Enterprise Microsoft

Design effective AI prompts with Microsoft Prompt Engine

Microsoft’s open source tool helps you write code to work with generative AI, ensuring results give correct information and stay on topic.

By Simon Bisson

Mar 1, 2023 7 mins

Development Libraries and Frameworks Generative AI Microsoft Azure

Cobol in .NET with Otterkit

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.

By Simon Bisson

Feb 15, 2023 6 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Open Source

Getting started with Azure OpenAI

Microsoft’s Azure-hosted OpenAI language models are now generally available, and it’s surprisingly simple to use them in your code.

By Simon Bisson

Feb 1, 2023 8 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Microsoft Azure

Easier documentation with GitHub Pages

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.

By Simon Bisson

Jan 18, 2023 7 mins

Development Tools GitHub Software Development

SpiderLightning: Making WebAssembly cloud applications portable

Inside one of the technologies that powers Azure Kubernetes Service’s WebAssembly support, and promises to make applications portable across clouds and other hosts.

By Simon Bisson

Jan 4, 2023 7 mins

Development Tools Microsoft Azure Multicloud

Introducing Cadl: Microsoft’s concise API design language

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.

By Simon Bisson

Dec 21, 2022 7 mins

APIs C# Microsoft Azure

Azure Kubernetes doubles down on WebAssembly

WebAssembly is ideal for cloud-native apps. A shift from Krustlets to runwasi should simplify managing Wasm nodes in Azure Kubernetes Service.

By Simon Bisson

Dec 7, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Software Development

Integrating Web3 technologies with Azure Devops

Microsoft’s Azure incubation team is experimenting with blockchain technologies. Can the company make them ready for the enterprise?

By Simon Bisson

Nov 23, 2022 7 mins

Blockchain Microsoft Azure Web Development

Inside Microsoft’s cloud-first .NET 7 release

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.

By Simon Bisson

Nov 9, 2022 6 mins

Canonical Microsoft .NET Microsoft Azure

Microsoft’s end-to-end Arm development environment is here at last

With Arm developer hardware now shipping, Windows is ready to embrace an NPU-powered AI future.

By Simon Bisson

Oct 26, 2022 7 mins

Development Tools Microsoft Azure Technology Industry

Ignite 2022: Making Azure your development hub

Microsoft is using its Ignite event to expand Azure’s role as its developer cloud, offering an isolated, configurable development platform.

By Simon Bisson

Oct 12, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Development Tools Microsoft Azure

Azure on Arm is here at last

Microsoft has finally unveiled its Arm-hosted virtual machines, a lower-power option for your cloud-native code.

By Simon Bisson

Sep 26, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure

Hands-on with Microsoft’s CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux

How to install and configure the fast and lightweight container host Linux distribution for Azure Kubernetes Service and the Microsoft Container Registry.

By Simon Bisson

Sep 12, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Software Development

Understand Visual Studio’s new extension model

Microsoft is updating how you build Visual Studio extensions, with new APIs and the ability to run extensions outside of the Visual Studio process.

By Simon Bisson

Aug 31, 2022 6 mins

Integrated Development Environments Microsoft .NET Visual Studio

Kestrel: The Microsoft web server you should be using

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.

By Simon Bisson

Aug 24, 2022 8 mins

Microsoft .NET Software Development Web Development

Lift and shift Windows applications to 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.

By Simon Bisson

Aug 17, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Small and Medium Business

Manage your tasks with the Microsoft To Do API

A desktop task manager built on top of the Microsoft Graph lets you share tasks with groups and seamlessly link tasks to applications.

By Simon Bisson

Aug 10, 2022 7 mins

APIs Roles Small and Medium Business

Build .NET apps for the metaverse with StereoKit

Microsoft’s open source mixed-reality tools make it easy to build OpenXR apps in .NET.

By Simon Bisson

Aug 3, 2022 7 mins

APIs C# Microsoft .NET

Build SBOMs with Microsoft’s SPDX SBOM generator

Microsoft is making its internal, cross-platform, software bill of materials generation tool public and open source.

By Simon Bisson

Jul 27, 2022 7 mins

Application Security Development Tools Open Source

Trying out the Azure Developer CLI

Microsoft’s new Azure developer tool streamlines development in the Azure cloud, from deploying dev environments to running CI/CD.

By Simon Bisson

Jul 20, 2022 8 mins

CI/CD Development Tools Microsoft Azure

Azure Artifacts helps you standardize on packages and modules

Microsoft’s Azure DevOps offers a feed-based artifact repository for your own and third-party code that’s well worth a look.

By Simon Bisson

Jul 13, 2022 6 mins

Cloud Computing Development Tools Microsoft Azure

Working with Microsoft’s .NET Rules Engine

Manage application workflow with open source tools that add basic rules processing to your code.

By Simon Bisson

Jul 6, 2022 6 mins

Development Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Open Source

Using Azure Communication Services for email

Microsoft’s Azure multichannel communications APIs get support for email.

By Simon Bisson

Jun 29, 2022 7 mins

APIs Development Tools Microsoft Azure

What’s new in Microsoft Azure’s NLP AI services

Microsoft is finally close to delivering its long-promised natural user interfaces. Here’s how you can build them into your code.

By Simon Bisson

Jun 22, 2022 7 mins

Development Tools Machine Learning Microsoft Azure

Building collaborative apps with Teams Live Share

Microsoft is expanding access to its Fluid Framework real-time collaboration tools with a new application platform for Teams developers.

By Simon Bisson

Jun 15, 2022 8 mins

Development Libraries and Frameworks Development Tools No Code and Low Code

Microsoft Azure eases Kubernetes development with a new Draft

Microsoft resurrects Deis Labs’ Kubernetes quick-start tool to help you package existing code for Azure Kubernetes Service.

By Simon Bisson

Jun 8, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Software Development

Microsoft Dev Box: Your development workstation on Azure

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.

By Simon Bisson

Jun 1, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Development Tools Microsoft Azure

Introducing Microsoft’s Power Pages

Microsoft’s Power Platform low-code tools now build web apps and turn pictures into code.

By Simon Bisson

May 24, 2022 7 mins

No Code and Low Code Technology Industry Web Development

Add security to Azure applications with Azure WAF

Microsoft’s latest updates to Azure’s Web Application Firewall make it an essential component of cloud architectures.

By Simon Bisson

May 18, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Security Microsoft Azure

Understanding Flatcar Container Linux

Kinvolk’s Flatcar is Microsoft’s latest Linux. What is it and what should you use it for?

By Simon Bisson

May 11, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Open Source

WCF returns: Core WCF gets a 1.0 release

Microsoft promises to support the community .NET Windows Communication Foundation replacement.

By Simon Bisson

May 4, 2022 6 mins

Microsoft .NET Open Source

Build desktop and mobile UIs with Blazor Hybrid apps

.NET and Blazor bring the web development and mobile application worlds closer together.

By Simon Bisson

Apr 27, 2022 6 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Mobile Development

Cross-platform .NET UIs arrive with MAUI

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.

By Simon Bisson

Apr 20, 2022 6 mins

Microsoft .NET Mobile Development Visual Studio

Make the most of SharePoint search APIs

Microsoft’s SharePoint has a powerful set of search tools that you can build into your code.

By Simon Bisson

Apr 13, 2022 6 mins

Development Tools Software Development

NUnit uses open source tools to test .NET code

Unit tests are an important part of modern application development. NUnit is perhaps the best-known way of using them with .NET code.

By Simon Bisson

Apr 6, 2022 6 mins

Agile Development CI/CD Microsoft .NET

Azure Percept: A machine learning quick starter

No code meets artificial intelligence in a ready-to-deploy smart edge device.

By Simon Bisson

Mar 30, 2022 6 mins

Machine Learning Microsoft Azure No Code and Low Code

Accessibility Insights makes code more accessible

Microsoft’s accessibility tool helps you build inclusive user experiences.

By Simon Bisson

Mar 9, 2022 6 mins

Development Tools Diversity and Inclusion Software Development

Use DirectML to train PyTorch machine learning models on a PC

Microsoft’s new tool makes it possible to use your own GPU to work with popular machine learning platforms.

By Simon Bisson

Mar 2, 2022 6 mins

Machine Learning PyTorch Python

Run PHP on .NET with PeachPie

.NET is much more than Microsoft’s own tools and languages. The open source PeachPie brings PHP to the table.

By Simon Bisson

Feb 16, 2022 6 mins

Microsoft .NET PHP Web Development

Using PWA Studio in Visual Studio Code

Build, test, and deploy progressive web applications inside your development editor.

By Simon Bisson

Feb 9, 2022 7 mins

Small and Medium Business Visual Studio Code Web Development

Getting started with the Teams JavaScript SDK v2.0

Microsoft is bringing the Teams app host to the rest of Office, starting with Outlook.

By Simon Bisson

Feb 2, 2022 6 mins

JavaScript Software Development Technology Industry

Preparing for the end of Dockershim in AKS

Big changes are coming to the way Kubernetes manages containers. Here’s how to make sure your Azure Kubernetes Service applications are ready.

By Simon Bisson

Jan 26, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Software Development

Securing Azure Kubernetes networking with Calico

With a few lines of YAML, Calico will keep watch as you build application-controlled networking.

By Simon Bisson

Jan 19, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Software Development

Understanding Azure HPC

Build your own supercomputer in the cloud with Azure’s high-performance computing tools.

By Simon Bisson

Jan 12, 2022 7 mins

Analytics Machine Learning Microsoft Azure

Take advantage of .NET 6 on Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has updated Azure’s main PaaS services with the latest release of .NET. Here’s the skinny on .NET 6 support in Azure Functions, Azure App Service, and Azure Static Web Apps.

By Simon Bisson

Jan 5, 2022 6 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft .NET Microsoft Azure

Using the Webview UI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code

Microsoft helps deliver accessible, consistent web-based extensions to its free code editor.

By Simon Bisson

Dec 22, 2021 7 mins

Development Tools Software Development Visual Studio Code

Build on Excel using the Microsoft Graph API

Excel apps are everywhere. Thanks to Microsoft Graph, we can build them into our web and mobile applications.

By Simon Bisson

Dec 8, 2021 6 mins

APIs SaaS Technology Industry

Using WiX to build Windows installers

With a little bit of XML you can automate creating Windows installers for your code, right from your CI/CD pipeline.

By Simon Bisson

Dec 1, 2021 6 mins

CI/CD Small and Medium Business Visual Studio

Take a look at Azure Monitor

Use Azure’s built-in metrics and log tools to support devops and SRE teams.

By Simon Bisson

Nov 24, 2021 7 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Software Development

Getting started with Azure Fluid Relay

Microsoft’s Fluid Framework offers an interesting approach to collaborative distributed applications. An Azure service aims to make it easier to deploy and deliver Fluid code.

By Simon Bisson

Nov 17, 2021 7 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Software Development

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Enterprise Microsoft

Design effective AI prompts with Microsoft Prompt Engine

Cobol in .NET with Otterkit

Getting started with Azure OpenAI

Easier documentation with GitHub Pages

SpiderLightning: Making WebAssembly cloud applications portable

Introducing Cadl: Microsoft’s concise API design language

Azure Kubernetes doubles down on WebAssembly

Integrating Web3 technologies with Azure Devops

Inside Microsoft’s cloud-first .NET 7 release

Microsoft’s end-to-end Arm development environment is here at last

Ignite 2022: Making Azure your development hub

Azure on Arm is here at last

Hands-on with Microsoft’s CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux

Understand Visual Studio’s new extension model

Kestrel: The Microsoft web server you should be using

Lift and shift Windows applications to containers

Manage your tasks with the Microsoft To Do API

Build .NET apps for the metaverse with StereoKit

Build SBOMs with Microsoft’s SPDX SBOM generator

Trying out the Azure Developer CLI

Azure Artifacts helps you standardize on packages and modules

Working with Microsoft’s .NET Rules Engine

Using Azure Communication Services for email

What’s new in Microsoft Azure’s NLP AI services

Building collaborative apps with Teams Live Share

Microsoft Azure eases Kubernetes development with a new Draft

Microsoft Dev Box: Your development workstation on Azure

Introducing Microsoft’s Power Pages

Add security to Azure applications with Azure WAF

Understanding Flatcar Container Linux

WCF returns: Core WCF gets a 1.0 release

Build desktop and mobile UIs with Blazor Hybrid apps

Cross-platform .NET UIs arrive with MAUI

Make the most of SharePoint search APIs

NUnit uses open source tools to test .NET code

Azure Percept: A machine learning quick starter

Accessibility Insights makes code more accessible

Use DirectML to train PyTorch machine learning models on a PC

Run PHP on .NET with PeachPie

Using PWA Studio in Visual Studio Code

Getting started with the Teams JavaScript SDK v2.0

Preparing for the end of Dockershim in AKS

Securing Azure Kubernetes networking with Calico

Understanding Azure HPC

Take advantage of .NET 6 on Microsoft Azure

Using the Webview UI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code

Build on Excel using the Microsoft Graph API

Using WiX to build Windows installers

Take a look at Azure Monitor

Getting started with Azure Fluid Relay

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Databricks adds Data Science Agent to automate analytics tasks

Rust Innovation Lab launched, sponsors first project

PostgreSQL 18 to boost OLTP performance, but misses AI readiness

Getting encryption wrong (and getting it right, too)

How to build a native desktop app vs. a web UI app

PyApp: Build click-to-run Python apps with Rust