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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...
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Toolkits, Toolkits, Toolkits!
As a UWP developer, you have many options to help build your application quickly and reliably. In fact, there are so many options that you may feel like you can choose only one. Luckily, that’s not the...
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Because it’s Friday: Disappearing Dots
It's been a while since we posted an optical illusion, and this one (via Max Galka) jis ust too good to pass up. Here are the instructions, from the source: First, look at any yellow dot as the figure...
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Visual Studio and IIS Error: Specified argument was out of the range of valid...
I got a very obscure and obtuse error running an ASP.NET application under Visual Studio and IIS Express recently. I'm running a Windows 10 Insiders (Fast Ring) build, so it's likely an issue with...
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Diagnose sudden changes in your app behavior with a click!
Spikes or steps in the telemetry of your app can now be easily diagnosed. When you use Application Insights Analytics to explore app metrics over time, sudden changes, such as spikes or dips, are...
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HDInsight tools for IntelliJ May updates
The primary focus for our May updates is to make the Spark development work easier for you in IntelliJ! In this release, your spark remote debugging experience is significantly improved. Scala SDKs...
View ArticleNew language support for Azure Media Indexer v2
Speech to text has been one of the most exciting Azure Media Services components since the original release of Azure Media Indexer in 2014. Today we are ready to release the following new languages to...
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Azure Post Exploitation Techniques
The Cloud and Enterprise Red Team introduced how to apply traditional network attack techniques to the cloud along with mindset trends seen in Azure to address them. The presentation was given at the...
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Powe[R] BI: Free e-book on using R with Power BI
A new (and free!) e-book on extending the capabilities of Power BI with R is now available for download, from analytics consultancy BlueGranite. The introduction to the book explains why R and Power BI...
View ArticleNative Ads in Microsoft Advertising SDK
Overview Native Ads is a component-based ad format that gives publishers the flexibility of placing the individual components of a creative – title, image, logo, description, call to action text – so...
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.NET and Docker
.NET and .NET Core (and Windows!) have been getting better and better with Docker. I run Docker for Windows as it supports both Linux Containers and Windows Containers. They have both a Stable and Edge...
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Building and Deploying a Java Application to Oracle WebLogic Server Running...
If you are interested in Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) platform and Java development, maybe you know that VSTS has everything you need to organize CI/CD pipeline for your Java...
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Mobile work item form general availability
We are very excited to announce the general availability of the mobile work item form and the mobile My work items page in Visual Studio Team Services. We now have a full end-to-end experience to find...
View ArticleIn case you missed it: May 2017 roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from May of particular interest to R users. Many interesting presentations recorded at the R/Finance 2017 conference in Chicago are now available to...
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Using color fonts for beautiful text and icons
In this post, we’ll introduce you to a text technology called color fonts. We’ll discuss what color fonts are, when they can be useful and how to use them in your Windows 10 apps. What are color fonts?...
View ArticleThe week in .NET – On .NET with Brett Morrison, DateTime Extensions
Previous posts: Open XML SDK, Adventure Time .NET poster, Happy Birthday .NET with Jan Kotas, Skyworld Microsoft Build 2017, .NET Core 2.0 preview 1, For the King On .NET: Brett Morrison During the...
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RetroPie and X-Arcade Tankstick – The perfect Retro Arcade (plus...
Eight years ago I stumbled on the husk of an old arcade cabinet and along with my buddy John Batdorf, proceeded to reclaim the cabinet, refinish, paint, and turn it into a proper MAME (Multi-Arcade...
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Spark Connector for #CosmosDB – seamless interaction with...
Today, we’re excited to announce that the Spark connector for Azure Cosmos DB is now truly multi-model! As noted in our recent announcement Azure Cosmos DB: The industry’s first globally-distributed,...
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Forrester report: What tech leaders are saying about cloud adoption
If your CEO asked about your progress moving to the cloud compared to other companies, would you know the answer? The "Benchmark Your Enterprise Cloud Adoption" report, published by Forrester Research,...
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New sample model for Azure Analysis Services
In April we announced the general availability of Azure Analysis Services, which evolved from the proven analytics engine in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. The success of any modern...
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