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Deploying WordPress application using VSTS and Azure – part one
This post is the first part of two blog posts, describing how to setup a CI/CD pipeline using VSTS for deploying a dockerized custom WordPress website working with Azure WebApp for Containers and Azure...
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Analyzing accelerometer data with R
Using your smartphone (any modern phone with a built-in accelerometer should work), visit the Cast Your Spell page created by Nick Strayer. (If you need to type it to your phone browser directly,...
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az webapp new – Azure CLI extension to create and deploy a .NET Core or...
The Azure CLI 2.0 (Command line interface) is a clean little command line tool to query the Azure back-end APIs (which are JSON). It's easy to install and cross-platform: Install on Windows Install on...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2018.02.23
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Post 2- Value Stream Mapping for ALM Ranger’s VSTS Extensions Work Stream –...
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How to set up a sparklyr cluster in 5 minutes
If you've ever wanted to play around with big data sets in a Spark cluster from R with the sparklyr package, but haven't gotten started because setting up a Spark cluster is too hard, well ... rest...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Faster Than Light
Faster than Light, a short film by Adam Stern, captures a single idea as well as any good sci-fi short story. It's also very pretty, and surprisingly moving. Well worth your 15 minutes. (Via Kottke)...
View ArticleArithmetic overflow checks in C++ Core Check
We’ve improved the C++ Code Analysis toolset with every major compiler update in Visual Studio 2017. Version 15.6, now in Preview, includes a set of arithmetic overflow checks. This article discusses...
View ArticleWindows Community Standup discussing Multi-instancing, Console UWPs and...
During our February Windows Community Standup, we discussed three long-awaited features that add a new dimension to how you build UWP apps. Based on developer feedback these topics are top of mind –...
View Article#ifdef WINDOWS – How to enable WebVR with just two lines of code with BabylonJS
BabylonJS is a very powerful JavaScript framework for building 3D apps and games with web standards, used by game developers to build some amazing experiences that can run on any platform and device....
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Upgrading a 10 year old site to ASP.NET Core’s Razor Pages using the...
My podcast has over 600 episodes (Every week for many years, you do the math! And subscribe!) website was written in ASP.NET Web Pages many years ago. "Web Pages" (horrible name) was it's own thing. It...
View ArticleAzure Load Balancer to become more efficient
Azure recently introduced an advanced, more efficient Load Balancer platform. This platform adds a whole new set of abilities for customer workloads using the new Standard Load Balancer. One of the key...
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Azure Service Bus now integrates with Azure Event Grid!
We are happy to share that Azure Service Bus is now able to send events to Azure Event Grid. The key scenario this feature enables is for Service Bus queues, topics, or subscriptions with low message...
View ArticleB-series burstable VM support in AKS now available
We are thrilled to announce the availability of B-series VM's, burstable VM's in Azure Container Service (AKS). Burstable VM's (B-series) are significantly cheaper compared to standard and optimal...
View ArticleLast week in Azure: NPM’s Service Endpoint Monitor in preview, and more
Now is a great time to learn more about Azure Cosmos DB through seven-part technical training series that started rolling out recently. The first part provides a technical overiew, and the second part...
View ArticleAzure Blob Storage as a Network Drive
Many applications make use of a network drive to backup and store files. When I was in university I found myself constantly coding for fun, and one example took the form of a network share for my...
View ArticleVSTS/TFS Roadmap update for 2018 Q1 and Q2
We recently published an update to the “Features under development” roadmap on our Features timeline. This feature list, although subject to change and not comprehensive, provides visibility into our...
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Join me on March 2, 2018 for a Developer Tools AMA
A lot has happened since I last hosted a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) nearly two years ago. Our team launched Visual Studio for Mac in late 2016 and released it the following May. Shortly thereafter,...
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Announcing new Ad Monetization policies and updates to Ad unit management UX
Today, we are announcing new policy around ad unit decommissioning, user experience updates to manage active/inactive ad units, default policies around Ad network enablement, and changes to the Ad...
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Transform your industry with new Microsoft IoT in Action webinar series
The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way industries around the world do business. And with recent advances in sensor platforms and intelligent analytic capabilities available from the cloud,...
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Calling All Desktop Developers: How do you interact with data?
Connecting to databases and services is an important part of desktop application development for many of our customers. Visual Studio provides a variety of tools and technologies that can help you...
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