Announcing the General Availability (GA) Release of SSDT 17.0 (April 2017)
We are pleased to announce that SQL Server Data Tools 17.0 is officially released and supported for production use. This GA release includes support for SQL Server 2017 and SQL Server on Linux...
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C++ Unit Testing in Visual Studio
Testing is an increasingly important part of a software development workflow. In many cases, it is insufficient to test a program simply by running it and trying it out – as the scope of the project...
View ArticleAnnouncing new functionality to automatically provision devices to Azure IoT Hub
We’re announcing a great new service to Azure IoT Hub that allows customers to provision millions of devices in a secure and scalable manner. Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning enables zero-touch...
View ArticleAzure IoT supports new security hardware to strengthen IoT security
Microsoft’s commitment to leadership in IoT security continues with Azure IoT’s improving the level of trust and confidence in securing IoT deployments. Azure IoT now supports Device Identity...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure Platform for India GST Suvidha Providers (GSPs)
Goods and Services Tax (GST) is essentially one new indirect tax system for the whole nation, which will make India one unified common market, right from the manufacturer to the consumer. It is a...
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Cloudera now supports Azure Data Lake Store
With the release of Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub 5.11, you can now run Spark, Hive, and MapReduce workloads in a Cloudera cluster on Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS). Running on ADLS has the following...
View ArticleAnnouncing Cloud Partner Portal: Public preview for single-virtual machine...
Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of the Cloud Partner Portal for publishing single virtual machine offers. The Cloud Partner Portal enables our publisher partners to create, define,...
View ArticleUbuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) nearing end-of-life
Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" has been with us from the beginning, since we first embarked on the journey to support Linux virtual machines in Microsoft Azure. However, as its five-year support cycle...
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How Microsoft builds massively scalable services using Azure DocumentDB
This week at Microsoft Data Amp we covered how you can harness the incredible power of data using Microsoft’s latest innovations in its Data Platform. One of the key pieces in the Data Platform is...
View ArticleJust released – Windows developer evaluation virtual machines – April 2017 build
We’re releasing the April 2017 edition of our evaluation Windows developer virtual machines (VM) on Windows Dev Center. The VMs come in Hyper-V, Parallels, VirtualBox and VMWare flavors. The evaluation...
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Improved JavaScript performance, WebAssembly, and Shared Memory in Microsoft...
JavaScript performance is an evergreen topic on the web. With each new release of Microsoft Edge, we look at user feedback and telemetry data to identify opportunities to improve the Chakra JavaScript...
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Episode 127 on the new Script Lab Office add-in with Michael Zlatkovsky and...
In Episode 127 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates talk with Michael Zlatkovsky and Bhargav Krishna about the new Script Lab Office add-in....
View Articlevswhere is now installed with Visual Studio 2017
Starting in the latest preview release of Visual Studio version 15.2 (26418.1-Preview), you can now find vswhere installed in “%ProgramFiles(x86)%Microsoft Visual StudioInstaller” (on 32-bit operating...
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C++ Code Editing and Navigation in Visual Studio
Visual Studio comes packed with a set of productivity tools to make it easy for C++ developers to read, edit, and navigate through their code. In this blog post we will dive into these features and go...
View ArticleBing refines its copyright removals process
In a continuous effort to enhance the Bing user experience and promote the expression of free speech while simultaneously upholding the rights of intellectual property and copyright holders, Bing has...
View ArticleReproducible Data Science with R
Yesterday, I had the honour of presenting at The Data Science Conference in Chicago. My topic was Reproducible Data Science with R, and while the specific practices in the talk are aimed at R users, my...
View ArticleWindows Developer Awards: Honoring Windows Devs at Microsoft Build 2017
As we ramp up for Build, the Windows Dev team would like to thank you, the developer community, for all the amazing work you have done over the past 12 months. Because of your efforts and feedback,...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Secrets of the London Underground
I guess these have been around for a few years now, but I recently stumbled across these short videos dedicated to each of the 11 lines of the London Underground. Presented by Geoff Marshall (who once...
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Getting Started with Visual Studio for C and C++ Development
Are you new to Visual Studio and working with C++? Then you’ve come to the right place. Whether you’re a student writing one of your first programs or a seasoned C++ developer with years of experience,...
View ArticleAnnouncing new Azure Services in the UK
We’re pleased to announce the following services which are now available in the UK! HDInsight – HDInsight is a 100% compatible Hadoop service that allows you to easily provision and manage Hadoop...
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