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Upcycle Your Old Laptops into a Kubernetes Cluster

Learn about Windows-to-Linux conversions and how to break and fix cloud containers -- all while helping to save the world from e-waste with some "sheer geeky fun."

Microsoft Further Embraces OpenAPI Spec (formerly Swagger)

Microsoft has long embraced the OpenAPI Specification (formerly known as Swagger) for describing APIs, and it's now taking that support to the next level with a new online resource.

Microsoft Highlights Third-Party Open-Source '.NET Smart Components'

Microsoft has long acknowledged third-party vendor contributions to dev tooling ecosystems like Blazor and is now doing the same for its newly open-sourced .NET Smart Components.

Windows Community Toolkit Update Improves Controls

The Windows Community Toolkit advanced to version 8.1, adding new features, improving existing controls and making dependency changes.

.NET Community Toolkit Gets Native AOT and .NET 8 Support

The .NET Community Toolkit is Microsoft's latest dev tooling to get native ahead-of-time compilation, continuing a years-long push for that capability across the board.

Newly Open-Sourced '.NET Smart Components' Demoed at AI Event

Yesterday's .NET Conf Focus on AI online event highlighted Microsoft's latest/greatest AI dev tooling, including the newly open-sourced .NET Smart Components.

ABP Ships Community Edition of Open Source .NET Dev Framework

Flying under the radar below Visual Studio, VS Code, JetBrains Rider and other big names in the .NET-centric IDE space is the open-source ABP, which just shipped a new community edition.

Semantic Kernel AI SDK Gets Autonomous Agents (Experimental)

As AI matures, agents are one of the most significant areas of development, and Microsoft's Semantic Kernel AI dev tooling is getting them, as an experiment for now.

Microsoft Going Small in Semantic Kernel AI Dev Tooling

In revealing future plans for its Semantic Kernel AI dev tooling, Microsoft said it's going small -- at lease in terms of AI model size.

Uno Platform 5.3 Enhances Hot Reload UI

Uno Platform 5.3 shipped with enhanced Hot Reload UI functionality, full support for the Rider IDE from JetBrains and more.

OpenSilver 3.0 Framework for .NET Gets UI by AI

A new AI-powered UI designer highlights the new release of OpenSilver 3.0, a free, open-source UI framework for building modern .NET web applications in C# and XAML, basically a reimplementation of Microsoft Silverlight that runs on current browsers via WebAssembly.

Open Source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' Exits Beta to Challenge Visual Studio Code

Some seven years in the making, the Eclipse Foundation's Theia IDE project is now generally available, emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft's similar Visual Studio Code editor, with which it shares much tech.

First Official OpenAI Library for .NET Goes Beta

Although it seems Microsoft and OpenAI have been deeply intertwined partners for a long time, they are only now getting around to releasing an official OpenAI library for .NET developers, joining existing community libraries.

Semantic Kernel AI SDK Advances to GA in Java and Python

Microsoft announced the general availability of Semantic Kernel for Python and Java, advancing the open source AI integration SDK that is a key component of the company's Copilot stack of AI tools.

Microsoft Ships Data API Builder for Azure SQL Databases

Microsoft today announced the general availability of the open source Data API builder (DAB), which provides REST and GraphQL endpoints for Azure databases, some three years in the making.

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