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Catch up on what’s new in Azure: Azure.Source – Volume 45

August 25, 2018 Aug 25, 2018 08/25/18
John Powell
Announcing VNet service endpoints general availability for MySQL and PostgreSQL - Virtual network service endpoints for Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL in all regions where the service is available for General Purpose and Memory Optimized servers. You can use virtual network service endpoints to isolate connectivity to your logical ...

Important dates regarding apps with Windows Phone 8.x and earlier and Windows 8/8.1 packages submitted to Microsoft Store

August 24, 2018 Aug 24, 2018 08/24/18
John Powell
As a part of our Windows device life cycle, Microsoft Store will soon stop accepting new apps with Windows Phone 8.x or earlier or Windows 8/8.1 packages (XAP and APPX). Soon after that date, we will stop distributing app updates to Windows Phone 8.x or earlier and Windows 8/8.1 devices; at that time, updates will only be made available to ...

Bing.com runs on .NET Core 2.1!

August 24, 2018 Aug 24, 2018 08/24/18
John Powell
Bing.com is a cloud service that runs on thousands of servers spanning many datacenters across the globe. Bing servers handle thousands of users’ queries every second from consumers around the world doing searches through their browsers, from our partners using the Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs, and from the personal digital assistant, ...

Attend A .NET Conf Event Near You!

August 24, 2018 Aug 24, 2018 08/24/18
John Powell
If you have not yet heard of the .NET Conf, it is a FREE, 3-day virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft. There is a wide selection of live sessions with feature speakers streamed directly from communities around the world and by the .NET product teams. It is your chance to enhance your skills, ask questions to ...

Announcing F# 4.5

August 24, 2018 Aug 24, 2018 08/24/18
John Powell
Today, we’re incredibly pleased to announce general availability of F# 4.5. This post will walk through the changes in F# 4.5 (just like the preview post), then show some updates to F# tooling, and finally talk a bit about where what we’re thinking about for the next F# version...

Top 5 Mobile App Security Failures and How To Prevent Them

August 22, 2018 Aug 22, 2018 08/22/18
John Powell
In the race to get innovative new mobile apps or cool new features added to existing mobile apps out the door faster, secure coding practices in mobile app development aren’t always at the top of every developer’s list. In fact, our NowSecure benchmarks show that some 85 percent of iOS and Android apps in the Apple App Store and Google ...

Using MSVC in a Docker Container for Your C++ Projects

August 22, 2018 Aug 22, 2018 08/22/18
John Powell
Containers encapsulate the runtime environment of an application: the file system, environment settings, and virtualized OS are bundled into a package. Docker containers have changed the way we think about build and test environments since they were introduced five years ago...