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Azure Networking updates for Fall 2017
At September’s Ignite 2017, our announcements focused on the fundamental pillars of security, performance, monitoring, connectivity, and availability. At Ignite we learned from thousands of customers...
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Azure DNS Updates – CAA Record Support and IPv6 Nameservers
We are pleased to announce a couple of updates to Azure DNS that have been long awaited by our customers: Support for Certificate Authority Authorization (CAA) Records IPv6 Nameservers Support for CAA...
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Announcing General Availability of Azure Reserved VM Instances (RIs)
Azure Reserved VM Instances (RIs) are generally available for customers worldwide, effective today. Azure RIs enable you to reserve Virtual Machines on a one- or three-year term, and provide up to 72%...
View ArticleCloud-hosted Mac agents for CI/CD pipelines
Removing barriers to DevOps in the cloud Teams developing software for Apple devices have limited options when migrating to the cloud. Because such apps must be built on Macs, and because there are few...
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Preview the new Azure Storage SDK for Go & Storage SDKs roadmap
We are excited to announce the new and redesigned Azure Storage SDK for Go with documentation and examples available today. This new SDK was redesigned to follow the next generation design philosophy...
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October 2017 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN
Congratulations to our October top-10 contributors! Alberto Morillo maintains the first position in the cloud ranking while Visakh Murukesan climbs to the top in the All Databases ranking. This...
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Spend more time working on the interesting stuff
There’s a reason that each day thousands of developers take advantage of the rich set of extensions offered by our growing family of VS and VSTS Partners and the broader VS community. Collectively...
View ArticleBing Maps V8 Web Control SDK November 2017 Update
The Bing Maps V8 Web Control has been updated in November with one key feature which lets you provide your Bing Maps key as a URL parameter of the map script URL rather than as a map option when...
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Test Experience Improvements
There have been several significant improvements to the test experience that range across Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team Services. These efforts involved frameworks and tooling for both .NET and...
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Xbox analytics report update in Dev Center
We are happy to announce that we’ve updated our Xbox analytics report with a new Xbox Live service health tab to provide visibility into Xbox Live’s service responses. Xbox Live service health The new...
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Improving the debugging experience for std::function
We received a Visual Studio User Voice suggestion to make “StepInto” go directly to user code, skipping past standard library (std::function) implementation details. We recently worked on this...
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UPDATE – Web Applications with ASP.NET Core Architecture and Patterns...
Updated for ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Nov. 15th 2017) Earlier this year, we published an eBook/Guide and sample application offering guidance named Architecting Modern Web Applications with ASP.NET Core and...
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UPDATE – Microservices and Docker containers: Architecture, Patterns and...
Updated for .NET Core 2.0 “wave” of technologies (Nov. 15th 2017) Earlier this year, we published this eBook/guide and sample application offering guidance for architecting microservices and Docker...
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The City of Chicago uses R to issue beach safety alerts
Among the many interesting talks I saw a the Domino Data Science Pop-Up in Chicago earlier this week was the presentation by Gene Lynes and Nick Lucius from the City of Chicago. The City of Chicago...
View ArticleBing Maps V8 Web Control SDK November 2017 Update
The Bing Maps V8 Web Control has been updated in November with one key feature which lets you provide your Bing Maps key as a URL parameter of the map script URL rather than as a map option when...
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Announcing the Windows Compatibility Pack for .NET Core
Porting existing code to .NET Core used to be quite hard because the available API set was very small. In .NET Core 2.0, we already made this much easier, thanks to .NET Standard 2.0. Today, we’re...
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Managing Secrets Securely in the Cloud
You’ve probably heard some version of the story about a developer who mistakenly checked in his AWS S3 key to Github. He pulled the key within 5 minutes but still racked up a multi-thousand dollar bill...
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Announcing .NET 4.7.1 Tools for the Cloud
Today we are releasing a set of providers for ASP.NET 4.7.1 that make it easier than ever to deploy your applications to cloud services and take advantage of cloud-scale features. This release...
View ArticleHighlights from the Connect(); conference
Connect();, the annual Microsoft developer conference, is wrapping up now in New York. The conference was the venue for a number of major announcements and talks. Here are some highlights related to...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Better living through chemistry
This video is a compilation of some spectacular chemical reactions, with a few physics demonstrations thrown in for good measure. (But hey, chemistry is just applied physics, right?). That's all from...
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