Latest and Greatest in Visual Studio 2017 for C++ developers
Daniel Moth and Steve Carroll shared what’s new in VS 2017 and Updates for C++ developers at CppCon yesterday. You can grab the slides from the talk here. If you’re at the conference stop by our booth...
View ArticlePayment Processing Blueprint for PCI DSS-compliant environments
Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of a new Payment Processing Blueprint for PCI DSS-compliant environments, the only auditor reviewed, 100% automated solution for Payment Card...
View ArticleAzure Networking announcements for Ignite 2017
Last year we committed to making it easier for customers to run their services in the public cloud. As we meet with customers from across the world a common concern voiced are the challenges of...
View ArticleAnnouncing new Azure VM sizes for more cost-effective database workloads
Our customers told us that their database workloads like SQL Server or Oracle often require high memory, storage, and I/O bandwidth, but not a high core count. Many database workloads they are running...
View ArticleBuild a web service with F# and .NET Core 2.0
Earlier this year, I wrote about an update to the roadmap for F# and .NET Core. I had mentioned that there were a number of things you could build with F# and .NET Core today, such as web services. In...
View ArticleVisual Studio and Xamarin take iOS support to 11
With the first wave of new iPhone 8 devices landing in people’s hands, and the installed base of iOS 11 users growing rapidly, it’s an exciting time to build apps for iPhone and iPad, as well as macOS...
View ArticleMeet the new Microsoft R Server: Microsoft ML Server 9.2
Microsoft R Server has received a new name and a major update: Microsoft ML Server 9.2 is now available. ML Server provides a scalable production platform for R — and now Python — programs. The basic...
View ArticleThe Book of the Runtime – The internals of the .NET Runtime that you...
The Microsoft Docs at https://docs.microsoft.com are really fantastic lately. All the .NET Docs are on GitHub https://github.com/dotnet/docs/ and you can contribute to them. However, in the world of...
View ArticleGeneral availability of HDInsight Interactive Query – blazing fast queries on...
It’s 2017, and big data challenges are as real as they get. Our customers have petabytes of data living in elastic and scalable commodity storage systems such as Azure Data Lake Store and Azure Blob...
View ArticleAnnouncing Preview of Azure Storage Firewalls and Virtual Networks
Enterprises are faced with the daunting challenge of engaging their employees, customers, and partners in today's hostile and dangerous online environement. They are increasingly turning to layered...
View ArticleAnnouncing Virtual Network integration for Azure Storage and Azure SQL
Today, we are glad to announce the public preview of Virtual Network (VNet) Service Endpoints for Azure Storage and Azure SQL. For many of our customers moving their business-critical data to the...
View ArticleGet started with Monitoring in Azure
We’re happy to announce the public preview of a new overview landing page in Azure Monitor. This landing page is designed to help you understand the monitoring capabilities offered by Azure, and to...
View ArticleQuery across resources
We’re excited to introduce cross-resources querying – the ability to query not only the current workspace or application, but analyze data from other resources as well, in a single query. Until now,...
View ArticleAzure Log Analytics – meet our new query language
Azure Log Analytics has recently been enhanced to work with a new query language. The query language itself actually isn’t new at all, and has been used extensively by Application Insights for some...
View ArticleAnnouncing general availability of Azure Managed Applications Service Catalog
Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of Azure Managed Applications Service Catalog. Service Catalog allows corporate central IT teams to create and manage a catalog of solutions...
View ArticleWANdisco enables continuous data replication on Azure HDInsight for Big Data...
We are pleased to announce the expansion of HDInsight Application Platform to include WANdisco. You can install the WANdisco Fusion app and take advantage of the free trial too. Azure HDInsight is the...
View ArticleTime Travel Debugging is now available in WinDbg Preview
We are excited to announce that Time Travel Debugging (TTD) features are now available in the latest version of WinDbg Preview. About a month ago, we released WinDbg Preview, which provides great new...
View ArticleFeaturizing images: the shallow end of deep learning
by Bob Horton and Vanja Paunic, Microsoft AI and Research Data Group Training deep learning models from scratch requires large data sets and significant computational reources. Using pre-trained deep...
View ArticleUsing VS Code to Debug Java Applications
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View ArticleGet the most out of your Azure portal experience
Hello, Azure friends! If you manage Azure resources, you’re probably already familiar with the Azure portal. In this blog post, I’d like to highlight some of the experiences and capabilities that you...
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