.NET Core May 2018 Update
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core May 2018 Update. This update includes .NET Core 2.1.200 SDK and ASP.NET Core 2.0.8. Security Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information...
View ArticleEarly preview of Visual Studio support for Windows 10 on ARM development
Today, we are pleased to announce that Visual Studio 15.8 Preview 1 contains an early preview of the SDK and tools to allow you to create your own 64-bit ARM (ARM64) apps. These tools answer the...
View ArticleVisual Studio Code C/C++ extension May 2018 Update – IntelliSense...
Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension May 2018 Update – IntelliSense configuration just got so much easier! This morning we shipped the May 2018 update of the C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code, the...
View ArticleAnnouncing new Async Java SDK for Azure #CosmosDB
We’re excited to announce a new asynchronous Java SDK for Cosmos DB’s SQL API open sourced on GitHub. This SDK leverages the popular RxJava library to add a new async API surface area for composing...
View ArticleAzure Networking May 2018 announcements
This week is Microsoft Build 2018, our premiere event of the year for our gifted developer audience. With a strong appetite for technology and a desire to learn and immerse themselves in new ways to...
View ArticleAzure confidential computing
Last September, I had the privilege to publicly announce our Azure confidential computing efforts, where Microsoft Azure became the first cloud platform to enable new data security capabilities that...
View ArticleAzure Event Hubs for Kafka Ecosystems in public preview
Organizations need data driven strategies to increase competitive advantage. Customers want to stream data or analyze in real-time to get valuable insights faster. To meet these big data needs, you...
View ArticleBing Maps Location Recognition API and Autosuggest API Previews Released
We are excited to announce the private preview release of two new Bing Maps APIs – Bing Maps Location Recognition API and Bing Maps Autosuggest API. Bing Maps Location Recognition API and the Bing Maps...
View ArticleBringing a modern WebView to your .NET WinForms and WPF Apps
One of the founding principles of Microsoft Edge is that it is evergreen, with automatic updates to Windows 10 continually refreshing both Microsoft Edge itself and web content throughout Windows 10....
View ArticleIn case you missed it: April 2018 roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from April of particular interest to R users. Microsoft R Open 3.4.4, based on R 3.4.4, is now available. An R script by Ryan Timpe converts a photo into...
View ArticleAnnouncing .NET Core 2.1 RC 1 Go Live AND .NET Core 3.0 Futures
I just got back from the Microsoft BUILD Conference where Scott Hunter and I announced both .NET Core 2.1 RC1 AND talked about .NET Core 3.0 in the future. .NET Core 2.1 RC1 First, .NET Core 2.1's...
View ArticleFull-integrated experience simplifying Language Understanding in...
Creating an advanced conversational system is now a simple task with the powerful tools integrated into Microsoft’s Language Understanding Service (LUIS) and Bot Framework. LUIS brings together...
View ArticleEnhancements in Application Insights Profiler and Snapshot Debugger
We are pleased to announce a series of improvements on Application Insights Profiler and Snapshot Debugger. Profiler identifies the line of code that slowed down the web app performance under load....
View ArticleAzure SQL Data Warehouse now supports automatic creation of statistics
We are pleased to announce that Azure SQL Data Warehouse (Azure SQL DW) now supports automatic creation of column level statistics. Azure SQL DW is a fast, flexible, and secure analytics platform for...
View ArticleSpark + AI Summit: Data scientists and engineers put their trust in Microsoft...
Microsoft will have a major presence at Spark + AI Summit, 2018, in San Francisco, the premier event for the Apache Spark community. Rohan Kumar, Corporate Vice President of Azure Data, will deliver a...
View ArticleIn case you missed it: 10 of your questions from our GDPR webinars
During the last few months, I’ve spoken with a lot of Azure customers, both in person and online, about how to prepare for the May 25, 2018 deadline for compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection...
View ArticleExtract management insights from SQL Data Warehouse with SQL Operations Studio
SQL Operations Studio can be leveraged with Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) to create rich customizable dashboard widgets surfacing insights to your data warehouse. This unlocks key scenarios around...
View ArticleCustomer success stories with Azure Backup: Somerset County Council
This is a continuation of our customer success story blog series for Azure Backup. In the previous case study we covered Russell Reynolds, here we will discuss how United Kingdom’s Somerset County...
View ArticleShift Left with SonarCloud Pull Request Integration
One of our DevOps “habits” is to Shift Left and move quality upstream. Including additional validations earlier in the DevOps pipeline means identifying potential issues before they become a problem....
View ArticleVisual Studio and Unity 2018.1, even better together
The Visual Studio team is excited about the Unity 2018.1 release: It’s the start of a new release cycle packed with great new features like the Scriptable Render Pipeline and the C# Job System. You can...
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