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Announcing the .NET Framework 4.7.1
Today, we are announcing the release of the .NET Framework 4.7.1. It’s included in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. .NET Framework 4.7.1 is also available on Windows 7+ and Windows Server 2008 R2+....
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Use a second laptop as an extended monitor with Windows 10 wireless displays
James Clarke from the Windows team rolled into a meeting today with two Surfaces...but one had no keyboard. Then, without any ceremony, he proceeded to do this:Now, I consider myself a bit of a Windows...
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Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) October Updates
If you are a data scientist looking for a lightweight code editor for U-SQL, try ADL Tools for VSCode for rapid development. If you are a developer looking for a modern, simple U-SQL development tool,...
View ArticleAzure Event Grid now supports Event Hubs as a destination
Azure Event Grid was introduced in August 2017 as the eventing backplane for Azure and beyond. It underpins many of our goals, and much of our vision for Serverless cloud computing. One of the core...
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Documenting the Web together
Today, we’re excited to share some big news for developers around the world wide web: We’re committing our resources towards making MDN Web Docs the best place to go for web API reference. To kick...
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Is it faster to take a bike or taxi in NYC?
Taxis are plentiful and convenient in New York City, but the city is also served by a wide network of commuter bicycles (Citi Bikes). If you need to get from, say, the West Village to the Garment...
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Bing Maps V8 Web Control SDK October 2017 Update
Bird’s Eye map type now in dropdown Bird’s eye imagery has been available in the Bing Maps V8 Web Control since May, but it could only be displayed programmatically. Now Bird’s eye is available in the...
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Adobe XD CC: A New High-Performance UWP App for UI/UX Design
It’s a big day today – after a year of public preview, Adobe released Adobe XD 1.0 on Windows 10 and Mac: a new tool for user experience creators to design, prototype and share interactive designs for...
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Visual Studio 2017 Update 4 makes it easy to modernize your desktop...
Last year with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, we introduced the Desktop Bridge to provide desktop applications a path to modernize with the Universal Windows Platform, and to distribute via the...
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Meet the Azure Analysis Services team at PASS Summit 2017
Members from the Azure Analysis Services team will be presenting two sessions at this years PASS Summit 2017 in Seattle, WA. Members will also be available in the SQL Clinic to directly answer your...
View ArticleUpdates on Intel Xeon Scalable Processors for Microsoft Azure Stack
Today we are announcing the validation of Azure Stack systems with the new family of Intel Xeon Scalable Processors, also known as “Purley”. With Azure Stack running on Intel Xeon Scalable Processors,...
View ArticleAzure Service Bus and Azure Event Hubs Geo-disaster recovery preview released
Two long-standing, well-known and appreciated Azure core services, Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hubs, just released a preview of an upcoming generally available Geo-disaster recovery feature. With...
View ArticleWindows Server, version 1709 is now available on Azure
What a great day! Back in June, we announced Windows Server was joining the Semi-Annual Channel release cadence to deliver innovation at a faster pace. Two weeks ago at Ignite, we announced Windows...
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Experiment with Azure for FREE!
What is Azure? What can it do for me? Do I need it? How do I find out? How do I use it? Will it help my business? Can it help my career? With all the things Azure can do, it’s hard to know where to...
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Azure Data Factory V2: visual monitoring added to public preview
We are excited to announce the addition of visual monitoring capabilities for Azure Data Factory V2 (ADF v2) to our customers. With this release, you can easily monitor the data factory v2 pipelines...
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Visual Studio Team Services notifications in Visual Studio IDE
In our earlier post “Continuous Delivery Tools Extension for Visual Studio 2017” , we introduced failure notifications for a single tracked Continuous Integration (CI) build on Visual Studio Team...
View ArticleThe R manuals in bookdown format
While there are hundreds of excellent books and websites devoted to R, the canonical source of truth regarding the R system remains the R manuals. You can find the manuals at your local CRAN mirror and...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2017.10.20
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Continuous Deployment of Cloud Services with VSTS – Oren NovotnyIn my last...
View ArticleAn Updated History of R
Here's a refresher on the history of the R project: 1992: R development begins as a research project in Auckland, NZ by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka 1993: First binary versions of R published at...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: 30 days on a cargo ship
This time-lapse taken during a cargo ship's 30-day voyage from the Red Sea to Hong Kong is strangely hypnotic (via Kottke). In addition to the beautiful scenery, it also makes you appreciate the...
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