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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 thrilled to be accepted in. In...
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What we’ve learned from .NET Core SDK Telemetry
We are releasing .NET Core SDK usage data that has been collected by the .NET Core CLI. We have been using this data to determine the most common CLI scenarios, the distribution of operating systems...
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IEEE Spectrum 2017 Top Programming Languages
IEEE Spectrum has published its fourth annual ranking of of top programming languages, and the R language is again featured in the Top 10. This year R ranks at #6, down a spot from its 2016 ranking...
View ArticleDiagnostic Improvements in Visual Studio 2017 15.3.0
This post as well as described diagnostics significantly benefited from the feedback by Mark, Xiang, Stephan, Marian, Gabriel, Ulzii, Steve and Andrew. Visual Studio 2017 15.3.0 release comes with a...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: How Bitcoin works
Cryptocurrencies have been in the news quite a bit lately. Bitcoin prices have been soaring recently after the community narrowly avoided the need for a fork, while $32M in rival currency Etherium was...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2017.07.21
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES What is Visual Studio Team Services? A Look at Its Features, Uses,...
View ArticleGo serverless with R Scripts on Azure Function
Serverless is all the rage, now you can get in on the action using R! Azure Function supports a variety of languages (C#, F#, js, batch, PowerShell, Python, php and the list is growing). However, R is...
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More resource policy aliases
Aliases in resource policies enable you to restrict what values or conditions are permitted for a property on a resource. If you are already familiar with policy aliases, you know they are a crucial...
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HDInsight tools for IntelliJ & Eclipse June updates
HDInsight tools June release has been released! In this release, you can choose SBT as a build tool in addition to Maven when creating Spark projects in IntelliJ. With improvements to Spark job view...
View ArticleCommunity Standup with Kevin Gallo
Kevin Gallo will be live on Channel 9 with Seth Juarez on July 26th, 2017 at 9:30am PST. Kevin will be providing updates to the state of the Windows SDK inside Windows 10 Falls Creators Update since...
View ArticleGet Started with F# as a C# developer
Get Started with F# as a C# developer One of our previous posts, Why You Should Use F#, listed a few reasons why F# is worth trying out today. In this post, we’ll cover some of the basics you need to...
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Register now for Microsoft Edge Web Summit 2017
Registration is now open for Microsoft Edge Web Summit 2017. Join the Microsoft Edge team in Seattle for a jam-packed day of energetic technical sessions looking at what’s new, and what’s next, for the...
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TFS 2017 Update 2 RTM
Today we released the final version of Team Foundation Server 2017.2. Thank you to everyone who installed one of the two release candidates over the past few months and helped us ensure that this is a...
View Article.NET Framework July 2017 Preview of Quality Rollup
We released a new Preview of Quality Rollup for the .NET Framework. Preview of Quality Rollup releases are recommended for businesses that want to use and/or preview quality improvements as soon as...
View ArticleAnalyzing Github pull requests with Neural Embeddings, in R
At the useR!2017 conference earlier this month, my colleague Ali Zaidi gave a presentation on using Neural Embeddings to analyze GitHub pull request comments (processed using the tidy text framework)....
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Announcing the preview of App Service domain
For a production web app, you probably want users to see a custom domain name. Today we are announcing the preview of App Service domain. App Service domain (preview) gives you a first class experience...
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Model comparison and merging for Azure Analysis Services
Relational-database schema comparison and merging is a well-established market. Leading products include SSDT Schema Compare and Redgate SQL Compare, which is partially integrated into Visual Studio....
View ArticleVelocity Widget available for Analytics Extensions
The Velocity Widget is now available for those who’ve installed the Analytics Extension. The Velocity Widget provides functionality not available in the Velocity Chart displayed on the Backlog view,...
View ArticleThe End of an Era – Next Steps for Adobe Flash
Today, Adobe announced that Flash will no longer be supported after 2020. Microsoft will phase out support for Flash in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer ahead of this date. Flash led the way on the...
View ArticleSQL Server 2017 release candidate now available
SQL Server 2017, the next major release of the SQL Server database, has been available as a community preview for around 8 months, but now the first full-featured release candidate is available for...
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