Try the new System.Text.Json APIs
For .NET Core 3.0, we’re shipping a brand new namespace called System.Text.Json with support for a reader/writer, a document object model (DOM), and a serializer. In this blog post, I’m telling you why...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.1 is now available (and a Preview for 8.2)
Today, we are excited to announce the release of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.1 along with the first preview of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.2. Both releases contain exciting new...
View ArticleAnnouncing Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 6 and Entity Framework 6.3...
New previews of the next versions of EF Core and EF 6 are now available on NuGet.Org. What is new in EF Core 3.0 Preview 6 In recent months, a lot of our efforts have been focused on a new LINQ...
View ArticleTop Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.06.14
I’m back home this week in England – and after week in sunny Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina (and before that, a week in even sunnier New Orleans), the cold rain has me stuck inside in the office. But...
View ArticleFun with R and the Noops
Earlier this week, Github introduced Noops, a collection of simple black-box machines with API endpoints, with the goal of challenging developers of all skill levels to solve problems with them. Five...
View ArticleFun with R and the Noops
Earlier this week, Github introduced Noops, a collection of simple black-box machines with API endpoints, with the goal of challenging developers of all skill levels to solve problems with them. Five...
View ArticleBootstrapping Azure DevOps extensions with Yeoman
Azure DevOps has evolved over the last several years, which has resulted in many improvements to the extension landscape. Many engineering teams use this extension functionality heavily to customize...
View ArticleHow to Upgrade to Typescript Without Anybody Noticing, Part 1
This guide will show you how to upgrade to TypeScript without anybody noticing. Well, people might notice — what I really mean is that you won’t have to change your build at all. You’ll have the...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Visual Studio Code Installer for Java
It’s been almost 3 years since the first Java language server was developed during a hackathon in a small conference room at Microsoft’s Zurich office with people from Red Hat, IBM, Codenvy and...
View ArticleMaking a tiny .NET Core 3.0 entirely self-contained single executable
I've always been fascinated by making apps as small as possible, especially in the .NET space. No need to ship any files - or methods - that you don't need, right? I've blogged about optimizations you...
View ArticleAzure.Source – Volume 87
News and updates Microsoft FHIR Server for Azure extends to SQL Since the launch of the open source FHIR Server for Azure on GitHub last November, we have been humbled by the tremendously positive...
View ArticleAzure Stack IaaS – part ten
This blog is co-authored by Andrew Westgarth, Senior Program Manager, Azure Stack Journey to PaaS One of the best things about running your VMs in Azure or Azure Stack is you can begin to modernize...
View ArticleMicrosoft and Truffle partner to bring a world-class experience to blockchain...
Last month, Microsoft released Azure Blockchain Service making it easy for anyone to quickly setup and manage a blockchain network and providing a foundation for developers to build a new class of...
View ArticleAzure Marketplace new offers – Volume 39
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 136 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Applications ACR Lift...
View ArticleAzure Security Expert Series: Best practices from Ann Johnson
June 19th 10 am – 11 am PT (1 pm – 2 pm ET) With more computing environments moving to the cloud, the need for stronger cloud security has never been greater. But what constitutes effective cloud...
View ArticleWhy hospitality industry leaders are focusing on employee engagement to...
It’s an exciting time for the hospitality and tourism industries as technology transforms the way companies empower their employees and serve their guests. Learn how Microsoft is enabling intelligent...
View ArticleAnnouncing the preview of Microsoft Azure Bastion
For many customers around the world, securely connecting from the outside to workloads and virtual machines on private networks can be challenging. Exposing virtual machines to the public Internet to...
View ArticleUsing Azure Search custom skills to create personalized job recommendations
This blog post was co-authored by Kabir Khan, Software Engineer II , Learning Engineering Research and Developement. The Microsoft Worldwide Learning Innovation lab is an idea incubation lab within...
View ArticlePowerPoint AI gets an upgrade and Designer surpasses a major milestone of 1...
Today, we’re excited to announce a major milestone in PowerPoint Designer usage, new Designer capabilities, and that our AI effort is moving beyond Designer with our new Presenter Coach. The post...
View ArticleBuilding hybrid applications with the WebView2 developer preview
Last month at Build, we introduced the new WebView2 coming to Windows, powered by the upcoming Chromium-based Microsoft Edge. Today, we’re releasing a new update to the WebView2 SDK, and with it we’re...
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