Announcing the deprecation of the old Work Item Form in TFS
A little over a year ago we released the new work item form to Visual Studio Team Services and now with TFS 2017 the same great functionality is available to our on-premises customers. Here are some...
View Articlede:code 2017 in Tokyo, Japan
One of the things that I enjoy about my job is the ability to talk to developers and ISVs from all over the world. On Tuesday I was honored to kick off Microsoft Japan’s annual de:code event in Tokyo...
View ArticleSneak Peek – PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell
At BUILD 2017, we announced the preview of Azure Cloud Shell, which supports the Bash shell. As showcased (at 9:35 min) by Corey Sanders, we are adding PowerShell support to Azure Cloud Shell, which...
View ArticleDeploy Cognitive Toolkit model to Azure Web Apps
Azure offers several ways of deploying a deep-learning model including Windows Web App, Linux Web App, and Azure Container Services. For those less experienced with a Linux environment/containers,...
View Article[DRAFT] Announcing General Availability for Work item search
Discovering relevant work items should consume as little time and effort as possible. That’s why we have built work item search with speed and simplicity in mind, so you can spend more of your time on...
View ArticleSee What’s New with Windows Ink in the Creators Update
Windows Ink is about transforming the way we think about computers, from a tool that is great at getting things done, to one that harnesses your personality and your emotions into the things you...
View ArticleAnnouncing EF 6.2 beta 1
Earlier this month, we announced a preview of Entity Framework Core 2.0, the lightweight, extensible and cross-platform version of EF for .NET Core and .NET Framework. Today we are making the 6.2 beta...
View ArticleCreate smooth animations in R with the tweenr package
There are several tools available in R for creating animations (movies) from statistical graphics. The animation package by Yihui Xie will create an animated GIF or video file, using a series of R...
View ArticleThe week in .NET – .NET poster, Happy Birthday .NET with Jan Kotas, Skyworld
Previous posts: Microsoft Build 2017, .NET Core 2.0 preview 1, For the King Microsoft Build 2017, .NET Core 2.0 status, Happy birthday .NET with Eilon Lipton, On .NET with Alfonso García-Caro on Fable,...
View ArticleMicrosoft and Cisco enable Azure IoT Suite to connect to Cisco Fog Deployments
As we announced recently, Microsoft thinks there is a natural balance between the cloud and the edge in IoT. Why? Cloud is a natural place to manage IoT devices, to collect data from them, gain...
View ArticleNew 400GB and 200GB caches available on Azure Analysis Services
In April 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...
View ArticleKubernetes in action: How orchestration and containers can increase uptime...
It’s been about a month since we finalized the acquisition of Deis to expand the Azure Container Service and Kubernetes support on Azure. It’s been really fantastic to watch the two teams come together...
View ArticleMicrosoft R Open 3.4.0 now available
Microsoft R Open (MRO), Microsoft's enhanced distribution of open source R, has been upgraded to version 3.4.0 and is now available for download for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This update upgrades the R...
View ArticleXamarin University’s free webinar series: Learn mobile development from experts
Starting June 1st, Xamarin University’s team of mobile experts – including special guest and author Charles Petzold – will host five new demo-packed webinars, designed to show you how to use Visual...
View ArticleThe largest Git repo on the planet
It’s been 3 months since I first wrote about our efforts to scale Git to extremely large projects and teams with an effort we called “Git Virtual File System”. As a reminder, GVFS, together with a set...
View ArticleWhat’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services: May 2017 Digest
This post series provides the latest updates and news for Visual Studio Team Services and is a great way for Azure users to keep up-to-date with new features being released every three weeks. Visual...
View ArticleLove is all around: Popular words in pop hits
Data scientist Giora Simchoni recently published a fantastic analysis of the history of pop songs on the Billboard Hot 100 using the R language. Giora used the rvest package in R to scrape data from...
View ArticleAnnouncing General Availability of Work item search
Discovering relevant work items should consume as little time and effort as possible. That’s why we have built work item search with speed and simplicity in mind, so you can spend more of your time on...
View ArticleWhat’s New and Improved with the SlowCheetah Extension
We are delighted to announce the latest release of the SlowCheetah extension for Visual Studio. For those who are new to SlowCheetah, it’s an extension that lets you easily add transforms that enable...
View ArticleAccessibility improvements in EdgeHTML 15
In last year’s Windows 10 Anniversary Update, we introduced a new architecture for web accessibility, enabling a more accessible web with Microsoft Edge. With this dramatically improved foundation,...
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