoding and routing, as well as a an open...
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ASP.NET Core 2.1-preview1: Introducing HTTPClient factory
HttpClient factory is an opinionated factory for creating HttpClient instances to be used in your applications. It is designed to: Provide a central location for naming and configuring logical...
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ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1: Improvements to IIS hosting
The ASP.NET Core Module (ANCM) is a global IIS module that has been responsible for proxying requests over from IIS to your backend ASP.NET application running Kestrel. Since 2.0 we have been hard at...
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Announcing new milestones for Microsoft Cognitive Services vision and search...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the most disruptive forces behind the digital transformation of business. At Microsoft, we believe everyone—developers, data scientists and...
View ArticleAzure Data Lake launches in the West Europe region
Azure Data Lake Store and Azure Data Lake Analytics are now generally available in the West Europe region, in addition to the previously announced regions of East US 2, Central US, and North Europe....
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Bing Entity Search API Now Generally Available
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Bing Entity Search API, which is now available in the United States and the following other markets: Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany,...
View Article@CurrentIteration, Team Parameter, Offset
With our Sprint 131 update (rolling out over the next few weeks), there are some major changes coming to the @CurrentIteration macro used for work item queries. We are introducing the concept of a...
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ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1: Razor UI in class libraries
One frequently requested scenario that ASP.NET Core 2.1 improves is building UI in reusable class libraries. With ASP.NET Core 2.1 you can package your Razor views and pages (.cshtml files) along with...
View ArticleReducing the latency of permissions inherited through AAD Group memberships
Ever since we introduced the support for Azure AD groups in VSTS, the usage of Azure AD groups for managing permissions by our customers have grown significantly. The growth in usage also highlighted a...
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ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1: Introducing Identity UI as a library
ASP.NET Core has historically provided project templates with code for setting up ASP.NET Core Identity, which enables support for identity related features like user registration, login, account...
View ArticleFree Azure credits for students
For students looking to try out cloud computing, but who don't have access to a credit card, there's a new way to get access to Azure. Microsoft now offers a free Azure account to students in 140...
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Running ASP.NET Core on GoDaddy’s cheapest shared Linux Hosting –...
First, a disclaimer. Don't do this. I did this to test a theory and to prove a point. ASP.NET Core and the .NET Core that it runs on are open source and run pretty much anywhere. I wanted to see if I...
View ArticleOn Wednesday, we released a roll up of fixes for security vulnerabilities for several versions of Team Foundation Server. There are no new features in this update. Most of the vulnerabilities are...
View ArticleA good incident postmortem
I wanted to call your attention to a good incident postmortem done by Taylor Lafrinere this week. Taylor sits in my team room and, for a week, I saw him bent over his keyboard, often with two or three...
View ArticleUpdates to Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Azure database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL are fully managed, enterprise-ready services built using community version of MySQL and PostgreSQL database engines respectively. These services come...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community–2018.03.02
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Make a Group Team Administrator in VSTS/TFS – Jesse HouwingIn the past,...
View ArticleSecurity updates for TFS 2015 Update 4, TFS 2017, and TFS 2017 Update 3
We released updates to Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 4, Team Foundation Server 2017, and Team Foundation Server 2017 Update 3 to fix security vulnerabilities. You can read the details in Brian’s...
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