6 ways we’re making Azure reservations even more powerful
Our newest Azure reservations features can help you save more on your Azure costs, easily manage reservations, and create internal reports. Based on your feedback, we’ve added the following features to...
View ArticleSpeed up your Windows 10 development with new FastTrack guidance
FastTrack guidance for Windows 10 can help you to envision a technical plan, determine how to onboard and deploy new services and/or users, and work with you as you deploy Windows 10 to ensure you’re...
View ArticleGuest Post: How Maplytics uses Spatial Math Module for emergency response by...
Inogic, a Microsoft ISV for Dynamics 365 CRM, specializes in developing apps for Dynamics 365 that also run on PowerApps. Their flagship product Maplytics™ is a geo-analytical app Certified for...
View ArticleAI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup: July/August 2019
A mostly monthly roundup of news about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science. This is an eclectic collection of interesting blog posts, software announcements and data applications...
View ArticleCustomize Control Information for full metadata requests in odata.net
Background OData supports three metadata levels for the JSON format, namely – No Metadata Minimal Metadata Full Metadata No Metadata as the name suggests does not include control information other than...
View ArticleAzure SDK August 2019 preview and a dive into consistency
The second previews of Azure SDKs which follow the latest Azure API Guidelines and Patterns are now available (.Net, Java, JavaScript, Python). These previews contain bug fixes, new features, and...
View ArticleAnnouncing the preview of Azure Actions for GitHub
On Thursday, August 8, 2019, GitHub announced the preview of GitHub Actions with support for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD). Actions makes it possible to create simple, yet...
View ArticleNew for developers: Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK v3 now available
The Azure Cosmos DB team is announcing the general availability of version 3 of the Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK, released in July. Thank you to all who gave feedback during our preview. In this post,...
View ArticleSide-by-side Minor Version MSVC Toolsets in Visual Studio 2019
Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 Preview 3 ships with the first side-by-side minor versions of the v142 MSVC toolset. We first shipped minor side-by-side versions of MSVC toolsets with Visual Studio...
View ArticleKristiansund collaborates with Microsoft Teams to better serve its residents
Kristiansund uses Microsoft Teams to transform the way it collaborates with colleagues, citizens, and other municipalities. The post Kristiansund collaborates with Microsoft Teams to better serve its...
View ArticleAugust patches for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server
For the August release, we are releasing patches for Azure DevOps Server 2019.0.1, TFS 2018 Update 3.2, and TFS 2017 Update 3.1. This month, there are no security fixes; these patches include...
View ArticleNew C++ Core Check Rules
The C++ Core Guidelines Checker receives three new rules with the release of Visual Studio version 16.3 Preview 2. In addition, some warnings published in the warnings.h that ships with Visual Studio...
View ArticleYour single source for Azure best practices
Optimizing your Azure workloads can feel like a time-consuming task. With so many services that are constantly evolving it’s challenging to stay on top of, let alone implement, the latest best...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 18956 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 18956 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 18956 contains bug fixes and under...
View ArticleASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8
.NET Core 3.0 Preview 8 is now available and it includes a bunch of new updates to ASP.NET Core and Blazor. Here’s the list of what’s new in this preview: Project template updates Cleaned up top-level...
View ArticleAnnouncing Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 8 and Entity Framework 6.3...
The Preview 8 versions of the EF Core 3.0 package and the EF 6.3 package are now available for download from nuget.org. New previews of .NET Core 3.0 and ASP.NET Core 3.0 are also available today....
View ArticleAnnouncing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8
Today, we are announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8. Just like with Preview 7, we’ve focused on polishing .NET Core 3.0 for a final release and are not adding new features. If these final previews seem...
View Article.NET Framework 4.8 is available on Windows Update, WSUS and MU Catalog
We are happy to announce that Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8 is now available on Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and Microsoft Update (MU) Catalog. This release includes quality and...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2019 version 16.3 Preview 2 and Visual Studio for Mac version...
Visual Studio version 16.3 Preview 2 and Visual Studio for Mac version 8.3 Preview 2 are available. Because many of the features in this release are a response to Developer Community feedback, we are...
View ArticleWhat’s New for Python in Visual Studio (16.3 Preview 2)
Today, we are releasing Visual Studio 2019 (16.3 Preview 2), which contains an updated testing experience for Python developers. We are happy to announce that the popular Python testing framework...
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