Practical example of why you need to leave room for German localization
Consider the following household kitchen item: The sink saddle. It is a mat that goes over the divider in a double sink. Here's what it says on the label: SINK SADDLE TAPIS D’ÉVIER PROTECTOR DE...
View ArticleAccessibility Updates Coming to Windows 10
Today, we are happy to share the upcoming accessibility improvements in the Windows 10 October 2018 updates. These updates reflect our mission by giving you more accessibility features to enhance your...
View ArticleSecure Development on Azure Government – Part 2
In this episode of the Azure Government video series, Steve Michelotti talks with Paul Fisher (Modern App Solution Center, Microsoft) and Joseph Bloom (Business Productivity, Microsoft) about how to...
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Testing Xamarin Applications with Visual Studio App Center
This is a guest post by Slava Chernikoff, Principal Engineer at Binwell. Frequent testing of your software is a key to success. As mentioned in my previous article “Mobile CI/CD 101” it’s not easy to...
View ArticleElevated error rates in multiple Azure DevOps regions in the United States –...
Final Update: Wednesday, October 3rd 2018 19:01 UTC We’ve confirmed that all systems are back to normal as of 18:15 UTC. Our logs show the incident started on 16:50 UTC. Errors for users in multiple US...
View ArticleInvestigating errors accessing Work Items via Client OM event in all regions...
Initial notification: Wednesday, October 3rd 2018 18:27 UTC We're investigating a possible customer impacting event in all regions. We are triaging the issue and will provide more information as it...
View ArticleMVP In Residence 2.0?
While on the Visual Studio team a cool project that we ran with the MVPs was the MVP Intern program. In this program, an MVP would come out and work with the product team to deliver some...
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Classroom lab users may experience issues connecting to virtual machines in...
We are currently experiencing an outage that may block Classroom lab users from connecting to their virtual machines. Issue: If you have any classroom labs that were created on or before September...
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Azure AD App Tracking with Logic Apps
In this post, App Dev Manager Jason Venema outlines how Logic Apps is a great alternative to coding. I’m a huge fan of Azure Logic Apps. Whenever I need a fast, practical solution to a problem and...
View ArticleExperiencing Data access issue in Azure Portal for Many Data Types – 10/03 –...
Final Update: Wednesday, 03 October 2018 20:51 UTCWe've confirmed that all systems are back to normal with no customer impact as of 10/03, 19:40 UTC. Our logs show the incident started on 10/03, 19:20...
View ArticleReleased: SSAS and SSRS 2017+ Management Packs (7.0.10.0)
We are happy to announce that Management Packs for SQL Server 2017 Analysis Services and Reporting Services are released. Please download at: Microsoft System Center Management Pack for SQL Server...
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Water Music: Navigating toward increased independence through Soundscape
By: Amos Miller, Microsoft AI & Research Imagine you’re paddling on the lake, you feel the warm sun on your face, listen quietly to the calm ripples of the water. You can hear a sound beacon, in...
View ArticleCan I be sure that turning on automatic generation of short file names will...
A customer wanted to know if adminstrative permissions were sufficient to enable generation of short file names (8 dot 3). Their plan was to set the registry key, call GetShortFileName to get the...
View Articlestd::any: How, when, and why
This post is part of a regular series of posts where the C++ product team here at Microsoft and other guests answer questions we have received from customers. The questions can be about anything C++...
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Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 Preview 3
Today, we are releasing the third preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9. You can download it here and share your feedback with our engineering teams. This release includes ARM64 support in UWP...
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Announcing the first AI for Accessibility grantee: Zyrobotics
By Wendy Chisholm, Principal Accessibility Architect In May, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced AI for Accessibility to put AI tools in the hands of developers, universities, NGOs and inventors to...
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Windows 10 October 2018 Update に搭載されたMicrosoft Edge(EdgeHTML 18)の新機能
10 月 3 日に Windows 10 October 2018 Update が公開されました。 このアップデートは Windows Update により順番に配信されていきますが、Update Assistant を使用した手動でのアップデートも可能ですので配信が待ちきれないという方はこちらこちらを利用してぜひ最新の Windows 10 と Microsoft Edge をご体験ください。...
View ArticleUsing .BOT files to access external services in Bot Framework v4
Bot Framework V4 (BFv4) was made generally available (GA) as part of the Ignite 2018 announcements (see the official announcement). This is great news because it is now the 'current' version and all...
View ArticleU.S. Air Force awards $30M+ Enterprise IT-as-a-Service contract to Microsoft
Microsoft, Redmond, Washington, Oct. 4, 2018 The U.S. Air Force has awarded a transformational $30+M agreement to Microsoft to provide secure network access to DoD data and applications as well as...
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Update on .NET Core 3.0 and .NET Framework 4.8
In May, we announced .NET Core 3.0, the next major version of .NET Core that adds support for building desktop applications using WinForms, WPF, and Entity Framework 6. We also announced some exciting...
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