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.
Build, test, and deploy progressive web applications inside your development editor.
Microsoft is bringing the Teams app host to the rest of Office, starting with Outlook.
Big changes are coming to the way Kubernetes manages containers. Here’s how to make sure your Azure Kubernetes Service applications are ready.
With a few lines of YAML, Calico will keep watch as you build application-controlled networking.
Build your own supercomputer in the cloud with Azure’s high-performance computing tools.
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.
Microsoft helps deliver accessible, consistent web-based extensions to its free code editor.
Excel apps are everywhere. Thanks to Microsoft Graph, we can build them into our web and mobile applications.
With a little bit of XML you can automate creating Windows installers for your code, right from your CI/CD pipeline.
Use Azure’s built-in metrics and log tools to support devops and SRE teams.
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.
Azure Container Apps is a serverless Kubernetes service that manages scaling for you. Just bring your application’s containers, ready to run.
Azure CTO Mark Russinovich explains how Microsoft is bringing chaos engineering tools to its Azure customers.
Microsoft’s internal .NET reverse proxy project gets close to a public release.
Microsoft continues to evolve Azure’s container orchestration platform, adding proxy and WebAssembly support.
More of Microsoft’s internal tools get released to the outside world.
Deis Labs’ Hippo WebAssembly PaaS makes it easy to build and run portable WASM applications, whether they’re browser-hosted or standalone.
A new .NET release will be here soon, with a new set of compilers that promises a cross-platform future.
Use open-source tools to build big data systems that bridge on premises and cloud.
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