A modern database interface for R
At the useR! conference last month, Jim Hester gave a talk about two packages that provide a modern database interface for R. Those packages are the odbc package (developed by Jim and other members of...
View Article.NET Framework July 2017 Cumulative Quality Update for Windows 10
Today, we are releasing a new Cumulative Quality Update for the .NET Framework. It is specific to Windows 10 build 1703 (Creators Update). Previously released security and quality updates are included...
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Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware & Everything Between – Deploying...
This post is part of the “Mesosphere DC/OS, Azure, Docker, VMware & Everything Between” multiple blog post series. In the previous posts for this series, I looked at the following topics:...
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Visual Studio for Mac version 7.2 Alpha Preview
Today we’ve released a new alpha preview for Visual Studio for Mac in the alpha updater channel – our first preview for version 7.2. The major themes for this release are improving the performance and...
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Microservices and Docker containers: Architecture, Patterns and Development...
As part of the series of posts announced at this initial blog post (.NET Application Architecture Guidance) that explores each of the architecture areas currently covered by our team, this current...
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Applications in energy, retail and shipping
The Solutions section of the Cortana Intelligence Gallery provides more than two dozen working examples of applying machine learning, data science and artificial intelligence to real-world problems....
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A proper terminal for Visual Studio
Whack Whack Terminal is an experimental free plugin for Visual Studio 2017 that aims to bring a full terminal inside of Visual Studio. Those of you who use Visual Studio Code have long enjoyed the...
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First Hyperscale CSP with Graphic-Intensive Supportable VMs in UK: Microsoft...
Today Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine customers can take advantage of the Azure G/GS/LS/H/N-series of Virtual Machine sizes, available in UK South. We’re also excited to announce that Microsoft Azure...
View ArticleOnline training for Azure Data Lake
We are pleased to announce the availability of new, free online training for Azure Data Lake. We’ve designed this training to get developers ramped up fast. It covers all the topics a developer needs...
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Introducing the #Azure #CosmosDB Change Feed Processor Library
Azure Cosmos DB is a fast and flexible globally-replicated database service that is used for storing high-volume transactional and operational data with predictable millisecond latency for reads and...
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August updates to the Azure Analysis Services web designer
Last month we released 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 ArticleText categorization with deep learning, in R
Given a short review of a product, like "I couldn't put it down!", can you predict what the product is? In that case it's pretty easy — it's for a book — but this general problem of text categorization...
View ArticleAccelerated Continuous Testing with Test Impact Analysis – Part 4
Essential to TIA’s test selection is the map of dynamic dependencies between test methods and source files of code exercised during their execution. TIA needs dependencies mapped in this form:...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2017.08.04
Here are the top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics: TOP STORIES Bulk import git repositories into VSTS/TFS – Gordon Beeming Gordon...
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Painting with Data
The accidental aRt tumblr (mentioned here a few years ago) continues to provide a steady stream of images that wouldn't look out of place in a modern art gallery, but which in fact are data...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: People remain awesome
The People are Awesome people are making the rounds again: the Best of 2017 so far video is popping up all over the place. But that made me realize I'd missed the 2016 video late last year, and if you...
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Creating Materials and Lights in the Visual Layer
In today’s post, we’re going wrap up this series by combining everything we’ve learned so far and take you through the steps in creating a custom material. We also have an amazing new tool to show you...
View ArticleC++ Unit Testing Updates: Announcing Boost.Test Adapter and Improved Google...
Back in May, the C++ team announced the Test Adapter for Google Test – a Visual Studio extension that allows you to run and manage your Google Test-based unit tests directly in Visual Studio. You can...
View ArticleNew Electric Imp and Particle seamless integration with Azure IoT Hub
New Azure IoT integration with device connectivity platforms brings the best of the “Internet” and the “Things” together, making both hardware connectivity and Cloud development simple. Electric Imp...
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Root cause analysis and time exploration updates to Azure Time Series Insights
Azure Time Series Insights is currently in public preview, and we’ve been hard at work the last couple months to help our customers better manage and find value in their time series data. Time Series...
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