Updates to synchronous autoload of extensions in Visual Studio 2019
Since announcing that Visual Studio 2019 v16.1 will block any extension from synchronously autoloading, we’ve seen a tremendous effort of both 1st and 3rd-party extensions to implement async background...
View ArticleIntroducing the first Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS
Last month, we announced the first preview builds of the next version of Microsoft Edge for Windows 10. Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of the Microsoft Edge Canary channel for...
View ArticleThe F# development home on GitHub is now dotnet/fsharp
TL;DR We’ve moved the F# GitHub repository from microsoft/visualfsharp to dotnet/fsharp, as specified in the corresponding RFC. F# has a somewhat strange history in its name and brand. If we roll back...
View ArticleCode Reviews Using the Visual Studio Pull Requests Extension
The Pull Requests for Visual Studio is a new experimental extension that adds several code review tools to Visual Studio. This extension aims to make it easy for you to launch and view pull requests...
View ArticleDrive higher utilization of Azure HDInsight clusters with Autoscale
We are excited to share the preview release of the Autoscale feature for Azure HDInsight. This feature enables enterprises to become more productive and cost-efficient by automatically scaling clusters...
View ArticleNew SharePoint home sites headline Microsoft 365 innovations for the...
Today at the SharePoint Conference, we showcased recent and upcoming innovations in SharePoint and across Microsoft 365 that power the intelligent workplace. The post New SharePoint home sites headline...
View ArticleAnnouncing Azure DevOps Server 2019.0.1 RTW
Today, we are releasing Azure DevOps Server 2019.0.1 RTW. Azure DevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server) brings the Azure DevOps experience to self-hosted environments. Customers with strict...
View ArticleWho put Python in the Windows 10 May 2019 Update?
Today the Windows team announced the May 2019 Update for Windows 10. In this post we’re going to look at what we, the Python team, have done to make Python easier to install on Windows by helping the...
View Articlebingbot Series: Easy set-up guide for Bing’s Adaptive URL submission API
In February, we announced launch of adaptive URL submission capability. As called out during the launch, as SEO manager or website owner, you do not need to wait for the crawler to discover new links,...
View ArticleVisual Studio Code Remote Development may change everything
OK, that's a little clickbaity but it's surely impressed the heck out of me. You can read more about VS Code Remote Development (at the time of this writing, available in the VS Code Insiders builds)...
View ArticleSecuring the pharmaceutical supply chain with Azure IoT
You’re responsible for overseeing the transportation of a pallet of medicine halfway around the world. Drugs will travel from your pharmaceutical company’s manufacturing outbound warehouse in central...
View ArticleVisual interface for Azure Machine Learning service
During Microsoft Build we announced the preview of the visual interface for Azure Machine Learning service. This new drag-and-drop workflow capability in Azure Machine Learning service simplifies the...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2019 version 16.1 now generally available (and 16.2 Preview 1...
Today, we are making Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 generally available, as well as the first preview release of Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2. You can download both versions from VisualStudio.com....
View ArticleMRAN snapshots, and you
For almost five years, the entire CRAN repository of R packages has been archived on a daily basis at MRAN. If you use CRAN snapshots from MRAN, we'd love to hear how you use them in this survey. If...
View ArticleHow you can use IoT to power Industry 4.0 innovation
IoT is ushering in an exciting—and sometimes exasperating—time of innovation. Adoption isn’t easy, so it’s important to hold a vision of the promise of Industry 4.0 in mind as you get ready for this...
View ArticleTransforming Azure Monitor Logs for DevOps, granular access control, and...
Logs are critical for many scenarios in the modern digital world. They are used in tandem with metrics for observability, monitoring, troubleshooting, usage and service level analytics, auditing,...
View ArticleTop Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.05.24
This week I’m lucky to be in Berlin at GitHub Satellite, where I got to see some of the amazing announcements from our friends over at GitHub and talk to GitHub users about Azure Pipelines. And now...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 18898 available now!
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 18898 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 18898 contains bug fixes and under...
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