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Windows Template Studio 2.2 released!
We’re extremely excited to announce the Windows Template Studio 2.2! For the next few releases, we are doing smaller updates to add in new pages and fixes. The reason being is we are working toward...
View Article.NET Framework June 2018 Security and Quality Rollup
Today, we are releasing the June 2018 Security and Quality Rollup. Security No new security fixes. See .NET Framework May 2018 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates. Quality and...
View ArticleHotfix for Microsoft R Open 3.5.0 on Linux
On Monday, we learned about a serious issue with the installer for Microsoft R Open on Linux-based systems. (Thanks to Norbert Preining for reporting the problem.) The issue was that the installation...
View Articlevswhere now supports -utf8 to override console code page
A new switch parameter has been introduced to vswhere. You can now pass -utf8 to force output to write text using UTF-8 to the console, though it’s important to note that what the console host does...
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Using .NET and Docker Together – DockerCon 2018 Update
I posted about Using .NET and Docker Together last year. With DockerCon 2018 being this week, it seemed like a great time to give you an update. Since my last post, we’ve enabled a set of Docker...
View ArticleNew free Go-To-Market Services for all marketplace publishers
Microsoft has launched a brand new set of Go-To-Market (GTM) benefits that will be automatically offered to partners with new listings in marketplace, for either Azure Marketplace or AppSource....
View ArticleQuick Recovery Time with SQL Data Warehouse using User-Defined Restore Points
We are excited to announce that SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) now supports User-Defined Restore Points! SQL DW is a flexible and secure analytics platform for the enterprise optimized for running complex...
View ArticlePublish your solutions to Azure Government – what, why and how
The Azure Marketplace is the premier destination for all your software needs, optimized to run on Azure. The Azure Government Marketplace includes many of the same solutions for use in Azure...
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Container Tooling for Service Fabric in Visual Studio 2017
The latest version of the Service Fabric tools, which is part of Visual Studio 2017 Update 7 (15.7), includes the new container tooling for Service Fabric feature. This new feature makes debugging and...
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Embedding Python in a C++ project with Visual Studio
Watch the video version of this post on VS Toolbox Let's get started In this post, we're going to walk through a sample project that demonstrates scripting a C++ application with Python using CPython,...
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Bing Maps Streetside Imagery Now Integrated into OpenStreetMap iD Editor
Microsoft has a long history of working with the community to help improve OpenStreetMap . This includes being the first company to provide aerial imagery to the community for editing and, more...
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Getting Started with Microsoft’s Python Developer Tools
Microsoft’s teams have been working over the last few years to bring Python developer tools to the Azure cloud and our most popular developer tools: Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio. Python is one...
View ArticleEnhancing automated testing in Microsoft Edge with new WebDriver...
Just last week, the WebDriver specification officially became a W3C Recommendation, defining a standard way for web developers and browser engineers to automate the browser. This is a major step...
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Detecting unconscious bias in models, with R
There's growing awareness that the data we collect, and in particular the variables we include as factors in our predictive models, can lead to unwanted bias in outcomes: from loan applications, to law...
View ArticleNo container image for Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017
After having written documentation about installing Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 and working with partners to set up validation starting with Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7, a common question...
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Daily planning made simple with Emily Ley
Emily Ley believes perfect is overrated. When life gets overly busy, rather than strive in vain to check every box every day, Ley’s approach is to scale back. Simplify. Make intentional choices. Plan...
View ArticleTop Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.06.15
DevOps 100 TechBeacon creates the DevOps 100 list – the top 100 leaders, practitioners and experts in DevOps that you should be following. It’s no surprise that Microsoft employees made an impressive...
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Interpreting machine learning models with the lime package for R
Many types of machine learning classifiers, not least commonly-used techniques like ensemble models and neural networks, are notoriously difficult to interpret. If the model produces a surprising label...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Olive Garden Bot
Comedy writer Keaton Patti claims this commercial script for a US Italian restaurant chain was generated by a bot: I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of Olive Garden commercials and then asked it...
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Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Deploying Containers cheaply to Azure
I saw a tweet from a person on Twitter who wanted to know the easiest and cheapest way to get an Web Application that's in a Docker Container up to Azure. There's a few ways and it depends on your use...
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