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Announcing the Just-In-Time VM Access pubic 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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Reference Architecture for SAP NetWeaver and SAP HANA on Azure
The Azure CAT Patterns & Practices team has published their first reference architecture on SAP NetWeaver and SAP HANA on Azure, which covers SAP workloads running in Azure. It provides...
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Reference Architecture for a high availability SharePoint Server 2016 farm in...
The Azure CAT Patterns & Practices team has published a new reference architecture for deploying and running a high availability SharePoint Server 2016 farm in Azure. It provides prescriptive...
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New Xamarin University Webinar: Take your desktop .NET skills mobile
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...
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Over 500 extensions in the VSTS/TFS marketplace
In November of 2015, almost 2 years ago, we launched the Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) Marketplace to further our goals to build an open and active ecosystem around VSTS and Team Foundation...
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How to build an image recognizer in R using just a few images
Microsoft Cognitive Services provides several APIs for image recognition, but if you want to build your own recognizer (or create one that works offline), you can use the new Image Featurizer...
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.NET Framework August 2017 Preview of Quality Rollup
The August 2017 Preview of Quality Rollup is now available. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. ASP.NET Values added to System.Web.Cache...
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Investing deeply in Terraform on Azure
As customers increase their deployed applications in Azure, we are seeing a growing interest in DevOps tooling on Azure. We also see customers looking to deploy applications across multiple...
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On-premises data gateway support for Azure Analysis Services
Azure Analysis Services now supports the shared On-Premises Data Gateway which is used with Power BI, Flow, Logic Apps, and PowerApps. This has been a top ask in our user feedback. The shared gateway...
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Imanis Data – Cloud migration, backup for your big data applications on...
We are pleased to announce the availability of Imanis Data on Azure. Azure HDInsight is the industry leading fully-managed cloud Apache Hadoop & Spark offering, which allows customers to run...
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Announcing Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL...
We’re excited to announce the public preview availability of Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL in India data centers (Central and West India). The availability of Azure...
View ArticleAzure Service Bus Java Client Generally Available
The Azure Service Bus team is extremely excited to announce general availability of our Java client library version 1.0.0. It allows customers to enjoy a solid Java experience with Azure Service Bus as...
View ArticleAzure Service Bus .NET Standard Client Generally Available
Azure Service Bus .NET Standard client is generally available. With it comes support for .NET Core and the .NET framework. And as mentioned in an earlier post it also supports Mono/Xamarin for...
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Making the web smoother with independent rendering
Independent rendering allows the browser to selectively offload graphics processing to an additional CPU thread, so they can be rendered with minimal impact to the user interface thread and the overall...
View ArticleAnnouncing TypeScript 2.5 RC
Announcing TypeScript 2.5 RC Today we’re happy to announce our RC of TypeScript 2.5. To get started with the latest stable version of TypeScript, you can grab it through NuGet, or use the following...
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Draft – .NET Glossary Diagram
I'm working on this slide as support for this excellent .NET Glossary. It's not done yet, but I'm curious for your thoughts. Every system has terms and concepts that are initially unfamiliar but make...
View Article20 years of the R Core Group
The first "official" version of R, version 1.0.0, was released on February 29, 200. But the R Project had already been underway for several years before then. Sharing this tweet, from yesterday, from R...
View ArticleThe TestContainer Capability
Updating off pre-RTM bits once RTM ships ought to be routine. But if you have not already done so in the case of the .NET Core based Test projects, let me give you a reason to do so. vstest delegates...
View ArticleTaking feedback
I’m going to try something very non-traditional for my blog. I don’t know if it’s a good idea or not but we’ll give it a go and if everyone hates it, I’ll find a different vehicle. I’ve had a career...
View ArticleObstacles to performance in parallel programming
Making your code run faster is often the primary goal when using parallel programming techniques in R, but sometimes the effort of converting your code to use a parallel framework leads only to...
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