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Cognitive Services – Enable Natural Language Interaction with LUIS

January 19, 2017 Jan 19, 2017 01/19/17
Ilya Biryukov [MSFT]
The technological landscape has changed quite radically in recent years. Computing capabilities moved from PCs to smartphones and wearables, while adding even more power to these devices. This advancement in technology has also changed the way we interact with our devices. Physical keyboards have been replaced with software implementations and...

Failure Anomalies alert now detects dependency failures

January 19, 2017 Jan 19, 2017 01/19/17
Ilya Biryukov [MSFT]
We’ve upgraded Smart Detection – Failure Anomalies so that it monitors your web app’s outgoing dependencies and AJAX calls as well as incoming server requests. If you’re monitoring your app with Application Insights, you’ll be notified within minutes if there’s a sudden disruption or degradation in your app’s performance...

New work item form in TFS 2017

January 19, 2017 Jan 19, 2017 01/19/17
Ilya Biryukov [MSFT]
About a year ago we released the new work item form to Visual Studio Team Services. This was the beginning of our vision for managing work items in a more social and visual way. Over the past year, we focused on realizing this vision through continual improvements and listening to customer feedback...

New Year, New PR Goodies

January 17, 2017 Jan 17, 2017 01/17/17
Ilya Biryukov [MSFT]
In our first release of the new year, we’ve included a lot of great pull request features. Let’s take a lap around them to see how they can help improve your workflow...

C++ – Introducing C++/WinRT (MSDN Magazine)

January 17, 2017 Jan 17, 2017 01/17/17
Ilya Biryukov [MSFT]
The Windows Runtime (WinRT) is the technology behind the modern Windows API, and the core of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). The same API can be used across all Windows devices, whether it’s a PC, tablet, HoloLens, phone, Xbox or anything else that runs Windows...

Essential .NET – Essential MSBuild: A Build Engine Overview for .NET Tooling (MSDN Magazine)

January 10, 2017 Jan 10, 2017 01/10/17
Ilya Biryukov [MSFT]
Those of you who have been following .NET Core over the past few years (has it been that long?) know all too well that the “build system” has experienced a significant amount of flux, whether it be dropping built-in support for gulp or the demise of Project.json. For me as a columnist, these changes have been challenging as I didn’t want...

Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup –January 3, 2017

January 10, 2017 Jan 10, 2017 01/10/17
Ilya Biryukov [MSFT]
This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams covering the accomplishments of the team on the new ASP.NET Core framework over the previous week. Join Scott ...