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.NET Core July 2018 Update

July 13, 2018 Jul 13, 2018 07/13/18

John Powell

Today, we are releasing the .NET Core July 2018 Update. This update includes .NET Core 1.0.12, .NET Core 1.1.9, .NET Core 2.0.9 and .NET Core 2.1.2...

General availability of user behavior analytics tools in Azure Application Insights

July 13, 2018 Jul 13, 2018 07/13/18

John Powell

At Microsoft Build 2017, we introduced a set of user behavior analytics tools for Application Insights as a preview. Since then, we’ve listened to your feedback, adding additional capabilities and squashing bugs. We’ve also used these user behavior analytics tools on themselves, finding opportunities to improve your experience without ...

Announcing ML.NET 0.3

July 13, 2018 Jul 13, 2018 07/13/18

John Powell

Two months ago, at //Build 2018, we released ML.NET 0.1, a cross-platform, open source machine learning framework for .NET developers. We’ve gotten great feedback so far and would like to thank the community for your engagement as we continue to develop ML.NET together in the open. We are happy to announce the latest version: ML.NET 0.3...

Supercharging the Git Commit Graph III: Generations and Graph Algorithms

July 13, 2018 Jul 13, 2018 07/13/18

John Powell

Earlier, we announced that Git 2.18 contains a new commit-graph feature, and we discussed the commit-graph file format. As shipped in Git 2.18, this file only speeds up commit walks by a constant multiple, due to parsing structured data from the commit-graph file. Today, we continue by talking about how we can use the idea of a generation ...

Azure.Source – Volume 39

July 11, 2018 Jul 11, 2018 07/11/18

John Powell

Azure Event Hubs and Service Bus VNET Service Endpoints in public preview - Azure Event Hubs and Service Bus joins the growing list of Azure services enabled for Virtual Network Service Endpoints. Virtual Network (VNet) service endpoints extend your virtual network private address space and the identity of your VNet to the Azure services, over...

System.IO.Pipelines: High performance IO in .NET

July 11, 2018 Jul 11, 2018 07/11/18

John Powell

System.IO.Pipelines is a new library that is designed to make it easier to do high performance IO in .NET. It’s a library targeting .NET Standard that works on all .NET implementations. Pipelines was born from the work the .NET Core team did to make Kestrel one of the fastest web servers in the industry. What started as an implementation ...

Introducing Dev Spaces for AKS

July 11, 2018 Jul 11, 2018 07/11/18

John Powell

Today I’m excited to announce the public preview of Dev Spaces for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), an easy way to build and debug applications for Kubernetes – only available on Azure. At Microsoft Build, Scott Hanselman showed how you could use Dev Spaces to quickly debug and fix a single application inside a complex microservices ...

The Xamarin Show: Exploring Awesome Xamarin & Visual Studio Features

July 11, 2018 Jul 11, 2018 07/11/18

John Powell

Each week on The Xamarin Show we explore the latest and greatest in Xamarin development by looking at new features built into Visual Studio, build native cross-platform user interfaces with Xamarin.Forms, and access to native APIs with Xamarin.Essentials. I am also joined by Xamarin experts that show off the awesome beautiful libraries and ...

Supercharging the Git Commit Graph II: File Format

July 11, 2018 Jul 11, 2018 07/11/18

John Powell

Earlier, we announced the commit-graph feature in Git 2.18 and talked about some of its performance benefits. Today, we’ll discuss some if the technical details about how the commit-graph feature works, including some helpful properties of its file format. This file speeds up commit-graph walks so much that we were able to identify other ...