C++ developers in Visual Studio can now get their first taste of CodeLens! Specifically, Visual Studio 2017 15.7 Preview 3 Professional and Enterprise editions offer CodeLens for Unit Testing. There are a few ways to initialize CodeLens: •Edit and Build your test project/solution •Rebuild your project/solution •Run test(s) from the Test Explorer W...

Today, we are announcing .NET Core 2.1 Preview 2. The release is now ready for broad testing, as we get closer to a final build within the next two to three months. We’d appreciate any feedback that you have. ASP.NET Core 2.1 Preview 2 and Entity Framework 2.1 Preview 2 are also releasing today. You can download and get started with .NET Core 2.1...

We heard feedback that the current processes for creating secure clusters were complex and time-consuming. Based on your input, we've added the ability to create secure clusters directly from Visual Studio. This update shipped with the latest release of the Service Fabric tooling for Visual Studio 2015 and with Visual Studio 2017 as part of the Azu...

One of the consistent themes that the Dev Center Team hears from the Windows developer community is that first impressions are important. Before launching a new app or game, it’s important to validate that the experience is working perfectly in production. At the same time, many developers may have disclosure concerns and want to control the announ...

In this code story, we will discuss applications of Hierarchical Attention Neural Networks for sequence classification. In particular, we will use our work the domain of malware detection and classification as a sample application. Malware, or malicious software, refers to harmful computer programs such as viruses, ransomware, spyware, adware, and ...

You can now find community driven docker images to try out on Web App for Containers on Github. These images follow best practices for Web app for containers , contain SSH for debugging purposes. How to deploy: These docker images can be found on Docker hub on hub.docker.com/r/appsvcorg. Use the latest tag for the most recent version of the imag...

Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics, listed in no specific order: TOP STORIES •Is there a place for DevOps in desktop software development? Andrei Marukovich raises the question whether the DevOps principles, widely accepted by cloud and Web projects, may benefit desktop ...

Today we are excited to announce the public preview of soft delete for Azure Storage Blobs! The feature is available in all regions, both public and private. When turned on, soft delete enables you to save and recover your data where blobs or blob snapshots are deleted. This protection extends to blob data that is erased as the result of an overwr...

To further our commitment of providing the latest in cloud innovation for each and every one of our customers, we’re excited to announce the availability of Azure Functions in three separate national clouds – China, Germany and United States Government. National or sovereign clouds are physically and logically network-isolated instances of Micros...

This post is the second part of two blog posts describing how to setup a CI/CD pipeline using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) for deploying a Dockerized custom WordPress website working with Azure WebApp for Containers and Azure Database for MySQL. In Deploying WordPress application using Visual Studio Team Services and Azure - part 1 we describ...