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Announcing a new name for the UWP Community Toolkit: Windows Community Toolkit
I’m really excited to announce, starting with the next major release, the UWP Community Toolkit will have a new name – the Windows Community Toolkit. This is a huge milestone for the toolkit and the...
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Bringing Screen Capture to Microsoft Edge with the Media Capture API
Beginning with the EdgeHTML 17, Microsoft Edge is the first browser to support Screen Capture via the Screen Capture API. Web developers can start building on this feature today by upgrading to the...
View ArticlePython at Microsoft: Meet us at Build and PyCon US!
Next week are the Microsoft Build conference in Seattle, WA on May 7-9, and the PyCon conference in Cleveland, OH on May 9-17, and we (the Microsoft Python team) will be at both conferences looking...
View ArticleTowards More Intelligent Search: Deep Learning for Query Semantics
Deep learning is helping to make Bing’s search results more intelligent. Here’s a peek behind the curtain of how we’re applying some of these techniques.Last week, I noticed there were dates printed on...
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Blazor 0.3.0 experimental release now available
Blazor 0.3.0 is now available! This release includes important bug fixes and many new feature enhancements. New features in this release (details below): Project templates updated to use Bootstrap 4...
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Python in Visual Studio Code – April 2018 Release
We are pleased to announce that the April 2018 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available from the marketplace and the gallery. You can download the Python extension from...
View ArticleAnnouncing ASP.NET MVC 5.2.5, Web API 5.2.5, and Web Pages 3.2.5
Today we released 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 release in the...
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Eyes wide open – Correct Caching is always hard
In my last post I talked about Caching and some of the stuff I've been doing to cache the results of a VERY expensive call to the backend that hosts my podcast. As always, the comments are better than...
View ArticleThree Twitter Threads
I've been heads-down this week preparing for some upcoming talks, so not as much blogging as usual this week. But there have been some interesting conversations on Twitter this week that you may be...
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Exploring Azure App Service – Introduction
Have you ever needed to quickly stand up a web site, or web API app that was publicly available? Is your team or organization thinking about moving to the cloud but aren’t sure the best place to start?...
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General availability: Azure Storage metrics in Azure Monitor
Azure Storage metrics in Azure Monitor, which was previously in public preview, is now generally available. Azure Monitor is the platform service that provides a single source of monitoring data for...
View ArticleAzure expands certification scope of Health Information Trust Alliance Common...
I’m proud to announce that our Azure Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) Common Security Framework (CSF) Certification was not only renewed by HITRUST, but our certification scope has expanded...
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Announcing low-priority VMs on scale sets now in public preview
We are thrilled to announce the public preview of low-priority virtual machines (VMs) on VM scale sets. Low-priority VMs allow users to run their workloads at a fraction of the price, enabling...
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Announcing first-class support for CloudEvents on Azure
As more and more serverless applications are developed, events are now the glue connecting all aspects of modern applications. These events can originate from microservices, from VMs, from the edge, or...
View ArticleAzure M-series VMs are now SAP HANA certified
In December 2017, we announced general availability of the Azure M-series virtual machines (VM). These VMs host on the most powerful cloud hardware that is available across all public cloud providers....
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2018.05.04
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics, listed in no specific order: TOP STORIES Recent work on the Countdown Widget for...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: The eyes don’t work
Spring has finally arrived around here, and a recent tweet reminded me of the depths of fear that Spring brought to me as 7-year old me back in Australia: swooping magpies. These native birds, related...
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Azure.Source – Volume 30
Microsoft Build 2018 is just a few days away on May 7-9. Whether you can’t make it to Seattle or you just want to enhance your on-the-ground experience at the event, Microsoft Build Live brings you...
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Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5 and beyond
Last year at Build, we launched Visual Studio for Mac, our native macOS IDE for developers building cloud, web, and mobile applications using .NET. Updates have been rolling out at a steady pace ever...
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Announcing .NET Core 2.1 RC 1
Today, we’re announcing .NET Core 2.1 Release Candidate 1 (RC 1). The .NET Core 2.1 RC 1 is now ready for broad testing and for production use. Our quality, reliability, and performance testing give us...
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