Using the Stream objects correctly can speed up your I/O, protect your files and simplify your code.
The three most common open source technologies for writing data science programs are Python, SciLab, and R. Here's how to write program-defined functions in R.
- By James McCaffrey
- 04/12/2016
A new tool that ingests every piece of Application Insights and turns it into reportable information is now getting its public preview. It's also got a name.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/05/2016
Microsoft offered a preview of Visual Studio '15' at Build last week. And whileit's just not quite ready for prime time, it's got an impressive number of changes with practically every tool in it that demand developer attention.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/05/2016
It's limited what VSDE member can do with it. Also: SQL Server 2016, when released later this year, will also be free.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/01/2016
The second day of Build highlighted the "cloud-first" part of Microsoft's mission. Plus: Xamarin is set free and is open sourced.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/31/2016
A newer version of the R programming language extension is available, with a few more new features as well as updated documentation and help.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/22/2016
When you need to share a list of specific information between asynchronous processes, you probably need the ConcurrentDictionary. Except, of course, when you don't.
Save 35 percent on developer titles when purchasing books or downloading e-books directly from the Microsoft Press Store. Sale ends March 31.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/17/2016
Microsoft R and R Server features are accessible almost directly through the Visual Studio IDE, with the new R Tools for Visual Studio plugin.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/10/2016
Microsoft Build doesn't have the build up of, say, a major release of Visual Studio, to attract attendees, so why does it sell out? It's all about networking.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/09/2016
Microsoft's Scott Guthrie said that the company's RDBMS could be running on the Linux platform some time in 2017. He plans to preview a new SQL Server Stretch Database service at a New York event this week.
The company has been putting a year's worth of work porting its open source Web database management system to the Windows platform.
When your goal is 99.999-percent uptime, there's a small crack in the window for downtime. That happened with Visual Studio Team Services last week. And it happened within a span of two days.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/09/2016
The Windows-based Big Data tools and frameworks suite adds support for Apache Spark, Apache HBase and Scientific Python.