Introducing the Azure Blockchain Development Kit
“Developers! Developers! Developers!” That phrase is synonymous with Microsoft’s history of democratizing complex technologies and empowering anyone with an idea to build software. Over four decades,...
View ArticleThree surprising IoT trends in smart buildings
As IoT and artificial intelligence become more advanced, smart buildings are also being utilized to drive down energy usage and maintenance costs. They’re providing safer, more comfortable environments...
View ArticleAzure Toolkit for IntelliJ – Spark Interactive Console
We are pleased to reveal the release of Spark Interactive Console in Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ. This new component facilitates Spark job authoring, and enables you to run code interactively in a...
View ArticleMonitor your Azure Open Source Databases (PostgreSQL and MySQL) using Azure...
Collecting insights using Azure Monitor Azure Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL service is a fully managed, enterprise-ready cloud service which emits the performance metrics and telemetry log to Azure...
View ArticleDevOps for Blockchain Apps
Blockchain has emerged from the shadow of its cryptocurrency origins to be seen as a transformative data technology that can power the next generation of software for multi-party Enterprise and...
View ArticleBlazor 0.7.0 experimental release now available
Blazor 0.7.0 is now available! This release focuses on enabling component coordination across ancestor-descendent relationships. We've also added some improvements to the debugging experience. Here's...
View ArticleFour operational practices Microsoft uses to secure the Azure platform
This is the fourth blog in a 4-part blog post series on how Microsoft Azure provides a secure foundation. Microsoft provides you with a secure foundation to host your infrastructure and applications....
View ArticleUpdate 18.11 for Azure Sphere in public preview
In September 2018, Azure Sphere was released for public preview. Today, we are pleased to announce the 18.11 update to the Azure Sphere Operating System, Azure Sphere Security Service, and Visual...
View ArticleOfficial support for Windows 10 on ARM development
Today is an exciting day for Windows 10 on ARM. With the official release of Visual Studio 15.9, developers now have the officially supported SDK and tools for creating 64-bit ARM (ARM64) apps. In...
View ArticleQ# Advent Calendar 2018
The F# and C# communities have blogging events called Advent Calendars (F#, C#), in which every day in December one awesome community member publishes a blog post about the language. I think it’s an...
View ArticleWhy do we need Q#?
You may be familiar with the Microsoft Quantum blog, which shares general news about our quantum computing program and about quantum computing in general. This blog is its developer- and...
View ArticleAnnouncing TypeScript 3.2 RC
Today we’re announcing TypeScript 3.2 RC, the release candidate of our next version of TypeScript. To get started using the RC, you can get it through NuGet, or use npm with the following command: npm...
View ArticleIn case you missed it: October 2018 roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from October of particular interest to R users. Peter Provost ports some 80's-era BASIC programs for kids to R. In a podcast for Fringe FM, I discuss the...
View ArticleCompiling C# to WASM with Mono and Blazor then Debugging .NET Source with...
Blazor quietly marches on. In case you haven't heard (I've blogged about Blazor before) it's based on a deceptively simple idea - what if we could run .NET Standard code in the browsers? No, not...
View ArticleTaboola Improves customer experiences with Azure Data Explorer
How can you take billions of lines of log data, explore it to identify those hidden gems of information, and act on those insights instantly to improve your customers’ experience, enhance your...
View ArticleReport from the Enterprise Applications of the R Language conference
by Mark Niemann-Ross Mango Solutions presented the EARL conference in Seattle this November and I was fortunate enough to have time to attend. During the conference I took notes on the presentations,...
View ArticleBlack Friday on Bing: intelligent shopping, product insights, and more
Intelligent shopping We know that often, shopping can be a journey. You might start with a need in mind, or a few products you want to learn about. To end up with a great purchase, you need the right...
View ArticleIntroducing Emoji8
How can I make machine learning fun and approachable for my non-tech-savvy friends and family? How can I make an app that maximizes the usage of my Windows 10 hardware? How can I test out my craziest...
View ArticleRazor support in Visual Studio Code now in Preview
Earlier this week we released a preview of support for working with Razor files (.cshtml) in the C# extension for Visual Studio Code (1.17.1). This initial release introduces C# completions, directive...
View ArticleLearn Quantum Computing with the Quantum Katas
I started to learn quantum computing when I joined Microsoft Quantum team less then two years ago. Before that the most exposure I had to the topic was a course on quantum mechanics back in the...
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