.NET Core September 2019 Updates – 2.1.13 and 2.2.7
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core September 2019 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. NOTE: If you are a...
View Article.NET Framework September 2019 Security and Quality Rollup
Today, we are releasing the September 2019 Cumulative Update, Security and Quality Rollup, and Security Only Update for .NET Framework. Security CVE-2019-1142– .NET Framework Elevation of Privilege...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 18975 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 18975 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 18975 contains bug fixes and under...
View ArticleFive best practices for unlocking IoT value
Accenture and Avanade won the 2019 Microsoft Internet of Things Partner of the Year award this past spring. At the Microsoft Inspire partner conference in July, Brendan Mislin, Managing Director,...
View ArticleHow to fix dfu-util, STM, WinUSB, Zadig, Bootloaders and other Firmware...
I'm pretty happy with Windows 10 as my primary development box. It can do most anything I want, run a half-dozen Linuxes, and has a shiny new open source Terminal, and has great support for Docker now....
View ArticleExpanded Azure Maps coverage, preview of Azure Maps feedback site, and more
This blog post was co-authored by Ricky Brundritt, Principal Technical Program Manager, Azure Maps. Azure Maps services continue to expand our support for Microsoft enterprise customers’ needs in...
View ArticleA DevOps Process for Deploying R to Production
I've been at the EARL Conference in London this week, and as always it's been inspiring to see so many examples of R being used in production at companies like Sainsbury's, BMW, Austria Post,...
View ArticleAzure Media Services’ new AI-powered innovation
Animated character recognition, multilingual speech transcription and more now available At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. The media...
View ArticleImport sites from Search Console to Bing Webmaster Tools
At Bing Webmaster Tools, we actively listen to the needs of webmasters. Verifying a website’s ownership had been reported as a pain-point in Bing Webmaster Tools. To simplify this process, we recently...
View ArticleTop Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.09.13
This week the community presented me with a good problem to have – too much great content! Even after paring it down, there is still a lot I wanted to share. Arm yourself with a fresh beverage, we are...
View ArticleEmulating a PlayStation 1 (PSX) entirely with C# and .NET
I was reading an older post in an emulator forum where someone was asking for a Playstation 1 (PSX) emulator written in C#, and the replies went on and on about how C# and .NET are not suited for...
View ArticleNew Ways to do Screen Capture
Screen capture supports scenarios like screen recording for eLearning, screen sharing for collaboration, game streaming, remote diagnostics, and taking screen shots for visual comparison or editing....
View ArticleJava on Visual Studio Code September Update
Welcome to the September update of Java on Visual Studio Code! There’re a lot we’ve been working on during the summer which we’d like to share with you now. You will see new refactoring and code action...
View ArticleFinalization implementation details
Years ago I wrote a document on making finalization scanning concurrent. At the time there was an internal team that was using finalization as a way to resurrect objects and putting them back in their...
View ArticleAnnouncing user delegation SAS tokens preview for Azure Storage Blobs
Cloud storage often serves as a content source for browser and mobile applications. This is typically achieved using application-issued, pre-authorized URLs which provide time-limited access directly...
View ArticleAnnouncing .NET Core 3.0 Release Candidate 1
Today, we’re announcing .NET Core 3.0 Release Candidate 1. Just like with Preview 9, we’ve focused on polishing .NET Core 3.0 for a final release. We are now getting very, very close. We intend to...
View ArticleASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Release Candidate 1
.NET Core 3.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is now available. This release contains only a handful of bug fixes and closely represents what we expect to release for .NET Core 3.0. Please see the release...
View ArticleRelease Candidate builds of Entity Framework Core 3.0 and Entity Framework...
We previously said that preview 9 would be your last chance to test EF Core 3.0 and EF 6.3 before general availability. But it turns out that we made enough improvements to our libraries and across the...
View ArticleOpen Sourcing MSVC’s STL
Today at CppCon 2019, we (the MSVC team) announced that we’re releasing our implementation of the C++ Standard Library (also known as the STL) as open source. https://github.com/microsoft/STL is our...
View ArticleObtaining tokens with AzureAuth inside a Shiny app
by Hong Ooi, senior data scientist, Microsoft Azure As of version 1.2.0 (released to CRAN late last month), it’s possible to use the AzureAuth package to login interactively to Azure from within a...
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