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July 2, 2021
Jul 2, 2021
07/2/21
Do you want to be part of the team building the next generation of gaming technologies for Xbox? Are you passionate about Graphics, GPUs, or Gaming? Do you want to work on the teams that enable game developers to make the most graphically advanced games on Xbox possible? If so, the Xbox Graphics, PIX, and HLSL teams are hiring ...
MapViewOfFile on the same mapping handle simultaneously from different threads?
July 2, 2021
Jul 2, 2021
07/2/21
A customer found that a bottleneck in their program was traced to the way they use the MapViewOfFile function. Specifically, they use an application-level lock to ensure that two threads do not call use the MapViewOfFile on the same mapping handle at the same time. The customer wanted to know whether this lock was required. Is it ...
July 2, 2021
Jul 2, 2021
07/2/21
Happy Friday to you all, that means it's time to catch up on these great posts about DevOps. This week we look at Azure Pipelines, Kubernetes, Azure subscription management, and even BizTalk! I think we've got a great variety of content for you, so let's get into it!
July 1, 2021
Jul 1, 2021
07/1/21
Today, we are super excited to announce the availability of Azure Notification Hubs samples, to better demonstrate the awesome capabilities of Azure Notification Hubs end to end using react native on multiple platforms such as Android and iOS.
July 1, 2021
Jul 1, 2021
07/1/21
Today we are excited to announce the beta release of TypeScript 4.4! To get started using the beta, you can get it through NuGet, or use npm with the following command: You can also get editor support by Some major highlights of TypeScript 4.4 are: Let's explore these in more ...
July 1, 2021
Jul 1, 2021
07/1/21
Hello Android developers! The Microsoft Surface Duo is a great device for consuming multimedia content, and ExoPlayer is a simple, powerful widget for rendering video. Raymond and I are interns on the Surface Duo Developer Experience team, and we're excited to share two dual-screen enhanced samples that showcase video experiences on...
July 1, 2021
Jul 1, 2021
07/1/21
Learn how to use Multi Aspect Sentiment Insights technique for analyzing text that categorizes data by aspect and identifies the sentiment attributes from natural language processing. This machine learning technique is used to analyze customer reviews by associating specific sentiments with different aspects of a product.
July 1, 2021
Jul 1, 2021
07/1/21
A customer was encountering an unresolved external linker error when trying to link a plug-in with a static library. This header file is used both by the implementation: And it is used by the plug-in: The result when building the plug-in is an unresolved external: What's going on? The header file sets Unicode as the default before ...
June 30, 2021
Jun 30, 2021
06/30/21
With the release of Visual Studio 16.10 comes a new analysis engine for the Performance Profiler, with the .NET Object Allocation Tool being the first tool to be onboarded. This provides the tool with some new features and a significant perf boost. Give it a shot with your C# app and see what spurious allocations you can remove to speed up ...
June 30, 2021
Jun 30, 2021
06/30/21
Starting January 1st, 2022, Microsoft and Azul will no longer provide updates or support for the Zulu for Azure build of OpenJDK. In addition, repositories, and the user download site for Zulu for Azure binaries may no longer be available after July 1st, 2022.
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