Azure SDK Blog

Introducing new previews for Azure management libraries

July 7, 2020 Jul 7, 2020 07/7/20

Nick Zhu

We’re excited to announce that a new set of Azure management libraries for Java, .NET and Python are now in Public Preview. These libraries follow the Azure SDK guidelines and share a number of core features such as authentication protocols, HTTP retries, logging, and transport protocols.

Dependency Management for Java

June 23, 2020 Jun 23, 2020 06/23/20

Alan Zimmer

It is common practice to reuse software libraries to speed up development. However, it introduces a problem of dependency management in your project. I will break down some of our solutions for dependency management in Java. You will learn how to use Maven and Gradle for this task, and how to troubleshoot dependency conflicts along the way. ...

Azure SDK Release (June 2020) – Introducing the Azure SDK for Embedded Devices

June 18, 2020 Jun 18, 2020 06/18/20

Jeffrey Richter

This month, we introduce the Azure SDK for Embedded C, with a preview edition of the Storage client library. In addition, we've updated the client libraries for Cosmos DB, Event Hubs, Storage, and Text Analytics. We've also published new previews for Azure Identity, Cognitive Search, Form Recognizer, and Service Bus.

Async Iterators in the Azure SDK for JavaScript/TypeScript

May 26, 2020 May 26, 2020 05/26/20

Brian Terlson

A common feature in cloud APIs is paging for list results. Result sets may be massive - you could have thousands of blobs in a container, for example. Getting all results at once can cause delays in transmission and excessive load on the backend. We'll show you how the Azure SDK handles this issue.

Introducing Form Recognizer client library: AI-powered document extraction

May 19, 2020 May 19, 2020 05/19/20

Sameeksha Vaity

Data entry is boring. We all hate it, but one team in Azure Cognitive Service decided we needed a better way that can take away the need to manually enter data.

Azure SDK Release (May 2020) – New Azure Identity Dev Credentials

May 12, 2020 May 12, 2020 05/12/20

Jianghao Lu

This month, we have updated Event Hubs and Storage, and introduced new previews for Form Recognizer, Cognitive Search, and Service Bus. We also go in depth with Azure Identity and the new mechanisms we are developing to improve authentication when developing services.

Forecasting Service scale out with Jupyter Notebooks in Visual Studio Code

May 5, 2020 May 5, 2020 05/5/20

Kieran Brantner-Magee

Visual Studio Code has an extension for running Jupyter Notebooks, which is a great tool for those of us interested in data analytics as it simplifies our workflows. In this article, I will show how to consume Azure data in a Jupyter Notebook using the Azure SDK. The problem I will be demonstrating builds a predictive model to anticipate ...

How to use CancellationTokens to cancel tasks in the Azure SDK for .NET

April 28, 2020 Apr 28, 2020 04/28/20

Heath Stewart

The ability to cancel long-running tasks is important to help keep applications responsive. Whether the network connection is slow or disconnects, or the user just wants to cancel a long task, using a [`CancellationToken`][CancellationToken] in .NET makes it easy to cancel those long tasks.

How to use abort signals to cancel operations in the Azure SDK for JavaScript/TypeScript

April 21, 2020 Apr 21, 2020 04/21/20

Brian Terlson

Cancelling in-progress network operations is critical for applications to maintain responsiveness and avoid doing work that isn't needed anymore. There are many situations where you want to cancel on-going work. This article shows you how it is done.

Azure SDK Release (April 2020) – Using Azure Key Vault to Store Application Secrets

April 14, 2020 Apr 14, 2020 04/14/20

Adrian Hall

This month, we have updated the App Configuration, Event Hubs, Key Vault, and Storage libraries. We've also released new previews for Cognitive Search, Event Hubs, Service Bus, and Text Analytics.