Because it’s Friday: Fake Views
It wasn't that long ago, before the days of Photoshop and Content-Aware fill, that we thought that the camera never lies. Those days are numbered for the movie camera now too. A recent paper from...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2017.09.01
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES SpecFlow VSTS Build pipeline with SpecRunner for BDD Style Automated...
View ArticleCleaning up corrupt Visual Studio instances
A small number of users are seeing errors after installing or modifying Visual Studio 2017 like the following, Sorry, the installation failed. Please try again. This may also manifest in some cases as,...
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Cloud Database? NoSQL? Nah, just use CSVs and CsvHelper
KISS - Keep it Simple, Stupid. While I don't like calling people stupid, I do like to Keep it Super Simple! I was talking to Jeff Fritz on my team about a new system we're architecting. I suggested...
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Cloud Database? NoSQL? Nah, just use CSVs and CsvHelper
KISS - Keep it Simple, Stupid. While I don't like calling people stupid, I do like to Keep it Super Simple! I was talking to Jeff Fritz on my team about a new system we're architecting. I suggested...
View ArticleManaging Release Notifications
When you are configuring continuous deployment pipelines for your team, it becomes essential to keep the team members informed about the progress of releases and the related action items. We had...
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Run Hortonworks clusters and easily access Azure Data Lake
Enterprise customers love Hortonworks for running Apache Hive, Apache Spark and other Apache Hadoop workloads. They also love the value that Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) provides, like high throughput...
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Microsoft joins IC3 in advancing blockchain enterprise readiness
Microsoft has just become a member of IC3, The Initiative for CryptoCurrencies & Contracts. We are excited to collaborate with this team of world class experts in cryptography, game theory,...
View ArticleWiki supports HTML tags, anchor links, and much more
It has been exactly 2 months since Wiki went live on VSTS. Wiki is also available in TFS 2018 RC1 now. We have received tons of great feedback and we also learnt a lot from usage patterns. I wanted to...
View ArticlePreview of EARL London 2017
The next event in the Effective Applications of the R Language (EARL) conference series takes place next week, with EARL London 2017. The EARL conference series got its start in London, and the London...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 16278 and Mobile Emulator Build 15240 Released
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK and the Mobile Emulator to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 16278 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 16278...
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August 2017 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN
Congratulations to our August top-10 contributors! Alberto Morillo maintain his first position in the cloud ranking while Erland Sommarskog climbs to the top in the All Databases ranking. This...
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Proactively monitoring cloud operations with Microsoft Azure Stack
Introduction As an Azure customer, you enjoy its capability to deploy and manage workloads across many different services and regions. You are responsible for managing those Azure resources, including...
View ArticleVisual Studio Team Services Encryption at Rest
Customers interested in ensuring the highest level of protection for their data stored in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) often ask about our ability to encrypt their data at rest. To meet these...
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Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service preview automates device connection...
Today we're announcing the public preview of the Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service! The Device Provisioning Service is new service that works with Azure IoT Hub to enable customers to configure...
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General availability of App Service on Linux and Web App for Containers
Applications are changing the pace of business today – from delivering amazing customer experiences, to transforming internal operations. To keep pace, developers need solutions that help them quickly...
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Overview on Web App for Containers and Azure App Service on Linux
Today, we announced the general availability of Azure App Service on Linux and Web App for Containers. Providing Linux support in Azure App Service is an important step towards our commitment to...
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Drag and Drop GeoJSON files onto Bing Maps V8
GeoJSON is a common file format used for storing spatial data as a JSON object and is easy to import and export in Bing Maps V8 using the GeoJSON module. This file format tends to be more compact then...
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Seamless cost reporting and analysis for Enterprise customers: now in preview
I’m thrilled to announce the preview release of Enterprise Cost Management within the Azure portal. With today’s release, Azure Enterprise Agreement (EA) users can view and analyze their subscription...
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Azure Management Libraries for .NET – v1.2
We released 1.2 of the Azure Management Libraries for .NET. This release adds support for additional security and deployment features, and more Azure services: Managed service identity Create users in...
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