Showing archive results for March 2018

TypeScript 2.8 is here and brings a few features that we think you’ll love unconditionally! If you’re not familiar with TypeScript, it’s a language that adds optional static types to JavaScript. Those static types help make guarantees about your code to avoid typos and other silly errors. They can also help provide nice things like code completion...

While humans have cognitive abilities that allow them to complete hidden parts of the text and disambiguate local deficiencies resulting from bad video quality, direct application of OCR is not sufficient for automatic text extraction from videos. In Video Indexer, we developed and implemented a dedicated approach to tackle this challenge. In this...

Today, I am excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL. The GA milestone means that, starting today, these services are bringing the community versions of MySQL and PostgreSQL with built-in high availability, a 99.99% availability SLA, elastic scaling for performance, and industry...

I am extremely excited to announce the latest update of the UWP Community Toolkit, v2.2. The credit for this release, as always, goes to the community, who have continued to support and improve the toolkit for each release. V2.2 introduces a new Parsers package, new controls and helpers, and many improvements and bug fixes to existing APIs. Below ...

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Today we have released the first preview of our next update to Visual Studio 2017. You will see a notification in Visual Studio within the next few days, or you can download the new installer from visualstudio.com. In this post, we're going to look at some of the new features we have added for Python developers. As always, the preview is a way for...

At Microsoft, we’re making huge investments in AI and Machine Learning across the company. AI capabilities in Office 365 help subscribers with productivity at work, intelligent features in the Photos app for Windows 10 make it easier for people to create videos and search through massive photo collections, and Windows Hello uses AI to recognize you...

Today we’re excited to announce and get some early feedback with TypeScript 2.8’s Release Candidate. To get started with the RC, you can access it through NuGet, or use npm with the following command: npm install -g typescript@rc TypeScript 2.8 introduces a new construct called conditional types. This new construct is based on JavaScript’s condit...

As part of our engineering processes in Microsoft, we often share best practices and stories of change across the engineering teams in the company. At our latest internal engineering conference as I listened in to sessions, I was struck by the sheer scale of the effort the Windows and Devices Group (WDG) undertook and the problems they’ve solved us...

We’re happy to announce that Service Fabric is going open source under the MIT license and over the coming months we will be transitioning to a completely open development process on GitHub. We've heard from many of you about the importance of being able to participate in the development and direction of the platform that you depend on to run your...