Improved package support in Team Build
We know that packages are a key way to bring in dependencies and to share your work with your users, and we know many of you are using private package sources (like Package Management, Artifactory,...
View ArticleThe week in .NET – Command Line Parser Library, .NET South East
Previous posts: Links! Links! .NET Conf, Material Design in XAML Toolkit Package of the week: Command Line Parser Library Command-line applications typically accept arguments and options, and expose a...
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Neural Networks from Scratch, in R
By Ilia Karmanov, Data Scientist at Microsoft This post is for those of you with a statistics/econometrics background but not necessarily a machine-learning one and for those of you who want some...
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Working with Brushes and Content – XAML and Visual Layer Interop, Part One
The Composition APIs empower Universal Windows Platform (UWP) developers to do beautiful and powerful things when they access the Visual Layer. In the Windows 10 Creators Update, we made working with...
View ArticleVSTS Update – July 14
This week we are deploying our sprint 120 payload for Visual Studio Team Services. Check out the release notes for all the detail. The big news of this sprint is the new visual release definition...
View ArticleSecurely store API keys in R scripts with the “secret” package
If you use an API key to access a secure service, or need to use a password to access a protected database, you'll need to provide these "secrets" in your R code somewhere. That's easy to do if you...
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Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension July 2017 Update – time to try out the new...
2 million downloads! This is very exciting for the Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension, considering it was just 4 months ago when we hit the 1 million milestone! Today we are shipping the July 2017...
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Artificial Intelligence tunes Azure SQL Databases
Automatic tuning To stay competitive, today’s businesses need to make sure that they focus on their core competencies that directly deliver customer value while relying on their cloud provider to offer...
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Using MinGW and Cygwin with Visual C++ and Open Folder
Building cross-platform C and C++ code is easier than ever with Visual Studio 15.3 Preview 4. The latest preview improves support for alternative compilers and build environments such as MinGW and...
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Build custom video AI workflows with Video Indexer and Logic Apps
With the Video Indexer connector for Logic Apps, you can now set up custom workflows connecting your most used apps with Video Indexer to further automate the process of extracting deep insights from...
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How Azure Security Center helps protect your servers with Web Application...
Our adversaries have many tools available on the Internet for use in mounting cyberattacks. Many of these tools enable them to gain access and control of enterprise IT resources. In the meantime,...
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New Lights and PropertySet Interop – XAML and Visual Layer Interop, Part Two
In the last post, we explored using XamlCompositionBrushBase and LoadedImageSurface to create custom CompositionBrushes that can be used to paint XAML elements directly in your markup. In today’s post,...
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Introducing Enterprise Smart Contracts
Introduction Enterprise Smart Contracts - Full Whitepaper It has been a little over a year since we announced Project Bletchley, and since that time we have been working directly with our partners and...
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Instant File Recovery from Azure VM backups is now generally available
Today, we are excited to announce that Instant recovery of files and folders from Azure VM backups by Azure Backup is now generally available (GA). This adds to the repertoire of cloud-first features...
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Data Analysis for Life Sciences
Rafael Irizarry from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has presented a number of courses on R and Biostatistics on EdX, and he recently also provided an index of all of the course modules...
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Windows Template Studio 1.2 released!
We’re extremely excited to announce the Windows Template Studio 1.2. What makes this release even more special is we’ve been accepted into the .NET Foundation! We are extremely excited to be accepted...
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Introducing the Azure Analysis Services web designer
Today we are releasing a preview of the Azure Analysis Services web designer. This new browser-based experience will allow developers to start creating and managing Azure Analysis Services (AAS)...
View ArticleBing Map v8 available in Azure IoT Suite Remote Monitoring preconfigured...
Azure IoT Suite is designed to get customers and partners started quickly to connect and manage their devices in a simple and reliable manner, realizing business value from an IoT solution. Bing Map...
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Profile-guided optimization in .NET Core 2.0
This post was co-written by Daniel Podder and Bertrand Le Roy. .NET Core 2.0 introduces many new optimizations that will make your code even faster. A lot of work has been done in the base class...
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Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures
Typographic ligatures are when multiple characters appear to combine into a single character. Simplistically, when you type two or more characters and they magically attach to each other, you're using...
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