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Now Available: Access to Source Code & Demos of AI-Infused Apps

March 30, 2018 Mar 30, 2018 03/30/18
App Center Team
The success of enterprises in adopting AI to solve real-world problems hinges on bringing a comprehensive set of AI services, tools and infrastructure to every developer, so they can deliver AI-powered apps of the future that offer unique, differentiated and personalized experiences. In this blog post, we are sharing source code and other ...

How Three Lines of Code and Windows Machine Learning Empower .NET Developers to Run AI Locally on Windows 10 Devices

March 30, 2018 Mar 30, 2018 03/30/18
App Center Team
Artificial Intelligence (AI) with deep learning and machine learning algorithms are changing the way we solve variety of problems from manufacturing to biomedical industries. The applications that can benefit from the power of AI are endless. With the Windows Machine Learning (Windows ML) API, as .NET developers, we can now leverage the ONNX...

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7 Preview 2 now available

March 28, 2018 Mar 28, 2018 03/28/18
App Center Team
Today we released the second preview of the next update: Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7. We hope that you will use this Preview and share your feedback with us. To use the Preview, you can either install it fresh from here, you can update the bits directly from the IDE, or if you have an Azure subscription, you can provision a virtual machine...

Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5 Preview 1 now available

March 28, 2018 Mar 28, 2018 03/28/18
App Center Team
Earlier this month, we released version 7.4 of Visual Studio for Mac, our IDE for developers on macOS who are building mobile, web, and cloud apps. Today, we’re announcing the first preview of Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5, which you can get by changing the updater channel in Visual Studio for Mac to use the Beta channel. In this ...

Announcing Microsoft DirectX Raytracing!

March 28, 2018 Mar 28, 2018 03/28/18
App Center Team
If you just want to see what DirectX Raytracing can do for gaming, check out the videos from Epic, Futuremark and EA, SEED. To learn about the magic behind the curtain, keep reading. 3D Graphics is a Lie For the last thirty years, almost all games have used the same general technique—rasterization—to render images on screen. While the ...

Announcing Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.5, Web API 5.2.5, and Web Pages 3.2.5

March 28, 2018 Mar 28, 2018 03/28/18
App Center Team
Today we released Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.5, Web API 5.2.5, and Web Pages 3.2.5 on NuGet. This is a patch release that contains only bug fixes. You can find the full list of bug fixes for this release in the release notes. To update an existing project to use this preview release run the following commands from the NuGet Package Manager ...

Announcing TypeScript 2.8

March 28, 2018 Mar 28, 2018 03/28/18
App Center Team
TypeScript 2.8 is here and brings a few features that we think you’ll love unconditionally! If you’re not familiar with TypeScript, it’s a language that adds optional static types to JavaScript. Those static types help make guarantees about your code to avoid typos and other silly errors. They can also help provide nice things like code...

Text Recognition for Video in Microsoft Video Indexer

March 28, 2018 Mar 28, 2018 03/28/18
App Center Team
While humans have cognitive abilities that allow them to complete hidden parts of the text and disambiguate local deficiencies resulting from bad video quality, direct application of OCR is not sufficient for automatic text extraction from videos. In Video Indexer, we developed and implemented a dedicated approach to tackle this challenge. In...