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Low-Code Microsoft Power Apps Gets Pay-as-You-Go Plan via Azure Subscription

New pricing plan announced as Power Apps about to enter new six-month release wave.

PowerShell Crescendo Now Generally Available

It's used to create native commands by rapidly developing PowerShell cmdlets for common command-line tools, regardless of platform.

Microsoft Coder Posts Personal Updates About Ukraine Homeland at War

Olia Gavrysh, a program manager on the .NET team, is keeping her followers updated on the situation from her Twitter feed.

Microsoft Takes VS 2022 Embedded Tools (C++) to VS Code

Microsoft's C++ dev team announced that an Embedded Tools extension introduced to Visual Studio 2022 last year is now available for Visual Studio Code as a preview.

Microsoft Proposes Big JavaScript Change: 'We Do Expect Skepticism'

The company is supporting and collaborating on a proposal to bring optional and erasable type syntax to JavaScript, titled "ECMAScript proposal: Types as Comments."

Migrating VB6 Code to .NET 6? Here's a Tool

"This means VB.NET developers can keep using VB, and go to .NET, and get to .NET Core all at once."

Azure Sphere Back on Track, with Visual Studio 2022 Extension

After a previous version was canceled, Azure Sphere is back on track in version 22.02, which comes with a brand-new extension for Visual Studio 2022.

PowerShell Plans Unveiled After .NET 7 Hiccup

"We continue to work closely with the .NET team to align our releases, however we found some issues in .NET 7 preview 1 so we couldn't ship PowerShell 7.3 preview 2 with .NET 7."

.NET 6 Runtime for AWS Lambda Unveiled

Amazon Web Services recently introduced the .NET 6 runtime for AWS Lambda, which means .NET-centric cloud coders can now do their serverless computing projects with the latest edition of Microsoft's open source developer platform, which debuted almost four months ago.

Python in VS Code Now Supports Pre-Release Extension Option

Microsoft's dev team responsible for the Python in Visual Studio Code experience announced that its extension now supports pre-release versions for the latest cutting-edge bits.

VS Code v1.65 Update: New Theme, Audio Cues and Terminal Shell Integration (Preview)

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code February 2022 update (v1.65) comes with the usual raft of new features and functionality, including a new theme, audio cues and editor history navigation, along with a preview of terminal shell integration.

New ASP.NET Core Migration Guidance

It shows how to share Model, View and Controller code from a 10-year-old MVC Music Store app used to demo ASP.NET MVC3.

Microsoft Previews Revamped 'WordPress on App Service' on Azure

Microsoft is previewing a new and improved WordPress on App Service on its Azure cloud computing platform.

Microsoft Previews Edge Developer Tools for Visual Studio IDE

Microsoft is previewing Microsoft Edge Developers Tools for Visual Studio with an extension now available in the IDE's marketplace that lets developers preview ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core projects.

Microsoft Ships TypeScript 4.6

Are you ready for allowing code in constructors before super(), control flow analysis for destructured discriminated unions and improved recursion depth checks?

Going 'Where Developers Are,' Microsoft Contributes Foldable Tech to Flutter

Although Google's Flutter development platform might be seen as a competitor to Microsoft's Xamarin.Forms and .NET MAUI, Microsoft's Surface Duo dev team is continuing to contribute foldable tech to Google's open source mobile-centric project.

Block Stack

With Windows App SDK Update Coming, Microsoft Lauds Growing Ecosystem

With Windows App SDK v1.1 coming up soon, Microsoft is showing some love to vendors who have contributed to a growing ecosystem of third-party components, controls and other offerings for the Windows app development scheme.

GitHub Previews Faster Codespaces Creation with Prebuilds

GitHub announced a public beta of Codespaces prebuilds to speed up the creation of the cloud-hosted Visual Studio Code-based development environments.

Devs Sound Off on C# 11 Preview Features Like Parameter Null Checking

"It doesn't feel like a nice addition to the language and has already caused a lot of holy wars."

EF Core 7 Finally Divorces Old .NET Framework

Microsoft's new-age, open source, cross-platform data access tech doesn't run on the old, proprietary, Windows-only .NET Framework.

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