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Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 27
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. From November 1 to November 16, 2018, 61 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below:...
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Creating a smart grid with technology and people
This blog post was authored by Peter Cooper, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft IoT. It’s 1882. Thomas Edison has just surpassed his breakthrough invention—the first incandescent lightbulb—by...
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Streamlined IoT device certification with Azure IoT certification service
For over three years, we have helped customers find devices that work with Azure IoT technology through the Azure Certified for IoT program and the Azure IoT device catalog. In that time, our ecosystem...
View ArticleUsing multi-stage containers for C++ development
Containers are a great tool for configuring reproducible build environments. It’s fairly easy to find Dockerfiles that provide various C++ environments. Unfortunately, it is hard to find guidance on...
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Get to code: How we designed the new Visual Studio start window
By now, many of you may have noticed a very prominent change to the launch of Visual Studio in Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1. Our goal with this new experience is to provide rapid access to the most...
View ArticleAutomate Always On availability group deployments with SQL Virtual Machine...
We are excited to share that a new, automated way to configure high availability solutions for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) is now available using our SQL VM resource provider. To get...
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Azure Functions now supported as a step in Azure Data Factory pipelines
Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that enables you to run code on-demand without having to explicitly provision or manage infrastructure. Using Azure Functions, you can run a script or...
View ArticleAzure Backup Server now supports SQL 2017 with new enhancements
V3 is the latest upgrade for Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS). Azure Backup Server can now be installed on Windows Server 2019 with SQL 2017 as its database. MABS V3 brings key enhancements in the...
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Python in Visual Studio Code – December 2018 Release
We are pleased to announce that the December 2018 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. You can download the Python extension from the Marketplace, or install it...
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Visual Studio 2019 Preview .NET Productivity
As you hopefully heard, the first preview of Visual Studio 2019 is now available. In this post I’ll cover some of the productivity improvements for .NET developers we’re most excited about. For a...
View ArticleIn case you missed it: November 2018 roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from November of particular interest to R users. David Gerard assesses the plausibility of a key plot point in 'Jurassic Park' with simulations in R....
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Visual Studio Code Updates for Java Developers: Rename, Logpoints, TestNG and...
As we seek to continually improve the Visual Studio Code experience for Java developers, we’d like to share couple new features we’ve just released. Thanks for your great feedbacks over the year, we’re...
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New Start Window and New Project Dialog Experience in Visual Studio 2019
Two features available in Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1 for C++ developers are the start window and a revamped new project dialog. The main goal of the start window is to make it easier to get to a...
View ArticleTop Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.12.14
Happy Friday! Now that I live in Jolly Old England, the holiday festivities have begun (if you’re not British, you might not know the whole of December is reserved for parties). So this will be the...
View ArticleNew research highlights massive opportunity to empower Firstline Workers with...
Firstline Workers play a key role in our global economy but have been largely underserved by technology. A new study reveals the massive opportunity to digitally enable Firstline Workers. The post New...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: CGI you never knew was CGI
Computer-generated imagery in movies has gotten so good these days, much of the time you don't even realize it's there. You probably never noticed how Michael Cera's physique had been altered, or how...
View ArticleAnnouncing .NET Framework 4.8 Early Access Build 3707
We have another early access build to share today! This release includes several accessibility, performance, reliability and stability fixes across the major framework libraries. We will continue to...
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Useful ASP.NET Core 2.2 Features
Earlier this week I talked about how I upgraded my podcast site to ASP.NET Core 2.2 and added Health Check features fairly easily. There's a ton of new features and so far it's been great running on my...
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Fine-tune natural language processing models using Azure Machine Learning...
In the natural language processing (NLP) domain, pre-trained language representations have traditionally been a key topic for a few important use cases, such as named entity recognition (Sang and...
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Azure.Source – Volume 62
KubeCon North America 2018 KubeCon North America 2018: Serverless Kubernetes and community led innovation! Brendan Burns, Distinguished Engineer in Microsoft Azure and co-founder of the Kubernetes...
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