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Building an Azure Analysis Services Model for Azure Blobs — Part 2
The May 2017 release of SSDT Tabular introduces support for named expressions in Tabular 1400. The second part of the article “Building an Azure Analysis Services Model on Top of Azure Blob Storage” on...
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Getting Started with the Video Indexer API
Earlier this month at BUILD 2017, we announced the public preview of Video Indexer as part of Microsoft Cognitive Services. Video Indexer enables customers with digital and audio content to...
View ArticleAnnouncing the preview of Azure’s Largest Disk sizes
At Build Conference, we announced the addition of new Azure Disks sizes – which provide up to 4TB of disk space. These new sizes allow you to perform up to 250 MBps of storage throughput and 7,500...
View ArticleBeyond GVFS: more details on optimizing Git for large repositories
Over the last few years, Microsoft has been moving the entire company to a modern engineering system built on Visual Studio Team Services and using Git as our version control system. For many of the...
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Telerik UI for UWP – Free and Updated XAML Controls
In case you missed it, Progress Telerik UI for Universal Windows Platform by Progress was released as free and open-source earlier this year. With more than 22 XAML controls, this news has made it...
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The week in .NET – Open XML SDK, Adventure Time
Previous posts: .NET poster, Happy Birthday .NET with Jan Kotas, Skyworld Microsoft Build 2017, .NET Core 2.0 preview 1, For the King Microsoft Build 2017, .NET Core 2.0 status, Happy birthday .NET...
View ArticleEvolving TFS/Team Services build automation capabilities
We first introduced basic build automation capabilities in TFS 2005 and, over the years, it has evolved substantially. In TFS 2010, we introduced a major update which we now call “XAML build” because...
View ArticleTFS/Team Services Roadmap update
Today we published our next quarterly installment to our roadmap. Check it out! Brian
View ArticleReflections on ROpenSci Unconference 2017
Last week I attended the ROpenSci Unconference in Los Angeles, and it was fantastic. Now in its fourth year, the ROpenSci team brought together a talented and diverse group of about 70 R developers...
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PyCon US 2017 wrap-up
Last week we took our Python team on the road to PyCon US 2017, which was held in Portland, Oregon, USA. PyCon is our best opportunity for our engineers to meet the broad range of people who make up...
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Choice amongst cross-platform .NET IDEs – VS Code, Visual Studio for...
A few years back, .NET development on a Mac was resigned to Mono and whatever text editor you knew how to exit successfully. Xamarin Studio came out in 2013 as a standalone IDE for mobile app...
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Turn your infrastructure into code with Chef, and update your Assembly...
May is coming to a close, and we’ve had more Team Services accounts installing extensions than any month since we launched the Marketplace. The ecosystem momentum we’ve seen this year is strong, and...
View ArticleAzure SQL Data Sync Refresh
We are happy to announce our Azure SQL Data Sync Refresh! With Azure SQL Data Sync users can easily synchronize data bi-directionally between multiple Azure SQL databases and/or on-premises SQL...
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Azure Security Center adds Context Alerts to aid threat investigation
In two recent articles Greg Cottingham and Jessen Kurien described investigation processes triggered by a security alert. If you haven't already done so, please read “How Azure Security Center helps...
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Beyond text queries: Searching with Bing Visual Search
Over the years people have come to expect search engines to automatically detect intent and provide great search results for text queries typed into a single search box. Now Bing takes the first step...
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Improving input responsiveness in Microsoft Edge
As the web becomes more interactive, web pages are becoming increasingly reliant on JavaScript for core functionality, such as input, rendering, layout, and composition. As more and more of this core...
View ArticleSpring 2017 Visual C++ Migration Survey
The Spring 2017 Visual C++ Migration Survey is now open. Please take a few minutes to share your experiences, positive or not so positive. If you recently migrated to Visual Studio 2017, was it less...
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Python and R top 2017 KDnuggets rankings
The results of KDnuggets' 18th annual poll of data science software usage are in, and for the first time in three years Python has edged out R as the most popular software. While R increased its share...
View ArticleTeam Services Update – June 1, 2017
Sheesh, it’s another huge update this sprint. I expected a bit of a lull after all the work we put out along with the Build conference but things don’t seem to be slowing down much (or at least...
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Teach kids about R with Minecraft
As I mentioned earlier this week, I was on a team at the ROpenSci Unconference (with Brooke Anderson, Karl Broman, Gergely Daróczi, and my Microsoft colleagues Mario Inchiosa and Ali Zaidi) to work on...
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