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Azure.Source – Volume 37

June 27, 2018 Jun 27, 2018 06/27/18
John Powell
Microsoft deepens its commitment to Apache Hadoop and open source analytics - Last week, Hortonworks hosted the DataWorks Summit in San Jose, California, which is billed as the world’s premier big data community event for everything data. This post provides a rollup of Azure HDInsight info and reflects on the progress made since the start of...

Supercharging the Git Commit Graph (VSTS)

June 27, 2018 Jun 27, 2018 06/27/18
John Powell
Have you ever run and waited a few seconds before the window appears? Have you struggled to visualize your commit history into a sane order of contributions instead of a stream of parallel work? Have you ever run a force-push and waited seconds for Git to give any output? You may be having performance issues due to the number of commits in ...

The RyuJIT transition is complete! (.NET)

June 23, 2018 Jun 23, 2018 06/23/18
App Center Team
RyuJIT is the code name for the .NET just-in-time compiler, one of the foundational components of the .NET runtime. In contrast, the Roslyn C# compiler compiles C# code to IL byte code. The RyuJIT compiler compiles IL byte code to machine code for multiple processors. With the recent merge of the dotnet/coreclr #18064 pull request, the ...

AI Lab: Learn to Code with the Cutting-Edge Microsoft AI Platform

June 23, 2018 Jun 23, 2018 06/23/18
App Center Team
Among our exciting announcements at //Build, one of the things I was thrilled to launch is the AI Lab – a collection of AI projects designed to help developers explore, experience, learn about and code with the latest Microsoft AI Platform technologies. What is AI Lab? AI Lab helps our large fast-growing community of developers get started...

Staying up-to-date with .NET Container Images

June 23, 2018 Jun 23, 2018 06/23/18
App Center Team
This post describes the container images that we produce and update for you, that you can use with Docker, Kubernetes and other systems. When you are using .NET and Docker together, you are probably using the official .NET container images from Microsoft. We’ve made many improvements over the last year to the .NET images that make it easier ...

New Navigation for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)

June 23, 2018 Jun 23, 2018 06/23/18
App Center Team
I’m excited to share the new navigation we’re working on for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to modernize the user experience and give you more flexibility. As Lori mentioned in her blog post, our goal to create an integrated suite that also gives the flexibly to pick and choose the services that work best for you. That goal is a common...

Container Tooling for Service Fabric in Visual Studio 2017

June 23, 2018 Jun 23, 2018 06/23/18
App Center Team
The latest version of the Service Fabric tools, which is part of Visual Studio 2017 Update 7 (15.7), includes the new container tooling for Service Fabric feature. This new feature makes debugging and deploying existing applications, in containers, on Service Fabric easier than ever before. You can now take an existing console or ASP.NET ...