Azure Toolkit for Eclipse integrates with HDInsight Ambari and supports Spark...
To provide more authentication options, Azure Toolkit for Eclipse now supports integration with HDInsight clusters through Ambari for job submission, cluster resource browse and storage files navigate....
View ArticleAzure Analysis Services integration with VNets via On-Premises Data Gateway
We are pleased to announce Azure Analysis Services now provides integration with cloud data sources residing on Azure Virtual Networks (VNets). Organizations use VNets for enhanced security and...
View ArticleSee Our Smart Solutions for the Fleet Industry at NAFA 2018 I&E
This week, the Bing Maps team will be in sunny California at the NAFA 2018 Institute & Expo, known as the largest event for fleet professionals. We will share our latest developments for the...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2017 roadmap now available
With the release of Visual Studio 2017, we moved to a release schedule that delivers new features and fixes to you faster. With this faster iteration, we heard you would like more visibility into...
View ArticleAnnouncing a single C++ library manager for Linux, macOS and Windows: Vcpkg
At Microsoft, the core of our vision is “Any Developer, Any App, Any Platform” and we are committed to bringing you the most productive development tools and services to build your apps across all...
View ArticleBig changes behind the scenes in R 3.5.0
A major update to R is now available. The R Core group has announced the release of R 3.5.0, and binary versions for Windows and Linux are now available from the primary CRAN mirror. (The Mac release...
View ArticleWhat’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services: April 2018 Digest
This post series provides the latest updates and news for Visual Studio Team Services and is a great way for Azure users to keep up-to-date with new features being released every three weeks. Visual...
View ArticleAzure Container Instances now generally available
I am proud to announce the general availability of Azure Container Instances (ACI) – a serverless way to run both Linux and Windows containers. ACI offers you an on-demand compute service delivering...
View ArticleJoin Microsoft Build Live for the ultimate digital experience
Registration is now open for the Microsoft Build Live digital experience, May 7–9! Microsoft Build Live brings you live as well as on-demand access to three days of inspiring speakers, spirited...
View ArticleReplicated Tables now generally available in Azure SQL Data Warehouse
We are excited to announce that Replicated Tables, a new type of table distribution, are now generally available in Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW). SQL DW is a fully managed, flexible, and secure...
View ArticleBing Custom Search: Build a customized search experience in minutes
It’s a little over five months since we launched the Bing Custom Search for general availability, and we're happy to see a considerable number of websites around the world that are now powered by Bing...
View ArticleAccelerate real-time big data analytics with Spark connector for Microsoft...
Apache Spark is a unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing. Today, you can use the built-in JDBC connector to connect to Azure SQL Database or SQL Server to read or write data from...
View ArticleAzure #CosmosDB: Secure, private, compliant
Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's globally distributed, multi-model database. Azure Cosmos DB enables you to elastically and independently scale throughput and storage across any number of Azure's...
View ArticleIntroducing the Microsoft Edge DevTools Preview app
Last fall at the Microsoft Edge Web Summit, we laid out our plans for rebooting the Microsoft Edge DevTools in response to your feedback. Today we’re announcing the availability of the DevTools as a...
View ArticleBing-powered settings search in VS Code
Improving settings search in VS Code with BingRead the full article
View ArticleGet the Azure Quick Start Guide for .NET Developers
This blog post was co-authored by Barry Luijbregts, Azure MVP. If you’re a .NET developer, we’re excited to introduce a new resource that can help you learn about Azure: The Azure Quick Start Guide for...
View ArticleTrain an IoT-equipped drone and compete to win at Microsoft Build
Are you ready for Microsoft’s ultimate developer event? You probably already know Microsoft Build, happening May 7–9 in Seattle, Washington, is where you need to be to connect with the experts,...
View ArticleHDInsight tools for VS Code now supports argparse and Spark 2.2
We are happy to announce that HDInsight Tools for VSCode now supports argparse and accepts parameter based Pyspark Job submission. We also enabled the tools to support Spark 2.2 for PySpark author and...
View ArticleOrganizing subscriptions and resource groups within the Enterprise
Special thanks to Robert Venable, Principal Software Engineer in the Finance Engineering team of Core Services Engineering (formerly Microsoft IT) for sharing their story of enabling development teams...
View ArticlePer disk metrics for Managed & Unmanaged Disks now in public preview
Today we’re sharing the public preview of per disk metrics for all Managed & Unmanaged Disks. This enables you to closely monitor and make the right disk selection to suit your application usage...
View Article