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Introducing R Tools for Visual Studio

March 22, 2016 Mar 22, 2016 03/22/16
John Lam
R is a programming language that is widely used by data scientists, and developers seeking a more powerful tool to work with data. While data scientists use R to write programs, their work product is rarely the program itself. Instead, they produce reports or presentations from the results generated by their R program to help influence or ...

Writing and Using Custom Code in U-SQL – User-Defined Functions

October 28, 2015 Oct 28, 2015 10/28/15
Visual Studio Blog
In my last blog post, I introduced U-SQL as the new Big Data query language for the Azure Data Lake that unifies the benefits of SQL with the expressive power of your own code. Today we are announcing the availability of the Azure Data Lake in public preview. You can now try U-SQL in Visual Studio and run it over massive amounts of data in the...

PyCon 2015 in review

April 22, 2015 Apr 22, 2015 04/22/15
Visual Studio Blog
A couple weeks ago we headed off to PyCon 2015. If you missed PyCon, there is another opportunity to come see us. PyData Seattle is hosted at Microsoft’s Redmond campus in July 24-26. The call for proposals and early-bird registration are still open, so if you’re a data scientist using Python or simply interested in learning about ...

Top News from February 2015

March 5, 2015 Mar 5, 2015 03/5/15
Visual Studio Blog
The Visual Studio team takes great effort to ensure that our developer community is engaged and informed through various social networks, including channels on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc. and as part of the process we gain insights into what you enjoy through your retweets, Facebook likes and shares, and other public opinions of our ...

The C# and Visual Basic Code-Focused IDE Experience

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14
Visual Studio Blog
The new C# and Visual Basic code-focused IDE experience in the Visual Studio 2015 Preview is significantly improved over the experience in Visual Studio 2013 and I’m excited to share some highlights with you. We’ll look at a few key areas: Many of the new and refreshed features that I describe below come to us by way of ...

How to Fix “The application cannot start” Error

October 28, 2009 Oct 28, 2009 10/28/09
Visual Studio Blog
Weston Hutchins – Program Manager, Visual Studio Shell Team Short Bio: I started at Microsoft as an intern in 2005 and have been working in Visual Studio ever since.  I’m currently a PM on the VS Shell Team.  No, not the “Isolated” or “Integrated” Shell, but the core VS IDE – it’s UI and services.  Prior to my ...

How to Fix “The application cannot start” Error

October 28, 2009 Oct 28, 2009 10/28/09
Visual Studio Blog
Weston Hutchins – Program Manager, Visual Studio Shell Team Short Bio: I started at Microsoft as an intern in 2005 and have been working in Visual Studio ever since.  I’m currently a PM on the VS Shell Team.  No, not the “Isolated” or “Integrated” Shell, but the core VS IDE – it’s UI and services.  Prior to my ...