How to Build & Deploy a Java Web Application using Team Services and Azure
So, you’ve heard the tagline “Microsoft Loves Java” but the skeptic in you still has doubts. Well, it’s true! Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) are Microsoft developer...
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Automatically build and deploy ASP.NET Core projects to Azure App Services
Over the last few updates we’ve been working on evening out our support for popular scenarios. Earlier this month we added support for setting up an automated DevOps pipeline in VSTS that pulls source...
View ArticleAzure management libraries for Java generally available now
Today, we are announcing the general availability of the new, simplified Azure management libraries for Java for Compute, Storage, SQL Database, Networking, Resource Manager, Key Vault, Redis, CDN and...
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Azure Billing Reader role and preview of Invoice API
Today, we are pleased to announce the addition of a new in-built role, Billing Reader role. The new Billing Reader role allows you to delegate access to just billing information with no access to...
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Who’s In iMessage App– Plan A Fun Event With Friends
Ever wasted so much time coordinating an event that you told yourself you were never going to do it again? We feel you. We know that often the hard part is not finding great restaurants, it’s getting a...
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The week in .NET – Happy Birthday .NET with Chris Sells, free ASP.NET Core...
Previous posts: Happy birthday .NET with Robin Cole, TinyORM, 911 Operator .NET Framework 4.7, reference documentation, On .NET on modular ASP.NET, Happy birthday .NET with Immo Landwerth, JustAssembly...
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Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension April 2017 Update
Earlier today we shipped the April 2017 update to the C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code. We are excited to introduce the following new features in this update: Error Squiggles Quick Info Go to...
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Using checkpoint with knitr and RStudio
The knitr package by Yihui Xie is a wonderful tool for reproducible data science. I especially like using it with R Markdown documents, where with some simple markup in an easy-to-read document I can...
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Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Lift and Shift vs App Services – When a VM...
I got an interesting question today. This is actually an extremely common one so I thought I'd take a bit to explore it. It's worth noting that I don't know the result of this blog post. That is, I...
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Backup and restore your Azure Analysis Services models
This month we announced the general availability of Azure Analysis Services, which evolved from the proven analytics engine in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. The success of any modern...
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ASP.NET Core Logging
This guest post was written by Mike Rousos ASP.NET Core supports diagnostic logging through the Microsoft.Extensions.Logging package. This logging solution (which is used throughout ASP.NET Core,...
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dv01 uses R bring greater transparency to the consumer lending market
The founder of the NYC-based startup dv01 watched the 2008 financial crisis and was inspired to bring greater transparency to institutional investors in the consumer lending market. Despite being an...
View ArticleBing intelligence now available on the Interbot channel
Bootstrap your bots with the help of Bing. Developers can leverage Bing’s vast knowledge and intelligence, using our APIs to build intelligent bots more quickly than ever. Gupshup, one of the leading...
View ArticleThe MVP Show Learns about ASP.NET, Identity Server, and Heidelberg
In the second episode of the MVP Show, intrepid host Seth Juarez traveled to Heidelberg, Germany to meet with Visual Studio and Development Technologies MVP Dominick Baier. Dominick is one of the...
View ArticleAzure IoT Gateway SDK packages now available
Back in November, we announced the general availability of the Azure IoT Gateway SDK. We’ve already heard from a number of customers who are leveraging the open source Gateway SDK to connect their...
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Azure Management Libraries for .NET generally available now
Today, we are announcing the general availability of the new, simplified Azure management libraries for .NET for Compute, Storage, SQL Database, Networking, Resource Manager, Key Vault, Redis, CDN and...
View ArticleJWT Validation and Authorization in ASP.NET Core
This is a guest post by Mike Rousos In a couple previous posts, I discussed a customer scenario I ran into recently that required issuing bearer tokens from an ASP.NET Core authentication server and...
View ArticleAnnouncing TypeScript 2.3
Today we’re excited to bring you our latest release with TypeScript 2.3! For those who aren’t familiar, TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that brings users optional static types and solid...
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Where Europe lives, in 14 lines of R Code
Via Max Galka, always a great source of interesting data visualizations, we have this lovely visualization of population density in Europe in 2011, created by Henrik Lindberg: Impressively, the chart...
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Make pleasingly parallel R code with rxExecBy
Some things are easy to convert from a long-running sequential process to a system where each part runs at the same time, thus reducing the required time overall. We often call these "embarrassingly...
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