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Using ML.NET for deep learning on images in Azure

May 7, 2020 May 7, 2020 05/7/20

shikhakaul

In March 2020, ML.NET added support for training Image Classification models in Azure. Although the image classification scenario was released in late 2019, users were limited by the resources on their local compute environments. Training in Azure enables users to scale image classification scenarios by using GPU optimized Linux virtual ...

Exposure Notification API Support for Xamarin Apps

May 7, 2020 May 7, 2020 05/7/20

shikhakaul

Last month, Apple and Google announced plans for creating Exposure Notification APIs. By leveraging Bluetooth Low Energy, this help developers implement contact tracing for both iOS and Android. Our team has been tracking the releases of these APIs to ready them for Xamarin developers. Today, we are pleased to announce our first preview of ...

Pure Virtual C++ Conference 2020 Videos and Survey Available

May 7, 2020 May 7, 2020 05/7/20

shikhakaul

The videos of all Pure Virtual C++ 2020 sessions are now available on YouTube...

Configuring Azure Services and emulators using Visual Studio

May 7, 2020 May 7, 2020 05/7/20

shikhakaul

Starting with Visual Studio 16.6 Preview 2 the Connected Services tab offers a new experience called Service Dependencies. You can use it to connect your app to Azure services such as Azure SQL, Storage, Key Vault and many others. Wherever possible local emulation options are also available and more are planned for the future...

Vcpkg 2020.04 Update and Product Roadmap

May 7, 2020 May 7, 2020 05/7/20

shikhakaul

This is the April 2020 blog post on vcpkg, the cross-platform, open source C/C++ library manager. In this post, we will share some information on the 2020.04 release of vcpkg and discuss the vcpkg product roadmap, which we are publishing and will keep up to date over time. To try out vcpkg for yourself and save yourself some time acquiring ...

Introducing Visual Studio Codespaces: cloud-hosted development for wherever you’re working

May 5, 2020 May 5, 2020 05/5/20

shikhakaul

As we’ve all been adopting practices like social distancing and remote working, development teams have become more distributed. Our own team has been facing some of the challenges that are part of this transition, and it has motivated us to double down on our priority to help developers stay productive from anywhere. First, we made remote ...

Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 Release Candidate now available

May 5, 2020 May 5, 2020 05/5/20

shikhakaul

The Blazor WebAssembly Release Candidate is here! This release contains all of the features and improvements that we expect to release for the upcoming Blazor WebAssembly release. There are no more breaking changes planned at this point. Please give the Blazor WebAssembly Release Candidate a try and let us know what you think...

Rust/WinRT Public Preview

May 5, 2020 May 5, 2020 05/5/20

shikhakaul

We are excited to announce that the Rust/WinRT project finally has a permanent and public home on GitHub...

Introducing C# Source Generators

May 5, 2020 May 5, 2020 05/5/20

shikhakaul

We’re pleased to introduce the first preview of Source Generators, a new C# compiler feature that lets C# developers inspect user code and generate new C# source files that can be added to a compilation. This is done via a new kind of component that we’re calling a Source Generator.  ...

Xamarin.Forms 4.6: Material Components, Shell, and the Future

May 5, 2020 May 5, 2020 05/5/20

shikhakaul

Today, we are shipping Xamarin.Forms 4.6 with a host of quality improvements, including several new feature previews. With more controls available “in the box” than ever before, it has never been easier to quickly build quality mobile apps...