Advisory serializing/deserializing a CultureAwareComparer with .NET Framework...
An issue with serializing/deserializing a CultureAwareComparer was discovered with .NET Framework 4.7.1. This issue was resolved earlier this year, with the May 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup. We...
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Azure Site Recovery powers Veritas Backup Exec Instant Cloud Recovery for DR
Microsoft Azure Site Recovery (ASR) offers Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) for applications running in Azure and on-premises. Using ASR, you can reduce application downtime during IT...
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#Contest Microsoft AI Idea Challenge – AI’s next breakthrough is you!
All of us have creative ideas – ideas that can improve our lives and the lives of thousands, perhaps even millions of others. But how often do we act on turning those ideas into a reality? Most of the...
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C++ development with Docker containers in Visual Studio Code
Containers allow developers to package up an application with all the parts it needs, such as libraries and other dependencies, and ship it all out as one image. This is especially useful for C++...
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Python in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8
We have released the 15.8 update to Visual Studio 2017. You will see a notification in Visual Studio within the next few days, or you can download the new installer from visualstudio.com. In this post,...
View ArticleAugust 2018 Security and Quality Rollup
Today, we are releasing the August 2018 Security and Quality Rollup. Security CVE-2018-8360 – Windows Information Disclosure Vulnerability This update resolves an information disclosure vulnerability...
View ArticleMicrosoft R Open 3.5.1 now available
Microsoft R Open 3.5.1 has been released, combining the latest R language engine with multi-processor performance and tools for managing R packages reproducibly. You can download Microsoft R Open 3.5.1...
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Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8
Today we are releasing Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8. In this version we have focused on productivity, performance and bug fixes. There are many new features you‘ll find useful, but in this post,...
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Announcing F# 4.5
Today, we’re incredibly pleased to announce general availability of F# 4.5. This post will walk through the changes in F# 4.5 (just like the preview post), then show some updates to F# tooling, and...
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Azure Application Insights warned me of failed dependent requests on my site
I've been loving Application Insights ever since I hooked it up to my Podcast Site. Application Insights is stupid cheap and provides an unreal number of insights into what's going on in your site. I...
View ArticleBing Maps Time Zone API: An easier way to work with time zones
The Microsoft Windows Time Zone standard and the IANA time zone standard provide a well-defined structure for representing time zones used across the world. However, time zones change more frequently...
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Schlumberger refines global teamwork with Microsoft 365
With more than 80 years of pioneering innovation in reservoir characterization, drilling, production, and exploration, Schlumberger is the leading provider of upstream products and services in the oil...
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Introducing Driver Module Framework
The Microsoft Devices team is excited to announce the release of an open source framework for Windows driver developers — Driver Module Framework (DMF). With DMF, not only can you easily develop simple...
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Improvements in Visual Studio 2017 15.8 for web developers
This week we released Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8. Our 15.8 update brings the following improvements for web developers: Custom docker image tags during Publish Zip push deployment for Azure...
View Article.NET Core 2.1 August Update
We released .NET Core 2.1.400-SDK. See .NET Core 2.1.400-SDK release notes for complete details on the release. Quality Updates CLI A full list of the changes in this update can be found in the commit...
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IoT in Action: Building secure, sophisticated solutions
With a compound annual growth rate of 28.5 percent forecasted by 2020, the global Internet of Things (IoT) market is exploding, and the technology behind IoT continues to evolve at a feverish pace....
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Announcing VNet service endpoints general availability for MySQL and PostgreSQL
This blog post was co-authored by Anitha Adusumilli, Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking. We recently made Azure database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL generally available. These services...
View ArticleInstalling certificates into IoT devices
Lots of folks are moving to X.509 certificate-based authentication as they start to use the Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service, which is great! But I've gotten lots of questions about what the...
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Azure #HDInsight Apache Phoenix now supports Zeppelin
The HDInsight team is excited to announce Apache Zeppelin Support for Apache Phoenix Phoenix in Azure HDInsight Apache Phoenix is an open source, massively parallel relational database layer built on...
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Advanced Analytics is coming into Azure Portal
We see Azure Monitor users are using both the Log Search page and the Analytics portal to accomplish their tasks. The Analytics portal offers advanced features, and we’re happy to announce it’s coming...
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