New Preview label for Visual Studio extensions
Visual Studio extensions can now be marked with a Preview label which is shown very clearly on the Visual Studio Marketplace. This gives your customers clear expectations that this version could...
View ArticleTop Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.12.07
It’s Friday, and I’m just on my way home from Microsoft Connect(); 2018. If you missed the product announcements, discussions and coding sessions, don’t worry: Connect is entirely online, so you can...
View ArticleRecapping yesterday’s Microsoft Edge and open source announcements
Yesterday, Joe Belfiore announced that we will be adopting the Chromium open source project for our development of Microsoft Edge. We encourage you to check out Joe’s blog post for all the details....
View ArticleHow to remove words from the Windows Autocorrect Spell Check Dictionary
Well crap. I was typing really fast and got a squiggly, so I right-clicked on it and rather than selecting the correct word from the autocorrect dictionary, I clicked Add To Dictionary. I added the...
View ArticleBecause it’s Saturday: Go Your Own Way
I was delivering a workshop for AI Live yesterday so I didn't get the chance to do my Friday post, but I'm here at SatRDays DC and the playlist on the audio while we're waiting for things to start is...
View ArticleAzure HDInsight integration with Data Lake Storage Gen2 preview – ACL...
Today we are sharing an update to the Azure HDInsight integration with Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2. This integration will enable HDInsight customers to drive analytics from the data stored in Azure...
View ArticlePower BI and Azure Data Services dismantle data silos and unlock insights
Learn how to connect Power BI and Azure Data Services to share data and unlock new insights with a new tutorial. Business analysts who use Power BI dataflows can now share data with data engineers and...
View ArticleAzure.Source – Volume 61
Microsoft Connect(); 2018 On Tuesday, December 4th, Microsoft Connect(); 2018 provided a full day of developer-focused content—including updates on Azure and Visual Studio, keynotes, demos, and...
View ArticleDeploying Apache Airflow in Azure to build and run data pipelines
Apache Airflow is an open source platform used to author, schedule, and monitor workflows. Airflow overcomes some of the limitations of the cron utility by providing an extensible framework that...
View ArticleAn Azure Function orchestrates a real-time, serverless, big data pipeline
Although it’s not a typical use case for Azure Functions, a single Azure function is all it took to fully implement an end-to-end, real-time, mission-critical data pipeline for a fraud detection...
View ArticleExtracting insights from IoT data using the cold path data flow
This blog continues our coverage of the solution guide published by Microsoft’s Industry Experiences team. The guide covers the following components: Ingesting data Hot path processing Cold path...
View ArticleCloud Commercial Communities webinar and podcast update
Welcome to the Cloud Commercial Communities monthly webinar and podcast update. Each month the team focuses on core programs, updates, trends, and technologies that Microsoft partners and customers...
View ArticleGuaranteed Copy Elision Does Not Elide Copies
C++17 merged in a paper called Guaranteed copy elision through simplified value categories. The changes mandate that no copies or moves take place in some situations where they were previously allowed,...
View ArticleReflections on the 10th anniversary of the Revolutions blog
On December 9 2008, very nearly ten years ago, the first post on Revolutions was published. Way back then, this blog was part of a young startup called Revolution Computing, which later became...
View ArticleAutomatic performance monitoring in Azure SQL Data Warehouse (preview)
Monitoring and managing the performance of your data warehouse is critical to the overall health of your data estate. With the increase in data and query velocities, tracking query metrics pertaining...
View ArticleAzure Marketplace new offers – Volume 26
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. During September and October, 149 new consulting offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers...
View ArticleOpen Sourcing XAML Behaviors for WPF
Today, we are excited to announce that we are open sourcing XAML Behaviors for WPF. In the past, we open sourced XAML Behaviors for UWP which has been a great success and the Behaviors NuGet package...
View ArticleOlder versions of Visual Studio 2017 will not install in Windows Server 2019...
If you try to install Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 into a Windows Server 2019 or newer container image, such as mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:1809 or...
View ArticleA hybrid approach to Kubernetes
We’re excited to see everyone at Kubecon this week! We’ve been working with our customers to understand how they’re thinking about Kubernetes and what we can do to make it easier for them. Azure Stack...
View ArticleGuaranteed Copy Elision Does Not Elide Copies
This post is also available on Simon Brand’s blog C++17 merged in a paper called Guaranteed copy elision through simplified value categories. The changes mandate that no copies or moves take place in...
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