Cleaning up the Visual Studio 2017 package cache
With the ability to disable or move the package cache for Visual Studio 2017 and other products installed with the new installer, packages are removed for whatever instance(s) you are installing,...
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Android and iOS development with C++ in Visual Studio
When it comes to building mobile applications, many developers write most or a part of the apps in C++. Why? Those who are building computationally intensive apps such as games and physics simulations...
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ASP.NET – Overposting/Mass Assignment Model Binding Security
This little post is just a reminder that while Model Binding in ASP.NET is very cool, you should be aware of the properties (and semantics of those properties) that your object has, and whether or not...
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Announcing Azure Analysis Services general availability
Today at the Data Amp event, we are announcing the general availability of Microsoft Azure Analysis Services, the latest addition to our data platform in the cloud. Based on the proven analytics engine...
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Microsoft Cognitive Services – General availability for Face API, Computer...
This post was authored by the Cognitive Services Team. Microsoft Cognitive Services enables developers to create the next generation of applications that can see, hear, speak, understand, and...
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Introducing H2O.ai on Azure HDInsight
We are excited to announce that H2O’s AI platform is now available on Azure HDInsight Application Platform. Users can now use H2O.ai’s open source solutions on Azure HDInsight, which allows reliable...
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Modernizing the DOM tree in Microsoft Edge
The DOM is the foundation of the web platform programming model, and its design and performance impacts the rest of the browser pipeline. However, its history and evolution is far from a simple story....
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New Offline Books for Visual Studio 2017 Available for Download
Today we are happy to announce that new offline books for Visual Studio 2017 are now available for download. Now you can easily download content published on MSDN and Docs for consumption on-the-go,...
View ArticleWindows Developers at Microsoft Build 2017
Microsoft Build 2017 kicks off on May 10 in Seattle, with an expected capacity crowd of over 5,000 developers—plus countless more online. Join us for the live-streamed keynotes, announcements,...
View ArticleMicrosoft R Server 9.1 now available
During today's Data Amp online event, Joseph Sirosh announced the new Microsoft R Server 9.1, which is available for customers now. In addition the updated Microsoft R Client, which has the same...
View ArticleAnnouncing the General Availability (GA) Release of SSDT 17.0 (April 2017)
We are pleased to announce that SQL Server Data Tools 17.0 is officially released and supported for production use. This GA release includes support for SQL Server 2017 and SQL Server on Linux...
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C++ Unit Testing in Visual Studio
Testing is an increasingly important part of a software development workflow. In many cases, it is insufficient to test a program simply by running it and trying it out – as the scope of the project...
View ArticleAnnouncing new functionality to automatically provision devices to Azure IoT Hub
We’re announcing a great new service to Azure IoT Hub that allows customers to provision millions of devices in a secure and scalable manner. Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning enables zero-touch...
View ArticleAzure IoT supports new security hardware to strengthen IoT security
Microsoft’s commitment to leadership in IoT security continues with Azure IoT’s improving the level of trust and confidence in securing IoT deployments. Azure IoT now supports Device Identity...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure Platform for India GST Suvidha Providers (GSPs)
Goods and Services Tax (GST) is essentially one new indirect tax system for the whole nation, which will make India one unified common market, right from the manufacturer to the consumer. It is a...
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Cloudera now supports Azure Data Lake Store
With the release of Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub 5.11, you can now run Spark, Hive, and MapReduce workloads in a Cloudera cluster on Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS). Running on ADLS has the following...
View ArticleAnnouncing Cloud Partner Portal: Public preview for single-virtual machine...
Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of the Cloud Partner Portal for publishing single virtual machine offers. The Cloud Partner Portal enables our publisher partners to create, define,...
View ArticleUbuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) nearing end-of-life
Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" has been with us from the beginning, since we first embarked on the journey to support Linux virtual machines in Microsoft Azure. However, as its five-year support cycle...
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How Microsoft builds massively scalable services using Azure DocumentDB
This week at Microsoft Data Amp we covered how you can harness the incredible power of data using Microsoft’s latest innovations in its Data Platform. One of the key pieces in the Data Platform is...
View ArticleJust released – Windows developer evaluation virtual machines – April 2017 build
We’re releasing the April 2017 edition of our evaluation Windows developer virtual machines (VM) on Windows Dev Center. The VMs come in Hyper-V, Parallels, VirtualBox and VMWare flavors. The evaluation...
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