Q# Blog

Announcing the Azure Quantum Summer 2022 Hackathon

August 15, 2022 Aug 15, 2022 08/15/22

Matt Zanner (HE/HIM)

Join us for the Azure Quantum Summer 2022 Hackathon hosted in collaboration with IEEE QCE22 to learn more about quantum computing and have a chance to win cool prizes.

Quantum Development Kit adopts .NET6 and supports Visual Studio 2022

June 8, 2022 Jun 8, 2022 06/8/22

Ricardo Espinoza

In March we migrated the Quantum Development Kit to .NET 6.0 and added support for Visual Studio 2022. Learn more here in this post!

PyQIR Projects at UnitaryHACK

June 1, 2022 Jun 1, 2022 06/1/22

Matt Zanner (HE/HIM)

We're happy to be supporting UnitaryHACK June 3 - 17. Register to contribute to some great open source PyQIR projects and collect bounties in the process!

Azure Quantum challenge at QCHack 2022: Recap

May 2, 2022 May 2, 2022 05/2/22

Mariia Mykhailova

This April we partnered with IonQ and Quantinuum to offer one of the technical challenges at Quantum Coalition Hackathon 2022. Meet the challenge winners and learn about their projects!

Microsoft/IonQ challenge at iQuHACK 2022: Recap

April 18, 2022 Apr 18, 2022 04/18/22

Mariia Mykhailova

This January we partnered with IonQ to offer one of the technical challenges at iQuHACK – MIT’s annual quantum hackathon. Meet the challenge winners and learn about their projects!

Testing large quantum algorithms using sparse simulation

April 6, 2022 Apr 6, 2022 04/6/22

Mathias Soeken

This blog post introduces the sparse simulator. Learn how it works and how it may help you with testing and debugging of quantum algorithms.

Introducing Q# Lambda Expressions

March 30, 2022 Mar 30, 2022 03/30/22

Scott Carda

Here we introduce the new Q# lambda expressions language feature and give some examples of its usage.

Announcing Azure Quantum challenge at QCHack 2022

March 24, 2022 Mar 24, 2022 03/24/22

Mariia Mykhailova

We are excited to announce that Microsoft along with our partners IonQ and Quantinuum will join Quantum Coalition Hack, hosted during the week of April 4-10! Learn more about the challenge we'll be offering and the best ways to prepare for it.

Implementing DevOps for Quantum Applications

March 22, 2022 Mar 22, 2022 03/22/22

Holger Sirtl

This blog post illustrates how CI/CD-pipelines can be built for hybrid quantum apps with tools from the Quantum Development Kit (QDK), GitHub Actions and various Azure services. These cover the full app lifecycle: from app building, automated testing, resource estimating up to provisioning the target environment and deployment of the app.

Explore Quantum Hardware for Free with Azure Quantum

February 3, 2022 Feb 3, 2022 02/3/22

Mike Blouin

Learn how to use the $500 Azure Quantum credits to experiment with our partners' quantum hardware.