Microsoft Store app and game submission deadlines for the holiday season
Every year the Microsoft Store sees an increase in the number of customers downloading and purchasing content during the holiday season. During the holiday months of 2016, the Microsoft Store saw more...
View ArticleAzure receives HPCwire awards
Only a few years ago, most people thought it was impossible to complete mainstream, high-performance computing tasks in the cloud. Nowadays, we see complete workflows related to fields like fluid...
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An update for MRAN
MRAN, the Microsoft R Application Network has been migrated to a new high-performance, high-availability server, and we've taken the opportunity to make a few upgrades along the way. You shouldn't...
View ArticleDevOps @ Connect(); 2017
There is a lot of excitement and energy around DevOps at this year’s Connect(); event in New York City. Please join the live stream starting tomorrow at 10:00 AM EST for Scott Guthrie’s keynote, where...
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This month on Bing: holiday shopping, photo contest, new sports and weather...
This month at Bing we shipped several new experiences that help you quickly find what you’re looking for. Holiday Shopping With the holidays upon us, we have new tools to make it easy for you to...
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Announcing Visual Studio and Kubernetes – Visual Studio Connected Environment
I've been having all kinds of fun lately with Kubernetes, exploring building my own Kubernetes Cluster on the metal, as well as using a managed Kubernetes cluster in Azure with AKS. Today at the...
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Connect(); announcements
We’re announcing a bunch of new things at Connect(); this week. It’s an exciting time. Connect(); is an annual developer event where we focus particularly on improving the overall experience for...
View ArticleVSTS is now a Symbol Server
As far back as 2012, Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server users have been asking for a Symbol Server. Symbols are crucial to debugging Windows applications, esp. applications written...
View ArticleAnnouncing “Azure DevOps Project” public preview
In today’s world, organizations need to innovate and get to market faster. That needs learning latest technologies, using them in your product and deploying at a faster pace with Continuous Delivery...
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The Latest in Developer Productivity and App Experiences
Whatever the language or platform, developers want the same thing – to create app experiences that are high-quality, intelligent and personalized. Experiences that delight users and keep them engaged....
View ArticleIntroducing the new CLI for VSTS
Today we are announcing a new cross-platform command line interface for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS). This new CLI, currently in preview, lets you manage and work...
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Side-by-side minor version MSVC toolsets in Visual Studio 2017
We’ve been delivering improvements to Visual Studio 2017 more frequently than ever before. Since its first release in March we’ve released four major updates to VS2017 and are currently previewing the...
View ArticleWelcome to C# 7.2 and Span
C# 7.2 is the latest point release of C#, and adds a number of small but useful features. All the features are described in wonderful detail in the docs. Start with the overview, What’s new in C# 7.2,...
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Keep Your Skills Up to Date: New Training and Azure Resources
Finding better ways to upskill is a consistent topic that comes up when we talk to you about what’s top of mind. It’s no wonder when the one constant in our industry is change with new techniques,...
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Improvements to Azure Functions in Visual Studio
We’re excited to announce several improvements to the Azure Functions experience in Visual Studio as part of the latest update to the Azure Functions tools on top of Visual Studio 2017 v15.5. (Get the...
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Announcing F# support for .NET Core and .NET Standard projects in Visual Studio
We’re pleased to announce that Visual Studio 2017 15.5 Preview 4 now supports F# projects targeting .NET Core, .NET Standard, and .NET Framework through the .NET Core SDK. Some of you have noticed...
View ArticleIntroducing Azure DevOps Project
In today’s world, organizations need to innovate and get to market faster. This requires learning latest technologies, using them in your product and deploying at a faster pace. Adopting Azure is one...
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Introducing Nullable Reference Types in C#
Today we released a prototype of a C# feature called “nullable reference types“, which is intended to help you find and fix most of your null-related bugs before they blow up at runtime. We would love...
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Introducing Tensor for multi-dimensional Machine Learning and AI data
Overview Tensor is an exchange type for homogenous multi-dimensional data for 1 to N dimensions. The motivation behind introducing Tensor<T> is to make it easy for Machine Learning library...
View ArticleWindows 10 at Microsoft Connect(); 2017
Today, at Microsoft Connect(); we spoke about the work we have been doing to align the concepts and tags that can be shared between Microsoft’s XAML UI systems. With Windows 10 XAML and Xamarin.Forms,...
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