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The week in .NET – Project File Tools, Maira Wenzel, Mixed Reality in Miami,...
Previous posts: .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, Entity Framework 2.0, Visual Studio 2017 Update 3, enterprise Entity Framework Core in Boston Rezoom.SQL, Protobuf in Orlando Nuke, Warden.NET, .NET in...
View ArticleSecurity and Compliance in Azure Stack
Security posture and compliance validation roadmap for Azure Stack Security considerations and compliance regulations are important drivers for people that choose to control their infrastructure using...
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Azure Monitor now available in Azure Government
Getting ahead of issues before they impact end users is a key goal of any IT organization. One important tool in this process is the use of monitoring and analytics services, which help ensure that you...
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Understanding the ad mediation configuration in the Microsoft ad mediation...
We announced the general availability of the Microsoft ad mediation service in May 2017. The federated cloud based ad mediation service is designed to help app developers maximize their ad revenue. In...
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Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.4 Preview
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Recreating and updating Minard with ggplot2
Minard's chart depicting Napoleon's 1812 march on Russia is a classic of data visualization that has inspired many homages using different time-and-place data. If you'd like to recreate the original...
View ArticleVisual Studio Test Platform – upcoming changes to data collectors
Having executed a test – at a minimum – we want to know the outcome. But beyond that, we may want to know more. Data collectors and loggers are the key extension mechanisms intended to provide this and...
View ArticleCalculating a fuzzy kmeans membership matrix with R and Rcpp
by Błażej Moska, computer science student and data science intern Suppose that we have performed clustering K-means clustering in R and are satisfied with our results, but later we realize that it...
View ArticleASP.NET Core 2.0 Features
Last week we announced the release of ASP.NET Core 2.0 and described some top new features, including Razor Pages, new and updated templates, and Application Insights integration. In this blog post we...
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Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms: Architecture and Patterns guidance
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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Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.4 Preview
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Visual C++ for Linux Development with CMake
In Visual Studio 2017 15.4 you can now target Linux from your CMake projects. This enables you to work on your existing code base that uses CMake as your build solution without having to convert it to...
View ArticleTips and tricks on using R to query data in Power BI
In Power BI, the dashboarding and reporting tool, you can use R to filter, transform, or restructure data via the Query Editor. For example, you could use the mice package to impute missing values, or...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2017.08.25
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES DevOps: Connecting VSTS to Azure – Ken Muse In this post, I’m going to...
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Python updates in Visual Studio 15.4 Preview 1
It's been a while since we last posted, and we've been hard at work on new features for Python in Visual Studio 2017. Today, the first preview of the next update has been released, which you can...
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UWP & .NET Standard 2.0: A preview is now available!
Today, we released the first Preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.4. This includes an update to the UWP tooling that supports .NET Standard 2.0. In this post, I’ll outline what this means for UWP...
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Because it’s Friday: Total Eclipse in the Park
Here in the US, it's been Eclipse-mania for a the past week or so, culminating in the totality event across much of the country on Monday. My husband and I were lucky enough to catch total eclipse on a...
View ArticleAutomatic linking work items to builds
The “Automatic linking of a build with associated work items” feature was released in TFS 2017 Update 2 (see the Release Notes). In a nutshell, this feature allows users to track builds that have...
View ArticleA new C++/WinRT update is available
A new update of C++/WinRT is available on GitHub! C++/WinRT is a standard C++ language projection for the Windows Runtime, implemented solely in header files. The C++/WinRT team has been quiet since...
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Architecting Distributed Cloud Applications (free video course)
Learn how to architect distributed cloud applications with the correct developer mindset using the right technologies and the best cloud patterns. This technology-agnostic course begins by explaining...
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