IP filtering for Event Hubs and Service Bus
For scenarios in which Azure Event Hubs or Azure Service Bus is only accessible from certain well-known sites, the IP Filter feature enables you to configure rules for accepting or rejecting traffic...
View ArticleNew Azure #CosmosDB Explorer now in public preview
Today we're excited to announce Azure Cosmos DB Explorer, a full screen standalone web-based version of the Data Explorer many of you already use in Azure Portal for Cosmos DB. With Cosmos DB Explorer...
View ArticleThe whole of WordPress compiled to .NET Core and a NuGet Package with PeachPie
Why? Because it's awesome. Sometimes a project comes along that is impossibly ambitious and it works. I've blogged a little about Peachpie, the open source PHP compiler that runs PHP under .NET Core....
View ArticleProposal Manager for financial services helps increase proposal win rates
The commercial and corporate lending environment is increasingly competitive and squeezing interest margins for banks and lenders. Bank lending teams must navigate a stream of documents—such as client...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 17704 available now!
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 17704 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 17704 contains bug fixes and under...
View ArticleWhat’s new in VSTS Sprint 136 Update
The Sprint 136 Update of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) has rolled out to all accounts. In this Update we introduce several design changes as part of modernizing our user interface. Watch the...
View ArticleASP.NET Core OData now Available
Introduction The Microsoft OData Team is proud to announce general availability (GA) of OData (Open OData Protocol) on ASP.NET Core 2.0. It is now available through Nuget package at...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure launches tamper-proof Azure Immutable Blob Storage for...
I’m pleased to announce that Azure Immutable Blob Storage is now in public preview – enabling financial institutions to store and retain data in a non-erasable and non-rewritable format – and at no...
View ArticleLessons from big box retail
How can retail banks generate curated experiences? Learn from retailers. They use a cloud platform that orchestrates experiences from omni-channels to devices using data collected from various...
View ArticleIf I am a VSTS Stakeholder, can I also be an Admin?
Today, we’re excited to announce that users with the Stakeholder access level can now be administrators in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). With these upcoming changes, Stakeholders can administer...
View ArticleWorkaround for Bower Version Deprecation
As of June 25, the version of Bower shipped with Visual Studio was deprecated, resulting in Bower operations failing when run in Visual Studio. If you use Bower, you will see an error something like:...
View ArticleShared PCH usage sample in Visual Studio
This post was written by Olga Arkhipova Oftentimes, multiple projects in a Visual Studio solution use the same or very similar precompiled headers. As pch files are usually big and building them takes...
View Articledotnet outdated helps you keep your projects up to date
I've moved my podcast site over to ASP.NET Core 2.1 over the last few months. You might want to follow the saga by checking out some of the recent blog posts. Upgrading my podcast site to ASP.NET Core...
View ArticleMoving from Hosted XML process to Inheritance process – Private Preview
VSTS provides two process customization models, Hosted XML and Inheritance. Hosted XML was designed to allow your customizations to come with you when migrating from TFS. The Inheritance process model...
View ArticleTop Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.07.06
Here’s a quick look at the news around Microsoft DevOps — this week we’ve got a lot of great guidance around version control, Database DevOps, and deployments, plus some new software, including a Power...
View ArticleMSVC Preprocessor Progress towards Conformance
Why re-write the preprocessor? Recently, we published a blog post on C++ conformance completion. As mentioned in the blog post, the preprocessor in MSVC is currently getting an overhaul. We are doing...
View ArticleIntroducing Dev Spaces for AKS
Today I’m excited to announce the public preview of Dev Spaces for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), an easy way to build and debug applications for Kubernetes – only available on Azure. At Microsoft...
View ArticleAzure Marketplace new offers June 1–15
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. From June 1 to 15, 21 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: A10 Lightning ADC...
View ArticleSupercharging the Git Commit Graph III: Generations and Graph Algorithms
Earlier, we announced that Git 2.18 contains a new commit-graph feature, and we discussed the commit-graph file format. As shipped in Git 2.18, this file only speeds up commit walks by a constant...
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