New offers in Azure Marketplace – February 2018
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. In February 2018, 81 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Sensitive Data...
View ArticleVisual Studio at GDC 2018
Next week, the world’s largest professional game industry event kicks off in San Francisco: Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2018. We’re incredibly excited to engage with all developers at the event...
View ArticleBuild Time Improvement Recommendation: Turn off /MAP, use PDBs
Map file is a plaintext file that contains information about where certain names and symbols exist in a binary produced by the linker. It also contain detailed information on all sections in your...
View ArticleIn case you missed it: February 2018 roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from February of particular interest to R users. The R Consortium opens a new round of grant applications for R-related user groups and projects, and has...
View ArticleGVFS for Mac
Over the last couple of years, we built GVFS to enable the Windows team to work in a Git repo that is orders of magnitude larger than any repo in existence before it. GVFS is currently only supported...
View ArticleR 3.4.4 released
R 3.4.4 has been released, and binaries for Windows, Mac, Linux and now available for download on CRAN. This update (codenamed "Someone to Lean On" — likely a Peanuts reference, though I couldn't find...
View Article#ifdef WINDOWS – What is Windows Machine Learning and how to get started
With the next release of Windows, developers will be able to evaluate trained machine learning models locally on Windows 10 devices, allowing developers to use pre-trained models within their...
View ArticleAnnouncing TypeScript 2.8 RC
Today we’re excited to announce and get some early feedback with TypeScript 2.8’s Release Candidate. To get started with the RC, you can access it through NuGet, or use npm with the following command:...
View ArticleCross-platform GUIs with open source .NET using Eto.Forms
This is one of those "Did you know you could do THAT?" Many folks have figured out that C#/F#/.NET is cross-platform and open0source and runs on basically any operating system. People are using it to...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2018.03.16
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES GitKraken Now Integrates with VSTS – Sara BreedingGitKraken Pro now...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Email a tree
The City of Melbourne has collected data on the more than 70,000 trees in the urban forest of this Australian metropolis. The data include the species, the health status of the tree and its life...
View ArticleServerless computing recipes for your cloud applications
You have heard the hype around serverless computing, read countless online articles about its benefits, and heard industry pundits find new adjectives to describe its pathbreaking nature on a frequent...
View ArticleAnnouncing improved multi-member Blockchain networks now available on Azure
We see strong customer interest in the Blockchain solutions that are available on the Azure Marketplace. As customers build production Blockchain scenarios, we understand that network reliability and...
View ArticleGlobal performance acceleration with Azure Traffic Manager
Gaining insights to customer traffic is imperative in providing a best in class user experience. With Traffic View, a new capability in Azure Traffic Manager, you can get rich information and powerful...
View ArticleText Recognition for Video in Microsoft Video Indexer
In Video Indexer, we have the capability for recognizing display text in videos. This blog explains some of the techniques we used to extract the best quality data. To start, take a look at the...
View ArticleAzure Security Center and discovery of partner solutions
Azure Security Center offers integration with various 3rd party security solutions which provide a unified view for alerting and monitoring of your Azure and non-Azure workloads. For integrated partner...
View ArticleModernize index maintenance with Resumable Online Index Rebuild
As we know, the index is one of the most powerful tools for optimizing database performance. As you insert, update, and delete rows, indexes become more fragmented and less effective. Because of this,...
View ArticleLast week in Azure #23: Week of March 12
Last week in Azure, we were at the Rice Oil and Gas HPC conference showing how high-performance computing in the cloud is helping companies in that industry get more done. This week, we'll be at GDC...
View ArticleSupporting JUnit 5 in Visual Studio Code
After supporting the widely adopted JUnit 4 with the Java Test Runner extension for Visual Studio Code, we’ve received suggestions to add additional test frameworks, like JUnit 5 and TestNG. We’ve...
View ArticleAnnouncing Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.5, Web API 5.2.5, and Web Pages 3.2.5
Today we released Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.5, Web API 5.2.5, and Web Pages 3.2.5 on NuGet. This is a patch release that contains only bug fixes. You can find the full list of bug fixes for this...
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