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Gradle - Deploy Java web apps to Azure in one step!

Yuchen Wang September 22, 2021 Sep 22, 2021 09/22/21

We are excited to announce a new Gradle plugin for Azure Web Apps. This plugin lets Java developers deploy Gradle projects to Azure Web Apps in one step, without installing any Azure specific tools.

Java at Microsoft

Converting between UTF-8 strings and UTF-16 strings in C++/WinRT

Raymond Chen September 22, 2021 Sep 22, 2021 09/22/21

A pair of conversion functions.

The Old New Thing

How to Make Use Of PowerShell Profile Files

@DoctorDNS September 21, 2021 Sep 21, 2021 09/21/21

Q: I would like to personalize the way that PowerShell works. I have heard that I can use a thing called a profile to do this, but when I try to find information about profiles, I come up blank. There is no New-Profile cmdlet, so I do not see how to create such a thing. Can you help me, please? A: Profiles are a powerful part of PowerShell ...

PowerShell Community

AzureFunBytes Episode 56 - Secretless Applications with @ChristosMatskas

Jay Gordon September 21, 2021 Sep 21, 2021 09/21/21

Secretless application development strives to solve some important problems, like preventing your credentials from being leaked. If you are seeing connection strings, usernames or passwords in log files, you're adding to your risk profile.

Azure DevOps Blog

Enhance local development experience using the Azure Cosmos DB Linux emulator and VS Code

Abhishek Gupta September 21, 2021 Sep 21, 2021 09/21/21

Develop your next app database locally using the Azure Cosmos DB Linux emulator on Docker (preview) with Visual Studio Code. This post includes a sample with GitHub repository and a step-by-step video.

Azure Cosmos DB Blog

The CertUtil program will decode Windows error codes, and in a variety of formats

Raymond Chen September 21, 2021 Sep 21, 2021 09/21/21

Even more versatile than NET HELPMSG.

The Old New Thing

Image Personalize Visual Studio with Community Themes

Introducing Collection of New Visual Studio Themes!

Grace Taylor September 20, 2021 Sep 20, 2021 09/20/21

We are on a journey to make Visual Studio more flexible than ever, so that you can make the IDE work just the way you like it! One of our key focus areas for Visual Studio 2022 is to build a personal, flexible IDE that you can make your own. We’ve teamed up with theme authors from the community to test a new tool that converts VS Code themes...

Visual Studio Blog

What does this mean? The caller specified wait timed out before the operation completed because a host termination is in queued

Raymond Chen September 20, 2021 Sep 20, 2021 09/20/21

An error message written with infrastructure-colored glasses.

The Old New Thing

Join us: AI in government

Karina Homme September 17, 2021 Sep 17, 2021 09/17/21

Join us Sept. 29 to hear speakers from NASA’s Johnson Space Center discuss some of the innovative AI projects they’re driving; and also from Microsoft on AI strategies, best practices, and the latest technologies that will enable the executive order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence at the Azure Government meetup.