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Creating Materials and Lights in the Visual Layer
In today’s post, we’re going wrap up this series by combining everything we’ve learned so far and take you through the steps in creating a custom material. We also have an amazing new tool to show you...
View ArticleC++ Unit Testing Updates: Announcing Boost.Test Adapter and Improved Google...
Back in May, the C++ team announced the Test Adapter for Google Test – a Visual Studio extension that allows you to run and manage your Google Test-based unit tests directly in Visual Studio. You can...
View ArticleNew Electric Imp and Particle seamless integration with Azure IoT Hub
New Azure IoT integration with device connectivity platforms brings the best of the “Internet” and the “Things” together, making both hardware connectivity and Cloud development simple. Electric Imp...
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Root cause analysis and time exploration updates to Azure Time Series Insights
Azure Time Series Insights is currently in public preview, and we’ve been hard at work the last couple months to help our customers better manage and find value in their time series data. Time Series...
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Bring Interactive Analytics to Azure HDInsight: Kyligence Analytics Platform...
In resource-intensive systems, queries will compete for runtime resources and it takes hours to return when the work load is high. SQL on Hadoop is improving continuously, but it is still common to...
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July 2017 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN
Congratulations to our July top-10 contributors! Alberto Morillo and Hilary Cotter maintain their top positions. This Leaderboard initiative was started in October 2016 to recognize the top Database...
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Automate Application Insights processes with the connector for Flow and Logic...
Azure Application Insights provides powerful search capabilities to query and get insights from your telemetry data. Often, you may find yourself running the same queries repeatedly to validate whether...
View ArticleHow to make best use of the byte compiler in R
Tomas Kalibera, the newest member of the R Core Team, has been working for the last several years with fellow Core Team member Luke Tierney implementing R's byte-code compiler and interpreter....
View ArticleWelcome to the .NET Framework 4.7.1 Early Access!
Today, we are happy to announce an early access build of .NET Framework 4.7.1. The .NET Framework 4.7.1 is the next version of the .NET Framework. It is currently feature-complete and in the testing...
View ArticleHow do we use RM for our test runs
Authored by Gaurav Sisodia from EPS team and Aseem Bansal from RM team. In this post, we will talk about how VSTS organization (Brian Harry’s team) is using VSTS for continuous integration and testing...
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Operating Azure Stack
Ever since we announced that Azure Stack is ready to order, we’ve seen a variety of questions related to managing and operating Azure Stack. This blog kicks off a series of blogs addressing these...
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Announcing deploy to Azure app service Jenkins plugin and more
We are proud to announce the availability of the Azure App Service plugin for Jenkins, which provides Jenkins native capability to continuously deploy to Azure Web Apps. Depending on your environment,...
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Azure AD authentication extensions for Azure SQL DB and SQL DW tools
With the latest SQL server tools release we extended the Azure AD authentication support for SQL DB and DW tools for token-based authentication (Universal authentication) with MFA support. The...
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14 Relaxing Bing Nature Photos Because You Earned It by Buzzfeed
“Literally Just 14 Relaxing Nature Photos Because You Earned It Today by Buzzfeed” is a post Bing is sharing from Buzzfeed. Look, you've had a long day... ...or maybe you haven't. What do we know?...
View ArticleVSTS Update – Aug 4
This week we are deploying our sprint 121 work for Visual Studio Team Services. There’s a lot of good stuff and you can read the release notes for details. Probably the biggest thing is the public...
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The week in .NET – Rezoom.SQL, Protobuf in Orlando, and links!
Previous posts: Nuke, Warden.NET, .NET in Bangalore MIST, F# in NYC Command Line Parser Library, .NET South East Tool of the week: Rezoom.SQL Rezoom.SQL is an F# ORM for SQL databases. It integrates...
View ArticleWindows Subsystem for Linux on Windows Server
The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is available in Windows Insider builds of Windows Server. Now developers and application administrators can run tools they use in Linux environments alongside Cmd...
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Tutorial: Publish an R function as a SQL Server stored procedure with the...
In SQL Server 2016 and later, you can publish an R function to the database as a stored procedure. This makes it possible to run your R function on the SQL Server itself, which makes the power of that...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 16257 and Mobile Emulator Build 15235 Released
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK and the Mobile Emulator to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 16257 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 16257...
View Article.NET Framework August 2017 Security and Quality Rollup
Today, we are releasing the August 2017 Security and Quality Rollup Update. This update applies to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016. Security There are no new security changes for the .NET Framework...
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