The Latest in Visual Studio 2017 for Mac – Version 7.7
Today, we are happy to share with you the next update to Visual Studio for Mac 2017. Version 7.7 incorporates much of your great feedback and is aimed at improving the core development experience for...
View ArticlePython in Visual Studio Code – November 2018 Release
We are pleased to announce that the November 2018 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. You can download the Python extension from the Marketplace, or install it...
View ArticleAnnouncing TypeScript 3.2
TypeScript 3.2 is here today! If you’re unfamiliar with TypeScript, it’s a language that brings static type-checking to JavaScript so that you can catch issues before you even run your code – or...
View ArticleBing Search now available on SwiftKey for Android
Today we’re excited to share the news of a new feature on SwiftKey for Android that makes it easy and quick to share anything you want from the web with search powered by Bing. With Search built right...
View ArticleTop Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.11.30
I’m getting ready to head out to Microsoft Connect 2018 next week, but before I go, I wanted to share with you some of the great stories from the Microsoft DevOps community. Azure DevOps Status Service...
View ArticleSimulating dinosaur populations, with R
So it turns out that the 1990 Michael Crichton novel Jurassic Park is, indeed, a work of fiction. (Personal note: despite the snark to follow, the book is one of my all-time favorites — I clearly...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: If planets were as close as the moon
What would the sky look like if Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, or Neptune were as close to us as the Moon is now? Well, other than the global calamity caused by extreme tides and general astrophysical...
View ArticleQubits in Q#
How should qubits be represented in a quantum programming language? In the quantum circuit model, a quantum computation is represented as a sequence of operations, sometimes known as gates, applied to...
View ArticleNew to Microsoft 365 in November—tools to keep you in your workflow and...
This month, we released new features in Microsoft 365 that help users stay focused in their workflow while delivering richer, more engaging content. Here’s a look at what’s new in November. Stay in...
View ArticleOn Developer Advocacy
Naming things is hard. I've talked before about the term "evangelism" and my dislike for it. Evangelism, Advocacy, Developer Relations, PR, Marketing, and on and on. More and more I'm just trying to...
View ArticleOn Developer Advocacy and Humility
Naming things is hard. I've talked before about the term "evangelism" and my dislike for it. Evangelism, Advocacy, Developer Relations, PR, Marketing, and on and on. More and more I'm just trying to...
View ArticleAzure.Source – Volume 60
Now in preview Simplifying security for serverless and web apps with Azure Functions and App Service New security features for Azure App Service and Azure Functions reduce the amount of code you need...
View ArticleModernize your Java Spring Boot application with Azure Database for MySQL
This blog post is co-authored by Parikshit Savjani, Senior Program Manager, Azure OSS Database service. Spring is a well-known Java-based framework for building web and enterprise applications...
View ArticlePresent more inclusively with live captions & subtitles in PowerPoint
Live presentations can be thought-provoking, inspirational, and powerful. A great presentation can inspire us to think about something in an entirely different way or bring a group together around a...
View ArticleAzureVM: managing virtual machines in Azure
This is the next article in my series on AzureR, a family of packages for working with Azure in R. I’ll give a short introduction on how to use AzureVM to manage Azure virtual machines, and in...
View ArticleJoin the Twitter AMA with Azure Integration Services
Azure Integration Services will be hosting a joint Twitter Ask Me Anything (AMA), or actually “Ask Us Anything”, session for API Management, Logic Apps, Service Bus, and Event Grid on Thursday,...
View ArticlePresent more inclusively with live captions & subtitles in PowerPoint
In honor of the United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we’re announcing a new AI-powered feature in PowerPoint that provides captions and subtitles for presentations in...
View ArticleAnnouncing ML.NET 0.8 – Machine Learning for .NET
ML.NET is an open-source and cross-platform framework (Windows, Linux, macOS) which makes machine learning accessible for .NET developers. ML.NET allows you to create and use machine learning models...
View ArticleAnnouncing ASP.NET Core 2.2, available today!
I’m happy to announce that ASP.NET Core 2.2 is available as part of .NET Core 2.2 today! How to get it You can download the new .NET Core SDK (2.2.100) for your dev machine and build servers from the...
View ArticleAnnouncing Entity Framework Core 2.2
Today we’re making the final version of EF Core 2.2 available, alongside ASP.NET Core 2.2 and .NET Core 2.2. This is the latest release of our open-source and cross-platform object-database mapping...
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