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Oct 19, 2018
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Using .NET Hardware Intrinsics API to accelerate machine learning scenarios

Shikha Kaul

Hello everyone! This summer I interned in the .NET team, working on ML.NET, an open-source machine learning platform which enables .NET developers to build and use machine learning models in their .NET applications. The ML.NET 0.6 release just shipped and you can try it out today.

Oct 17, 2018
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Introducing ‘Suggest a Feature’ in Developer Community

Shikha Kaul

Customer feedback is a critical input to help us improve Visual Studio. Up until two years ago, the Visual Studio customer feedback system left room for improvement - customers could use the "send a smile" feature in Visual Studio, but this would result in only coarse-grained feedback such as "I like this" or "I don't like this." The feedback we g...

Oct 17, 2018
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Announcing ML.NET 0.6 (Machine Learning .NET)

Shikha Kaul

Today we're announcing our latest monthly release: ML.NET 0.6! ML.NET is a cross-platform, open source machine learning framework for .NET developers. We want to enable every .NET developer to train and use machine learning models in their applications and services. If you haven't tried ML.NET yet, here's how you can get started!

Oct 17, 2018
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A fast, serverless, big data pipeline powered by a single Azure Function

Shikha Kaul

A single Azure function is all it took to fully implement an end-to-end, real-time, mission critical data pipeline. And it was done with a serverless architecture. Serverless architectures simplify the building, deployment, and management of cloud scale applications. Instead of worrying about data infrastructure like server procurement, configurati...

Oct 17, 2018
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Upgrade Your App with Sentiment Analysis (Xamarin)

Shikha Kaul

Understanding the sentiment of an email or text message can be difficult. Someone may send a message, intending for it to be encouraging, but it may be accidentally interpreted as mean or condescending. Luckily, Microsoft's Text Analytics Service can help avoid any confusion.

Oct 12, 2018
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Announcing ASP.NET SignalR 2.4.0 Preview 1

Shikha Kaul

We recently released the first preview of the upcoming 2.4.0 release of ASP.NET SignalR. As we mentioned in our previous blog post on the future of ASP.NET SignalR we are releasing a new minor update to ASP.NET SignalR (the version of SignalR for System.Web and/or OWIN-based applications) that includes, support for the Azure SignalR Service, as wel...

Oct 12, 2018
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Update on .NET Core 3.0 and .NET Framework 4.8

Shikha Kaul

In May, we announced .NET Core 3.0, the next major version of .NET Core that adds support for building desktop applications using WinForms, WPF, and Entity Framework 6. We also announced some exciting updates to .NET Framework which enable you to use the new modern controls from UWP in existing WinForms and WPF applications.

Oct 12, 2018
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Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 Preview 3

Shikha Kaul

Today, we are releasing the third preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9. You can download it here and share your feedback with our engineering teams. This release includes ARM64 support in UWP apps as well as improvements to Xamarin and TypeScript. Continue reading below for an overview the fixes and new features. If you'd like to see the full...

Oct 12, 2018
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Testing Xamarin Applications with Visual Studio App Center

Shikha Kaul

Frequent testing of your software is a key to success. As mentioned in my previous article "Mobile CI/CD 101" it's not easy to cover an entire mobile application with just regular unit tests. Most mobile applications depend on the user interface and platform-specific features that make true Test-Driven Design (TDD) with solely unit tests extremely ...