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Screenshot of a rainbow drawn in Windows Terminal

Case Study: How many colors are too many colors for Windows Terminal?

May 4, 2022 May 4, 2022 05/4/22

A group of users were trying to implement a simple, terminal-based video game and found the performance under Windows Terminal to be entirely unsuitable for such a task. The performance issue can be replicated by repeatedly drawing a "rainbow" and measuring how many frames per second (FPS) we can achieve. The one below has 20 distinct colors ...

Windows Command Line

Quickly Map Your NuGet Packages to Sources

May 4, 2022 May 4, 2022 05/4/22

Erdembayar Y

Package Source Mapper When we introduced Package Source Mapping late last year, we noticed a certain challenge to make onboarding to using the feature easier. Could there be a way for us to automatically generate a NuGet.config for you based on your project’s known packages and sources? We started to develop a tool that does just that for ...

The NuGet Blog

Producing an empty Windows Runtime type in C++/WinRT

May 4, 2022 May 4, 2022 05/4/22

Raymond C

How to say that you don't have anything.

The Old New Thing

Major update to the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code

May 3, 2022 May 3, 2022 05/3/22

Sydney S

An updated version of our PowerShell extension is now available on the Visual Studio Code marketplace. This update represents a complete overhaul of the core PowerShell engine of PowerShell Editor Services, intending to create a more reliable and stable user experience. This release represents nearly two years' work, tracked in PSES #1295 ...

PowerShell Team

Reconfigure Azure DevOps Server to use Kerberos instead of NTLM

May 3, 2022 May 3, 2022 05/3/22

Angel W

Multiple on-prem customers have reported that after upgrading Git LFS to version 3.0 (or higher), they are no longer able to authenticate against Azure DevOps Server. This is because Git LFS has dropped support for NTLM authentication in version 3.0 (Changelog from 24th September 2021). It is also possible to roll back Git LFS to the last 2.x...

Azure DevOps Blog

What are these SIDs of the form S-1-15-3-xxx?

May 3, 2022 May 3, 2022 05/3/22

Raymond C

They are app capability SIDs.

The Old New Thing

YARP 1.1 is here with new requested reverse proxy features

May 2, 2022 May 2, 2022 05/2/22

Sam S

YARP 1.1 has been released. YARP is a highly customizable open-source reverse proxy written for .NET. This release adds a few commonly requested features.

.NET Blog

Azure Quantum challenge at QCHack 2022: Recap

May 2, 2022 May 2, 2022 05/2/22

Mariia M

This April we partnered with IonQ and Quantinuum to offer one of the technical challenges at Quantum Coalition Hackathon 2022. Meet the challenge winners and learn about their projects!

Q# Blog

Case Study: Double performance in under 30 minutes

May 2, 2022 May 2, 2022 05/2/22

Nik K

Summary Recently I was converting some decompression code to C# so that we could use it cross platform and to aid in our team’s effort to migrate our new analysis process to .NET 6. After I got the initial implementation done with the simplest, cleanest code that I could, I proceeded to profile it to make sure I wasn’t doing anything ...