Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.05.18
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 How To Get Started With Performance...
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Glassmaker glassybaby streamlines retail scheduling and fosters communication...
Today’s post was written by Lee Rhodes, founder of glassybaby in Seattle, Washington. I launched glassybaby in 1998 after being diagnosed with cancer and finding hope in the light of a handmade...
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Console UWP Applications and File-system Access
As announced in the May 2018 issue of MSDN Magazine, the latest Windows update introduces support for Console UWP apps. We’re also introducing support for UWP apps to get broader access to the...
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A new product badge for Microsoft Store applications
As many of you know, building quality apps is quite a commitment and investment in time. Once your app is in the Store, the next challenge is getting the word out about your new title and driving...
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Exploring Azure App Service – Web Apps and SQL Azure
There is a good chance that your web app uses a database. In my previous post introducing Azure App Service, I showed some of the benefits of hosting apps in Azure App Service, and how easy it is to...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Laurel or Yanny
I can only assume you've heard about this already: it's gone wildly viral in the USA, and I assume elsewhere in the world. But it's a lovely example of an auditory illusion, and as regular readers know...
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Installing PowerShell Core on a Raspberry Pi (powered by .NET Core)
Earlier this week I set up .NET Core and Docker on a Raspberry Pi and found that I could run my podcast website quite easily on a Pi. Check that post out as there's a lot going on. I can test within a...
View ArticleAzure IoT Reference Architecture update
Last week, we released an update to the Azure IoT Reference Architecture Guide. Our focus for the update was to bring the document forward to the latest Azure IoT cloud native recommended architecture...
View ArticleChanges coming to PowerShell (preview) in Azure Cloud Shell
Azure Cloud Shell provides browser-based authenticated shell access to Azure from virtually anywhere. Cloud Shell gives the users a rich environment with common tools that is updated and maintained by...
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Azure.Source – Volume 32
Azure the cloud for all – highlights from Microsoft BUILD 2018 - In this final recap of Microsoft Build 2018, Julia White, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Azure pulled together some key highlights...
View ArticleVideo: speeding up R with parallel programming in the cloud
I had a great time in Budapest last week for the eRum 2018 conference. The organizers have already made all of the videos available online. Here's my presentation: Speeding up R with Parallel...
View ArticleAnnouncing the deprecation of the WIT and Test Client OM at Jan 1, 2020
Since the first version of Team Foundation Server (TFS) in 2005, we have provided a set of SOAP APIs for programmatic interaction with Work Items and Tests. In recent years, REST has replaced SOAP as...
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A Penny Saved is a Ton of Serverless Compute Earned
Scott Guthrie recently shared one of my favorite anecdotes on his Azure Red Shirt Tour. A Microsoft customer regularly invokes 1 billion (yes, that’s with a “B”) Azure Functions per day. The customer...
View Article.NET Framework May 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup for Windows 10 1709 (Fall...
Today, we are releasing the May 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup for Windows 10 1709 (Fall Creators Update). Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability...
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New updates for Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer
After the recent general availability for Storage Explorer, we also added new features in the latest 1.1 release to align with Azure Storage platform: Azurite cross-platform emulator Access tiers that...
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Blue-Green deployments using Azure Traffic Manager
Azure Traffic Manager, Azure’s DNS based load balancing solution, is used by customers for a wide variety of use cases including routing a global user base to endpoints on Azure that will give them the...
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Accelerate data warehouse modernization with Informatica Intelligent Cloud...
Today at the Informatica World, Scott Guthrie, EVP, Cloud + AI, along with Anil Chakravarthy, CEO of Informatica, announced the availability of Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) for Azure....
View ArticleAI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup: May 2018
A monthly roundup of news about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science. This is an eclectic collection of interesting blog posts, software announcements and data applications I've...
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Get started with web push notifications
Microsoft Edge now supports web push notifications via the Push API, beginning with the Windows 10 April 2018 Update. Web push notifications allow you to build re-engaging experience by delivering...
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Announcing ASP.NET Providers Connected Service Visual Studio Extension
Provider pattern was introduced in ASP.NET 2.0 and it gives the developers the flexibility of where to store the state of ASP.NET features (e.g. Session State, Membership, Output Cache etc.). In...
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