What’s new in TFS 2017 Update 3 RC
The Release Candidate (RC) of Team Foundation Server 2017 Update 3 is now available. It is a go-live release and fully supported for production use. This release includes bug fixes for TFS 2017 since...
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Microsoft Edge Web Summit 2017 recordings are now available on Channel 9
Last week we welcomed hundreds of local developers and thousand of online viewers to our third annual Microsoft Edge Web Summit! Videos and slides from each session are now available to stream or...
View ArticleBing Maps .NET Spatial Data Services Toolkit Made Open Source
Earlier this year we released the Bing Maps .NET REST Toolkit as an open source project on Github. Since then we have seen had a lot of positive feedback from developers and are seeing over 200M...
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Azure’s IoT Hub global expansion: Newly available in 8 regions
As part of Microsoft’s mission to enable more customers and organizations worldwide to achieve more, Azure IoT Hub is expanding within 4 countries across 3 continents, with availability now in Azure UK...
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Microsoft Azure 1st Hyperscale Cloud Computing Platform to Enable UK Law...
We’re excited and proud to announce that Microsoft Azure is the first hyper-scale cloud computing platform to be able to service UK law enforcement IT customers. This announcement comes in the wake of...
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What would a cross-platform .NET UI Framework look like? Exploring Avalonia
Many years ago before WPF was the "Windows Presentation Foundation" and introduced XAML as a UI markup language for .NET, Windows, and more, there was a project codenamed "Avalon." Avalon was WPF's...
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September updates to the Azure Analysis Services web designer
In July, we released the Azure Analysis Services web designer. This new browser-based experience allows developers to start creating and managing Azure Analysis Services (AAS) semantic models quickly...
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Azure Analysis Services now available in Azure Government
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Azure Analysis Services in the Microsoft Cloud for Government. Based on the proven analytics engine in SQL Server Analysis Services, Azure...
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Route IoT device messages to Azure Storage with Azure IoT Hub
Azure Storage containers is the new custom endpoint type available with IoT Hub. Azure Storage containers joins Service Bus queues, topics, and Event Hubs as supported custom endpoint types for IoT...
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New offers in Azure Marketplace
Last month 31 great new cloud offerings were published to Azure Marketplace. Check ‘em out! Cloudbreak for Hortonworks Data Platform: Cloudbreak for Hortonworks Data Platform simplifies the...
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On-premises Azure Files access on Linux update and new troubleshooter
We announced the availability of Linux on-premises and cross-region mounting of Azure Files for the first OS distribution - Ubuntu 17.04, in April. Today, we are happy to share that more Linux...
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Source Control Showcase: Integrating Subversion and Perforce into Visual...
Last year, we highlighted the new extensibility points for our source control providers. These hooks allowed them to take advantage of our start page and status bar to provide their users a more...
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Pirating Pirate Data for Pirate Day
This past Tuesday was Talk Like A Pirate Date, the unofficial holiday of R (aRRR!) users worldwide. In recognition of the day, Bob Rudis used R to create this map of worldwide piracy incidents from...
View ArticleIntroducing Azure Availability Zones for resiliency and high availability
As part of our commitment to providing customers with a platform for their most demanding, mission-critical workloads, I’m excited to announce expanded capabilities for Microsoft’s global cloud...
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.NET Framework 4.7.1 Accessibility and WPF Improvements
This post describes the new WPF and accessibility features and improvements in .NET Framework 4.7.1. You can try out these features by downloading the Developer Pack, described in the Welcome to the...
View ArticleRemembering How We Should Manage Open Source
A DevSecOps best practice is root cause analysis, so that we can learn from live site incidents and prevent their recurrence. Equifax made news recently with the exfiltration of data from half the US...
View ArticleTutorial: Launch a Spark and R cluster with HDInsight
If you'd like to get started using R with Spark, you'll need to set up a Spark cluster and install R and all the other necessary software on the nodes. A really easy way to achieve that is to launch an...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2017.09.22
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES VSTS in Canada – Brian HarryWe launched our latest Visual Studio Team...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Blue skies or SkyNet?
I enjoyed attending the O'Reilly AI conference in San Francisco this week. There were many thought-provoking talks, but in the days since then my thoughts kept returning to one thing: incentives. One...
View Article.NET Core September 2017 Update — macOS High Sierra Support
We released .NET Core updates for macOS High Sierra Support and additional quality fixes. You can download and install the update for Windows, macOS and Linux. This update is for .NET Core 1.0 and 1.1....
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