Regulatory compliance dashboard in Azure Security Center now available
Meeting regulatory compliance obligations and complying with all the requirements of benchmark standards can be a significant challenge in a cloud or hybrid environment. Identifying which assessments...
View ArticleMicrosoft and Citus Data: Providing the best PostgreSQL service in the cloud
Today, we announced the acquisition of Citus Data, an innovative open source extension to scale out PostgreSQL databases without the need to re-architect existing applications. Citus Data delivers...
View Article.NET Core tooling update for Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2
Another preview of Visual Studio 2019, another update on the cool stuff going into it! We’re pleased to announce some updates to the .NET Core tools for Visual Studio 2019. You can try these changes...
View ArticleAnnouncing F# 4.6 Preview
We’re excited to announce that Visual Studio 2019 will ship a new version of F# when it releases: F# 4.6! F# 4.6 is a smaller update to the F# language, making it a “true” point-release. As with...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2019 Preview 2 is now available
The second preview of Visual Studio 2019 is now available for download. This release contains a number of improvements and additions to the core experience and different development areas, many of...
View ArticleLifetime Profile Update in Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2
Lifetime Profile Update in Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 The C++ Core Guidelines’ Lifetime Profile, which is part of the C++ Core Guidelines, aims to detect lifetime problems, like dangling pointers and...
View ArticleMSVC Backend Updates in Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2: New Optimizations,...
In Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 we have continued to improve the C++ backend with new features, new and improved optimizations, build throughput improvements, and quality of life changes. New Features...
View ArticleOffice 365 for Mac is available on the Mac App Store
Today, Office 365—with modern, cloud-connected versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and OneDrive—is now available to download as a bundle on the Mac App Store. The post Office 365 for...
View ArticleDo more with patterns in C# 8.0
Do more with patterns in C# 8.0 Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 is out! And with it, a couple more C# 8.0 features are ready for you to try. It’s mostly about pattern matching, though I’ll touch on a few...
View ArticleTemplate IntelliSense Improvements for Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2
In the first version of Template IntelliSense, we introduced the Template Bar which allowed you to provide sample arguments for your template in order to get a richer IntelliSense experience within the...
View ArticleC++ Productivity Improvements in Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2
Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 contains a host of productivity features, including some new quick fixes and code navigation improvements: Quick fixes for: Add missing #include NULL to nullptr Add missing...
View ArticleIn-editor code analysis in Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2
The C++ team has been working to refresh the Code Analysis experience inside Visual Studio. Last year, we blogged about some in-progress features in this area. We’re happy to announce that in Visual...
View ArticleIntroducing the New CMake Project Settings UI
Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 introduces a new CMake Project Settings Editor to help you more easily configure your CMake projects in Visual Studio. The editor provides an alternative to modifying the...
View Article.NET and TypeScript at FOSDEM 2019
The schedule for the .NET and Typescript Developer Room at FOSDEM has now been published! FOSDEM is one of the longest running Free and Open Source conferences, and we’re excited to have a .NET and...
View ArticleAutomating Releases in GitHub through Azure Pipelines
Do you own a GitHub repository? Do you create releases on GitHub to distribute software packages? Do you manually compile a list of changes to be included in release notes? If yes, you will be excited...
View ArticleTop 5 Open Source Features in Azure Pipelines
When I became a Program Manager, I gave up writing software for a living. So I did what many programmers do when faced with such a dilemma: I started working on open source software in my spare time....
View ArticleDebugging .NET Apps with Time Travel Debugging (TTD)
When you are debugging an application, there are many tools and techniques you can use, like logs, memory dumps and Event Tracing for Windows (ETW). In this post, we will talk about Time Travel...
View ArticleTop Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.01.25
Whew, in addition to the day job, I’ve been hacking on some open source this week. So I’ve been thinking a lot about my favorite things about Azure Pipelines that helps out with OSS. So it’s been a...
View ArticleNuGet’s fancy older sibling FuGet gives you a whole new view of the...
I remember when we announced NuGet (almost 10 years ago). Today you can get your NuGet packages (that contain .NET libraries) from Nuget.exe, from within Visual Studio, from the .NET CLI (command line...
View ArticleAzure.Source – Volume 67
Now in preview Introducing IoT Hub device streams in public preview Azure IoT Hub device streams is a new PaaS service that addresses the need for security and organization policy compliance by...
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