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Microsoft 365 Developer Program instant sandbox service is restored

October 4, 2023 Oct 4, 2023 10/4/23

This week, we experienced an incident related to Microsoft 365 Developer Program instant sandboxes. New members who set up an instant sandbox were unable to sign in to their Microsoft 365 developer subscription. After setting up an instant sandbox, on sign in, members encountered the following error message. This issue has now been ...

Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

C# Dev Kit - Now Generally Available

October 4, 2023 Oct 4, 2023 10/4/23

Wendy Breiding (SHE/HER)

We are thrilled to announce the general availability of C# Dev Kit, a Visual Studio Code extension that brings an improved editor-first C# development experience to Linux, macOS, and Windows.

.NET Blog

Creating a Kubernetes Application for Azure SQL Database

October 4, 2023 Oct 4, 2023 10/4/23

Buck Woody

Creating a Kubernetes Application for Azure SQL Database Buck Woody, Principal Applied Data Scientist, Microsoft Modern application development has several challenges. From selecting a "stack" of front-end through data storage and processing from several competing standards, through ensuring the highest levels of security and performance...

Azure SQL Devs’ Corner

Skills to plugins: fully embracing the OpenAI plugin spec in Semantic Kernel

October 4, 2023 Oct 4, 2023 10/4/23

Matthew Bolanos

Over the past several weeks, the Semantic Kernel team has been hard at work preparing for the v1.0.0 release at the end of the calendar year. As part of this change, we wanted to complete any remaining breaking changes so developers could have a stable API moving forward. If you are interested in seeing what these changes are, you can ...

Semantic Kernel

On the confusing names for the Windows service SID types

October 4, 2023 Oct 4, 2023 10/4/23

Raymond Chen

Too much abbreviation.

The Old New Thing

PSReadLine 2.3.4 GA Release

October 3, 2023 Oct 3, 2023 10/3/23

Steven Bucher

We are excited to announce the general availability of PSReadLine 2.3.4!

PowerShell Team

Announcing TypeScript 5.3 Beta

October 3, 2023 Oct 3, 2023 10/3/23

Daniel Rosenwasser

Today we are excited to announce the availability of TypeScript 5.3 Beta. To get started using the beta, you can get it through NuGet, or through npm with the following command: npm install -D typescript@beta Here's a quick list of what's new in TypeScript 5.3! Import Attributes Stable Support resolution-mode in Import Types switch (...

TypeScript

Find what you need with Microsoft Graph connectors

October 3, 2023 Oct 3, 2023 10/3/23

Waldek Mastykarz , Majesty Uwagerikpe

Learn about Microsoft Graph connectors, how to build them, and how to ensure seamless integration of your data into Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

A complaint about Links the Cat, the Office assistant

October 3, 2023 Oct 3, 2023 10/3/23

Raymond Chen

Do all cats do that?

The Old New Thing

Open Sourcing IFC SDK for C++ Modules

October 3, 2023 Oct 3, 2023 10/3/23

GDR

Back with VS2019 version 16.10, we announced a complete implementation of C++ Modules (and, generally, of all C++20 features) across the MSVC compiler toolset, static analysis, IntelliSense, and debugger. Implementing Modules requires principled intermediate representation of C++ source programs. Today, we are thrilled to announce the ...

C++ Team Blog