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.NET MAUI Community Toolkit 8.0.0 Brings Touch Behavior
On March 29th, 2024, Microsoft released version 8.0.0 of their open-source MAUI Community Toolkit. The new version adds touch animation behavior, a rewritten Snackbar component and many bug fixes.
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Visual Studio Code: Unity Extension Now Generally Available
Last month, Microsoft announced the general availability of the Unity extension for Visual Studio Code. This extension, built upon the C# Dev Kit and C# extensions, offers a toolkit tailored for Unity development within Visual Studio Code, accessible on Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems.
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Microsoft Issues Reminder: End of Support for .NET 7 in May
Last week, Microsoft officially stated that .NET 7 will stop to receive support as of May 14, 2024. This means that beyond this date, Microsoft will discontinue issuing any further servicing updates, including critical security fixes or technical assistance for .NET 7. Developers are advised to transition to .NET 8 before the specified end-of-support date to ensure continued support.
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.NET Aspire Preview 4: Database Managament Tools, Podman and More Cloud APIs Support Added
This month, Microsoft revealed the availability of the .NET Aspire - fourth preview. Preview 4 brings improvements across various aspects of its framework, addressing key community requests. Key areas of focus include enhancements to Entity Framework components, support for Podman, more Cloud APIs support and adjustments to the application model for easier resource management.
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Copilot in Azure SQL Database in Private Preview
Microsoft has announced a private preview of Copilot for SQL Azure, which offers a natural language for SQL conversion and self-help for database administration.
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Enhancing Engineering Design and Collaboration with Azure’s New Secure Simulation Workbench
Microsoft recently launched the public preview of Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench (MSWB). This fully-managed engineering environment enables secure user collaboration while protecting data and IP via multi-layered security and access control solutions.
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ASP.NET Core Updates in .NET 9 Preview 2: Blazor, OIDC, OAuth and Configuring HTTP.sys
Microsoft released .NET 9 Preview 2 which contains some updates regarding ASP.NET Core: Blazor component constructor injection, and WebSocket compression for Blazor interactive server components. Furthermore, developers can streamline authentication integration by customising OIDC and OAuth parameters and configuring HTTP.sys extended authentication flags.
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Microsoft Introduces .NET Smart Components: AI-Powered UI Controls
Microsoft recently introduced .NET Smart Components, UI controls which offer AI-powered features to boost development productivity within .NET applications. According to Microsoft, these components are designed to simplify the integration of AI capabilities into existing .NET applications, requiring as stated, minimal effort from developers.
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Microsoft Introduces Static Web Apps' New Feature: Distributed Functions for Enhanced Performance
Microsoft has announced a new Azure Static Web Apps feature called distributed functions. It automatically distributes managed functions to high-demand regions of Static Web Apps.
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Microsoft Dev Proxy v0.15: Mock the APIs Secured with Entra and Many More
Microsoft has recently unveiled Dev Proxy v0.15.0, featuring a range of enhancements aimed at streamlining app development processes. Among a big list of improvements, the most notable addition is the ability to mock APIs that are secured with Entra. Other additions are related to the simulation of OAuth flows, improved monitoring URLs, improved support of CORS, custom commands and many more.
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Visual Studio 2022 - 17.10 Preview 1: Productivity, Debugging, Diagnostics and More Improvements
Microsoft released Visual Studio 2022 17.10 - Preview 1 version with significant enhancements to areas like productivity, debugging, diagnostics, game development and Microsoft 365 development tools.
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GitHub Delivers Copilot Enterprise for Large Organizations
GitHub Copilot Enterprise, a Copilot plan available for enterprises that use GitHub Enterprise Cloud, is now generally available. It offers AI capabilities to improve the user's experience on GitHub.com, including the option to communicate with Copilot directly in the browser and to access Copilot's context from different project repositories.
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Azure Elastic Storage Area Network Solution Generally Available in the Cloud
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of its iSCSI-based Azure Elastic SAN, a fully-managed and cloud-native storage area network (SAN) offering.
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Baseline OpenAI End-to-End Chat Reference Architecture
Microsoft published the baseline OpenAI end-to-end chat reference architecture. This baseline contains information about components, flows and security. There are also details about performance, monitoring and deployment guidance. Microsoft also prepared the reference implementation to deploy and run the solution.
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NuGet 6.9 Released: dotnet Search Command Support and Visual Studio UI Multitargeting
In the latest release of NuGet version 6.9, developers can expect several new features and bug fixes which have been introduced. Among the key additions are enhancements to the multi-targeting experience within Visual Studio, and the incorporation of support for the dotnet search command.