Sweet updates about Truffle on Azure
Development and deployment of Ethereum based applications, commonly referred to as DApps, can be a challenging task for developers. With over 1 million downloads, Truffle has proven to be a premier...
View ArticleModernizing TLS connections in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11
Today, we’re announcing our intent to disable Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 by default in supported versions of Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 in the first half of 2020. This...
View ArticleDetecting fileless attacks with Azure Security Center
As the security solutions get better at detecting attacks, attackers are increasingly employing stealthier methods to avoid detection. In Azure, we regularly see fileless attacks targeting our...
View ArticleGuidance for library authors
We’ve just published our first cut of the .NET Library Guidance. It’s brand new set of articles for .NET developers who want to create high-quality libraries for .NET. The guidance contains...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Developer Blogs are Getting an Update
In the coming days, we’ll be moving our developer blogs to a new platform with a modern, clean design and powerful features that will make it easy for you to discover and share great content. This...
View ArticleNew prescriptive guidance for Open Source .NET Library Authors
There's a great new bunch of guidance just published representing Best Practices for creating .NET Libraries. Best of all, it was shepherded by JSON.NET's James Newton-King. Who better to help explain...
View ArticleA small logical change with big impact
In R, the logical || (OR) and && (AND) operators are unique in that they are designed only to work with scalar arguments. Typically used in statements like while(iter < 1000 && eps...
View ArticleAzure Marketplace new offers – Volume 21
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. From September 1 to 15, 29 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Virtual...
View ArticleApache Spark jobs gain up to 9x speed up with HDInsight IO Cache
Today, we are pleased to reveal the preview of HDInsight IO Cache, a new transparent data caching feature of Azure HDInsight that provides customers with up to a 9x performance improvement for Apache...
View ArticleAccelerating AI in healthcare: Security, privacy, and compliance
Healthcare is drowning in data. Every patient brings a record that could span decades, with x-rays, MRIs, and other data that can affect every decision. Providers and payers bring their own collateral...
View ArticleStandard Library Algorithms: Changes and Additions in C++17
Today we have a guest post from Marc Gregoire, Software Architect at Nikon Metrology and Microsoft MVP since 2007. The C++14 standard already contains a wealth of different kinds of algorithms. C++17...
View ArticleAccessibility and array support with Azure Blockchain Workbench 1.4.0
We’ve been very grateful for the feedback you’ve given us since we first introduced Azure Blockchain Workbench in public preview a few months ago. Your feedback continues to be an essential and...
View ArticleAzure IoT Reference Architecture 2.1 release
A few months ago, we released a significant update to the Azure IoT Reference Architecture, a downloadable resource that aims to accelerate customers building IoT solutions on Azure by providing a...
View ArticleONNX Runtime for inferencing machine learning models now in preview
We are excited to release the preview of ONNX Runtime, a high-performance inference engine for machine learning models in the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) format. ONNX Runtime is compatible with...
View ArticleAutomating Release Notes with Azure Functions
We can all agree that tracking the progress of a project enhances productivity and is an effective way to keep everyone involved of its progress. When it comes to managing your project in Azure DevOps...
View ArticleMicrosoft named a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Access...
Howdy folks, Every day, everyone in the Microsoft Identity Division comes to work focused on helping you, our customers, make your employees, partners, and customers more productive and to make it...
View Articlebingbot Series: Maximizing Crawl Efficiency
At the SMX Advanced conference in June, I announced that over the next 18 months my team will focus on improving our Bing crawler bingbot . I asked the audience to share data helping us to optimize our...
View ArticleWhat’s Next for Visual Studio for Mac
Since it was released a little more than a year ago, Visual Studio 2017 for Mac has grown from being an IDE primarily focused on mobile application development using Xamarin to one that includes...
View ArticleCustomer Notes: Diagnosing issues under load of Web API app migrated to...
When the engineers on the ASP.NET/.NET Core team talk to real customers about actual production problems they have, interesting stuff comes up. I've tried to capture a real customer interaction here...
View ArticleReal world ASP.NET Core Performance Tips from a Real customer
When the engineers on the ASP.NET/.NET Core team talk to real customers about actual production problems they have, interesting stuff comes up. I've tried to capture a real customer interaction here...
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