Syberia: A development framework for R code in production
Putting R code into production generally involves orchestrating the execution of a series of R scripts. Even if much of the application logic is encoded into R packages, a run-time environment...
View ArticleMicrosoft .NET Framework 4.7 is available on Windows Update, WSUS, and MU...
We are happy to announce the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7 is now available on Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), and the Microsoft Update (MU) Catalog for the following operating...
View ArticleMicrosoft joins Cloud Foundry Foundation
From when we first launched Azure Virtual Machines, I have had the pleasure of working with fantastic community partners and customers. We have built new open-source technologies and have made numerous...
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May 2017 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN
Congratulations to the May 2017 top-10 contributors! Hilary Cotter and Alberto Morillo continue to top the Overall and Cloud database for the fourth successive month. This Leaderboard initiative was...
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View tags for git repositories
Git repositories now show tags that allow you to mark important points in your repo’s history. Now you can easily bookmark a specific commit in your git repository to compare to other commits in the...
View ArticleThe week in .NET – On .NET with Mattias Karlsson on Cake, Topshelf
Previous posts: On .NET with Brett Morrison, DateTime Extensions Open XML SDK, Adventure Time .NET poster, Happy Birthday .NET with Jan Kotas, Skyworld On .NET: Mattias Karlsson – Cake During the...
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Take your web app to Azure
You’ve built your web app. It’s running, and getting good traffic. Now you need to move on to solving the ‘good problems’ to have. You want to scale your app to support more users, but only at peak...
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Studying disease with R: RECON, The R Epidemics Consortium
For almost a year now, a collection of researchers from around the world has been collaborating to develop the next generation of analysis tools for disease outbreak response using R. The R Epidemics...
View ArticleCMake support in Visual Studio – what’s new in 2017 15.3 Preview 2
We’re excited to announce improved CMake and Ninja support in Visual Studio 15.3 Preview 2. In this preview, we have updated CMake from version 3.7.2 to version 3.8 and added improved support for the...
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Solve Node.js issues faster with Application Insights for Node.js
Azure Application Insights is an application performance management (APM) platform which provides performance and diagnostic information about your running services and applications to help you...
View ArticleAnnouncing large disk sizes of up to 4 TB for Azure IaaS VMs
Azure increases the maximum size and performance of Azure Disks We are excited to announce an increase of maximum disk sizes for both Premium and Standard storage. This extends the maximum size of the...
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Announcing public preview of Apache Kafka on HDInsight with Azure Managed disks
HDInsight set a firm goal of helping enterprises build secure, robust, scalable open source streaming pipelines on Azure. To meet this goal, a few months ago we announced a limited preview of Managed...
View ArticleDemo: Real-Time Predictions with Microsoft R Server
At the R/Finance conference last month, I demonstrated how to operationalize models developed in Microsoft R Server as web services using the mrsdeploy package. Then, I used that deployed model to...
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How to reference a .NET Core library in WinForms – Or, .NET Standard...
I got an interesting email today. The author said "I have a problem consuming a .net core class library in a winforms project and can't seem to find a solution." This was interesting for a few reasons....
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Gartner names Microsoft Azure as a leader in the Cloud IaaS MQ
As customers bet more and more on Cloud to drive digital transformation within their organizations, we’re seeing tremendous usage of Azure. Recently, Forbes reported a study done by Cowen and Company...
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C++ Tutorial: Hello World
Welcome to the C++ Tutorial. In this first C++ tutorial, you will learn how to write (and run!) your first C++ program, “Hello, World!”. Along the way you will learn a little C++ history, see how to...
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Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.06.16
Greg Duncan, Martin Woodward and I (Willy) were chatting recently about all the great news posts that Greg pulls together for the Radio TFS podcast and what a shame it was that so many of them ended up...
View ArticleApplications of R at EARL San Francisco 2017
The Mango team held their first instance of the EARL conference series in San Francisco last month, and it was a fantastic showcase of real-world applications of R. This was a smaller version of the...
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Because it’s Friday: Dry Martini Specifications
"Standards are Serious Business" was once the tagline of ANSI, the American National Standards Institute, but this tongue-in-cheek standard (ANSI K100.1-1974, an update to ASA K100.1-1966) is anything...
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Get Solarized – Awesome command prompt colors for VS, VS Code, cmd,...
I was on a call with my co-worker Maria today and she commented on how nice my command prompt in Windows looked. I told it was "Solarized" and then our conference call fell apart as we collected all...
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