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Choice amongst cross-platform .NET IDEs – VS Code, Visual Studio for...
A few years back, .NET development on a Mac was resigned to Mono and whatever text editor you knew how to exit successfully. Xamarin Studio came out in 2013 as a standalone IDE for mobile app...
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Turn your infrastructure into code with Chef, and update your Assembly...
May is coming to a close, and we’ve had more Team Services accounts installing extensions than any month since we launched the Marketplace. The ecosystem momentum we’ve seen this year is strong, and...
View ArticleAzure SQL Data Sync Refresh
We are happy to announce our Azure SQL Data Sync Refresh! With Azure SQL Data Sync users can easily synchronize data bi-directionally between multiple Azure SQL databases and/or on-premises SQL...
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Azure Security Center adds Context Alerts to aid threat investigation
In two recent articles Greg Cottingham and Jessen Kurien described investigation processes triggered by a security alert. If you haven't already done so, please read “How Azure Security Center helps...
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Beyond text queries: Searching with Bing Visual Search
Over the years people have come to expect search engines to automatically detect intent and provide great search results for text queries typed into a single search box. Now Bing takes the first step...
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Improving input responsiveness in Microsoft Edge
As the web becomes more interactive, web pages are becoming increasingly reliant on JavaScript for core functionality, such as input, rendering, layout, and composition. As more and more of this core...
View ArticleSpring 2017 Visual C++ Migration Survey
The Spring 2017 Visual C++ Migration Survey is now open. Please take a few minutes to share your experiences, positive or not so positive. If you recently migrated to Visual Studio 2017, was it less...
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Python and R top 2017 KDnuggets rankings
The results of KDnuggets' 18th annual poll of data science software usage are in, and for the first time in three years Python has edged out R as the most popular software. While R increased its share...
View ArticleTeam Services Update – June 1, 2017
Sheesh, it’s another huge update this sprint. I expected a bit of a lull after all the work we put out along with the Build conference but things don’t seem to be slowing down much (or at least...
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Teach kids about R with Minecraft
As I mentioned earlier this week, I was on a team at the ROpenSci Unconference (with Brooke Anderson, Karl Broman, Gergely Daróczi, and my Microsoft colleagues Mario Inchiosa and Ali Zaidi) to work on...
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The week in .NET – Open XML SDK, Adventure Time
Previous posts: .NET poster, Happy Birthday .NET with Jan Kotas, Skyworld Microsoft Build 2017, .NET Core 2.0 preview 1, For the King Microsoft Build 2017, .NET Core 2.0 status, Happy birthday .NET...
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Toolkits, Toolkits, Toolkits!
As a UWP developer, you have many options to help build your application quickly and reliably. In fact, there are so many options that you may feel like you can choose only one. Luckily, that’s not the...
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Because it’s Friday: Disappearing Dots
It's been a while since we posted an optical illusion, and this one (via Max Galka) jis ust too good to pass up. Here are the instructions, from the source: First, look at any yellow dot as the figure...
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Visual Studio and IIS Error: Specified argument was out of the range of valid...
I got a very obscure and obtuse error running an ASP.NET application under Visual Studio and IIS Express recently. I'm running a Windows 10 Insiders (Fast Ring) build, so it's likely an issue with...
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Diagnose sudden changes in your app behavior with a click!
Spikes or steps in the telemetry of your app can now be easily diagnosed. When you use Application Insights Analytics to explore app metrics over time, sudden changes, such as spikes or dips, are...
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HDInsight tools for IntelliJ May updates
The primary focus for our May updates is to make the Spark development work easier for you in IntelliJ! In this release, your spark remote debugging experience is significantly improved. Scala SDKs...
View ArticleNew language support for Azure Media Indexer v2
Speech to text has been one of the most exciting Azure Media Services components since the original release of Azure Media Indexer in 2014. Today we are ready to release the following new languages to...
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Azure Post Exploitation Techniques
The Cloud and Enterprise Red Team introduced how to apply traditional network attack techniques to the cloud along with mindset trends seen in Azure to address them. The presentation was given at the...
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Powe[R] BI: Free e-book on using R with Power BI
A new (and free!) e-book on extending the capabilities of Power BI with R is now available for download, from analytics consultancy BlueGranite. The introduction to the book explains why R and Power BI...
View ArticleNative Ads in Microsoft Advertising SDK
Overview Native Ads is a component-based ad format that gives publishers the flexibility of placing the individual components of a creative – title, image, logo, description, call to action text – so...
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