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All Things Mobile at Microsoft Build
We released the Xamarin SDKs as a part of Visual Studio a year ago, open sourcing them in the process. Since then, we’ve been busy improving the experience of mobile developers using Visual Studio,...
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Inviting directory guests to AAD-backed VSTS accounts
On April 12th, Azure announced the General Availability of Azure AD B2B Collaboration. In a nutshell, it allows you to easily invite guests into your Azure Active Directory (AAD). As a Visual Studio...
View ArticleTeam Services Update – May 11, 2017
As you may know, this week is the //Build conference. Along side that event, we are announcing a ton of VS Team Services enhancements, including rolling out our sprint 117 upgrade. Some of the...
View ArticleAzure SQL Database now supports transparent geographic failover of database...
The built-in geo-replication feature has been generally available to SQL Database customers since 2014. During this time one of the most common customer requests has been about supporting transparent...
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Analyzing data on CRAN packages
There's a handy new function in R 3.4.0 for anyone interested in data about CRAN packages. It's not documented, but it's pretty simple: tools::CRAN_package_db() returns a data frame with one row for...
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Managing dotnet Core 2.0 and dotnet Core 1.x versioned SDKs on the same machine
Tons of great announcements this week at the BUILD conference. I'll slowly blog my take on some of the cooler features, but for now here's a rollup of the major blog posts for developers: Announcing...
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Announcing AzCopy on Linux Preview
Today we are pleased to announce the preview version of the AzCopy on Linux with redesigned command-line interface that adopts POSIX parameter conventions. AzCopy is a command-line utility designed for...
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Truck Routing and More Exciting News from Build 2017
Last year at //Build 2016 we launched the preview of our Bing Maps v8 control and this year we have even more news for you. It is with immense pleasure that we can announce not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4,...
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A Lap Around Python in Visual Studio 2017
We’re delighted to announce that our rich Python toolchain is fully available in Visual Studio 2017. Installation of Python tools, interpreters, runtimes, and numerous other features are directly...
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Analyzing the home advantage in English soccer, with R
It's well-known that the home team has an advantage in soccer (or football, as it's called in England). But which teams have made the most of their home-field advantage over the years? Evolutionary...
View ArticleAnnouncing EF Core 2.0 Preview 1
This week we made Entity Framework Core 2.0 Preview 1 available. Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is a lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework. EF Core follows the same...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Video projection
Images are just data. That's why, using machine learning, we can predict what an image represents by pushing its pixels into a sufficiently-trained neural network. In much the same way, given one frame...
View ArticleIntroducing Microsoft’s new Ad Monetization Platform
Earlier this week, we kicked off our annual developer conference Microsoft Build in front of over 10,000 developers at Washington state convention center with viewers watching the event live around the...
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BUILD 2017 Conference Rollup for .NET Developers
The BUILD Conference was lovely this last week, as was OSCON. I was fortunate to be at both. You can watch all the interviews and training sessions from BUILD 2017 on Channel 9. Here's a few sessions...
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How to use Azure Functions with IoT Hub message routing
I get a lot of asks for new routing endpoints in Azure IoT Hub, and one of the more common asks is to be able to route directly to Azure Functions. Having the power of serverless compute at your...
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Building an Azure Analysis Services Model for Azure Blobs — Part 1
Azure Analysis Services recently added support for the 1400 compatibility level for Tabular models, as announced in the article “1400 compatibility level in Azure Analysis Services.” The modern Get...
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Deploying Applications to Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
This blog post shows how you can deploy an application from Visual Studio Team Services to Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set. An application running on a VM Scale Set is typically deployed in one of the...
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Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) IntelliJ plugin now included with...
I am pleased to announce the Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) IntelliJ plugin is now built-in and provided with JetBrains Rider IDE out-of-the-box. The plugin is a...
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Get out and about this summer with Bing!
Summer is almost here! With it comes the chance to enjoy all the outdoor activities we’ve been waiting all year to enjoy, like hiking and camping. Hikers often face the dilemma of which hike to choose....
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PivotTables just got personal
As part of this month’s update, a new Excel feature gives you the ability to personalize the default layout for your PivotTables. Enabling users to personalize the PivotTable defaults started as a...
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