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C++ Static Analysis Improvements for Visual Studio 2017 15.6 Preview 2
We’ve made a few changes to the C++ static analysis feature that should make it faster and easier to use. The behavior has changed slightly, and the menus have been moved around a bit, but we think...
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R jumps to 8th position in TIOBE language rankings
The R language surged to 8th place in the 2017 TIOBE language rankings, up 8 places from a year before. Fellow data science language language Python also saw an increase in rankings, taking the 4th...
View ArticleSharing of Deployment Groups across projects
Last year we released Deployment Groups in Public Preview during the May 2017 timeframe, which enabled customers to deploy software to their IaaS machines. One of the big pieces of feedback we...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Performance Contributions to Git in 2017
Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) hosts the largest Git repository in the world: the Windows source code. Keeping a primary copy of the code available in the cloud and having it be performant while...
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New Visual Studio Code Extensions for Java Developers: Maven, Tomcat, and...
Alongside the release of Debugger for Java and Java Test Runner this week, we’re welcoming a few new members to our Visual Studio Code Java Extension family. We think you’ll find them helpful for your...
View Article#ifdef WINDOWS – Getting Started with Mixed Reality
I sat down with Vlad Kolesnikov from the PAX Mixed Reality team in Windows to talk about what mixed reality is and how developers can get started building immersive experiences. Vlad covered what...
View ArticlePower BI and VSTS Analytics
We have been working hard to improve the integration between VSTS Analytics and Power BI. We are happy to announce we’ve released the first step in doing so. The VSTS Power BI Desktop Connector has...
View ArticleWindows Community Standup on January 18th, 2018
Kevin Gallo, VP of Windows Developer Platform, is hosting the next Windows Community Standup on January 18th, 2018 at 10:00am PST on Channel 9! Kevin will be discussing the Always Connected PC, with...
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Building 0verkill on Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux – 2D ASCII art...
I'm a big fan of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. It's real Linux that runs real user-mode ELF binaries but it's all on Windows 10. It's not running in a Virtual Machine. I talk about it and some of...
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How to implement neural networks in R
If you've ever wondered how neural networks work behind the scenes, check out this guide to implementing neural networks in scratch with R, by David Selby. You may be surprised how with just a little...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2017.01.12
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES What I learned about Microsoft doing DevOps: Part 7 – How to shift quality...
View ArticleServices and tools for building intelligent R applications in the cloud
by Le Zhang (Data Scientist, Microsoft) and Graham Williams (Director of Data Science, Microsoft) As an in-memory application, R is sometimes thought to be constrained in performance or scalability for...
View ArticleLink wiki pages and work items, write math formulas in Wiki, Keyboard...
Happy new year to all Wiki lovers. We are learning a lot with each passing day and in this blog I will share our learning and value that we delivered in the past few sprints. Link work items and Wiki...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Kite Ballet
With a tip 'o the hat to Buck, enjoy the acrobatics of these kites from a performance in Oregon in 2012, set to Bohemian Rhapsody. Even after watching it a few times I still don't get how the lines...
View ArticleAnnouncing the extension of Azure IP Advantage to Azure Stack
Azure IP Advantage now covers workloads deployed to Azure Stack. As customers rely on Azure Stack to enable hybrid cloud scenarios and extend the reach of Azure to their own data centers or in hosted...
View ArticleAzure Analysis Services now available in East US, West US 2, and more
Since being generally available in April 2017, Azure Analysis Services has quickly become the clear choice for enterprise organizations delivering corporate business intelligence (BI) in the cloud. The...
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Xamarin University Presents: Ship better apps with Visual Studio App Center
At Microsoft Connect(); last November, we announced the general availability of Visual Studio App Center to help (Obj-C, Swift, Java, React Native, and Xamarin) quickly build, test, deploy, monitor,...
View ArticleSpectre mitigations in MSVC
Microsoft is aware of a new publicly disclosed class of vulnerabilities, called “speculative execution side-channel attacks,” that affect many operating systems and modern processors, including...
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Azure Security Center adds support for custom security assessments
Azure Security Center monitors operating system (OS) configurations using a set of 150+ recommended rules for hardening the OS, including rules related to firewalls, auditing, password policies, and...
View ArticleCompatibility Level 140 is now the default for Azure SQL Database
Database Compatibility Level 140 is now the default for new databases created in Azure SQL Database across almost all regions. At this point in time, there are already 539,903 databases in Azure SQL...
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