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Building Your App in a CI Pipeline with Customized Build Servers (Private...
With the expanding number of tools to help you become more productive or to improve the functionality of your app, you may have a requirement for a custom tool or specific version to be used during the...
View ArticleNew features in the checkpoint package, version 0.4.0
by Andrie de Vries In 2014 we introduced the checkpoint package for reproducible research. This package makes it easy to use R package versions that existed on CRAN at a given date in the past, and to...
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COM Server and OLE Document support for the Desktop Bridge
The Windows 10 Creators Update adds out-of-process (OOP) COM and OLE support for apps on the Desktop Bridge – a.k.a Packaged COM. Historically, Win32 apps would create COM extensions that other...
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Episode 126 on Outlook extensibility with Andrew Salamatov—Office 365...
In Episode 126 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates catch up with Andrew Salamatov on Outlook extensibility....
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Streamlined User Management
Effective user management helps administrators ensure they are paying for the right resources and enabling the right access in their projects. We’ve repeatedly heard in support calls and from our...
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Setting up a Shiny Development Environment within Linux on Windows 10
While I was getting Ruby on Rails to work nicely under Ubuntu on Windows 10 I took the opportunity to set up my *nix bash environment, which was largely using defaults. Yes, I know I can use zsh or...
View ArticleAnnouncing SignalR 2.2.2 (Preview 1)
Today we are happy to announce the release of SignalR 2.2.2-preview1. SignalR 2.2.2 is a servicing release, including some highly requested updates and bug fixes. Here are the highlights of the...
View ArticleAzure Functions Tools Roadmap
We’ve been humbled by the intense interest in Visual Studio tools for Azure Functions since we shipped our initial preview for Visual Studio 2015 last fall. Unfortunately, given other constraints,...
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R is for Archaeology: A report on the 2017 Society of American Archaeology...
by Ben Marwick, Associate Professor of Archaeology, University of Washington and Senior Research Scientist, University of Wollongong The Society of American Archaeology (SAA) is one of the largest...
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Better battery life with Microsoft Edge
There’s a good chance you’ve noticed that Microsoft Edge and other popular browsers have recently been focused on improving battery life. We’ve been paying particular attention to this with Windows 10,...
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Seeing Theory: Learn Statistics through simulation
There's an ongoing debate in the academic community about whether Calculus is a necessary pre-requisite for teaching Statistics. But in age of ubiquitous computing resources (not to mention open source...
View ArticleICYMI – Your weekly TL;DR
Building a new app this weekend? Check out last week’s Windows Developer updates before you dive in. COM Server and OLE Document support for the Desktop Bridge The Windows 10 Creators Update adds...
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Bring your existing C++ Linux projects to Visual Studio
Visual Studio supports targeting Linux out of the box – you can edit, remote build and remote debug to a Linux machine (whether that’s a remote machine, a VM running locally or in the cloud, or WSL in...
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Bring your existing Android Eclipse projects to Visual Studio
You can use Visual Studio to develop your C++ projects targeting Android. To learn more about this support read the Visual C++ for Cross-Platform Mobile development section on MSDN. If you’re currently...
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Migrate your existing iOS XCode projects to Visual Studio
If you’re targeting iOS and writing a lot of C++ code, you should consider importing your XCode projects inside Visual Studio. Visual Studio not only provides an easy way to import these projects, but...
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Migrate your existing Windows C++ projects to MSBuild
If your project targets one of the Windows platforms only (Desktop or UWP), you should consider using MSBuild as your C++ build system. If you consider expanding beyond these platforms though, consider...
View ArticleBring your C++ code to Visual Studio
C++ has been around for a long time and throughout its history many tools have been built to make life easier for C++ developers. This has led to a diverse C++ ecosystem in terms of the editing tools,...
View ArticleMoving or disabling the package cache for Visual Studio 2017
In the latest preview release of Visual Studio we are introducing the ability to disable (or re-enable) the package cache, or move it to another drive. This can be done using the command line or the...
View ArticleAzure Analysis Services Backup and Restore
This post is authored by Bret Grinslade, Principal Program Manager and Josh Caplan, Senior Program Manager, Azure Analysis Services. We have gotten good feedback from customers and partners starting to...
View ArticleAzure Search releases support for synonyms (public preview)
Today, we are happy to announce public preview support for synonyms in Azure Search, one of our most requested features on UserVoice. Synonyms functionality allows for Azure Search to not only return...
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