Creating a Minimal ASP.NET Core Windows Container
This is a guest post by Mike Rousos One of the benefits of containers is their small size, which allows them to be more quickly deployed and more efficiently packed onto a host than virtual machines...
View ArticleVisual Studio IDE extensions now published and managed at Marketplace
Consumers of Visual Studio IDE extensions visit Visual Studio Marketplace to discover and acquire extensions. But extension publishers visit Visual Studio Gallery to publish and manage their Visual...
View ArticleDon Jayamanne, creator of the Python extension for Visual Studio Code, joins...
I'm delighted to announce that Don Jayamanne, the author of the most popular Python extension for Visual Studio Code, has joined Microsoft! Starting immediately, Microsoft will be publishing and...
View ArticleVisual Studio Code C/C++ extension Nov 2017 update – Multi-root workspaces...
This week has been very exciting for the Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension! It crossed 4 million downloads earlier this week only 18 months after its first release! Today, we are shipping the November...
View ArticleRecap: EARL Boston 2017
By Emmanuel Awa, Francesca Lazzeri and Jaya Mathew, data scientists at Microsoft A few of us got to attend EARL conference in Boston last week which brought together a group of talented users of R from...
View ArticleDevOps @ Connect(); 2017
I am excited…There will be lots of news…at Microsoft Connect(); 2017 happening Wednesday Nov 15th in New York City. Please join the live stream starting at 10:00 AM EST for Scott Guthrie’s keynote,...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2017.11.10
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Defining a DevOps Culture – Esteban GarciaWhat do people mean when they...
View ArticleRun and Debug Java 9 in Visual Studio Code
In the past 3 weeks, we’ve continued to see a lot of people installing and trying our tools, reading our documents, and visiting our repository. We’ve also seen a number of new issues opened by the...
View ArticleDeveloping AI applications on Azure: learning plans at three levels
If you're looking to expand your skills as an AI developer, or just getting started, these learning plans for AI Developers on Azure provide a wealth of information to get you up to speed. The...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Drone impact
On July 2 this year, a remotely-piloted drone wandered into active airspace ... twice. Not only does the video below illustrate the significant impact of this event, but it's also an interesting...
View Article#AzureSQLDW: Hub and Spoke series Integration with Azure Analysis Services
This blog post is co-authored with Ellis Hiroki Butterfield, Program Manager for SQL DW and Josh Caplan, Program Manager for Azure Analysis Services. Azure SQL Data Warehouse is Microsoft’s SQL...
View ArticleLast week in Azure: Data & analytics updates, Azure IP Advantage, and more
It is inevitable that last week in Azure will soon be overshadowed by all the announcements and demos that will stream from the Microsoft Connect(); 2017 event in New York City, which starts on...
View ArticleNew NVIDIA GPUs coming to Azure accelerate HPC and AI workloads
Machine Learning, AI, and HPC are changing the way every industry thinks, including retail, manufacturing, healthcare, oil and gas, and financial services. These large computations are changing product...
View ArticleCreating Work item form extensions in Visual Studio Team Services
Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and its on-prem version TFS has an extensibility framework that lets 3rd party developers write and publish their own extensions. A VSTS extension is just a set of...
View ArticleAd Monetization Tips: Maximizing your App Ad revenues for the holidays using...
Did you know that app developers make the most money from Advertising during the holiday season than at any other time of the year? Advertisers spend huge sums promoting their brands through Digital Ad...
View ArticleDevOps at Microsoft – lots of videos
My team is responsible for many of the engineering tools we use at Microsoft (affectionately called the One Engineering System or 1ES – paralleling Satya’s “One Microsoft” mantra). As part of that...
View ArticleUpdated curl package provides additional security for R on Windows
There are many R packages that connect to the internet, whether it's to import data (readr), install packages from Github (devtools), connect with cloud services (AzureML), or many other web-connected...
View ArticleTest batching options with VSTest task
Being able to run tests efficiently in a CI/CD pipeline is crucial to get a fast indication of build quality in order to quickly deliver customer value. For this, VSTest supports running automated...
View ArticleHPC containers with Azure Batch
With the latest updates to Azure Batch, you now have the option to schedule your tasks as Docker container invocations. Containers and Azure Batch are an ideal way to package, execute, and scale your...
View ArticleAzure Site Recovery powers TierPoint DRaaS
We are excited to announce that TierPoint, a Microsoft trusted partner, now offers Azure Site Recovery as a managed DR solution. TierPoint understands Azure Site Recovery at a deep level and creates...
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