Knime 3.4 connections to Microsoft R, Azure
Version 3.4 of the Knime Analytics Platform, the open-source data science workflow toolbox, was released back in July. With that release came new integrations with Azure and Microsoft R Server, which...
View ArticleMicrosoft at PostgresOpen 2017
Earlier this year at Microsoft Build, we announced the public preview of Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Since then, we have been engaging deeply with the PostgreSQL community and are proud to be...
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Bot conversation history with Azure Cosmos DB
The Bot Framework provides a service for tracking the context of a conversation, called Bot Framework State. It enables you to store and retrieve data associated with a user, conversation or a specific...
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Azure Stream Analytics drives retail industry transformation with real-time...
Over the past decade very few industries have experienced the pace of transformation as much as the retail sector. Driven by competition from innovative online merchants, traditional retailers are...
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Create flexible ARM templates using conditions and logical functions
In this blog post, I will walk you through some of the new capabilities we have in our template language expressions for Azure Resource Manager templates. Background A common ask from customers is,...
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Windows Authentication in Service Fabric and ASP.NET Core 2.0
Recently, I worked on a Service Fabric solution for a customer, where my team had to configure secure communication capabilities to existing reliable (stateless) services, built on top of the ASP.NET...
View ArticleWindows Community Standup on September 14th, 2017
Kevin Gallo will be hosting Windows Community Standup on Channel 9 with Seth Juarez again on September 14th, 2017 at 9:30am PST! We’ll be streaming live and answering questions afterwards. A few of the...
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T4MVC and R4MVC – Roslyn code generators for ASP.NET Core tag helpers
I've always loved the T4 text generator within Visual Studio. If you are looking for T4 within Visual Studio 2017 you need to install the "Visual Studio extension development" option within the...
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Getting Started with Windows Containers
Containers provide a way of running an application in a controlled environment, isolated from other applications running on the machine, and from the underlying infrastructure. They are a...
View ArticleIn case you missed it: August 2017 roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from August of particular interest to R users. Using the featurizeText function in the MicrosoftML package to extract ngrams from unstructured text. A...
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Try Azure #CosmosDB for free
Today we are launching Try Azure Cosmos DB for free, an experience that allows anyone to play with Azure Cosmos DB, with no Azure sign up required and at no charge for a limited time. As many of you...
View ArticleHurricane Harvey’s rains, visualized in R by USGS
On August 26 Hurricane Harvey became the largest hurricane to make landfall in the United States in over 20 years. (That record may yet be broken by Irma, now bearing down on the Florida peninsula.)...
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Welcome to the New Blog Template for ASP.NET Developers
By Juliet Daniel, Lucas Isaza, and Uma Lakshminarayan Have you always wanted to build a blog or other web application but haven’t had the time or educational resources to learn? With our blog template,...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Can’t find the one
Radiohead as long been one of my favourite bands. The band members were classically trained, so there's always something interesting in the arrangement or melody to appreciate, even for musical...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2017.09.08
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Azure Functions – Prepare for continuous delivery – Mikael KriefLet’s...
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Experiments in Open Source: Exploring vcr-sharp for Http record and playback
I've always said that reading source code is as important as write it - especially as part of the learning process. You learn a ton about how other coders think and solve problems, plus you learn about...
View ArticleIntroducing B-Series, our new burstable VM size
Today I am excited to announce the preview of the B-Series, a new Azure VM family that provides the lowest cost of any existing size with flexible CPU usage. For many workloads that run in Azure, like...
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New Xamarin University Webinar: Exploring UrhoSharp 3D with Xamarin Workbooks
Join me on Thursday, September 21 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 4 pm UTC for my “Exploring UrhoSharp 3D with Xamarin Workbooks” webinar, where I’ll combine my love of graphics programming with my passion for...
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A significant update to the XAML Designer
The XAML designers in Visual Studio and Blend have been powerful tools for developers and designers alike to build beautiful user experiences for Windows applications. Initially designed for WPF...
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Online textbook on data visualization with the ggplot2 package
A new online textbook, Data Visualization for Social Science, will teach you everything you need to know about creating beautiful and elegant data visualizations using the ggplot2 package and the R...
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