Azure Analysis Services now available in West India
Last October we released the preview of Azure Analysis Services, which is built on the proven analytics engine in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. With Azure Analysis Services you can host...
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Faster and unrestricted power by Pivotal Cloud Foundry’s 1.10 now supports .NET
No longer be held back, instead go beyond your limits by having Distributed Tracing, Isolated Segments and Shared Platforms for all apps: Java and .Net. The new PCF 1.10 provides Spring Cloud Sleuth...
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Visual Studio for Mac to the Cloud and Beyond
In November, we announced Visual Studio for Mac, a fully featured IDE that we hope will help every Mac developer create mobile and cloud applications. We started with a solid foundation for mobile...
View ArticleDisabling VBScript execution in Internet Explorer 11
VBScript is deprecated in Internet Explorer 11, and is not executed for webpages displayed in IE11 mode. However, for backwards compatibility, VBScript execution is currently still permitted for...
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Official Release of TFVC Support for Visual Studio Code
In the 1.116.0 release of the Visual Studio Team Services extension for Visual Studio Code, we have added support for Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC). TFVC support works for both Team Foundation...
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Ruby on Rails on Azure App Service (Web Sites) with Linux (and Ubuntu on...
Running Ruby on Rails on Windows has historically sucked. Most of the Ruby/Rails folks are Mac and Linux users and haven't focused on getting Rails to be usable for daily development on Windows. There...
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March 2017 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN
Many congratulations to the March 2017 Top-10 contributors! Hilary Cotter and Alberto Morillo top the Overall and Cloud database lists this month as well. 7 of the Overall Top-10 featured in last...
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Bing predicts the 2017 NBA Playoffs
With thirty teams, 1,230 regular season games, and one Russell Westbrook who just broke the season triple-double record behind us, the playoffs are sure to be a treat for hoops fans. One team will...
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Announcing Azure CLI Shell (Preview); more Azure CLI 2.0 commands now...
Following up on the generally available release of VM, ACS, Storage and Network commands in the new Azure CLI 2.0, we are today announcing a new Azure CLI interactive Shell preview mode release, in...
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The network is a living organism
Organism, from Greek word Organismos, depicts a complex structure of living elements. But, what does a network have in common with organisms? At Microsoft, we build and manage a hyper-scale global...
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Building Your App in a CI Pipeline with Customized Build Servers (Private...
With the expanding number of tools to help you become more productive or to improve the functionality of your app, you may have a requirement for a custom tool or specific version to be used during the...
View ArticleNew features in the checkpoint package, version 0.4.0
by Andrie de Vries In 2014 we introduced the checkpoint package for reproducible research. This package makes it easy to use R package versions that existed on CRAN at a given date in the past, and to...
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COM Server and OLE Document support for the Desktop Bridge
The Windows 10 Creators Update adds out-of-process (OOP) COM and OLE support for apps on the Desktop Bridge – a.k.a Packaged COM. Historically, Win32 apps would create COM extensions that other...
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Episode 126 on Outlook extensibility with Andrew Salamatov—Office 365...
In Episode 126 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates catch up with Andrew Salamatov on Outlook extensibility....
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Streamlined User Management
Effective user management helps administrators ensure they are paying for the right resources and enabling the right access in their projects. We’ve repeatedly heard in support calls and from our...
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Setting up a Shiny Development Environment within Linux on Windows 10
While I was getting Ruby on Rails to work nicely under Ubuntu on Windows 10 I took the opportunity to set up my *nix bash environment, which was largely using defaults. Yes, I know I can use zsh or...
View ArticleAnnouncing SignalR 2.2.2 (Preview 1)
Today we are happy to announce the release of SignalR 2.2.2-preview1. SignalR 2.2.2 is a servicing release, including some highly requested updates and bug fixes. Here are the highlights of the...
View ArticleAzure Functions Tools Roadmap
We’ve been humbled by the intense interest in Visual Studio tools for Azure Functions since we shipped our initial preview for Visual Studio 2015 last fall. Unfortunately, given other constraints,...
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R is for Archaeology: A report on the 2017 Society of American Archaeology...
by Ben Marwick, Associate Professor of Archaeology, University of Washington and Senior Research Scientist, University of Wollongong The Society of American Archaeology (SAA) is one of the largest...
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Better battery life with Microsoft Edge
There’s a good chance you’ve noticed that Microsoft Edge and other popular browsers have recently been focused on improving battery life. We’ve been paying particular attention to this with Windows 10,...
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