Enterprise Microsoft

.NET Framework APIs that won’t be coming to .NET 5.0

A year from the shift to .NET 5.0, Microsoft has told us what the next big .NET release will leave behind

By Simon Bisson

Nov 5, 2019 6 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Software Development

Microservices made easy with Dapr

Use common microservice design patterns with Microsoft’s new open source, cloud-native framework

By Simon Bisson

Oct 29, 2019 6 mins

Cloud Management Microsoft Azure Software Development

Steering Kubernetes to an application-centric future

Microsoft’s Open Application Model and Rudr will help us build multicloud distributed applications that can install and run anywhere

By Simon Bisson

Oct 22, 2019 6 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development

Build enterprise Java code with Azure Spring Cloud

Microsoft and Pivotal bring the popular Java development framework to Azure

By Simon Bisson

Oct 15, 2019 6 mins

Cloud Management Java Microsoft Azure

Getting code ready for Surface Neo and Surface Duo

Microsoft’s new Surface hardware moves away from familiar Windows 10 to Windows 10X and Android. Here's how to build apps for them

By Simon Bisson

Oct 8, 2019 7 mins

Software Development Technology Industry

Embracing gRPC in .Net Core

With remote procedure calls your APIs don’t need to be RESTful. You build your server methods and client calls, and gRPC takes care of the rest

By Simon Bisson

Oct 1, 2019 6 mins

APIs Microsoft .NET Software Development

What .Net Core 3.0 means for developers

Microsoft and the .Net Foundation have rolled out a major upgrade to the .Net Core platform

By Simon Bisson

Sep 24, 2019 6 mins

Microsoft .NET Software Development

Using HashiCorp Consul on Azure Kubernetes Service

Microsoft’s new Azure Managed Applications service lets HashiCorp bring its service mesh to Azure

By Simon Bisson

Sep 17, 2019 6 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Software Development

Coming to grips with Microsoft’s P#

Microsoft’s tools for building reliable distributed applications are beginning to gain traction

By Simon Bisson

Sep 10, 2019 6 mins

C Language Cloud Computing Software Development

Extending Visual Studio Code

Microsoft makes it easy to add new tools and language support to its open source development tool

By Simon Bisson

Sep 3, 2019 6 mins

Software Development Visual Studio

Get started with Microsoft’s new Chromium WebView control

Microsoft’s new Chromium-based web browser is getting closer to release. It’s time to consider including it in your applications

By Simon Bisson

Aug 27, 2019 7 mins

Software Development Technology Industry Web Development

Get started with Linux containers in Docker on WSL 2

Microsoft and Docker’s Linux development collaboration is starting to pay off for cloud developers

By Simon Bisson

Aug 20, 2019 6 mins

Microsoft Azure Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Get started with Azure hyperscale databases

Microsoft builds on its existing Azure database tool to deliver hyperscale versions of PostgreSQL and Azure SQL

By Simon Bisson

Aug 13, 2019 6 mins

Cloud Computing Databases Microsoft Azure

Get started with AI using ML.Net and Model Builder

Microsoft’s .Net machine learning tooling makes it easy to add AI to your code

By Simon Bisson

Aug 6, 2019 6 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Microsoft .NET

An introduction to WSL 2

The Windows Subsystem for Linux gets a major overhaul; now adding a full Linux kernel

By Simon Bisson

Jul 30, 2019 7 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development

Get started with Rust in Windows programming

Microsoft signals that it might support Mozilla’s memory-safe alternative to C and C++

By Simon Bisson

Jul 23, 2019 7 mins

Programming Languages Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

A first look at the new Azure SDKs

Microsoft’s Azure SDKs are getting a revamp. Here’s what you need to know

By Simon Bisson

Jul 16, 2019 6 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Software Development

Getting started with Azure Sphere

Microsoft’s secure IoT boards are here. What’s it like coding them?

By Simon Bisson

Jul 9, 2019 6 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Technology Industry

Ease into AI with Microsoft Flow

No-code connectors to Azure Cognitive Services make it easy to get started with artificial intelligence

By Simon Bisson

Jul 2, 2019 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Software Development

Implementing EDI with Azure Logic Apps

Microsoft’s serverless tools can simplify integrating EDI into your business processes

By Simon Bisson

Jun 25, 2019 6 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Management Microsoft Azure

The surprising Java support in Azure

Bringing Java code to Azure is a lot easier than you might think

By Simon Bisson

Jun 18, 2019 6 mins

Java Microsoft Azure Visual Studio

Azure Functions grows up

Azure’s serverless platform adds support for warm starts, longer-running functions, virtual network connections, and Azure Active Directory

By Simon Bisson

Jun 11, 2019 6 mins

Cloud Computing Serverless Computing Software Development

To Istio and beyond: Azure’s Service Mesh Interface

Microsoft’s latest Kubernetes development is set to change the way we deploy distributed applications

By Simon Bisson

Jun 4, 2019 6 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Technology Industry

Put Windows apps on the web with Uno

Want to use UWP XAML controls on the web? Uno’s WebAssembly brings Windows UI controls to your browser

By Simon Bisson

May 28, 2019 6 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development Web Development

Easing into Windows Server containers in AKS

Azure’s Kubernetes Service now supports Windows Server containers. Here’s how to get started

By Simon Bisson

May 21, 2019 6 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Small and Medium Business

.NET 5: What the merger of .NET Framework and .NET Core means

Microsoft makes its open source .NET the future of the platform, with some enterprise-ready tweaks

By Simon Bisson

May 14, 2019 6 mins

Microsoft .NET Software Development

A new wave of Azure services lifts Kubernetes and Cosmos DB

As always, Microsoft Build sees a myriad of announcements. What’s important and relevant for anyone building apps on Azure?

By Simon Bisson

May 7, 2019 6 mins

Cloud Management Databases Microsoft Azure

Writing server-side code in Azure Cosmos DB

Microsoft brings stored procedures and triggers to cloud-scale storage with an integrated JavaScript API

By Simon Bisson

Apr 30, 2019 6 mins

Cloud Computing Databases Microsoft Azure

Exploring ASP.Net Razor: Putting C# in your HTML

With Razor Microsoft puts server-side code and web design on the same page

By Simon Bisson

Apr 23, 2019 6 mins

C# HTML Microsoft .NET

Move data to the cloud with Azure Data Migration

Getting data from databases to Azure needn’t be hard

By Simon Bisson

Apr 16, 2019 6 mins

Cloud Computing Data Management Microsoft Azure

Serverless computing in Azure: How to build a petition site

This example shows you how to use Azure services to build scalable, serverless web applications

By Simon Bisson

Mar 26, 2019 7 mins

Microsoft Azure Serverless Computing Web Development

Open Compute Project and Azure: hardware meets software

How the world of open hardware design interacts with Azure’s underlying infrastructure

By Simon Bisson

Mar 19, 2019 6 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Technology Industry

How to use Azure Data Explorer for large-scale data analysis

Microsoft’s tool for querying terabytes of data finally arrives for everyone to use

By Simon Bisson

Feb 12, 2019 6 mins

Analytics Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure

Blazor now runs on a server: What you should know

Microsoft’s Blazor .Net WebAssembly tool makes a jump to the server and to ASP.Net Core

By Simon Bisson

Jan 29, 2019 6 mins

Microsoft .NET Software Development Web Development

GitHub after Microsoft: How it has changed

The cloud and enterprise source-management platform is making up for lost time with new features and new pricing plans

By Simon Bisson

Jan 22, 2019 6 mins

GitHub Open Source Technology Industry

How to work with Azure’s managed MariaDB

Support for one of the web’s most popular databases can help you migrate your code to cloud-native architectures

By Simon Bisson

Jan 15, 2019 6 mins

Cloud Computing Databases Microsoft Azure

What developers should know about Windows’s shift to Chromium

Microsoft’s new Edge browser strategy could make developers’ lives a lot easier, including those creating PWAs or working in MacOS

By Simon Bisson

Jan 2, 2019 7 mins

Small and Medium Business Technology Industry Web Development

How to migrate your apps from Azure Container Service

Microsoft’s ACS is shutting down in January 2020. Here are your options for Kubernetes, Docker, and DC/OS

By Simon Bisson

Dec 18, 2018 7 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Software Development

Create your cloud code installer with CNAB and Duffle

Microsoft and Docker unveil new tools for managing and deploying cloud applications for containers on any cloud

By Simon Bisson

Dec 11, 2018 6 mins

Cloud Computing Development Tools Technology Industry

How to build blockchains on Azure

Develop trusted business applications with Microsoft’s Azure blockchain tools

By Simon Bisson

Nov 27, 2018 6 mins

Microsoft Azure Software Development

How to build 64-bit apps for Windows on ARM

Updates to Visual Studio finally add native ARM64 support to Microsoft’s ARM-based always-connected PCs

By Simon Bisson

Nov 20, 2018 6 mins

Small and Medium Business Technology Industry Visual Studio

What .Net Standard 2.1 means to you

A new release of the .Net Standard library is around the corner, with significant benefits to developers—and a major shift in .Net's evolution

By Simon Bisson

Nov 13, 2018 6 mins

Microsoft .NET Software Development Technology Industry

How to use Git and GitHub for Microsoft development

Microsoft’s development tools offer many ways to work with Git source control, from plug-ins to direct integration

By Simon Bisson

Oct 30, 2018 7 mins

GitHub Microsoft .NET Microsoft Azure

Introducing Fluent, Windows 10’s modern UI approach

Code isn’t the only thing that matters to your users—design and experience are as important

By Simon Bisson

Oct 23, 2018 6 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development

How to secure your Azure network

Connected virtual machines need the same kind of security and network management tools as your own data center

By Simon Bisson

Oct 16, 2018 5 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Technology Industry

Azure Cosmos DB gets the multiple-master boost for distributed apps

Microsoft’s cloud database platform is updated to improve distributed systems performance at a global scale

By Simon Bisson

Oct 9, 2018 6 mins

Databases Microsoft Azure Technology Industry

How to work with Azure Pipelines for devops

Microsoft’s devops build tools get a makeover, both in the cloud and on your servers

By Simon Bisson

Sep 18, 2018 6 mins

Development Tools Microsoft Azure Technology Industry

It’s gotten a little easier to develop PWAs in Windows

Microsoft’s progressive web apps tools remain unintegrated, but there's been some progress for Visual Studio developers

By Simon Bisson

Sep 11, 2018 6 mins

Small and Medium Business Technology Industry Visual Studio

Understanding programmatic Azure infrastructures

With Azure, your infrastructure is code, so you can manage it from the Azure CLI or from third-party tools

By Simon Bisson

Sep 4, 2018 6 mins

Development Tools Devops Microsoft Azure

Solving the UI challenge in Visual Studio code

The relationship between designers and developers is complicated and essential. Two imperfect tools help Visual Studio a little

By Simon Bisson

Aug 28, 2018 7 mins

Development Tools Software Development Visual Studio

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Enterprise Microsoft

.NET Framework APIs that won’t be coming to .NET 5.0

Microservices made easy with Dapr

Steering Kubernetes to an application-centric future

Build enterprise Java code with Azure Spring Cloud

Getting code ready for Surface Neo and Surface Duo

Embracing gRPC in .Net Core

What .Net Core 3.0 means for developers

Using HashiCorp Consul on Azure Kubernetes Service

Coming to grips with Microsoft’s P#

Extending Visual Studio Code

Get started with Microsoft’s new Chromium WebView control

Get started with Linux containers in Docker on WSL 2

Get started with Azure hyperscale databases

Get started with AI using ML.Net and Model Builder

An introduction to WSL 2

Get started with Rust in Windows programming

A first look at the new Azure SDKs

Getting started with Azure Sphere

Ease into AI with Microsoft Flow

Implementing EDI with Azure Logic Apps

The surprising Java support in Azure

Azure Functions grows up

To Istio and beyond: Azure’s Service Mesh Interface

Put Windows apps on the web with Uno

Easing into Windows Server containers in AKS

.NET 5: What the merger of .NET Framework and .NET Core means

A new wave of Azure services lifts Kubernetes and Cosmos DB

Writing server-side code in Azure Cosmos DB

Exploring ASP.Net Razor: Putting C# in your HTML

Move data to the cloud with Azure Data Migration

Serverless computing in Azure: How to build a petition site

Open Compute Project and Azure: hardware meets software

How to use Azure Data Explorer for large-scale data analysis

Blazor now runs on a server: What you should know

GitHub after Microsoft: How it has changed

How to work with Azure’s managed MariaDB

What developers should know about Windows’s shift to Chromium

How to migrate your apps from Azure Container Service

Create your cloud code installer with CNAB and Duffle

How to build blockchains on Azure

How to build 64-bit apps for Windows on ARM

What .Net Standard 2.1 means to you

How to use Git and GitHub for Microsoft development

Introducing Fluent, Windows 10’s modern UI approach

How to secure your Azure network

Azure Cosmos DB gets the multiple-master boost for distributed apps

How to work with Azure Pipelines for devops

It’s gotten a little easier to develop PWAs in Windows

Understanding programmatic Azure infrastructures

Solving the UI challenge in Visual Studio code

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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