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September 15, 2020
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We just released the new Azure Tables client libraries beta! In this post, we'll introduce you to the new libraries and show you how to get started.
September 15, 2020
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The new Azure Event Grid client library now supports sending and receiving events in the JSON implementation of CloudEvents v1.0. Read on to learn more about the CloudEvents v1.0 schema, and how you can now use Event Grid to work with CloudEvents!
September 15, 2020
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How to support bulk updates in Azure Cosmos DB with Optimistic concurrency control. In this sample, we use Core (SQL) API to bulk update vertices in a graph hosted in Gremlin API!
September 15, 2020
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One of the most significant changes we’ve made in PIX-2008.26 has been to make the GPU capture process focus on capturing GPU work rather than API calls. This blog post will explain how PIX used to work, describe some of the drawbacks with this approach, how it works now, and the benefits we get from it. Hopefully, you’ll find this ...
September 14, 2020
Sep 14, 2020
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We’re excited to announce the first generally available release of the C++ extension for Visual Studio Code! Visual Studio Code is a free code editor that runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows, and is highly-customizable to make it exactly what you want it to be. The C++ extension brings a rich set of productivity features to VS Code for C++ ...
September 14, 2020
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Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview 3 comes with a huge collection of updates for C++ programmers. Download today to try out new additions in conformance, performance, and productivity. C++20 We’ve improved support for major C++20 features across our compiler, standard library, and IDE. You can now use Modules, Concepts, Coroutines, ...
September 14, 2020
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In Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview 3 we added the ability to debug Linux core dumps on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) or a remote Linux system directly from Visual Studio. This support is specific to the “Native Only" debugger type for unmanaged C++ code. We understand that some teams develop on Windows but deploy to both...
September 14, 2020
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Please see our Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview 3 release notes for more of our latest features. It's been a long journey for coroutines in C++ and in MSVC. We announced an early preview of resumable functions in 2013, followed up by the /await switch and initial C++ standardization proposals in 2014, to proposal revisions in 2015, ...
September 14, 2020
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Please see our Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview 3 release notes for more of our latest features. It has been some time since our last update regarding C++ Modules conformance. The toolset, project system, and IDE teams have been hard at work to create a first class C++ Modules experience in Visual Studio 2019. There is a lot to share...
September 14, 2020
Sep 14, 2020
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Please see our Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview 3 release notes for more of our latest features. Our team is happy to announce that C11 and C17 are becoming supported language versions in the MSVC compiler toolset starting with Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview 3! For many years Visual Studio has only supported C to the ...
