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Azure DevOps Server Product Lifecycle and Servicing

January 16, 2024 Jan 16, 2024 01/16/24

Gloridel Morales

Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server follow the Microsoft Product Fixed Lifecycle Policy of 10 years. The first 5 years of Mainstream Support provide feature updates, platform updates, security updates, functionality fixes, and quality improvements. The second 5 years of Extended Support provide critical security updates only for the...

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Azure DevOps Blog

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Azure DevOps Server Patches

Design Fault Tolerant Quantum Computing applications with the open-source Resource Estimator

January 16, 2024 Jan 16, 2024 01/16/24

Fabrice Frachon , Mathias Soeken , Ivan Basov

We are excited to announce that following its initial release the Azure Quantum Resource Estimator is now open-source. It has been integrated with the Modern QDK making it run up to 100x faster, and running across PC, Mac, Linux or from your web browser. Try it now. Why is resource estimation relevant today? Quantum computing has the ...

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Q# Blog

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Resource Estimation Qubit

What is a hard error, and what makes it harder than an easy error?

January 16, 2024 Jan 16, 2024 01/16/24

Raymond Chen

A throwback to the early days of 16-bit Windows.

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The Old New Thing

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C++/WinRT gotcha: Not all exceptions derive from hresult_error

January 15, 2024 Jan 15, 2024 01/15/24

Raymond Chen

There are also C++ standard exceptions, particularly std::bad_alloc.

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The Old New Thing

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The building blocks of machine identity

January 15, 2024 Jan 15, 2024 01/15/24

Pieter Kasselman

This is part two of a three-part series of blog posts. In part one, published in Sept 2023, we talked about the drivers and the need for machine identities. Now, we take a look at the building blocks of a machine identity management system.

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Microsoft Entra Identity Platform

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Insights

Self-help support for Azure using Help API : CLI Extension

January 12, 2024 Jan 12, 2024 01/12/24

Nithya Sivam

Today, Azure customers navigate across multiple tools, portals and knowledge bases to troubleshoot Azure incidents. Azure is now introducing Help API, an offering that streamlines and simplifies troubleshooting steps by returning relevant solutions associated with the problem, wherever you need them! Help API empowers you and/or your users to ...

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Windows Command Line

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Command Line

Data Science Day Announcement and Call for Speaker Proposals

January 12, 2024 Jan 12, 2024 01/12/24

Dawn Wages

Python Data Science Day is a full day of 25 min and 5 min community contributed content March 14th, 2024 streaming on the VS Code YouTube channel. Submission deadline is January 25th AOE (Anywhere on Earth).

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Python

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Announcing v1.0 of the Azure Quantum Development Kit

January 12, 2024 Jan 12, 2024 01/12/24

Bill Ticehurst

Today we are excited to announce the 1.0 release of the Azure Quantum Development Kit, which we often refer to simply as "the QDK". As outlined in an earlier blog post, this is a significant re-write over the prior QDK with an emphasis on speed, simplicity, and a delightful experience. Review that post for the technical details on how we ...

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Q# Blog

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Sortable Lists for Blazor using a SortableJS Component

January 12, 2024 Jan 12, 2024 01/12/24

Burke Holland

Blazor Sortable is a new a open source community Blazor component for creating sortable lists of items using SortableJS.

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.NET Blog

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.NET ASP.NET

Unlock Retail Productivity with Power Platform and Dataverse

January 12, 2024 Jan 12, 2024 01/12/24

Nirav Shah

This year at the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) Big Show we will highlight how Power Platform can help unlock productivity and improve customer experiences in your retail shopping experiences. Store associates can face many challenges, including dealing with backorders and stockouts on items. Often, this is caused by data being scattered...

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Power Platform Developer Blog

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AI Microsoft Dataverse