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Test and debug securely with Dev Tunnels

Dev Tunnels is a security-first, developer-optimized tunneling service designed to allow you to securely expose your local endpoint to the internet. This is helpful for sharing in-progress work, testing, and debugging web APIs and webhooks, experimenting on other devices, and testing integrations with cloud services. Dev Tunnels is cross-...


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Azure Cosmos DB design patterns – Part 2: Data Binning

Over the years, customers have asked us for help in designing applications around specific scenarios they were trying to achieve. In some cases, these centered around implementing certain patterns using a JSON-based NoSQL database. Some of these patterns are very common in the NoSQL world, but not well understood by those new to NoSQL ...


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The Visual Studio 2022 add-in is now available for Dynamics 365 for Financials and Operations.

TL;DR: The Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Visual Studio add-in is now available for use in Visual Studio 2022 (VS 2022). Visual Studio 2022 is the first 64-bit version of Visual Studio. We wanted to take advantage of the stability it brought (and set us up for the future) and this gave us the opportunity to rework and rethink some of...


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VHDs and CHEs with One box deployments available now (VHD FinandOps10.0.37)

TL;DR We have published updated virtual machines (VHD) and cloud hosted environments (CHE) containing the latest bits, scheduled to be released in the first week of November 2023. The new VHD Developer One-box image is based on Windows Server 2022 Datacenter. The image contains both the Visual Studio (VS) 2019 and VS 2022 versions (in the ...