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By Michael Domingo
Visual Studio Team Services is at Sprint 108 this week, and it might seem like a lightweight with mainly fixes, but it does pack quite a few new features -- integrating Team-based collaboration features, build and replace enhancements, Docker support -- to be worthy of attention.
11/10/2016
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By Michael Domingo
Changes take effect immediately, and MCP transcripts are being evaluated now. Also, new rule: New MCSE and MCSD titles will no longer expire (but there's a catch).
11/08/2016
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By Lafe Low
Polybase, Query Store, dynamic data masking, row-level security, and temporal data JSON support -- just some of the new features that veteran SQL Server Live! presenter Leonard Lobel covers in this exclusive Q&A with Lafe Low.
11/08/2016
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By Michael Domingo
Fresh from Ignite, the Azure teams have been on a DevOps-heavy kick with a number of new tools for managing Azure services.
10/13/2016
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By Michael Domingo
Microsoft is making it so much more convenient for developers to get hands-on experience building Windows 10- and UWP-based apps -- via preconfigured Windows 10-based virtual machines.
10/05/2016
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By Lafe Low
From VSLive!: Microsoft's Matt Nunn demonstrated some use cases for the modern cloud platform, one that opens up options for businesses to tranform the way they do business internally and externally.
10/04/2016
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From Microsoft Ignite: Shum will lead new group formed out of Microsoft Research and others that will study the implications of artificial intelligence on future innovations in computing and development.
10/03/2016
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By Jeffrey Schwartz
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella demonstrated some of the AI supercomputing capabilities in its Azure public cloud that make it now among the fastest cloud services available. The secret sauce is the use of field-programmable gate arrays.
09/30/2016
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A second preview of the forthcoming on-premises version of Azure highlights "infrastructure management technologies."
09/28/2016
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From Microsoft Ignite: Azure now in Germany, four other areas. Plus: Bevy of Azure announcements include more security controls in the cloud, improved monitoring capabilities.
09/28/2016
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By Jeffrey Schwartz
From Microsoft Ignite: The partnership that kicked off between the two companies two years ago takes another leap forward into the cloud in a big way.
09/26/2016
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At Microsoft's conference later this month, it will show off the microservice-based ALM too. It won't have Visual Studio support, but developers will be able to use Linux dev tools to allow Service Fabric to tap into Linux VMs.
09/16/2016
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By Michael Domingo
Full process customization gets nearer to reality with the ability to create custom work item types. Plus, work item history and release management get more refined in this month's Web release.
09/13/2016
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The experiment is over and now C++ developers can tap into the production-ready version of AWS SDK that allows them to create modern C++ interfaces to AWS.
09/13/2016
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By Michael Domingo
A significant disruption of Microsoft's Azure cloud services has affected a large number of customers in Europe and India, and it's really trying the patience of developers using Visual Studio Team Services, with only partial use of services back online as of Friday afternoon.
09/09/2016
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By Lafe Low
How can developers gain the trust of the operations side? As Microsoft's Donovan Brown explains in a Visual Studio Live! keynote, automation is key in gaining that trust. He then live-demoed a DevOps pipeline within an Azure environment to prove his point.
08/11/2016
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By Michael Domingo
Amanda Silver's opening keynote on the Open Microsoft Developer Platform, along with a slew of other selected developer sessions, will be live-streamed during next week's conference at the Microsoft campus.
08/04/2016
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By Michael Domingo
The container technology company has made its tools that allow for streamlining the process of spinning up and managing Docker containers on Windows and Mac environments generally available.
08/02/2016
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Paul Stubbs and Robert Anderson live demo Microsoft Graph using the latest APIs from Azure AD, OneDrive, and other tools.
07/22/2016
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Microsoft Software Engineer Jakub Jedryszek gives us a peek under the hood and how they the end-to-end development process.
07/22/2016
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By Michael Domingo
First previewed at Build 2016, this GA version comes with a number of samples for getting started with building Node.js apps that can take full advantage of Azure Blob, File, Table and Queue storage.
07/21/2016
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Microsoft Visual Studio Program Manager Daniel Jacobson helms the Wednesday general session with a demonstration where he builds a product spanning multiple devices using UWP and Azure services.
07/21/2016
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By Michael Domingo
Microsoft offers up a new dashboard widget for Visual Studio Team Services that monitors performance, and updates the Azure Toolkit with support for Java Web Apps.
07/19/2016
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By Michael Domingo
Finalized versions of Microsoft's venerable software technologies are now generally available, and for Visual Studio 2015 U3, it includes the resolution of some high memory consumption issues that bedeviled some larger VS customers.
06/27/2016
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By Michael Domingo
A preview of the extension for spinning up Azure development and test environments right from within Visual Studio Team Services is now no longer a preview.
06/21/2016