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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 ...

Top News from October-December 2015, Part 2

January 27, 2016 Jan 27, 2016 01/27/16
Visual Studio Blog
In Part 1 of this post I shared news from the fall on Visual Studio, .NET, ASP.NET, and languages. Here I’ll conclude the roll-up with news around Connect(); //2015, cross-platform development,. Visual Studio Code, Windows 10, and a little more. Connect(); //2015: Our second Connect(); event was, to my mind, even more impressive than the ...

Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Update 5

January 21, 2016 Jan 21, 2016 01/21/16
Visual Studio Blog
Welcome to the new year and a new Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO) update! We just released Update 5 of the tools for you—full details are in the release notes—and we’ve created a new developer blog that you can follow to keep up to date with tips, tricks, and articles from our development team.New in Visual ...

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...

Top News for September 2015

October 27, 2015 Oct 27, 2015 10/27/15
Visual Studio Blog
Hello everyone! Every month we share some top stories from the previous month, and here’s our round-up for September. Open-source, cross-platform MSBuild: Continuing the open-source, cross-platform .NET story that is already well underway with .NET Core and the .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”), MSBuild is joining the fun as...

The Road Ahead for the Feedback Channels

October 13, 2015 Oct 13, 2015 10/13/15
Visual Studio Blog
In two earlier posts (Visual Studio Customer Feedback Channels and A Day in the Life of Visual Studio Send a Smile Feedback) we talked about the different ways you could send us feedback for Visual Studio 2015 and I shared what happens with your Send a Smile feedback once it gets to Microsoft. In this post, I’ll talk about how we’...

Introducing U-SQL – A Language that makes Big Data Processing Easy

September 28, 2015 Sep 28, 2015 09/28/15
Visual Studio Blog
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 ...

A Summer of ASP.NET: Catching up with .NET Web Developments

September 24, 2015 Sep 24, 2015 09/24/15
Visual Studio Blog
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 ...

Top News for August 2015

September 14, 2015 Sep 14, 2015 09/14/15
Visual Studio Blog
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 ...