ASP.NET Core 2.1.0 now available
Today we're thrilled to announce the release of ASP.NET Core 2.1.0! This is the latest release of our open-source and cross-platform web framework for .NET and it's now ready for production use. Get...
View ArticleAnnouncing Entity Framework Core 2.1
Today we are excited to announce the release of Entity Framework (EF) Core 2.1. This is the latest production-ready release of our open-source and cross-platform data access technology. We are...
View ArticleAnnouncing .NET Core 2.1
We’re excited to announce the release of .NET Core 2.1. It includes improvements to performance, to the runtime and tools. It also includes a new way to deploy tools as NuGet packages. We’ve added a...
View ArticleAnnouncing Windows Community Toolkit v3.0
I’m excited to announce the largest update to the Windows Community Toolkit yet, version 3.0. As announced a few weeks ago, we recently changed the name of the community toolkit to better align with...
View ArticleAutomatically change your Audio Input, Output and Volume per application in...
I recently blogged about an amazing little utility called AudioSwitcher that makes it two-clicks easy to switch your audio inputs and outputs. I need to switch audio devices a lot as I'm either...
View ArticleReceiving and handling HTTP requests anywhere with the Azure Relay
If you followed Microsoft’s coverage from the Build 2018 conference, you may have been as excited as we were about the new Visual Studio Live Share feature that allows instant, remote, peer-to-peer...
View ArticleOne Week Left to Take State of DevOps Survey
Folks, the State of DevOps Survey closed June 8th. If you haven’t yet, please click this link: https://bit.ly/2FCG8Me I just reread the results from prior years in Accelerate and I was struck by the...
View ArticleNew round of R Consortium grants announced
The R Consortium has just announced its latest round of project grants. After reviewing the proposals submitted by the R community, the Infrastructure Steering Committee has elected to fund the...
View ArticleRecap: Microsoft at PyCon US 2018
Microsoft was a keystone-level sponsor of PyCon US 2018 this year, which took place in Cleveland Ohio from May 9-17th. We had a great time interacting with and learning from the community, and we had a...
View ArticleNew to Microsoft 365 in May—empowering and securing users
Each month on the Microsoft 365 Blog, we highlight key updates to Microsoft 365 that build on our vision for the modern workplace. This month, we introduced a number of new capabilities to help...
View ArticleAnnouncing TypeScript 2.9
Today we’re announcing the release of TypeScript 2.9! If you’re not familiar with TypeScript, it’s a language that adds optional static types to JavaScript. Those static types help make guarantees...
View ArticleMake Azure IoT Hub C SDK work on tiny devices!
Azure IoT Hub C SDK is written in ANSI C (C99), which makes it well-suited for a variety of platforms with small disk and memory footprint. We recommend at least 64KB of RAM, but the exact memory...
View ArticleVNet service endpoints for Azure database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL...
This blog post was co-authored by Anitha Adusumilli, Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking. We recently made Azure database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL generally available. These services...
View ArticleAzure Security Center can identify attacks targeting Azure App Service...
One of Azure’s most popular service is App Service which enables customers to build and host web applications in the programming language of their choice without managing infrastructure. App Service...
View Article3 reasons why Azure’s infrastructure is secure
This is the third blog in a 4-part blog post series on how Microsoft Azure provides a secure foundation. Customers tell me that securing their datacenter infrastructure requires an enormous amount of...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 2
We’re happy to share the highlights of the latest Visual Studio 2017 preview, which is now available for download, including: Emulator and Designer improvements when developing mobile Android apps, and...
View ArticleHow I choose which services to use in Azure
This blog post was co-authored by Barry Luijbregts, Azure MVP. Last year, I attended a Pluralsight webinar hosted by Azure MVP and Pluralsight author, Barry Luijbregts, called Keep your dev team...
View ArticleStatCheck the Game
If you don't get enough joy from publishing scientific papers in your day job, or simply want to experience what it's like to be in a publish-or-perish environment where the P-value is the only...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2018.06.01
The big news that landed this week is that there’s a security vulnerability in Git that can be hidden inside a repository. Please update your Git clients — but in the meantime, hosting providers like...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Buildings shake
In 1978, a 59-story skyscraper in New York City was at risk of collapse. An engineering flaw, serendipitously discovered by an architecture PhD candidate studying the Citigroup Center as a thesis...
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