Rerun activities inside your Azure Data Factory pipelines
Data Integration is complex with many moving parts. It helps organizations to combine data and complex business processes in hybrid data environments. Failures are very common in data integration...
View ArticleAnnouncing Azure DevOps Server 2019 RTW
Today, we announced the release of Azure DevOps Server 2019, the evolution of Team Foundation Server. This is the first release of our new brand and new navigation. You can read about the new features...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2019 for Mac Preview 3
Today, we’re excited to announce the Preview 3 release of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac. This is the next release of our IDE for .NET Developers on the Mac. You can download it now or use the in-product...
View ArticleCollecting .NET Core Linux Container CPU Traces from a Sidecar Container
Introduction In recent years, containerization has gained popularity in DevOps due to its valuable capacities, including more efficient resource utilization and better agility. Microsoft and Docker...
View ArticleFloating-Point Parsing and Formatting improvements in .NET Core 3.0
Starting back with the .NET Core 2.1 release, we were making iterative improvements to the floating-point parsing and formatting code in .NET Core. Now, in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 3, we are nearing...
View ArticleMicrosoft opens first datacenters in Africa with general availability of...
Today, I am pleased to announce the general availability of Microsoft Azure from our new cloud regions in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa. Nedbank, Peace Parks Foundation, and eThekwini water...
View ArticleReal-time serverless applications with the SignalR Service bindings in Azure...
Since our public preview announcement at Microsoft Ignite 2018, every month thousands of developers worldwide have leveraged the Azure SignalR Service bindings for Azure Functions to add real-time...
View ArticleAzure Databricks – New capabilities at lower cost
Azure Databricks provides a fast, easy, and collaborative Apache Spark™-based analytics platform to accelerate and simplify the process of building big data and AI solutions backed by industry leading...
View ArticleUpdated Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement: New Revenue Share
As of March 5th, the Microsoft Store team has updated the Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement (ADA). The next time you log into your Partner Center dashboard, you or someone with an administrative...
View ArticleBuild a CI/CD pipeline for API Management
APIs have become mundane. They have become the de facto standard for connecting apps, data, and services. In the larger picture, APIs are driving digital transformation in organizations. With the...
View ArticleJoin the Bing Maps team at NAFA 2019 I&E
The Bing Maps team will be at NAFA 2019 Institute & Expo, known as the largest event for fleet professionals, April 15 – 17 in Louisville, Kentucky. Stop by booth #706, to learn more about the Bing...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 18346 available now!
On Tuesday, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 18346 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 18346 contains bug fixes and...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Open Sourcing of Windows Calculator
Today, we’re excited to announce that we are open sourcing Windows Calculator on GitHub under the MIT License. This includes the source code, build system, unit tests, and product roadmap. Our goal is...
View ArticleASP.NET Core updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 3
.NET Core 3.0 Preview 3 is now available and it includes a bunch of new updates to ASP.NET Core. Here’s the list of what’s new in this preview: Razor Components improvements: Single project template...
View ArticleAnnouncing .NET Core 3 Preview 3
Today, we are announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 3. We would like to update you on the .NET Core 3.0 schedule and introduce you to improvements in .NET Core SDK installers, Docker containers, Range, and...
View ArticleConverting an Excel Worksheet into a JSON document with C# and .NET Core and...
I've been working on a little idea where I'd have an app (maybe a mobile app with Xamarin or maybe a SPA, I haven't decided yet) for the easily accessing and searching across the 500+ videos from...
View ArticleMaking C++ Exception Handling Smaller On x64
Visual Studio 2019 Preview 3 introduces a new feature to reduce the binary size of C++ exception handling (try/catch and automatic destructors) on x64. Dubbed FH4 (for __CxxFrameHandler4, see below), I...
View ArticleMicrosoft continues to build the case for data estate modernization on Azure
Special thanks to Rik Tamm-Daniels and the Informatica team for their contribution to this blog post. With the latest release of Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Microsoft doubles-down on Azure SQL DW as...
View ArticleIntel and Microsoft bring optimizations to deep learning on Azure
This post is co-authored with Ravi Panchumarthy and Mattson Thieme from Intel. We are happy to announce that Microsoft and Intel are partnering to bring optimized deep learning frameworks to Azure....
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