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The February release of SQL Operations Studio is now available
We are excited to announce the February release of SQL Operations Studio is now available. Download SQL Operations Studio and review the Release Notes to get started. SQL Operations Studio is a data management tool that enables you to work with SQL Server, Azure SQL DB and SQL DW from Windows, macOS and Linux. To learn more, visit our GitHub.
Diagnosing Errors on your .NET Cloud Apps
One of the most frustrating experiences is when you have your app working on your local machine, but when you publish it it’s inexplicably failing. Fortunately, Visual Studio provides handy features for working with apps running in Azure. In this blog I’ll show you how to leverage the capabilities of Cloud Explorer to diagnose issues in Azure. If you’re interested in developing apps in the cloud, we’d love to hear from you. Please take a minute to complete our one question survey. Prerequisites – If you want to follow along, you’ll need Visual Studio 2017 with Azure development workload installed. – This blog ...
Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2018 Update 1 RTM is now available
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” feature release will be TFS 2018.2 – due in the May timeframe. I wrote at some length in the 2018.1 RC post on how to think about this release and our update cadence moving forward. I won’t try to repeat all of that here.
Looking for Buddybuild Alternatives? Try App Center
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 solid Android, iOS, and React Native CI/CD solution to help you get up and running quickly, allowing you to focus on what's most important: creating great app experiences. Why App Center is the Right Choice for You App Center provides support for Android, iOS, React Nativ...
Vcpkg: introducing installation options with Feature Packages (C++ team blog)
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 specify different options (features). Lots of open source libraries offer different options and features to select at build time. For example, you may want to build OpenCV with CUDA to utilize the GPU or build HDF5 with MSMPI to enable parallel execution. Previously you neede...
.NET Framework February 2018 Security and Quality Rollup
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 part of the January 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup.
Machine Learning in .NET – Help us build the right experience!
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 forward we want to democratize this capability for all .NET developers. With this vision in mind, we in the .NET team are currently trying to understand common cases of how you are exploring ML and AI. Please tell us about your scenarios and get involved through the survey ...
C++ Core Check in Visual Studio 2017 15.6 Preview 2
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 be found here: C++ Core Check in Visual Studio 2017 15.6 Preview 2: Integer Overflow Rules C++ Core Check in Visual Studio 2017 15.6 Preview 2: Lifetime Rules C++ Core Guidelines Checker Reference This release also has general improvements in user experience for native ...
Vcpkg: Introducing the upgrade command (C++ team blog)
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 command will perform all the necessary tasks: removing old version, purging outdated libraries, and then automatically installing the newest version of each library, including its dependencies.