Open Sourcing the Java Debugger for Visual Studio Code
Since we first released our Java Debugger extension for Visual Studio Code on September 28, it quickly became the most trending extension of the month. And of course, lots of feedback and suggestions...
View ArticleRemote tasks in Visual Studio
We have introduced a new capability to run remote tasks in Visual Studio 2017 15.5 Preview 2. This capability allows you to run any command on a remote system that is defined in Visual Studio’s...
View ArticleVSTS SSH on Azure’s Global Network
Over the past few months, we’ve been moving SSH for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) onto Azure’s global network. As part of the move, we’re asking our SSH users to update their remotes to new SSH...
View ArticleARM GCC Cross Compilation in Visual Studio
In Visual Studio 2017 15.5 Preview 2 we are introducing support for cross compilation targeting ARM microcontrollers. To enable this in the installation choose the Linux development with C++ workload...
View ArticleStatistical Machine Learning with Microsoft ML
MicrosoftML is an R package for machine learning that works in tandem with the RevoScaleR package. (In order to use the MicrosoftML and RevoScaleR libraries, you need an installation of Microsoft...
View ArticleVcpkg: Using multiple enlistments
Vcpkg allows you to acquire and build 3rd party libraries on Windows. Once cloned, the vcpkg directory (enlistment) provides a stable set of libraries that are all compatible and based on the latest...
View ArticleIntroducing AKS (managed Kubernetes) and Azure Container Registry improvements
Today, we are proud to announce the preview of AKS (Azure Container Service), our new managed Kubernetes service. We have seen customers fall in love with our current Kubernetes support on Azure...
View ArticleBlk.io brings an ERC-20 token service using Quorum to Azure
blk.io has been hard at work on products to support the enterprise build applications powered by blockchain. This includes driving the web3j group of projects. They have also built a service for...
View ArticleHow Azure Security Center automates the detection of cyber attack
Earlier this year, Greg Cottingham wrote a great article breaking down an example of an Azure Security Center detected attack against SQL Server. In this post, we'll go into more detail on the way that...
View ArticleWebinar: Level-up Your Unity Games with Visual Studio, C#, and Azure Easy Tables
Join David Antognoli on Tuesday, November 7th at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 4 pm UTC for our “Build Better Games with Unity and Microsoft Azure” webinar. He’ll show you how to add an Azure cloud data store...
View ArticleAnalytic reports improvements within Dev Center
As part of our continuous effort to deliver insights to you that help make key business decisions about your apps easier, the Dev Center team is excited to announce a few updates to analytic reports....
View ArticleUnit Testing: Test Adapter for Google Test goes in-box!
If you’re just getting started and want to learn more about C++ Unit Testing, check out our tutorial. Here on the Visual C++ team, we want to make your unit testing experience as enjoyable as...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2017 Version 15.5 Preview
Yesterday we released the second Preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 and we would love it if you would try it out and tell us what you think. We’ve polished up some features that were introduced...
View ArticleThe Icon Journey
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View ArticleCreate editable Microsoft Office charts from R
R has a rich and infinitely flexible graphics system, and you can easily embed R graphics into Microsoft Office documents like PowerPoint or Word. The one thing I dread hearing after delivering such a...
View ArticleHow to install Builds Tools in a Docker container
After working through a few issues, we have posted how to install Visual Studio Build Tools 2017 into a Docker container. A Build Tools container can be very useful for continuous integration /...
View ArticleOne-click replication for Azure Virtual Machines with Azure Site Recovery
We are happy to announce that Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is now built into the virtual machine experience so that you can setup replication in one click for your Azure virtual machines. Combined with...
View ArticleAzure powers the industrial Internet
We know that every business is different, but the cloud is foundational to digital transformation. We’re proud that Azure has been at the forefront of helping companies across industries transform....
View ArticleHighlighting 3 New Features in Azure Data Factory V2
Having just announced the V2 preview availability of Azure Data Factory at Ignite in Orlando, I'm going to start a new blog series focusing on three new features in Azure Data Factory for different...
View Articlesonar: Linting the web forward
In addition to building a great browser and dependable web platform for Windows, we’re passionate about empowering developers to build great websites. With that goal in mind, we launched modern.IE in...
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