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Seeing Theory: Learn Statistics through simulation
There's an ongoing debate in the academic community about whether Calculus is a necessary pre-requisite for teaching Statistics. But in age of ubiquitous computing resources (not to mention open source...
View ArticleICYMI – Your weekly TL;DR
Building a new app this weekend? Check out last week’s Windows Developer updates before you dive in. COM Server and OLE Document support for the Desktop Bridge The Windows 10 Creators Update adds...
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Bring your existing C++ Linux projects to Visual Studio
Visual Studio supports targeting Linux out of the box – you can edit, remote build and remote debug to a Linux machine (whether that’s a remote machine, a VM running locally or in the cloud, or WSL in...
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Bring your existing Android Eclipse projects to Visual Studio
You can use Visual Studio to develop your C++ projects targeting Android. To learn more about this support read the Visual C++ for Cross-Platform Mobile development section on MSDN. If you’re currently...
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Migrate your existing iOS XCode projects to Visual Studio
If you’re targeting iOS and writing a lot of C++ code, you should consider importing your XCode projects inside Visual Studio. Visual Studio not only provides an easy way to import these projects, but...
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Migrate your existing Windows C++ projects to MSBuild
If your project targets one of the Windows platforms only (Desktop or UWP), you should consider using MSBuild as your C++ build system. If you consider expanding beyond these platforms though, consider...
View ArticleBring your C++ code to Visual Studio
C++ has been around for a long time and throughout its history many tools have been built to make life easier for C++ developers. This has led to a diverse C++ ecosystem in terms of the editing tools,...
View ArticleMoving or disabling the package cache for Visual Studio 2017
In the latest preview release of Visual Studio we are introducing the ability to disable (or re-enable) the package cache, or move it to another drive. This can be done using the command line or the...
View ArticleAzure Analysis Services Backup and Restore
This post is authored by Bret Grinslade, Principal Program Manager and Josh Caplan, Senior Program Manager, Azure Analysis Services. We have gotten good feedback from customers and partners starting to...
View ArticleAzure Search releases support for synonyms (public preview)
Today, we are happy to announce public preview support for synonyms in Azure Search, one of our most requested features on UserVoice. Synonyms functionality allows for Azure Search to not only return...
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Visualize Azure Machine Learning Models with MicroStrategy Desktop™
Have you ever wondered how you can use machine learning in your work? It would be easy to assume that this type of advanced technology isn’t available to you because of simple logistics or...
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Welcome to Azure CLI Shell Preview
A few months ago, Azure CLI 2.0 was released. It provides a command line interface to manage/administer Azure resources. Azure CLI is optimized to run automation scripts composed of multiple commands,...
View ArticleMonetizing your app: Use interstitial banner as fallback for interstitial video
Do you show ads while loading your app or between levels of your game (also known as interstitial ads)? Microsoft Advertising now offers interstitial banners as an option for ads in your app....
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Python tools in your language
This week we’ve released a preview of the next update to Visual Studio. It has all of the improvements that were released recently in VS 2017 Update 1, and also the earliest previews of VS 2017 Update...
View ArticleFree AI Workshop, May 9 in Seattle
There will be free AI workshop in Seattle on May 9, presented by members of the Microsoft Data Science team. The AI Immersion Workshop includes five specializations to choose from (in parallel tracks),...
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Deploy Node.js applications to Azure App Service
This blog post shows how you can deploy a new Node.js application from Visual Studio Team Services or Microsoft Team Foundation Server to Azure App Service. Code Download our Node.js Hello World sample...
View ArticleNow available: Windows Developer training course on Desktop Bridge
We are happy to announce that the Microsoft Virtual Academy training course, Developer’s Guide to the Desktop Bridge, is now available on demand. This video course, delivered by the Desktop Bridge...
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Windows desktop development with C++ in Visual Studio
The Windows desktop platform has long been the most popular platform among C++ application developers. With C++ and Visual Studio, you use Windows SDKs to target many versions of Windows ranging from...
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Universal Windows Platform Development with C++
Universal Windows Platform (UWP) applications utilize a new Windows API and app model that creates a single output binary that can feasibly run on any Windows 10 device, ranging from desktops to...
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CMake support in Visual Studio – what’s new in 2017 15.2 update
Today’s preview release of Visual Studio 2017 15.2 update comes with several improvements and new features in CMake Tools for Visual Studio – recently updated to cover 15.2. We have upgraded the...
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