RStudio Server on Azure
RStudio Server Pro is now available on the Azure Marketplace, the company announced on the RStudio Blog earlier this month. This means you can launch RStudio Server Pro on an virtual machine with the...
View ArticleAnnouncing TypeScript 3.3 RC
Today we’re happy to announce the availability of our release candidate (RC) of TypeScript 3.3. Our hope is to collect feedback and early issues to ensure our final release is simple to pick up and...
View ArticleAnnouncing the preview of OpenAPI Specification v3 support in Azure API...
Azure API Management has just introduced preview support of OpenAPI Specification v3 – the latest version of the broadly used open-source standard of describing APIs. Implementation of the feature is...
View ArticleIntroducing IoT Hub device streams in public preview
In today's security-first digital age, ensuring secure connectivity to IoT devices is of paramount importance. A wide range of operational and maintenance scenarios in the IoT space rely on end-to-end...
View ArticleAzure Service Bus and Azure Event Hubs expand availability
The Azure Messaging team is continually working to enhance the resiliency and availability of our service offerings – Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hubs, and Azure Event Grid. As part of this effort,...
View ArticleHDInsight Tools for Visual Studio Code now generally available
We are pleased to announce the general availability for Azure HDInsight Tools for Visual Studio Code (VSCode). HDInsight Tools for VSCode give developers a cross-platform lightweight code editor for...
View ArticleUsing containerized services in your pipeline
Azure Pipelines has supported container jobs for a while now. You craft a container with exactly the versions of exactly the tools you need, and we’ll run your pipeline steps inside that container....
View ArticlePython in Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2
Today we are releasing Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2, which contains new features for Python developers to improve the experience for managing Python environments and enable you to work with Python code...
View ArticleMSVC Backend Updates in Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2: New Optimizations,...
In Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 we have continued to improve the C++ backend with new features, new and improved optimizations, build throughput improvements, and quality of life changes. New Features...
View ArticleOffice 365 for Mac is available on the Mac App Store
Today, Office 365—with modern, cloud-connected versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and OneDrive—is now available to download as a bundle on the Mac App Store. The post Office 365 for...
View ArticleDo more with patterns in C# 8.0
Do more with patterns in C# 8.0 Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 is out! And with it, a couple more C# 8.0 features are ready for you to try. It’s mostly about pattern matching, though I’ll touch on a few...
View ArticleTemplate IntelliSense Improvements for Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2
In the first version of Template IntelliSense, we introduced the Template Bar which allowed you to provide sample arguments for your template in order to get a richer IntelliSense experience within the...
View ArticleC++ Productivity Improvements in Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2
Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 contains a host of productivity features, including some new quick fixes and code navigation improvements: Quick fixes for: Add missing #include NULL to nullptr Add missing...
View ArticleIn-editor code analysis in Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2
The C++ team has been working to refresh the Code Analysis experience inside Visual Studio. Last year, we blogged about some in-progress features in this area. We’re happy to announce that in Visual...
View ArticleIntroducing the New CMake Project Settings UI
Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 introduces a new CMake Project Settings Editor to help you more easily configure your CMake projects in Visual Studio. The editor provides an alternative to modifying the...
View Article.NET and TypeScript at FOSDEM 2019
The schedule for the .NET and Typescript Developer Room at FOSDEM has now been published! FOSDEM is one of the longest running Free and Open Source conferences, and we’re excited to have a .NET and...
View ArticleAutomating Releases in GitHub through Azure Pipelines
Do you own a GitHub repository? Do you create releases on GitHub to distribute software packages? Do you manually compile a list of changes to be included in release notes? If yes, you will be excited...
View ArticleTop 5 Open Source Features in Azure Pipelines
When I became a Program Manager, I gave up writing software for a living. So I did what many programmers do when faced with such a dilemma: I started working on open source software in my spare time....
View ArticleDebugging .NET Apps with Time Travel Debugging (TTD)
When you are debugging an application, there are many tools and techniques you can use, like logs, memory dumps and Event Tracing for Windows (ETW). In this post, we will talk about Time Travel...
View ArticleTop Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.01.25
Whew, in addition to the day job, I’ve been hacking on some open source this week. So I’ve been thinking a lot about my favorite things about Azure Pipelines that helps out with OSS. So it’s been a...
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