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Post-Connect(); 2017 Visual Studio Partner Webinar Series
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View ArticleTesting ASP.NET Core MVC web apps in-memory
This post was written and submitted by Javier Calvarro Nelson, a developer on the ASP.NET Core MVC team Testing is an important part of the development process of any app. In this blog post we’re going...
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Microsoft Announces Simplygon Cloud; Optimizes Mixed Reality Development
Earlier this year, we announced the acquisition of Simplygon, a leader in 3D model optimization based in southern Sweden. As we continue our journey to bring the benefits of mixed reality to everyone,...
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Building a great touchpad experience for the web with Pointer Events
Most web pages don’t fit on one screen, so good scrolling behavior is an integral part of a good web browser. It’s so crucial to the user experience that we have spent a lot of time optimizing page...
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What’s new for Python in Visual Studio 2017 15.6 Preview 1
Today we have released the first preview of our next update to Visual Studio 2017. You will see a notification in Visual Studio within the next few days, or you can download the new installer from...
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Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.6 Preview
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View ArticleIn case you missed it: November 2017 roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from November of particular interest to R users. R 3.4.3 "Kite Eating Tree" has been released. Several approaches for generating a "Secret Santa" list...
View ArticleDiscover Beautiful Places with Outings
The Bing Maps team is happy to announce the launch of Outings, a Microsoft Garage project, for iOS and Android devices. Whether you’re looking for a fun hike near town or planning your next vacation...
View ArticleC++17 Feature Removals And Deprecations
Technology advances by inventing new ways of doing things and by discarding old ways. The C++ Standardization Committee is simultaneously adding new features and removing old features at a gradual...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: 3-D Animation
We've had 3-D animation for quite a while now, of course, but what happens when a traditional 2-D animator uses a virtual reality system to draw? When famed Disney animator Glen Keane sketches his most...
View ArticleNew Git Features in Visual Studio 2017 Update 5
This week we released Visual Studio 2017 Update 5. In this release, we added new Git features which were based on your UserVoice requests to support Git submodules, Git worktrees, fetch --prune, and...
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The 2017 Christmas List of Best STEM Toys for kids
In 2016 and 2015 I made a list of best Christmas STEM Toys for kids! If I may say so, they are still good lists today, so do check them out. Be aware I use Amazon referral links so I get a little...
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November 2017 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN
Congratulations to our November top-10 contributors! Alberto Morillo maintains the first position in the cloud ranking while Visakh Murukesan maintains the top in the All Databases ranking. This...
View ArticleA VSTS Release Gate with ServiceNow
Tarun has written a great post on creating a VSTS Release Gate that will gate deployments on approvals registered in ServiceNow. This is a great example of how you can use the extensibility of Release...
View ArticleLast week in Azure: OSBA, DevOps and Kubernetes, VM sizes, and more
Whether you followed KubeCon in Austin, or SpringOne Platform in San Francisco, there were several announcements of interest last week – especially if containers are of interest to you. See the links...
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Share UI Code in any iOS and Android App with .NET Embedding
One of the most exciting announcements during this year’s Connect(); event was the ability to embed .NET libraries into existing iOS (Objective-C/Swift) and Android (Java) applications with .NET...
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Sky’s the limit with Azure, ASP.NET Core, and Visual Studio for Mac
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Personal note on joining the Microsoft Cloud Advocates team
A quick personal note: today is my first day as a member of the Cloud Developer Advocates team at Microsoft! I'll still be blogging and events related to R, and supporting the R community, but now I'll...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure preview with Azure Availability Zones now open in France
The preview of Microsoft Azure in France is open today to all customers, partners and ISVs worldwide giving them the opportunity to deploy services and test workloads in these latest Azure regions....
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Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension Dec 2017 update – support for more Linux...
Happy holidays! Today we’re shipping the December 2017 update to the Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension – our last major update of this year, with out-of-box support for more Linux distros and built-in...
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