Announcing .NET Framework 4.8 Early Access build 3673
We are happy to share the next Early Access build for the .NET Framework 4.8. This includes an updated .NET 4.8 runtime as well as the .NET 4.8 Developer Pack (a single package that bundles the .NET...
View ArticleMicrosoft @ DevCon4
At DevCon in 2015, I announced support for Ethereum on Microsoft Azure. It was a humble beginning consisting of a private Ethereum network and a corresponding “Hello World” smart contract. Now in 2018,...
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Spooky! Gravedigger in R
Need something to distract the kids while they're waiting to head out Trick-or-Treating? You could have them try out a Creepy Computer Game in R! Engineer and social scientist Dr Peter Provost...
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MVP Spotlight: Bing Maps goes Digital Hollywood University with Daisuke Yamazaki
Microsoft MVP, Daisuke Yamazaki specializes in Bing Maps and evangelizes mapping inside and outside of the classroom. As Associate Professor teaching web technologies at Digital Hollywood Graduate...
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New to Microsoft 365 in October—tools to create impactful content and help...
This month, we released new features in Microsoft 365 that help teams enhance the look and feel of their content with ease, plus new tools and resources to help you transition to the cloud. Here’s a...
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Announcing Windows Community Toolkit v5.0
I’m excited to announce the next major update of the Windows Community Toolkit, version 5.0. This update introduces the new WindowsXamlHost control built on top of the new XAML Islands APIs to simplify...
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Side by Side user scoped .NET Core installations on Linux with dotnet-install.sh
I can run .NET Core on Windows, Mac, or a dozen Linuxes. On my Ubuntu installation I can check what version I have installed and where it is like this:$ dotnet --version 2.1.403 $ which dotnet...
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Deliver the right events to the right places with Event Domains
As we continue to see our community grow around Event Grid, many of you have started to explore the boundaries of complexity and scale that can be achieved. We’ve been blown away with some of the...
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bingbot Series: JavaScript, Dynamic Rendering, and Cloaking. Oh My!
Last week, we posted the second blog of our bingbot Series: Optimizing Crawl Frequency. Today is Halloween and like every day, our crawler (also known as a "spider") is wandering outside, browsing the...
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Azure Cosmos DB – A polymorphic database for an expanding data universe
There is a discussion that occurs frequently in the data world today, which centers around comparisons between traditional databases that are based on relational theory e.g. Oracle or SQL Server and a...
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Avere vFXT for Azure for HPC workloads now generally available
We are very excited to share the general availability (GA) of Avere vFXT for Azure. This culminates months of effort beginning when Microsoft welcomed Avere to the Azure family earlier this year....
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Four models businesses like yours are using to monetize IoT
This post was co-authored by Peter Cooper, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure IoT and Mark Pendergrast, Director of Product Marketing, Microsoft Azure. It’s easy to talk about all the cool things...
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Azure ML Studio now supports R 3.4
Azure ML Studio, the collaborative drag-and-drop data science workbench, now supports R 3.4 in the Execute R Script module. Now you can combine the built-in data manipulation and analysis modules of ML...
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The AI Journey
Over the last year I have spent a significant amount of time with customers and partners discussing Artificial Intelligence (AI), some of the core patterns emerging in terms of initial implementations,...
View ArticleWhat’s new in Azure DevOps Sprint 142 Update
Sprint 142 Update of Azure DevOps is rolling out to all organizations. In this update, there have been several improvements to YAML in Azure Pipelines, we’ve switched on the new navigation for...
View ArticleThis month on Bing: election info, image UI refresh, NFL answers, and word of...
Bing election coverage With the midterm election just over a week away, we want to make it easy to find the information you are looking for about state by state voting details, election news,...
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XAML Islands – A deep dive – Part 1
XAML Islands is a technology that enables Windows developers to use new pieces of UI from the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) on their existing Win32 Applications, including Windows Forms and WPF...
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.NET Core and .NET Standard for IoT – The potential of the Meadow...
I saw this Kickstarter today - Meadow: Full-stack .NET Standard IoT platform. It says that "It combines the best of all worlds; it has the power of RaspberryPi, the computing factor of an Arduino, and...
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Because it’s Friday: What does the cat say?
In Greek, it says "tsiou tsiou". In Danish, it says "pip-pip". In English, it says "cheep". At Derek Abbot's Animal Noise page, you can learn what a small bird sounds like according to 20 different...
View ArticleTop Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.11.02
I’m always fascinated to see how people take the flexibility of the Azure DevOps platform and stretch it to the limits. This week, people are creating pipelines for containers, NuGet packages and even...
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