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May 23, 2018
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Power BI and VSTS – Integration made easy

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We are excited to announce an easy-to-use solution for integrating Power BI with VSTS Analytics. You don’t have to know how to write OData queries anymore! Our new feature Analytics views makes getting VSTS work tracking data into Power BI simple, and it works for the largest accounts. Similar to a work items query, an Analytics View specifies fil...

May 23, 2018
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Voronoi Selection for Cancer Drug Network Visualization in Mixed Reality

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Researchers at the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine (EIPM) at Weill Cornell Medicine bring together basic science, medicine, DNA sequencing and big data to deliver the next generation of precision medicine; it is the most promising approach to tackle diseases like cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and rare genetic conditions that have t...

May 23, 2018
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Explore CosmosDB with .NET Core and MongoDB

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Have you had to design general purpose “metadata” tables in your SQL database that basically store column names and values? Do you often serialize/de-serialize XML or JSON from your SQL tables to handle volatile schemas and data? .NET developers have traditionally worked with relational database management systems (RDMS) like SQL Server. RDMS syste...

May 23, 2018
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A Brief History of .NET Standard

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Xamarin (and before that, Mono) allowed .NET code to run on multiple platforms for years. These days, there’s a new push in cross-platform with .NET Core and .NET Standard. This post looks at the history of code sharing in .NET and where cross-platform .NET is going with Core and Standard. History of .NET Standard In the early days of the .NET fr...

May 23, 2018
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Configuring C++ IntelliSense and Browsing

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Whether you are creating a new (or modifying an existing) C++ project using a Wizard, or importing an project into Visual Studio from another IDE, it’s important to configure the project correctly for the IntelliSense and Browsing features to provide accurate information. This article provides some tips on configuring the projects and describes a ...

May 18, 2018
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Playing in the Sandbox: How We Created Minecraft’s Multi-Platform Design

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This is special guest post from Mark Grinols, a development lead on the Minecraft team at Microsoft. A key aspect of Minecraft that players love is the ability to play with family and friends on nearly any platform they choose. Offering this breadth of choice to hundreds of millions of players worldwide is a substantial engineering challenge. I...

May 18, 2018
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IntelliSense for Remote Linux Headers

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In Visual Studio 2017 15.7 Preview 3 we are introducing IntelliSense for headers on remote Linux connections. This is part of the Linux development with C++ workload that you can choose in the Visual Studio installer. If you are just getting started with the C++ Linux support in Visual Studio you can read our C++ Linux tutorial at aka.ms/vslinux. ...

May 18, 2018
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Announcing Babylon.js v3.2

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Babylon.js is an open source framework designed from ground up to help create easy and powerful 3D experiences in your browser or your web apps. Today I’m excited to announce the availability of Babylon v3.2. As usual, our wonderful community helped build a massive list of features and fixes for this release. I highly encourage you to read through...

May 18, 2018
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Get the Azure Quick Start Guide for .NET Developers

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This blog post was co-authored by Barry Luijbregts, Azure MVP. If you’re a .NET developer, we’re excited to introduce a new resource that can help you learn about Azure: The Azure Quick Start Guide for .NET Developers! This guide shows .NET developers how they can start with Azure and get the most out of it. The e-book is also great for .NET deve...