Get the latest information, insights, announcements, and news from Microsoft.
May 28, 2020May 28, 202005/28/20
The use of templates in C++ programs can sometimes lead to longer builds. C++ Build Insights puts tools at your disposal for analyzing template usage patterns and their associated impact on build time. In this article, we show you how to use the vcperf analysis tool and the C++ Build Insights SDK to understand and fix problematic template patt
May 28, 2020May 28, 202005/28/20
App Dev Manager Dipanjan Ghanti shares an example of how to frame a multi-vendor SLA based on business availability. Introduction Enterprises often run business critical applications that are supported by multiple vendors. While each vendor takes responsibility for their component’s availability, the need to tie it up with the overal
May 28, 2020May 28, 202005/28/20
App Dev Manager Kamal Yuvaraj explores an approach for merging Dynamics CRM solutions with your DevOps implementation. How do I merge solutions in CRM? How do I perform feature-based deployment in Dynamics CRM? These are a few frequently asked questions when I am presenting DevOps for CRM talks or asked about my post on “Continuous In
May 28, 2020May 28, 202005/28/20
We know how time consuming it can be to quickly set up continuous integration and continuous deployment workflows (CI/CD) for your WPF and Windows Forms desktop applications. That's why, in cooperation with the GitHub Actions team, we have released a starter workflow in GitHub to help you quickly set up and showcase DevOps for your appl
May 28, 2020May 28, 202005/28/20
This is the last in a ten-part blog series where we’ll demonstrate principles of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification aligned with Microsoft Azure. In previous blogs in the series we’ve explored access control, audit & accountability maturity, asset & configuration management, identification & authentication, incident
May 28, 2020May 28, 202005/28/20
C++ template metaprogramming is like writing a program in Prolog without a debugger. The compiler executes your metaprogram by running through a bunch of pattern-matching rules. But unlike Prolog, the C++ template metaprogramming language doesn't have a debugger. You just feed your code to the compiler, and you get a few possible results:
May 28, 2020May 28, 202005/28/20
Introduction Customers often need to move a dataset from a source system into a new destination, inserting rows that doesn't exist in a target table and update with new values those where a given key already exists. This scenario is usually referred as "upsert", and can be very time consuming if executed row by row on 10s or 100s of thousands
May 27, 2020May 27, 202005/27/20
A new live broadcast directly from the Visual Studio team (my garage to be exact) is now streaming near you every Thursday morning. It's about everything Visual Studio and you get rare insights into the inner workings of features, processes, and the people that make it all happen. This is like being in the machine room and you get to see and h
May 27, 2020May 27, 202005/27/20
App Dev Manager Wesam Darwish shares some personal productivity tips to help you take back control of your day. Have you started your week with a plan, or a list of tasks that need to be done, only to end the week with a much bigger list? With all the interruptions that are common in a day (email, IM, phone call, meeting action items)
May 27, 2020May 27, 202005/27/20
We saw a little while ago that the SettingsIdentifier property of the various file pickers lets you give names to your pickers. Those work for the Windows Runtime pickers, but what if you're using the old-fashioned Win32 pickers? There is an analogous feature in the Win32 file and folder pickers: You can call the IFileDialog::SetClient
