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.NET Framework December 2018 Security and Quality Rollup

December 28, 2018 Dec 28, 2018 12/28/18
Shikha Kaul
This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework that could allow remote code execution when Microsoft .NET Framework doesn’t validate input correctly. The attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability could take control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete ...

Using multi-stage containers for C++ development

December 28, 2018 Dec 28, 2018 12/28/18
Shikha Kaul
Containers are a great tool for configuring reproducible build environments. It’s fairly easy to find Dockerfiles that provide various C++ environments. Unfortunately, it is hard to find guidance on how to use newer techniques like multi-stage builds. This post will show you how you can leverage the capabilities of multi-stage containers for...

Build and deploy microservices on Azure Service Fabric Mesh

December 28, 2018 Dec 28, 2018 12/28/18
Shikha Kaul
In the past couple of years, application developers have stopped questioning whether microservices are the right architecture to build scalable systems and started debating how to best implement them. I think this is due to several concepts that have converged in our industry in the past decade—all of which have to do with the need for ...

Taking a closer look at Python support for Azure Functions

December 28, 2018 Dec 28, 2018 12/28/18
Shikha Kaul
Azure Functions provides a powerful programming model for accelerated development and serverless hosting of event-driven applications. Ever since we announced the general availability of the Azure Functions 2.0 runtime, support for Python has been one of our top requests. At Microsoft Connect() last week, we announced the public preview of ...

Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH

December 21, 2018 Dec 21, 2018 12/21/18
Shikha Kaul
The OpenSSH client and server are now available as a supported Feature-on-Demand in Windows Server 2019 and Windows 10 1809! The Win32 port of OpenSSH was first included in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and Windows Server 1709 as a pre-release feature. In the Windows 10 1803 release, OpenSSH was released as a supported feature on-demand...

Get to code: How we designed the Visual Studio 2019 new start window

December 21, 2018 Dec 21, 2018 12/21/18
Shikha Kaul
By now, many of you may have noticed a very prominent change to the launch of Visual Studio in Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1. Our goal with this new experience is to provide rapid access to the most common ways that developers get to their code: whether it’s cloning from an online repository or opening an existing project...

A Year of Q#

December 21, 2018 Dec 21, 2018 12/21/18
Shikha Kaul
The Quantum Architecture and Computation group launched Q#, our quantum computing programming language, a year ago on December 11th, 2017. Q# 0.1 was the result of a lot of hard work from a small, dedicated team of developers, researchers, and program managers. We had made the decision to build a domain-specific language for quantum computing...