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Sep 12, 2018
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Using C++17 Parallel Algorithms for Better Performance

C++17 added support for parallel algorithms to the standard library, to help programs take advantage of parallel execution for improved performance. MSVC first added experimental support for some algorithms in 15.5, and the experimental tag was removed in 15.7.

Sep 12, 2018
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Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 Preview 2

Today, we are releasing the second preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9, and it can be downloaded here. This latest preview contains new features and improvements to Universal Windows Platform development, C++ debugging, and export installation settings. Read more in the feature highlight summary below and check out the Visual Studio 2017 ver...

Sep 12, 2018
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Azure.Source – Volume 48

Now in preview Avere vFXT for Microsoft Azure now in public preview - The Avere vFXT for Azure is a high-performance cache for HPC workloads in the cloud that provides low-latency access to Azure compute from Azure Blob and file-based storage locations. The Avere vFXT for Azure has no charge associated with licensing; however, costs associated with...

Sep 11, 2018
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Introducing Azure DevOps, an evolution of VSTS for modern developers and Enterprise customers

Today we are announcing Azure DevOps. Working with our customers and developers around the world, it’s clear DevOps has become increasingly critical to a team’s success. Azure DevOps captures over 15 years of investment and learnings in providing tools to support software development teams. In the last month, over 80,000 internal Microsoft users an...

Sep 11, 2018
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Announcing Azure Pipelines, a new fully managed CI/CD service with unlimite minutes FREE for open source projects

With the introduction of Azure DevOps today, we’re offering developers a new CI/CD service called Azure Pipelines that enables you to continuously build, test, and deploy to any platform or cloud. It has cloud-hosted agents for Linux, macOS, and Windows, powerful workflows with native container support, and flexible deployments to Kubernetes, VMs, ...

Sep 7, 2018
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Improving your productivity in the Visual Studio Editor

Over the last few updates to Visual Studio 2017, we’ve been hard at work adding new features to boost your productivity while you’re writing code. Many of these are the result of your direct feedback coming from the UserVoice requests, Developer Community tickets, and direct feedback we’ve encountered while talking to developers like you.

Sep 7, 2018
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Managing User Secrets

In this episode, Robert is joined by Andrew Cheung and Alicia Chan, who show how Visual Studio can help you stop storing sensitive data like connection strings and other user secrets in your code. They show how to store secrets locally in json or XML files and how to store them in Azure Key Vault.

Sep 7, 2018
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Introduction to Azure Durable Functions

Azure Durable Functions is a new programming model based on Microsoft serverless’ platform Azure Functions. It allows you to write a workflow as code and have the execution run with the scalability and the reliability of serverless with high throughput.

Sep 7, 2018
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Discover the world of .NET at the .NET Conf

.NET Conf is a FREE, 3 day virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft. Over the course of the three days you have a wide selection of live sessions streaming here that feature speakers from the community and .NET product teams. It's a chance to learn, ask questions live, and get inspired for your next software project.