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Improving your productivity in the Visual Studio Editor
Over the last few updates to Visual Studio 2017, we’ve been hard at work adding new features to boost your productivity while you’re writing code. Many of these are the result of your direct feedback...
View ArticleTeam Foundation Server (TFS) Reporting – Which reports do you use?
If you are using Team Foundation Server (TFS) and SSRS Reporting today, we want to hear from you! We want to know which of the TFS Reports we offer today are most valuable to you. Your feedback will...
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Tips for analyzing Excel data in R
If you're familiar with analyzing data in Excel and want to learn how to work with the same data in R, Alyssa Columbus has put together a very useful guide: How To Use R With Excel. In addition to...
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Use the official Boost.Hana with MSVC 2017 Update 8 compiler
We would like to share a progress update to our previous announcement regarding enabling Boost.Hana with MSVC compiler. Just as a quick background, Louis Dionne, the Boost.Hana author, and us have...
View Article.NET Framework August 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup
Today, we are releasing the August 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. ASP.NET Resolves an issue where an...
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Interesting bugs – MSB3246: Resolved file has a bad image, no metadata,...
I got a very strange warning recently when building a .NET Core app with "dotnet build."MSB3246: Resolved file has a bad image, no metadata, or is otherwise inaccessible. Image is too small. Eek! It's...
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Library Manager Release in 15.8
Microsoft Library Manager (LibMan) is now available in the general release of Visual Studio 2017 as of v15.8. LibMan first previewed earlier this year, and now, after a much-anticipated wait, LibMan is...
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New to Microsoft 365 in August—tools to achieve more in the modern workplace
This month, we introduced new features and updates in Microsoft 365 that help teams streamline management of tasks, make it easier for IT admins to manage Windows 10 devices, and empower small to...
View ArticleTop Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.08.31
This week is one of my favorite times of year. The evenings are getting cool and crisp, the apple tree in the backyard is bearing fruit, and best of all, there’s some great DevOps reading to be had....
View ArticleGuide to a high-performance, powerful R installation
R is an amazing language with 25 years of development behind it, but you can make the most from R with additional components. An IDE makes developing in R more convenient; packages extend R's...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: The Curiosity Show
This one's all about nostalgia. When I was about 7 or 8 years old back in Australia, my favorite TV show by far was The Curiosity Show, a weekly series hosted by Rob (Morrison) and Deane (Hutton) —...
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Azure.Source – Volume 47
Now generally available Announcing general availability of Azure IoT Hub’s integration with Azure Event Grid - IoT Hub integration with Azure Event Grid is now generally available, making it even...
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Transparent data encryption or always encrypted?
How to choose the right encryption technology for Azure SQL Database or SQL Server Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and Always Encrypted are two different encryption technologies offered by SQL Server...
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Save money on actuarial compute by retiring your on-premises HPC grids
No insurance company should keep on-premises compute grids for actuarial computing. In the past, resistance to the cloud went along these lines: the cloud has a lack of data security, the cloud is...
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Finish your insurance actuarial modeling in hours, not days
Because of existing and upcoming regulations, insurers perform quite a bit of analysis over their assets and liabilities. Actuaries need time to review and correct results before reviewing the reports...
View Articlestd::optional: How, when, and why
C++17 adds several new “vocabulary types” – types intended to be used in the interfaces between components from different sources – to the standard library. MSVC has been shipping implementations of...
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Avere vFXT for Microsoft Azure now in public preview
The Avere vFXT for Azure delivers new possibilities for running high-performance computing (HPC) workloads in the cloud. With this new software solution, you can now easily connect on-premises...
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Anti-money laundering – Microsoft Azure helping banks reduce false positives
This blog post was created in partnership with André Burrell who is the Banking & Capital Markets Strategy Leader on the Worldwide Industry team at Microsoft. One of the biggest compliance...
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Describe, diagnose, and predict with IoT Analytics
In a previous blog article Extracting actionable insights from IoT data I discuss the value of collecting IoT data from machines, assets and products. The whole point of collecting IoT data is to...
View ArticleHow to get started with Azure and .NET
Azure is a big cloud with lots of services, and for even the most experienced user it can be intimidating to know which service will best meet your needs. This blog post is intended to provide a short...
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