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October 25, 2021
Oct 25, 2021
10/25/21
This is the last planned preview before the release candidate (RC). This preview adds support for a globally available schema, several community suggestions, and an experimental help parsing feature to improve complex native command maintenance.
October 25, 2021
Oct 25, 2021
10/25/21
In this post, Sina Jafari discusses key characteristics of the CloudTest infrastructure used at Microsoft and why similar characteristics should be considered in all large-scale test infrastructures to improve engineers’ productivity and help them ship high-quality software.
October 25, 2021
Oct 25, 2021
10/25/21
Today, we are excited to announce the integration of AppDynamics in the Azure Spring Cloud for full-stack observability. Over the past 20 months, we worked with many enterprise customers to learn about the scenarios they face. Many of these customers have thousands of Spring Boot applications running in on-premises data centers. As they ...
October 25, 2021
Oct 25, 2021
10/25/21
Q: I have a bunch of scripts we use in production that make use of Windows credentials. In some cases, these scripts have an actual password in plain text, while others read the password from an XML file. Is there a better way? A: Scripts with high-privilege account passwords in plain text is not a good idea. There are several methods you can...
October 25, 2021
Oct 25, 2021
10/25/21
Learn about the upcoming OData property changes to the Microsoft 365 usage reports, beginning the week of October 25, 2021.
October 25, 2021
Oct 25, 2021
10/25/21
We'll look at many choices, but focus on one.
October 25, 2021
Oct 25, 2021
10/25/21
We joined forces with Epic Games to bring faster semantic highlighting and IntelliSense ready to Visual Studio 2022 for Unreal Engine developers. In this blog post, we will detail how we worked with the Unreal Engine team to significantly speed up IntelliSense ready by 18x.
October 25, 2021
Oct 25, 2021
10/25/21
The Microsoft C++ team has an exciting lineup of sessions at CppCon 2021. Many of us will also be present at our team’s booth in the main hall for the first two days of the conference. Come say hi and let us know if you have any questions about our talks, products, or anything else! You can also join the #visual_studio channel on the ...
October 24, 2021
Oct 24, 2021
10/24/21
During this fiscal year I ran a women IC mentoring ring in the Developer Division at Microsoft. It was part of the women's mentoring ring program in our division. I've always felt a little sad when I looked around and saw very few women ICs at very senior levels. Most women who advanced to those levels became managers. This was what ...
October 23, 2021
Oct 23, 2021
10/23/21
Last week, our blog post and the removal of the Hot Reload capability from the .NET SDK repo led to a lot of feedback from the community.
First and foremost, we want to apologize. We made a mistake in executing on our decision and took longer than expected to respond back to the community.
Join us November 8th for the Launch of Visual Studio 2022
