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BI meets data science in Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft’s cloud-hosted data lake and lakehouse platform gains new data science tools and opens up Power BI datasets to Python, R, and SparkSQL.

Using Visual Studio Code for C# development

Microsoft’s new C# Dev Kit extension for Visual Studio Code turns the programmer’s editor into a complete development environment for .NET.

Using Azure Migrate to move on-premises systems to Azure

Microsoft’s free cloud migration tools simplify the process of bringing applications and services out of your data center and into the cloud.

Building for Linux and Android on Windows

Updates to Windows Subsystem for Linux and Windows Subsystem for Android make cross-platform development on Windows easy.

Send a message with Azure Notification Hubs

Azure Notification Hubs can deliver notifications to any device from any platform anywhere, without your having to manage all aspects of the messaging stack.

How Microsoft uses walkthroughs to guide open source development

Often the hardest part of contributing to an open source project is learning where to start. Microsoft has a cure for that.

Building collaborative apps with Microsoft Loop components

Adaptive Card-based Loop components are live and portable chunks of functionality that you can embed in Outlook, Teams, business apps, and your own code. Here’s how to get started.

Launch into satellite applications with Microsoft Azure

Microsoft’s Azure Space platform and Azure Orbital Space SDK are taking edge computing to the final frontier, starting with satellite image processing, geospatial, and communications applications.

The key new features and changes in .NET 8

With Microsoft’s yearly .NET release just around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about the changes you will need to make to your code.

Building LLM applications with vector search in Azure Cognitive Services

Microsoft’s Cognitive Search API now offers vector search as a service, ready for use with large language models in Azure OpenAI and beyond.

Understanding OneLake and lakehouses in Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft Azure’s new, unified data platform aims to be your one-stop shop for analytics and machine learning at scale.

Tame your wild LLM with TypeChat

Large language models mean not having to use complicated regular expression handlers to turn text into data. Using TypeChat, you can ensure that that data is type-safe JSON.

The power of process mining in Power Automate

Process mining is now part of Microsoft’s process automation suite, giving you the KPIs and visualizations you need to identify bottlenecks in both manual workflows and software processes.

Customizing Microsoft Dev Boxes with code

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.

Build custom actions for Power Automate for Windows

Bundled with Windows 11, Power Automate for Windows lets you wrap low-code workflows around your desktop applications. A new SDK supports custom actions.

Build accelerated AI apps for NPUs with Olive

Microsoft’s open-source, hardware-aware optimization tool for ONNX models is an essential part of its AI application development tool chain.

Getting started with MQTT in Azure Event Grid

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.

Azure Cosmos DB joins the AI toolchain

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.

KAN: A Kubernetes edge environment for computer vision

Microsoft’s open-source KubeAI Application Nucleus is a low-touch, Kubernetes-based system for building and running machine learning applications for edge devices.

Kubernetes cost management for the real world

How much will Kubernetes cost to run? That question has become much easier to answer for Azure Kubernetes Service, thanks to OpenCost integration.