Cumulative Update 48 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 has been released
Cumulative Update 48 includes all application and platform hotfixes and regulatory features that have been released for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015. The cumulative update is intended mainly for...
View ArticleSchedule Custom Reports for your Driver Failure Details
Using APIs to pull your driver failure details just got a lot easier. We are super excited to announce a new asynchronous API suite that will allow you to schedule custom reports for your driver...
View ArticleSeptember 2018 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN
Congratulations to our September top 10 contributors! Alberto Morillo and Visakh Murukesan maintain their top positions. This Leaderboard initiative was started in October 2016 to recognize the top...
View ArticleAnnouncing ML.NET 0.6 (Machine Learning .NET)
Today we’re announcing our latest monthly release: ML.NET 0.6! ML.NET is a cross-platform, open source machine learning framework for .NET developers. We want to enable every .NET developer to train...
View Article10/11 Webinar: How to use Power Query and M to create calendar tables with...
Calendar tables are an absolute requirement for time-intelligence calculations and best practices in Power BI. In this week's webinar Power BI MVP Tristan Malherbe will deliver a webinar on how to...
View ArticleExperiencing Data Access issue in Azure Portal for Many Data Types – 10/08 –...
Final Update: Tuesday, 09 October 2018 00:25 UTCWe've confirmed that all systems are back to normal with no customer impact as of 10/9/2018, 00:22 UTC. Our logs show the incident started on 10/8/2018,...
View ArticleAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS): Azure AD SAML based Single Sign on to secure...
This is second part of the series on deploying Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) to Azure Kubernetes Service cluster. In this article I am going to share steps needed to enable Azure AD SAML...
View ArticleThe numerology of the sample directory listing in the Windows 95 font...
In Windows 95, it became tradition that if you modified the code that displays the font preview in the Windows 95 command prompt font chooser property sheet page, you also got to tweak the sample date...
View ArticleIntroducing ‘Suggest a Feature’ in Developer Community
Customer feedback is a critical input to help us improve Visual Studio. Up until two years ago, the Visual Studio customer feedback system left room for improvement – customers could use the “send a...
View ArticleDynamics 365 for Finance and Operations version 8.1 is now available
We’re excited to announce the availability of Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations version 8.1 with Platform update 20 through Lifecycle Services (LCS). This release is packed with some great...
View ArticlePython in Visual Studio Code – September 2018 Release
We are pleased to announce that the September 2018 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. You can download the Python extension from the marketplace, or install it...
View ArticleAzure Education Governance Series
One of the challenges education customers face when starting to adopt Azure is understanding how they can effectively use services and still address the need for governance. In our experience,...
View Article.NET Framework October 2018 Security and Quality Rollup
Today, we released the October 2018 Security and Quality Rollup. Security No new security fixes. See .NET Framework September 2018 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security update. Quality...
View Article.NET Core October 2018 Update – NET Core 1.0 and 1.1
Today, we are releasing the .NET Core October 2018 Update for 1.0 and 1.1. This update includes .NET Core 1.0.13, 1.1.10 and .NET Core SDK 1.1.11. Security CVE-2018-8292: .NET Core Information...
View ArticleYou Should Never See This Callstack in Production
A customer who just experienced some server outage asked us for help as they thought it was due to some very long GC pauses. I thought this diagnostics exercise might be useful for other folks as well...
View ArticleJoin us: Women Leading Government Cybersecurity – Oct. 24 in Washington, DC
In support of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security, we invite you to RSVP and join us for a special edition Microsoft Azure Government Meetup, Women...
View ArticleRenaming a Published App
Windows store presents an app to users with the help of logo, name, description and screenshots. But what uniquely identifies an app on the store and makes users remember it is the app's name! There's...
View ArticleNotes on DrawText and tab stops
The DrawText function will recognize tab characters if you ask for DT_EXPANDTABS. And then things get weird. If you ask for DT_EXPANDTABS, then you cannot ask for any of the DT_*_ELLIPSIS features....
View ArticleUsing .NET Hardware Intrinsics API to accelerate machine learning scenarios
This week's blog post is by Brian Lui, one of our summer interns on the .NET team, who's been hard at work. Over to Brian: Hello everyone! This summer I interned in the .NET team, working on ML.NET, an...
View ArticleSimplify extension development with PackageReference and the VSSDK meta package
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 made it possible to use the PackageReference syntax to reference NuGet packages in Visual Studio Extensibility (VSIX) projects. This makes it much simpler to reason...
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