Running Azure Batch jobs using the Azure CLI – no code required
When we introduced Azure Batch the target audience was the developer producing SaaS or client solutions where there was the need to run applications or algorithms at scale. Developers use the Batch...
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Winter is coming this summer to Bing
It’s been a year since the Season 6 finale of Game of Thrones and we here at Bing are eager and ready for season 7. The show’s popularity is a worldwide phenomenon, and there’s proof in the data; Game...
View ArticleIntroducing the new Dv3 and Ev3 VM sizes
We are excited to announce the general availability of our new Dv3 VM sizes. We are also changing the naming for the high memory D sizes (D11-D14) to become the Ev3 family. These new sizes introduce...
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Nested Virtualization in Azure
We announced nested virtualization support coming to Azure with Dv3 or Ev3 series at //build session last month. Today we are excited to announce that you can now enable nested virtualization using...
View Article20 years of CRAN
The presentations and tutorials are starting to become available at the Channel 9 useR!2017 page. There's a wealth of amazing content to explore there already, and I wanted to call out one presentation...
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Precompiled Header (PCH) issues and recommendations
This post written by Mark Hall, Xiang Fan, Yuriy Solodkyy, Bat-Ulzii Luvsanbat, and Andrew Pardoe. Precompiled headers can reduce your compilation times significantly. They’ve worked reliably for...
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Development time IIS support for ASP.NET Core Applications
With a recent update to Visual Studio 2017, we have added support for debugging ASP.NET Core applications against IIS. This blog post will walk you through enabling this feature and setting up your...
View ArticleR in Minecraft: the lightning talk
My lightning talk at the useR!2017 conference was R in Minecraft: a five-minute tour of the miner and craft packages and associated book designed to teach kids how to use the R language while...
View ArticleImproved alternate authentication experience
Recently, we’ve heard feedback from customers that developers have a poor experience creating and managing their alternate authentication credentials and that administrators moving from TFS to the...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Hidden Holes
They recently resurfaced the street in front of my house in Chicago. The first step was to grade away the existing layer of bitumen, to level the ground ready for a fresh layer. To my surprise (and I'm...
View ArticleThe fastest path to a new Team Services extension
Over the last few years we have introduced a number of ways to extend and integrate with Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server. For example, client libraries for .NET (which work with...
View ArticleResumable Online Index Rebuild is in public preview for Azure SQL DB
We are delighted to announce that Resumable Online Index Rebuild (ROIR) is now available for public preview in Azure SQL DB. With this feature, you can resume a paused index rebuild operation from...
View ArticleDatabase Scoped Global Temporary Tables in public preview for Azure SQL DB
We are delighted to announce that Database Scoped Global Temporary Tables are in public preview for Azure SQL DB. Similar to global temporary tables for SQL Server, tables prefixed with ##table_name,...
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Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) July updates
We are pleased to announce the July updates of Azure Data Lake Tools for VSCode. This is a quality milestone and we added local debug capability for C# code behind for window users, refined Azure Data...
View ArticleAzure Stream Analytics now available in UK West, Canada Central and East
As a part of our ongoing commitment to enable higher performance, and support customer requirements around data location, we’re pleased to announce that Azure Stream Analytics is now available in 3...
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Revisiting the useR!2017 conference: Recordings now available
The annual useR!2017 conference took place July 4-7 in Brussels, and in every dimension it was the best yet. It was the largest (with over 1,100 R users from around the world in attendance), and yet...
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13 hours debugging a segmentation fault in .NET Core on Raspberry Pi and the...
Debugging is a satisfying and special kind of hell. You really have to live it to understand it. When you're deep into it you never know when it'll be done. When you do finally escape it's almost...
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Tableau and Azure SQL DB, a match made in the cloud
In recent years, Microsoft SQL and Tableau Engineering teams have been working closely together to provide a superior user experience with the two platforms. Today we are sharing some advice on how to...
View ArticleExtending MSTest V2
APIs are assets. As developers we learn them, write to them, and – if the API are extensible – we grow them. An extensible API removes barriers to introducing new abstractions closer to our own...
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Azure Cyber Analytics Program for Power and Utilities Customers
The utilities industry is under continuous and persistent threat. The Ukraine attack was a wake-up call for many utilities who would not have considered something as improbable as a serial-to-Ethernet...
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