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June 2019 - Visual Studio news feed

Auditing for Azure DevOps is now in Public Preview

June 27, 2019 Jun 27, 2019 06/27/19
Shikha Kaul
We’re excited to announce that Auditing for Azure DevOps is now available for all organizations as a Public Preview! As Azure DevOps keeps growing and is adopted by enterprises, our customers have been demanding for the ability to monitor activities and changes throughout their organizations...

Visual Studio tips and tricks

June 27, 2019 Jun 27, 2019 06/27/19
Shikha Kaul
Whether you are new or have been using Visual Studio for years, there are a bunch of tips and tricks that can make you more productive. We’ve been sharing tips on Twitter using the #vstip hashtag for a while, and this is a collection of the best ones so far...

Migrating MacOS Apps to 64-bit Before the Apple Transition

June 27, 2019 Jun 27, 2019 06/27/19
Shikha Kaul
Apple has been moving towards 64-bit only applications on macOS for a number of releases. Last June, Apple started requiring Apps on the macOS App Store to be 64-bit only and macOS 10.13.4 and above prompt when launching 32-bit applications...

Simplify Your Code With Rocket Science: C++20’s Spaceship Operator

June 27, 2019 Jun 27, 2019 06/27/19
Shikha Kaul
C++20 adds a new operator, affectionately dubbed the “spaceship” operator: . There was a post awhile back by our very own Simon Brand detailing some information regarding this new operator along with some conceptual information about what it is and does.  The goal of this post is to explore some concrete applications of this strange new ...

Announcing the general availability of Azure premium files

June 27, 2019 Jun 27, 2019 06/27/19
Shikha Kaul
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Azure premium files for customers optimizing their cloud-based file shares on Azure. Premium files offers a higher level of performance built on solid-state drives (SSD) for fully managed file services in Azure...

Microsoft’s MT-DNN Achieves Human Performance Estimate on General Language Understanding Evaluation (GLUE) Benchmark

June 25, 2019 Jun 25, 2019 06/25/19
Shikha Kaul
Understanding natural language is one of the longest running goals of AI, which can trace back to 1950s when the Turing test defines an “intelligent” machine. In recent years, we have observed promising results in many Natural Language Understanding (NLU) tasks both in academia and industry, as the breakthroughs in deep learning are ...

Faster Xamarin.Android Builds & Smaller Dex Files

June 25, 2019 Jun 25, 2019 06/25/19
Shikha Kaul
One of our current focus areas in Xamarin.Android is build performance. The “inner dev loop” directly impacts developer productivity–the time it takes to make a small code change and see the result on a device or emulator. Reevaluating parts of Xamarin.Android’s codebase has been how we’ve been able to make progress...

Retrieving data. Wait a few seconds and try to cut or copy again.

June 25, 2019 Jun 25, 2019 06/25/19
Shikha Kaul
This guide will show you how to fix Typescript compile errors in Javascript project that recently added Typescript support via a . It assumes that the  is configured according to the description in part 1 of this post, and that you also installed types for some of your dependencies from the  namespace. This guide is more of a list of ...