.NET Core July 2019 Updates – 2.1.12 and 2.2.6
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core July 2019 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. NOTE: If you are a Visual...
View ArticleMigrate to Azure HDInsight in as little as 12 weeks
Recent announcements in the open source ecosystem have led customers of prominent open source analytics technology companies to explore options with Microsoft Azure and to this end, we now have new and...
View ArticleWhat’s new in Azure Firewall
This post was co-authored by Anitha Adusumilli, Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking. Today we are happy to share several key Azure Firewall capabilities as well as update on recent important...
View ArticleR 3.6.1 is now available
On July 5, the R Core Group released the source code for the latest update to R, R 3.6.1, and binaries are now available to download for Windows, Linux and Mac from your local CRAN mirror. R 3.6.1 is a...
View ArticleReducing overall storage costs with Azure Premium Blob Storage
In this blog post, we will take a closer look at pricing for Azure Premium Blob Storage, and its potential to reduce overall storage costs for some applications. Premium Blob Storage is Azure Blob...
View ArticleAnalyze AI enriched content with Azure Search’s knowledge store
Through integration with Cognitive Services APIs, Azure Search has long had the ability to extract text and structure from images and unstructured content. Until recently, this capability was used...
View ArticleNew Azure Active Directory capabilities help you eliminate passwords at work
Announcing the public preview of FIDO2 security keys support for passwordless sign-in to Azure AD. The post New Azure Active Directory capabilities help you eliminate passwords at work appeared first...
View ArticleWrite Better Code Faster with Roslyn Analyzers
Roslyn, the .NET compiler platform, helps you catch bugs even before you run your code. One example is Roslyn’s spellcheck analyzer that is built into Visual Studio. Let’s say you are creating a static...
View ArticleDealing with Application Base URLs and Razor link generation while hosting...
I'm quietly moving my Website from a physical machine to a number of Cloud Services hosted in Azure. This is an attempt to not just modernize the system - no reason to change things just to change them...
View ArticleTwo ways to share Azure Advisor recommendations
If your IT organization is like most, you probably work with many different people across many different teams. When it comes to common IT tasks like optimizing your cloud workloads, you might need to...
View ArticleCreate and manage Azure Pipelines from the command line
We recently introduced a unified YAML experience in Azure Pipelines where you can configure pipelines to do CI, CD or CI and CD together. Over the past few months we have been building capability to...
View ArticleIntroducing Azure Lighthouse
Enabling partners to deliver differentiated managed services Partners are at the heart of incredible innovation stories on Azure, lighting up the path to success for our customers. Today, we are...
View ArticleIntroducing the new Azure Migrate: A hub for your migration needs
Moving on-premises apps and data to the cloud is a key step in our customers’ migration journey, and we’re committed to helping simplify that process. Earlier this year, we invited customers to...
View ArticleHow Azure Lighthouse enables management at scale for service providers
Extending Azure Resource Manager with delegated resource management Today, Erin Chapple, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Azure, announced the general availability of Azure Lighthouse, a single...
View ArticleEnsuring customer success: Introducing the Azure Migration Program
Last July, I shared our approach to helping customers migrate to Azure. Since then, we’ve seen tremendous customer response working with organizations such as Allscripts, Chevron, J.B. Hunt, and...
View ArticleAnnouncing preview of Azure Data Share
In a world where data volume, variety, and type are exponentially growing, organizations need to collaborate with data of any size and shape. In many cases data is at its most powerful when it can be...
View ArticleEnhancing Microsoft’s commercial marketplace for partners
As we head into the global partner conference Microsoft Inspire on July 14-18, 2019, a big focus is on rethinking how we make it easier for customers to discover, try, and buy cloud-based software and...
View ArticleClang/LLVM Support for MSBuild Projects
Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2 Preview 3 includes built-in Clang/LLVM support for MSBuild projects. In our last release, we announced support for Clang/LLVM for CMake. In the latest Preview of Visual...
View ArticleChecklist for writing great Visual Studio extensions
Great Visual Studio extensions share a few key features that sets them apart from the rest. They look and feel well crafted, are performant and reliable, do what they advertise to perfection, and blend...
View ArticleWe’ve Released New Bird’s Eye Imagery!
Bing Maps was one of the first mapping services on the web to offer oblique 45-degree angle aerial imagery, also known as Bird’s Eye. Bing Maps is still as committed as ever to offering fresh...
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