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Announcing the General Availability of Azure Bot Service and Language...
Conversational AI, or making human and computer interactions more natural, has been a goal since technology became ubiquitous in our society. Our mission is to bring conversational AI tools and...
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Conversational Bots Deep Dive – What’s new with the General Availability of...
This post was authored by the Azure Bot Service and Language Understanding Team. Microsoft brings the latest advanced chatbot capabilities to developers' fingertips, allowing them to create apps that...
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Connect(); 2017: SmartHotel360 Demo Apps and Architecture
Last month we hosted Microsoft Connect(); in New York City. Connect(); is a three-day, in-person and online developer event. If you missed it, no worries! You can watch our keynotes, sessions, and...
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Announcing Babylon.js v3.1
Babylon.js is an open source framework that allows you to easily create stunning 3D experiences in your browser or your web apps. Built with simplicity and performance in mind, it is the engine that...
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Android NDK R15C support goes in-box in Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.6 Preview
Visual Studio has provided in-box support for building C++ Android and iOS apps or libraries since VS 2015, enabling cross-platform C++ mobile development with full editing and debugging capabilities...
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Bing launches new intelligent search features, powered by AI
Today we announced new Intelligent Search features for Bing, powered by AI, to give you answers faster, give you more comprehensive and complete information, and enable you to interact more naturally...
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R in the Windows Subsystem for Linux
R has been available for Windows since the very beginning, but if you have a Windows machine and want to use R within a Linux ecosystem, that's easy to do with the new Fall Creator's Update (version...
View ArticleBroken Warnings Theory
The “broken warnings theory” is a fictional theory of the norm-setting and signaling effect of coding practices and bug-checking techniques in 3rd party libraries on new bugs and design anti-patterns....
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Setting up a managed container cluster with AKS and Kubernetes in the Azure...
After building a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes Cluster, I wanted to see how quickly I could get up to speed on Kubernetes in Azure. I installed the Azure CLI (Command Line Interface) in a few minutes - works...
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An introduction to seplyr
by John Mount, Win-Vector LLC seplyr is an R package that supplies improved standard evaluation interfaces for many common data wrangling tasks. The core of seplyr is a re-skinning of dplyr's...
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Visual Studio Updates for Office 365 APIs Tools
As we recently detailed on the Office Developer blog, we are making it simpler and easier for developers to connect to Office 365 through the Microsoft Graph. For Visual Studio developers currently...
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Python extension for Visual Studio Code version 0.9.0 now available
We’re excited to announce our first update to the Microsoft Python extension for Visual Studio Code. In this release, we’ve added additional support for conda environments and fixed numerous bugs in...
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Image Watch is now available for Visual Studio 2017
Image Watch is a Visual Studio extension that provides a watch window for viewing in-memory bitmaps when debugging native C++ code. It comes with built-in support for OpenCV image types (e.g. cv::Mat,...
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Bing Maps Launches Three New Fleet Management APIs
Today, we are pleased to announce the release of three new Fleet Management APIs – Truck Routing, Isochrones, and Snap-to-Road – all available with the Bing Maps V8 Web Control and REST services. These...
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Bing launches new intelligent search features, powered by AI
Today we announced new Intelligent Search features for Bing, powered by AI, to give you answers faster, give you more comprehensive and complete information, and enable you to interact more naturally...
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Twitter sentiment as a release gate
I’m really excited to talk about a new Twitter sentiment release gate extension in the Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) marketplace today. Before I say more, let me step back and give some context…...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2017.12.15
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES The fallacy of the rejected backlog item – Martin HinshelwoodThere is a...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Editing Star Wars
It's said that a movie is written three times: in the screenplay, in the filming, and finally in the editing. This video essay is about how Star Wars — the original 1977 release, that is — was...
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Visualizing your real-time blood sugar values AND a Git Prompt on Windows...
My buddy Nate become a Type 1 Diabetic a few weeks back. It sucks...I've been one for 25 years. Nate is like me - an engineer - and the one constant with all engineers that become diabetic, we try to...
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