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vcpkg September 2022 Release is Now Available: Celebrating 6 Years with Over 2000 Libraries!

October 6, 2022 Oct 6, 2022 10/6/22

The September 2022 release of the vcpkg package manager is available. This blog post summarizes changes from August 15th, 2022 to September 27th, 2022 for the Microsoft/vcpkg and Microsoft/vcpkg-tool GitHub repos. vcpkg now has over 2,000 unique libraries in its open-source registry With this release, and the 6th anniversary of the...

C++ Team Blog

Designing for foldable and large screens

October 6, 2022 Oct 6, 2022 10/6/22

Yuran Liu

Hello app designers! Today we are going to talk about designing for foldable and large screens. We’ve been practicing responsive web design for a long time - let's use those concepts to optimze your mobile app for different platforms and devices. Mobile apps can use adaptive designs to deliver a consistent app experience. In today...

Surface Duo Blog

Visual Studio’s Azure Marketplace images now support Microsoft Dev Box

October 5, 2022 Oct 5, 2022 10/5/22

Ruben Rios

Over the last couple of years, we’ve expanded our Visual Studio VM image offerings for the Azure Marketplace. These images have proven to be popular not only for evaluating the latest Visual Studio releases, but also for jumpstarting developer environments in the cloud. In this post, we'll introduce new images optimized for running Visual ...

Visual Studio Blog

Contribute to Open Source with the Pythonistas at Microsoft - Hacktoberfest 2022

October 4, 2022 Oct 4, 2022 10/4/22

Dawn Wages

Pythonistas at Microsoft are participating in Hacktoberfest 2022. We've gotten together to share with you tips and tricks for contributing, how we got into Open Source and the projects we have our eye on. Join us for our Twitch Stream October 10th, 2022 2PM PT on the Microsoft Developer Channel.

Python

Announcing the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit v1.3

October 4, 2022 Oct 4, 2022 10/4/22

Kym Phillpotts

.NET MAUI Community Toolkit v1.3 is now available! Check out what's new in this update.

.NET Blog

Link unfurling public preview in Outlook

October 4, 2022 Oct 4, 2022 10/4/22

Namrata Khubchandani

We are excited to announce public preview for Link unfurling in Outlook so users can now insert a link, and have it expanded into a rich actionable preview card allowing recipients to get additional context on the link and complete their workflows in Outlook, without context switching.

Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

Comparing files in Visual Studio

October 4, 2022 Oct 4, 2022 10/4/22

Mads Kristensen

As developers, we often need to compare two files to find the differences. Sometimes, even comparing the content of the clipboard with a file on disk. And again, sometimes comparing our local changes to previous versions from our Git commit history. There is no straightforward way in Visual Studio to do those things today, but in this month’...

Visual Studio Blog

Azure Synapse Link support for Azure Cosmos DB Gremlin API now in preview

October 4, 2022 Oct 4, 2022 10/4/22

Rodrigo Souza

Azure Cosmos DB's Gremlin API combines the power of graph database algorithms with highly scalable, managed infrastructure to provide a unique, flexible solution to most common data problems associated with lack of flexibility and relational approaches. For more information, click here. Use Cases The objective of this new capability is to ...

Azure Cosmos DB Blog

Announcing NuGet PackageReference support for C++/CLI MSBuild projects targeting .NET Core and .NET 5 or higher

October 3, 2022 Oct 3, 2022 10/3/22

Augustin Popa

One of the new features for C++ developers in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.3 is NuGet PackageReference support for C++/CLI MSBuild projects that target .NET Core and .NET 5 or higher. More specifically, this impacts CLR Class Library (.NET) and CLR Empty Project (.NET) project templates. This functionality allows you to manage NuGet packages ...

C++ Team Blog

Ten Years of TypeScript

October 1, 2022 Oct 1, 2022 10/1/22

Daniel Rosenwasser

Today is TypeScript's birthday! But this birthday is a special one - 10 years ago today, on October 1st, 2012, TypeScript was unveiled publicly for the first time. The Early Days When TypeScript first debuted, there was a lot of skepticism - and understandably so. To some JavaScript users, a team trying to bring static types to JavaScript ...

TypeScript