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Happy Thanksgiving!
Today is Thanksgiving Day here in the US, so we're taking the rest of the week off to enjoy the time with family. Even if you don't celebrate Thanksgiving, today is still an excellent day to give...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2017.11.24
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Running Selenium Tests in Docker using VSTS Release Management – Colin...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Trombone Transcription
Yes, I know we said we're taking the Thanksgiving break off, but this was too funny not to share: I accidentally texted my wife with voice recognition...while playing the trombone...
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Writing smarter cross-platform .NET Core apps with the API Analyzer and...
There's a couple of great utilities that have come out in the last few weeks in the .NET Core world that you should be aware of. They are deeply useful when porting/writing cross-platform code. .NET...
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Technical reference implementation for enterprise BI and reporting
We are happy to announce the technical reference implementation of an enterprise grade infrastructure to help accelerate the deployment of a BI and reporting solution to augment your data science and...
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Server aliases for Azure Analysis Services
Server aliases for Azure Analysis Services allow users to connect to an alias server name instead of the server name exposed in the Azure portal. This can be used in the following scenarios: Migrating...
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Launching preview of Azure Migrate
At Microsoft Ignite 2017, we announced Azure Migrate – a new service that provides guidance, insights, and mechanisms to assist you in migrating to Azure. We made the service available in limited...
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Get notified when Azure service incidents impact your resources
When an Azure service incident affects you, we know that it is critical that you are equipped with all the information necessary to mitigate any potential impact. The goal for the Azure Service Health...
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Run your PySpark Interactive Query and batch job in Visual Studio Code
We are excited to introduce the integration of HDInsight PySpark into Visual Studio Code (VSCode), which allows developers to easily edit Python scripts and submit PySpark statements to HDInsight...
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TFVC support and other enhancements hit Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual...
A year ago, we released the first preview of the Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio (CD4VS) with support for configuring a continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline for ASP.NET...
View ArticleR/Finance 2018, Chicago June 1-2
The tenth annual R/Finance conference will be held in Chicago, June 1-2 2018. This is a fantastic conference for anyone working with R in the finance industry, or doing research around R in finance in...
View ArticleJoin us for an AMA on Azure Stack
This post is authored by Natalia Mackevicius Partner Director for Azure Infrastructure & Management, Azure Stack, Vijay Tewari Principle Group Program Manager, Microsoft Azure Stack, and Bradley...
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Automatic tuning introduces Automatic plan correction and T-SQL management
Azure SQL Database automatic tuning, industry’s first truly auto-tuning database based on Artificial Intelligence, is now providing more flexibility and power with the global introduction of the...
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Introducing Azure Automation watcher tasks public preview
Azure Automation has the ability to integrate and automate processes across Azure and on-premises environments using a hybrid worker. This hybrid management capability has been extended to now deliver...
View ArticleElastic database tools for Java
We are excited to announce the release of a new version of the Elastic Database Client Library for Azure SQL database supporting Java. The client library provides tools to help developers scale out the...
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Announcing Azure Location Based Services public preview
Today we announced the Public Preview availability of Azure Location Based Services (LBS). LBS is a portfolio of geospatial service APIs natively integrated into Azure that enable developers,...
View ArticleLast week in Azure: Migrating VMWare environments to Azure, and more
Due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the US, last week was a light news week for Azure. But that doesn’t mean nothing new was announced. On Tuesday, Corey Sanders announced new services that will make it...
View ArticleHow to make Python easier for the R user: revoscalepy
by Siddarth Ramesh, Data Scientist, Microsoft I’m an R programmer. To me, R has been great for data exploration, transformation, statistical modeling, and visualizations. However, there is a huge...
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New and improved Event and CSS inspection for Microsoft Edge DevTools
Editor’s note: This is the first post in a series highlighting what’s new and improved in the Microsoft Edge DevTools with EdgeHTML 16. EdgeHTML 16 is now rolling out to devices around the world as...
View ArticleImprove website performance by optimizing images
We all want our web applications to load as fast as possible to give the best possible experience to the users. One of the steps to achieve that is to make sure the images we use are as optimized as...
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