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Today we released the final build of Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 1. The key links are: •TFS 2018.1 Release notes •TFS 2018.1 Web installer •TFS 2018.1 ISO image •TFS 2018.1 Express edition Web installer •TFS 2018.1 Express edition ISO image This release is primarily bug fixes for important issues and a few select features. The next “big” ...

With Buddybuild dropping Android support in March, we'd love for you to explore Visual Studio App Center as an option for your new home if you're one of the many Android developers searching for an alternative cloud-based Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) service. Built for all developers and backed by Microsoft, we have a soli...

We are happy to announce a new feature for vcpkg in version 0.0.103: Feature Packages. Vcpkg is a package manager to help acquiring and building open source libraries on Windows; vcpkg currently offers over 600 C++ libraries available for VS2017 and VS2015. With Feature Packages you have more control over how you build a library as you can specif...

Today, we are releasing the February 2018 Security and Quality Rollup. Security No new security fixes. See .NET Framework January 2018 Security and Quality Rollup for the latest security updates. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. It includes the same quality improvements that were ...

In the past few years, Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have paved the road for building smarter applications through advancements in speech recognition, computer vision, intelligent search and much more. So far the ability to build models has largely been limited to data scientists, as a part of the .NET platform moving forwa...

Visual Studio 2017 15.6 Preview 2 includes a set of updates to the C++ Core Guidelines Check extension. We added more checks to help with the effort of making code cleaner, more secure and maintainable. This document is a quick overview of the new rules. More detailed information about these rules as well as an updated list of available rules can b...

We recently added a new option to vcpkg (i.e. vcpkg contact –survey) to provide a direct way to share your feedback with the Vcpkg team. A big thank you to those of you that shared your thoughts and suggestions with the team through this new channel. The new upgrade command we’re introducing today is a result of your direct feedback. This new comm...

In our most recent post, the Visual Studio team announced the availability of Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.6 Preview 4. Today, I’m excited to announce you can now access the latest Visual Studio previews in the Azure Marketplace. Just boot a virtual machine and off you go with the very latest features (standard VM charges will still apply). Wit...

The Bing Maps team is pleased to announce the availability of our complete asset tracking solution for small fleets. The solution was previewed in September at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando and is now available for download and customization. The Bing Maps Fleet Tracker solution includes the Azure based backend of services and storage, a web interfa...

If you are building an IoT solution in the cloud, chances are your focus is on the devices and what you can accomplish with them. You might want to process data coming from a network of devices in real time, analyze the data to gain insights, get alerted for special conditions, manage the devices themselves, and so on. What is less interesting to y...