Improvements to Azure Functions in Visual Studio
We’re excited to announce several improvements to the Azure Functions experience in Visual Studio as part of the latest update to the Azure Functions tools on top of Visual Studio 2017 v15.5. (Get the...
View ArticleAnnouncing F# support for .NET Core and .NET Standard projects in Visual Studio
We’re pleased to announce that Visual Studio 2017 15.5 Preview 4 now supports F# projects targeting .NET Core, .NET Standard, and .NET Framework through the .NET Core SDK. Some of you have noticed...
View ArticleIntroducing Azure DevOps Project
In today’s world, organizations need to innovate and get to market faster. This requires learning latest technologies, using them in your product and deploying at a faster pace. Adopting Azure is one...
View ArticleIntroducing Nullable Reference Types in C#
Today we released a prototype of a C# feature called “nullable reference types“, which is intended to help you find and fix most of your null-related bugs before they blow up at runtime. We would love...
View ArticleIntroducing Tensor for multi-dimensional Machine Learning and AI data
Overview Tensor is an exchange type for homogenous multi-dimensional data for 1 to N dimensions. The motivation behind introducing Tensor<T> is to make it easy for Machine Learning library...
View ArticleWindows 10 at Microsoft Connect(); 2017
Today, at Microsoft Connect(); we spoke about the work we have been doing to align the concepts and tags that can be shared between Microsoft’s XAML UI systems. With Windows 10 XAML and Xamarin.Forms,...
View ArticleC++ Core Check improvements in Visual Studio 2017 15.5
This post was written by Sergiy Oryekhov. In Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 Preview 4 we have refreshed our C++ Core Guidelines Check extension for native code static analysis tools. Most of the work...
View ArticleGood practices for sharing data in spreadsheets
Spreadsheets are powerful tools with many applications: collecting data, sharing data, visualizing data, analyzing data, reporting on data. Sometimes, the temptation to do all of these things in a...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 17035 now available
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 17035 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 17035 contains bug fixes and under...
View ArticleMSVC conformance improvements in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5
The MSVC toolset included in Visual Studio version 15.5 preview 4 includes many C++ conformance improvements. Throughout the VS2015 and VS2017 releases we’ve focused on conformance with C++ standards,...
View ArticleRelease Gates: Releases with continuous monitoring built in
Continuous monitoring is an integral part of safe deployments and DevOps pipelines. Ensuring the app in a release is healthy after deployment is as critical as the success of the deployment process....
View ArticleAzure DNS Updates – CAA Record Support and IPv6 Nameservers
We are pleased to announce a couple of updates to Azure DNS that have been long awaited by our customers: Support for Certificate Authority Authorization (CAA) Records IPv6 Nameservers Support for CAA...
View ArticleAnnouncing General Availability of Azure Reserved VM Instances (RIs)
Azure Reserved VM Instances (RIs) are generally available for customers worldwide, effective today. Azure RIs enable you to reserve Virtual Machines on a one- or three-year term, and provide up to 72%...
View ArticleCloud-hosted Mac agents for CI/CD pipelines
Removing barriers to DevOps in the cloud Teams developing software for Apple devices have limited options when migrating to the cloud. Because such apps must be built on Macs, and because there are few...
View ArticlePreview the new Azure Storage SDK for Go & Storage SDKs roadmap
We are excited to announce the new and redesigned Azure Storage SDK for Go with documentation and examples available today. This new SDK was redesigned to follow the next generation design philosophy...
View ArticleOctober 2017 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN
Congratulations to our October top-10 contributors! Alberto Morillo maintains the first position in the cloud ranking while Visakh Murukesan climbs to the top in the All Databases ranking. This...
View ArticleSpend more time working on the interesting stuff
There’s a reason that each day thousands of developers take advantage of the rich set of extensions offered by our growing family of VS and VSTS Partners and the broader VS community. Collectively...
View ArticleBing Maps V8 Web Control SDK November 2017 Update
The Bing Maps V8 Web Control has been updated in November with one key feature which lets you provide your Bing Maps key as a URL parameter of the map script URL rather than as a map option when...
View ArticleTest Experience Improvements
There have been several significant improvements to the test experience that range across Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team Services. These efforts involved frameworks and tooling for both .NET and...
View ArticleXbox analytics report update in Dev Center
We are happy to announce that we’ve updated our Xbox analytics report with a new Xbox Live service health tab to provide visibility into Xbox Live’s service responses. Xbox Live service health The new...
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