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New performance levels and storage add-ons in Azure SQL Database
We are pleased to announce the public preview of new performance levels and storage add-ons in Azure SQL Database. These new choices enable further price optimization opportunities for CPU intensive...
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Create a CI/CD pipeline to Azure Service Fabric
At //BUILD 2017, we shipped an update to the Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio. This update has support for configuring a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipeline for ASP.NET...
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The UWP Community Toolkit v2.0
Today, the UWP Community Toolkit graduates to version 2.0 and sets the stage for future releases. There have been seven releases since the UWP Community Toolkit was first introduced exactly one year...
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TFS 2018 RC1 is available
Team Foundation Server 2018 RC1 is now available for download. This is the first available build for what we have been calling TFS V.next. And, as you can tell from the title of this post, the...
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Probably more likely than probable
What kind of probability are people talking about when they say something is "highly likely" or has "almost no chance"? The chart below, created by Reddit user zonination, visualizes the responses of...
View ArticleHandling a TFS 2018 Upgrade from Old Form to New Form
As of TFS 2017.2, the old work item form <Layout> tag has been deprecated and is no longer supported in TFS 2018. If you are upgrading your server and have a collection where the new work item...
View ArticleMachine Learning-based anomaly detection in Azure Stream Analytics
Customers who monitor real-time data can now easily detect events or observations that do not conform to an expected pattern thanks to machine learning-based anomaly detection in Azure Stream...
View ArticleCreate your own pfSense on Azure
pfSense is a widely used open-source Firewall product. Azure provides the commercial version of pfSense, but for some open-source fans, they'd like to create their own pfSense on cloud. Here is an...
View ArticleAnnouncing Default Encryption for Azure Blobs, Files, Table and Queue Storage
For most customers, security is not only of the utmost importance but also a deciding factor in choosing a public cloud provider. Customers require their data to be encrypted at rest as per their...
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Automation of Azure Analysis Services with Service Principals and PowerShell
Azure Analysis Services presents opportunities for the automation of administrative tasks including server provisioning, scale up/down, pause/resume, model management, data refresh, deployment, among...
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Text featurization with the Microsoft ML package
Last week I wrote about how you can use the MicrosoftML package in Microsoft R to featurize images: reduce an image to a vector of 4096 numbers that quantify the essential characteristics of the image,...
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Getting hands on with Visual Studio for Mac, containers, and serverless code...
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Announcing TypeScript 2.5
Today we’re happy to bring you TypeScript 2.5! If you’ve read our RC announcement, we’ve got a few new items that we’re proud to highlight! If you’re not familiar with TypeScript, it’s a typed...
View ArticleAmazon AWS and new NDepend pricing plans in August’s VSTS extension round-up
Since the creation of the Marketplace, we have seen strong demand for tools to work with Amazon Web Services. I am so thrilled that this month the search for those tools comes to an end. In addition to...
View ArticleBest practices for using video ads in Windows apps
Interstitial videos are a highly engaging ad format that, if used right, have much higher monetization potential as compared to more traditional ad formats. Interstitial videos are typically 15-60...
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Cognitive Toolkit Model Evaluation in UWP
We are excited the share with you that Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) 2.1 has added support for model evaluation on UWP applications. This means you can harness the power of deep learning in your...
View ArticleWork Item Type and Inclusive Design
A little over a month ago, we rolled out work item type icons to all Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) accounts and Team Foundation Server (TFS) with 2017.2. It’s been awesome to see @VSTS tweets,...
View ArticleGit forks now in public preview
Forks – the ability to create a server-side copy of a Git repository – is rolling out across the service in public preview. If it’s not on for you yet, it will be after the current deployment finishes....
View ArticleUpgrade to MSTest V2!
MSTest V2 has crossed 1 Million downloads. Congratulations! Hats off to the community! MSTest V2 is seeing robust usage. We ourselves use it heavily. If you are still using an earlier version of the...
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Practical Data Science for Stats
PeerJ Preprints has recently published a collection of articles that focus on the practical side of statistical analysis: Practical Data Science for Stats. While the articles are not peer-reviewed,...
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