Configuration as code is coming to Microsoft’s Azure-hosted workstations, allowing us to use WinGet, YAML files, and PowerShell DSC to deliver ready-to-run toolchains to developers.
Bundled with Windows 11, Power Automate for Windows lets you wrap low-code workflows around your desktop applications. A new SDK supports custom actions.
Microsoft’s open-source, hardware-aware optimization tool for ONNX models is an essential part of its AI application development tool chain.
The addition of MQTT protocol support paves the way to bringing SCADA control systems and other industrial IoT deployments to Azure. Here’s how to get started.
Microsoft has introduced a spectrum of new tools to make it easier to customize and focus the output of GPT-based AI models. Cosmos DB plays an important role.
Microsoft’s open-source KubeAI Application Nucleus is a low-touch, Kubernetes-based system for building and running machine learning applications for edge devices.
How much will Kubernetes cost to run? That question has become much easier to answer for Azure Kubernetes Service, thanks to OpenCost integration.
Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel SDK makes it easier to manage complex prompts and get focused results from large language models like GPT.
Add REST and GraphQL APIs to any database with a handy .NET CLI tool.
Microsoft is working to bring open source machine learning models into Azure applications and services.
Microsoft’s open source tool helps you write code to work with generative AI, ensuring results give correct information and stay on topic.
Old languages never die, they just get ported to a new runtime. Here’s a look at a new open source project for .NET that can help modernize Cobol.
Microsoft’s Azure-hosted OpenAI language models are now generally available, and it’s surprisingly simple to use them in your code.
GitHub Pages lets you manage content exactly the same way you manage code, pushing from content development branches to main to publish new content. It’s a great way to ensure that code and documentation are delivered side by side.
Inside one of the technologies that powers Azure Kubernetes Service’s WebAssembly support, and promises to make applications portable across clouds and other hosts.
With Cadl, you can write a 500-line OpenAPI definition in 50 lines of code. It’s a logical way for architects and developers to construct and constrain APIs.
WebAssembly is ideal for cloud-native apps. A shift from Krustlets to runwasi should simplify managing Wasm nodes in Azure Kubernetes Service.
Microsoft’s Azure incubation team is experimenting with blockchain technologies. Can the company make them ready for the enterprise?
November means it’s time for a new .NET release. What’s in .NET 7 for the cloud and for containers? Cross-platform support and cloud-native functionality.
With Arm developer hardware now shipping, Windows is ready to embrace an NPU-powered AI future.
Microsoft is using its Ignite event to expand Azure’s role as its developer cloud, offering an isolated, configurable development platform.
Microsoft has finally unveiled its Arm-hosted virtual machines, a lower-power option for your cloud-native code.
How to install and configure the fast and lightweight container host Linux distribution for Azure Kubernetes Service and the Microsoft Container Registry.
Microsoft is updating how you build Visual Studio extensions, with new APIs and the ability to run extensions outside of the Visual Studio process.
This alternative to Internet Information Services, which Microsoft uses for its own services, delivers modern dynamic web applications on common server platforms or in containers.
Microsoft’s own experience with Microsoft 365 shows that moving to cloud-native is possible, even when you have a lot of code to move.
A desktop task manager built on top of the Microsoft Graph lets you share tasks with groups and seamlessly link tasks to applications.
Microsoft’s open source mixed-reality tools make it easy to build OpenXR apps in .NET.
Microsoft is making its internal, cross-platform, software bill of materials generation tool public and open source.
Microsoft’s new Azure developer tool streamlines development in the Azure cloud, from deploying dev environments to running CI/CD.
Microsoft’s Azure DevOps offers a feed-based artifact repository for your own and third-party code that’s well worth a look.
Manage application workflow with open source tools that add basic rules processing to your code.
Microsoft’s Azure multichannel communications APIs get support for email.
Microsoft is finally close to delivering its long-promised natural user interfaces. Here’s how you can build them into your code.
Microsoft is expanding access to its Fluid Framework real-time collaboration tools with a new application platform for Teams developers.
Microsoft resurrects Deis Labs’ Kubernetes quick-start tool to help you package existing code for Azure Kubernetes Service.
Build 2022 had a developer focus, with new tools to make it easier to write code in a world of hybrid work. Dev Box promises to make your development environments easier to manage.
Microsoft’s Power Platform low-code tools now build web apps and turn pictures into code.
Microsoft’s latest updates to Azure’s Web Application Firewall make it an essential component of cloud architectures.
Kinvolk’s Flatcar is Microsoft’s latest Linux. What is it and what should you use it for?
Microsoft promises to support the community .NET Windows Communication Foundation replacement.
.NET and Blazor bring the web development and mobile application worlds closer together.
You can finally start using the Multi-platform App UI toolkit to build cross-platform apps for mobile and desktop. Here’s what you need to know.
Microsoft’s SharePoint has a powerful set of search tools that you can build into your code.
Unit tests are an important part of modern application development. NUnit is perhaps the best-known way of using them with .NET code.
No code meets artificial intelligence in a ready-to-deploy smart edge device.
Microsoft’s accessibility tool helps you build inclusive user experiences.
Microsoft’s new tool makes it possible to use your own GPU to work with popular machine learning platforms.
.NET is much more than Microsoft’s own tools and languages. The open source PeachPie brings PHP to the table.
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