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.NET and WebAssembly – Is this the future of the front-end?
6 years ago Erik Meijer and I were talking about how JavaScript is/was an assembly language. It turned into an interesting discussion/argument (some people really didn't buy it) but it still kept...
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Managing warnings in the C++ Core Guidelines Checker
This post written by Sergiy Oryekhov and Andrew Pardoe With several new rules added to the Core Guidelines Checker in Visual Studio 2017 15.3, the amount of warnings produced for pre-existing code may...
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New Tools in Windows Device Portal for the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
In the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, Device Portal now offers several new tools from across Windows to help you location test your UWP, explore Mixed Reality, build new hardware peripherals and test...
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F# and .NET Core Roadmap Update
Now that .NET Core 2.0 has been released, we wanted to take some time to talk about F# and .NET Core. F# and .NET Core 1.0 F# has been supported on .NET Core since 1.0. In the months leading up to the...
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Reproducibility: A cautionary tale from data journalism
Timo Grossenbacher, data journalist with Swiss Radio and TV in Zurich, had a bit of a surprise when he attempted to recreate the results of one of the R Markdown scripts published by SRF Data to...
View ArticleGit vulnerability with submodules
The Git community has disclosed a serious security vulnerability in Git that can lead to arbitrary code execution. This has been assigned CVE 2017-1000117. The Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) team...
View ArticleCMake Support in Visual Studio: Customizing your Environment
In Visual Studio 15.3 Preview 4, there are new ways for you to apply advanced configuration to your CMake environments. Please download the preview and try out the latest CMake features. If you are...
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Replicated tables now in preview for Azure SQL Data Warehouse
SQL Data Warehouse is a fully managed, petabyte-scale cloud service for data warehousing. SQL Data Warehouse is highly elastic, enabling you to provision in minutes and scale capacity in seconds. With...
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Why your team needs an Azure Stack Operator
Azure Stack is an extension of Azure, bringing the agility and fast-paced innovation of cloud computing to on-premises environments. With the great power of Azure in your own datacenter, comes the...
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Azure Time Series Insights API, Reference Data, Ingress, and Azure Portal...
Today we are announcing the release of several updates to Time Series Insights based on customer feedback. Time Series Insights is a fully-managed analytics, storage, and visualization service that...
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Managing your resources with Azure Cloud Shell
Back in May this year we announced the public preview of Azure Cloud Shell. If you haven’t tried it out yet, Azure Cloud Shell gives you a new way to manage your resources in the Cloud. It’s a...
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How Azure Security Center aids in detecting good applications being used...
We’ve written in the past about how Azure Security Center helps detect malicious activity on compromised VMs, including a post detailing a Bitcoin mining attack and one on an outbound DDoS attack. In...
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Updates in Visual Studio 2017 based on your UserVoice suggestions
We are looking to improve your experience on the Visual Studio Blog. It would be very helpful if you could share your feedback via this short survey that should take less than 2 minutes. Thanks! Visual...
View ArticleThe week in .NET – .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, Entity Framework 2.0,...
Previous posts: Rezoom.SQL, Protobuf in Orlando Nuke, Warden.NET, .NET in Bangalore MIST, F# in NYC .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, Entity Framework 2.0, and Visual Studio 2017 Update 3 launched! This...
View ArticleHow to use the C++ Core Guidelines Checker outside of Visual Studio
This post written by Sergiy Oryekhov and Andrew Pardoe The latest C++ Core Guidelines Checker is deployed as a part of the Native Code Analysis tools in Visual Studio 2017 15.3. These tools are...
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Buzzfeed trains an AI to find spy planes
Last year, Buzzfeed broke the story that US law enforcement agencies were using small aircraft to observe points of interest in US cities, thanks to analysis of public flight-records data. With the...
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Changes to Project Templates and Code Wizards in 15.3
Visual Studio 2017 Update 15.3 is a major release with many different improvements coming to the product. You can learn more about these changes in the 15.3 Release Notes. One aspect I want to...
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Exploring refit, an automatic type-safe REST library for .NET Standard
I dig everything that Paul Betts does. He's a lovely person and a prolific coder. One of his recent joints is called Refit. It's a REST library for .NET that is inspired by Square's Retrofit library....
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Introducing Azure Event Grid – an event service for modern applications
Most modern applications are built using events – whether it is reacting to changes coming from IoT devices, responding to user clicks on mobile apps, or initiating business processes from customer...
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Announcing the Just-In-Time VM Access public preview
Attackers commonly target cloud environments with Brute Force or Port Scanning attacks, typically against management ports like RDP and SSH that are left open to enable administrators access. In...
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