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A guide to working with character data in R
R is primarily a language for working with numbers, but we often need to work with text as well. Whether it's formatting text for reports, or analyzing natural language data, R provides a number of...
View Article.NET Core 2.1 June Update
We released .NET Core 2.1.1. This update includes .NET Core SDK 2.1.301, ASP.NET Core 2.1.1 and .NET Core 2.1.1. See .NET Core 2.1.1 release notes for complete details on the release. Quality Updates...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: The lioness sleeps tonight
Handlers for the lion enclosure at San Diego Zoo have developed a novel way to provide stimulation for their big cats: let them play tug-of-war with people outside. People plural that is — it turns out...
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Using Flurl to easily build URLs and make testable HttpClient calls in .NET
I posted about using Refit along with ASP.NET Core 2.1's HttpClientFactory earlier this week. Several times when exploring this space (both on Twitter, googling around, and in my own blog comments) I...
View ArticleSupercharging the Git Commit Graph
Have you ever run gitk and waited a few seconds before the window appears? Have you struggled to visualize your commit history into a sane order of contributions instead of a stream of parallel work?...
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Silicon development on Microsoft Azure
This week at the Design Automation Conference (DAC), we look forward to joining the conversation on “Why Cloud, Why Now,” for silicon development workflows. Cloud computing is enabling digital...
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Customer 360 Powered by Zero2Hero now available on Azure Marketplace
With today’s fast moving technology and abundance of data sources, gaining a complete view of your customer is increasingly challenging and critical. This includes campaign interaction, opportunities...
View Article4 month retirement notice: Access Control Service
The Access Control Service, otherwise known as ACS, is officially being retired. ACS will remain available for existing customers until November 7, 2018. After this date, ACS will be shut down, causing...
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Healthcare on 5G
Today many healthcare computational workloads still exist at or near the point of care because of high latency, low bandwidth, or challenges with wireless power requirements and limited battery...
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Structured streaming with Azure Databricks into Power BI & Cosmos DB
In this blog we’ll discuss the concept of Structured Streaming and how a data ingestion path can be built using Azure Databricks to enable the streaming of data in near-real-time. We’ll touch on some...
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Backup your applications on Azure Stack with Azure Backup
Earlier this month, we announced Azure Stack expanding availability to 92 countries. Today, we are announcing the capability to backup files and applications data using Microsoft Azure Backup Server....
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Network Performance Monitor’s Service Connectivity Monitor is now generally...
Network Performance Monitor’s (NPM) Service Connectivity Monitor, previously in preview as Service Endpoint Monitor, is making general availability sporting a new name. With Service Connectivity...
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Azure.Source – Volume 37
Big Data Analytics Microsoft deepens its commitment to Apache Hadoop and open source analytics - Last week, Hortonworks hosted the DataWorks Summit in San Jose, California, which is billed as the...
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New zone-redundant VPN and ExpressRoute gateways now in public preview
As with all of Azure, we are continuously innovating, upgrading, and refining our virtual network gateways to further increase reliability and availability. Today, we are sharing the public preview of...
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Chakra documentation is joining MDN web docs
Last fall, along with other browser vendors and web platform stakeholders, the Edge platform (EdgeHTML) team adopted MDN web docs as our official web API reference library. In the process, we...
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Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 3
We’re happy to share the highlights of the latest Visual Studio 2017 preview, which is now available for download, including: Productivity and Performance improvements – Visual Studio is more...
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Announcing Template IntelliSense
C++ developers using function templates and class templates can now take full advantage of IntelliSense within their template bodies. In Visual Studio 2017 15.8 Preview 3, when your caret is inside a...
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Convert Macros to Constexpr
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 is currently available in preview. Today, Preview 3 has been released, and it comes with several features that improve the developer productivity experience. One key...
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New, experimental code analysis features in Visual Studio 2017 15.8 Preview 3
The Visual C++ team has been working to refresh our code analysis experience inside Visual Studio. We’re aiming to make these tools both more useful and natural to use and hope that they’ll benefit you...
View ArticleAzure Data Factory new capabilities are now generally available
Microsoft is excited to announce the General Availability of new Azure Data Factory (ADF V2) features that will make data integration in the cloud easier than ever before. With a new browser-based user...
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