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The R community is one of R’s best features
R is incredible software for statistics and data science. But while the bits and bytes of software are an essential component of its usefulness, software needs a community to be successful. And that's...
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C++ Tutorial: Debugging Overview
Welcome to the C++ Tutorial series. In this article, we explore debugging concepts and do some hands-on debugging with Visual Studio 2017. One of the most useful features of an IDE is the debugger....
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2017.06.23
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES DevOps: Infrastructure As Code (IaC) with Azure : 2nd training series –...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Mario in the Park
I got my first chance to use HoloLens just a couple of weeks ago. It was pretty amazing to see a virtual wind turbine appear in the room with me, and to be able to walk around it and see how it was...
View Articlevswhere version 2.0 released
One of the features of the new setup engine is to enable Visual Studio to be installed side-by-side with other minor releases, including minor upgrades and preview releases. After introducing the...
View ArticleUseful tricks when including images in Rmarkdown documents
Rmarkdown is an enormously useful system for combining text, output and graphics generated by R into a single document. Images, in particular, are a powerful means of communication in a report, whether...
View Article“Secure transfer required” is available in Azure Storage account
The "Secure transfer required" feature is now supported in Azure Storage account. This feature enhances the security of your storage account by enforcing all requests to your account through a secure...
View ArticleZeroKit End-to-End Encryption SDK launches in Azure Marketplace today!
We’re happy to announce that the cloud encryption company Tresorit launched their ZeroKit End-to-End Encryption SDK in Azure marketplace today! With ZeroKit, developers can easily build E2EE “zero...
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Microsoft Cognitive Services hack: Line Messenger
After the devastating earthquake in Japan in 2011, it became apparent that there was a need for a communication platform that would help better connect people in such situations. Out of this need, the...
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How we built it: Next Games global online gaming platform on Azure
Today on Microsoft Mechanics, we are joined by the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Finnish mobile gaming company Next Games, Kalle Hiitola, for the next episode of "How we built it." Next...
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Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware and everything between – Security...
In part 2 of this series, we will start to dive into DC/OS 1.9 installation on top of vSphere. Mesosphere offers few ways to deploy a fully working cluster and since I wanted to see how everything is...
View ArticleAnnouncing TypeScript 2.4
Today we’re excited to announce the release of TypeScript 2.4! If you haven’t yet heard of TypeScript, it’s a superset of JavaScript that brings static types and powerful tooling to JavaScript. These...
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The week in .NET – .NET Conf, Material Design in XAML Toolkit
Previous posts: .NET Architecture: Microservices & Containers, On .NET with Omer Raviv on OzCode, Sprache On .NET with Mattias Karlsson on Cake, Topshelf On .NET with Brett Morrison, DateTime...
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PyData Seattle is next week!
Next week, we’ll be hosting PyData Seattle 2017 at Microsoft. Several hundred attendees, speakers and teachers will converge on our main conference center for three days of talks, tutorials, and other...
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Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension June 2017 Update
Today we are excited to announce the release of the June 2017 update of the C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code. This update enables semantic-aware member list auto-completion and improves the...
View Article.NET Framework June 2017 Cumulative Quality Update for Windows 10
Today, we are releasing a new Cumulative Quality Update for the .NET Framework. It is specific to Windows 10 Creators Update (1703). Previously released security and quality updates are included in...
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Azure Redis Cache Geo-Replication in Public Preview
We are pleased to announce a public preview of the geo-replication functionality in the Azure Redis service. Geo-replication gives you the ability to link Redis caches across different Azure regions to...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 16225 Released
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 16225 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 16225 contains bug fixes and under...
View ArticleSecurity Features in Microsoft Visual C++
Every developer makes mistakes. No matter how careful you are when writing code, you will introduce bugs. And any bug can become a security vulnerability when software that runs in a connected...
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How we approach testing VSTS to enable continuous delivery
I like to write, from time to time about our experiences, successes, failures and learnings from delivering Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), a large scale service, on a cloud delivery cadence. My...
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