Package Management adds nuget.org upstream source
Until now, we’ve focused on making Package Management in Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server the best place to store your private NuGet and npm packages, but we haven’t focused as...
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Large C# and VB solutions load significantly faster in 15.5 update
On average, 50 percent of all solutions opened by Visual Studio users open in ten seconds or less. However, large solutions can take longer to load because there are a lot of projects that Visual...
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Overview of Visual Studio 2017 and Updates for .NET Developers
Visual Studio 2017 first released in March of this year. Since then, there have been five updates with each bringing more improvements and capabilities. Every improvement is geared towards making you...
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New DirectX 12 features in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
We’ve come a long way since we launched DirectX 12 with Windows 10 on July 29, 2015. Since then, we’ve heard every bit of feedback and improved the API to enhance stability and offer more versatility....
View ArticleIt has never been a better time to migrate from TFS to VSTS!
From the day Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) first went live, customers wanted a path to migrate their existing on-premises Team Foundation Server (TFS) data. For a long time, only low-fidelity...
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R charts in a Tweet
Twitter recently doubled the maximum length of a tweet to 280 characters, and while all users now have access to longer tweets, few have taken advantage of the opportunity. Bob Rudis used the rtweet...
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Transforming your VMware environment with Microsoft Azure
Just as each organization is unique, each organization will take a unique path to the cloud. Whether you are transferring data, migrating infrastructure, modernizing applications, or building a new...
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Scale up your parallel R workloads with containers and doAzureParallel
by JS Tan (Program Manager, Microsoft) The R language is by and far the most popular statistical language, and has seen massive adoption in both academia and industry. In our new data-centric economy,...
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Announcing Language Server Protocol Preview Release
Visual Studio is joining Visual Studio Code in offering support for the Language Server Protocol. As an extension author, you can now write Visual Studio extensions that leverage existing language...
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Over 450 Areas of Bird’s Eye Imagery Now Live on Bing Maps
If you’re headed out on an end-of-the-year vacation this holiday season, you can preview that special place on Bing Maps using the new Bird’s Eye experience. We have been busy processing the oblique...
View ArticleSupporting Inner Source with Forks
We’re very excited to announce that we’ve added the ability to fork Git repositories hosted in Visual Studio Team Services. If you work on open source projects, then you’re probably already familiar...
View ArticleWindows Community Standup on November 29th, 2017
Kevin Gallo is hosting the next Windows Community Standup on November 29th, 2017 at 10:00am PST on Channel 9 with Seth Juarez! Kevin will be answering questions we didn’t get to from the Windows...
View ArticleOrchard Core Beta 1 released
This is a guest post by Sebastien Ros on behalf of the Orchard community Two years ago, the Orchard community started developing Orchard on .NET Core. After 1,500 commits, 297,000 lines of code, 127...
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Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17040 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 17040 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 17040 contains bug fixes and under...
View ArticleVSTS Analytics OData now publicly available
The Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) Analytics OData feed has been promoted to full public preview, available to everyone. Developers can use OData to access VSTS Analytics to write 3rd party or...
View ArticleDevOps and VSTS Videos from Connect(); 2017
We’ve just wrapped up the Microsoft Connect(); conference that took place last week in New York and online, with sessions streamed live from New York and Seattle. The Connect(); conference highlights...
View ArticleMicrosoft showcases latest industrial IoT innovations at SPS 2017
We are excited to extend our lead in standards-based Industrie 4.0 cloud solutions using the industrial interoperability standard OPC UA, with several new product announcements at SPS IPC Drives 2017...
View ArticleLearnings from 5 months of R-Ladies Chicago (Part 1)
by Angela Li, founder and organizer of R-Ladies Chicago. This article also appears on Angela's personal blog. It’s been a few months since I launched R-Ladies Chicago, so I thought I’d sit down and...
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The UWP Community Toolkit v2.1
We are extremely excited to announce the latest update to the UWP Community Toolkit, version 2.1! This update builds on top of the previous version and continues to align the toolkit closer to the...
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Trying out new .NET Core Alpine Docker Images
I blogged recently about optimizing .NET and ASP.NET Docker files sizes. .NET Core 2.0 has previously been built on a Debian image but today there is preview image with .NET Core 2.1 nightlies using...
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