AI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup: January 2020
A 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 from Microsoft...
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Mind your Margins!
Introduction The search box is the most important piece of UX on our page. It won’t be an overstatement to say that the search box is the most important piece of UX on any search engine. As the front...
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Mind your Margins!
Introduction The search box is the most important piece of UX on our page. It won’t be an overstatement to say that the search box is the most important piece of UX on any search engine. As the front...
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Retrogaming by modding original consoles to remove moving parts and add USB...
I'm a documented big fan of Retrogaming (playing older games and introducing my kids to those older games). For example, we enjoy the Hyperkin Retron 5 in that it lets us play NES, Famicom, SNES, Super...
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Hosting your own NuGet Server and Feed for build artifacts with BaGet
NuGet is the package management system underlying the .NET programming platform. Just like Ruby Gems or NPM Packages, you can bring in 3rd party packages or make your own. The public repository is...
View ArticleManaging eDiscovery for modern collaboration
Modern organizations require eDiscovery to extend to chat-based communication and collaboration tools. Today, we're pleased to share several new capabilities in Microsoft 365 to help you manage...
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Bringing the Microsoft Edge DevTools to more languages
We know inclusivity makes us work better and we love when we find ways to put that knowledge into practice. On the Edge team, we believe—and usage and research show—that developer experiences are more...
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LinkedIn Uses Bing Maps to Calculate the Commute to Your Dream Job
Finding your dream job can take effort, but with some innovative features, LinkedIn has made it easier. A survey of LinkedIn members uncovered that potential commute time is high on the list of factors...
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JCC Erratum Mitigation in MSVC
The content of this blog was provided by Gautham Beeraka from Intel Corporation. Intel recently announced Jump Conditional Code (JCC) Erratum which can occur in some of its processors. The MSVC team...
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Backup Explorer now available in preview
As organizations continue to expand their use of IT and the cloud, protecting critical enterprise data becomes extremely important. And if you are a backup admin on Microsoft Azure, being able to...
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Advancing safe deployment practices
"What is the primary cause of service reliability issues that we see in Azure, other than small but common hardware failures? Change. One of the value propositions of the cloud is that it’s continually...
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Code Navigation for CMake Scripts
Visual Studio 2019 16.5 Preview 2 makes it easy to make sense of complex CMake projects. Code navigation features such as Go To Definition and Find All References are now supported for variables,...
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Easily Add, Remove, and Rename Files and Targets in CMake Projects
It’s easier than ever to work with CMake projects in Visual Studio 2019 16.5 Preview 2. Now you can add, remove, and rename source files and targets in your CMake projects from the IDE without manually...
View ArticleGC Handles
A customer asked me about analyzing perf related to GC handles. I feel like aside from pinned handles in general handles are not talked about much so this topic warrants some explanation, especially...
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.NET Interactive is here! | .NET Notebooks Preview 2
In November 2019, we announced .NET support for Jupyter notebooks with both C# and F# support. Today we are excited to announce Preview 2 of the .NET Notebook experience. What’s new New Name – Meet...
View ArticleAnnouncing TypeScript 3.8 RC
Today we’re announcing the Release Candidate for TypeScript 3.8! Between this RC and our final release, we expect no changes apart from critical bug fixes. To get started using the RC, you can get it...
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Visual Studio Code CMake Tools Extension: Multi-root workspaces and...
The February 2020 update of the Visual Studio Code CMake Tools extension is now available. This release includes two of the extension’s top feature requests: file-based API support and multi-root...
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Garbage Collection at Food Courts
When I first started working on the GC, my predecessor was explaining the GC tuning to me. I told him that I thought it sounded like how I saw janitors work at food courts (I frequented food courts at...
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Accessibility Improvements in Visual Studio 2019 for Mac
The release of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4.4 includes numerous developments in the color representation of icons, and to warning and error status messages. The new appearance is easy to...
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