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Introducing U-SQL – A Language that makes Big Data Processing Easy
Microsoft announced the new Azure Data Lake services for analytics in the cloud that includes a hyper-scale repository, a new analytics service built on YARN that allows data developers and data scientists to analyze all data, and HDInsight, a fully managed Hadoop, Spark, Storm and HBase service. Azure Data Lake Analytics includes U-SQL, a language that unifies the benefits of SQL with the expressive power of your own code. U-SQL’s scalable distributed query capability enables you to efficiently analyze data in the store and across relational stores such as Azure SQL Database. In this blog post I will outli...
A Summer of ASP.NET: Catching up with .NET Web Developments
Summer 2015 has come and gone (in the northern hemisphere at least!), and four releases of ASP.NET have hit the internet in that time. With the Visual Studio 2015 release in July the team released ASP.NET 4.6, a major update for our ASP.NET frameworks and tooling. Additionally, ASP.NET 5 beta 5 was released with Visual Studio 2015 so that developers could start to explore the new development framework. With several updates to ASP.NET 5 since that date, and the introduction of the new ASP.NET web hooks tools, there are many new features and capabilities to explore. In this post, we’ll focus on the newest fea...
Survey: Are you using the Tools for Apache Cordova?
In July, we released the first version of our Tools for Apache Cordova. Since then we’ve been busy improving the tools, focusing on issues reported by our users. We’ve also talked with many, many developers about these tools and Cordova development in general, to see how we can make the mobile development world a little bit better for you. Thanks to everyone who’s talked with us in email, over the phone, or online in the past couple months. If we haven’t talked to you yet, we’d like to – and here’s your opportunity to tell us who you are and how you’re using the too...
WinTools 1.1, TypeScript 1.6 RTM, and Tools for Apache Cordova Updates
We’ve just released updates to several tools, along with something new for developers working with the Apache Cordova CLI. Tools for Universal Windows apps (v1.1). This update addresses a number of key issues reported by you in Visual Studio 2015 RTM including several .NET Native fixes, an updated NuGet release (v3.2), and fixes related to the XAML designer, unit testing and the debugger. You can build and submit apps to the Universal Windows Store using these tools right away. For a more detailed list of changes in this release, see the Release Notes . To update to Visual Studio Tools for Universal Window...
Top News for August 2015
Hello everyone! Every month we share some top stories from the previous month, and here’s our round-up for August. DevOps tops the list this month! Brian Harry leads the way with his announcement on Visual Studio Online’s September pricing and licensing changes (short read: a new less expensive, tiered pricing model went into effect September 1st) , along with a refresh of the Visual Studio Online Features Timeline and his Visual Studio Online/TFS Feature timeline—the UserVoice version post. Jeremy Epling also shared Git Experiences Futures, which includes pull requests in Visual Studio, easier...
Unity 5.2 and Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.1
A few months back we announced a partnership with Unity. This makes it easier for game developers to use the rich capabilities of the Visual Studio IDE for building Unity games and to discover the tools for Unity from within Visual Studio. If you don’t already know about the Visual Studio Tools for Unity, check out the Visual Studio Tools for Unity page on visualstudio.com. With the release of Unity 5.2 (Unity's blog post announcing Unity 5.2) and Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.1 today, we’re really excited to share with you some of the results of this partnership. Visual Studio is the new default Unity scri...
Visual Studio 2012 Update 5 RTM Released
On August 24th we released Visual Studio 2012 Update 5 RTM. This update is also available through the MSDN Subscriber Downloads. In Team Foundation Server 2015 we introduced a new feature Team Project Rename. This update for Visual Studio 2012 is primarily focused on the ability to update local workspaces after a team project is renamed. The Visual Studio 2012 Update 5 KB has more information on this as well as some issues we fixed. As always, please give us your feedback, either by sharing suggestions, thoughts, and ideas on our UserVoice site, or by filing a bug through the in-product Send-a-Smile UI or t...
Top Azure News for Visual Studio Developers – August 2015
A lot has happened on the Azure side of the house in the last couple of months. We wanted to give you some of the highlights in case you aren’t already following the Azure blog, focusing especially on items that are most relevant to developers using Visual Studio. Using App Service Web Apps Continuous Deployment with GitHub Organizations. You might have already enjoyed the continuous deployment feature of Azure App Service when a web app is tied to a GitHub account. I know it came in very handy for the Visual Studio 2015 Product Guide, because it meant never having to think about deployment again. We&rsquo...
A Day in the Life of Visual Studio Send a Smile Feedback
Last time we talked about the Feedback Tools in Visual Studio 2015 RTM and I shared how you can send us feedback. In this post, I am going to share what happens to the feedback after you send it to us. There are two key goals that we have for the feedback that you share: The action taken could be any of these listed below (and I will elaborate on these in the post below): We get a LOT of feedback on Visual Studio. To give you some idea of the volume, we have already received over 10,000 Send a Smile feedback items for VS2015 alone since we released on July 20! To ensure your feedback do...