Build Microsoft News Today

Microsoft Build took place this week and, as expected, a number of announcements came out with implications for the digital workplace. Here are five of them.

Build Microsoft today announced various AI-related tools during its annual Build developer conference in Seattle. Are you tired of your stubby fingers hitting the wrong keys when you code? Are you tired of pressing the delete key again and again? Are you tired of pesky spelling mistakes and buggy source? Well, perhaps Redmonds IntelliCode, first teased around this time last year, may just be what you need. The machine-learning-backed software is, essentially, like an autocorrect or autofill too...

Faster Entity Framework, complete C++ 20 support in Visual Studio, but complications remain Tim Anderson Thu 27 May 2021 // 10:02 UTC Share Copy Build Microsoft has previewed Hot Reload for .NET development, enabling on-the-fly changes to source code that are applied to a running application. The company also set the date for the first production release of .NET 6: November 9. Long-time Microsoft-platform developers will recall Edit and continue (EnC) as a feature of Vis...

Project Reunion, Microsofts revamped desktop development framework for Windows 10, inched ahead to reach 0.8 preview. It provides components like Windows UI Library (WinUI) 3, MRT Core, and DWriteCore to help make writing Windows 10 apps more consistent. "When you build an app that uses Project Reunion, you get access to: coherent and modern interactions and UX with WinUI 3, great system performance and battery life, an experience optimized for the device hardware, and hassle-free app discovery...

SPFx is also being extended to support web parts (components) based on Microsoft Viva, a platform for employee-oriented resources such as training and knowledge management. Microsoft is also introducing a Developer Portal for Teams, an update and rename for the existing App Studio. The Developer Portal, now in preview, is "the primary tool for configuring, distributing, and managing your Microsoft Teams apps." Here, developers can register applications, add environments which enable global vari...

On-premises fans hoping for news regarding Cosmos DB and Azure Stack were, however, to be disappointed, as Microsoft told us: "We have nothing to share about Cosmos DB on Azure Stack HCI at this time. "We do offer customers the ability to manage their hybrid deployments using Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, which is part of the Cosmos DB family." Its not quite the same, though, is it? Still, Microsoft significantly upped the freebies on offer for those happy to sign up for Azure. T...

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