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By John K. Waters 04/01/2021 Platform9 has released the latest version of its Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) product, a SaaS-managed service that combines OpenStack and Kubernetes. PMK is designed to provide a simple tool for managing complex Kubernetes clusters, on-premises, in public clouds, or at the edge. The big news in this release is new support for advanced networking capabilities for large-scale 5G Kubernetes deployments, central management of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (...

Flutter has been transitioning from a cross-platform mobile development SDK for Android/iOS into a tool that allows you to run the same code natively in a browser on Windows, Linux and macOS. With Flutter 2, non-mobile Flutter development is starting to become more viable. Last year, I wrote two articles here on Smashing Magazine about using Flutter on web and desktop platforms. The first article was a general introduction to web and desktop development, and focused on building responsive UI; t...

Take advantage of the new relational and logical patterns in C# 9.0 to make your code more readable, maintainable, and efficient.

Developers adopting latest and greatest will have to tangle with XAML Tim Anderson Mon 15 Mar 2021 // 17:45 UTC Share Copy Microsoft has released its second preview of .NET 6, but confirmed there will be no visual designer for WinUI 3.0 when it comes out in November this year. WinUI 3.0 is intended to be the primary official framework for Windows desktop applications. Microsofts .NET 6 is the first long-term release of its revamped development platform for running C#, F#...

| About | Greg Lambert evaluates the risks to existing applications and environments in each months Patch Tuesday cycle. Patch Exchange now, and test your Windows updates If it werent for some serious security issues involving on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers, Id say things look pretty good for this months batch of patches. Traitov / Getty Images If it werent for the serious security issues surrounding on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers (CVE-2021-2685, CVE-2021...

Microsoft just released WinUI 3 - Project Reunion 0.5 Preview. The preview is the first time that WinUI 3 ships inside of the Project Reunion package, which should help developers make modern apps for Windows 10.

“Writing in games is often very bad, very clunky and clumsy. And that’s not the fault of the writers. That’s the fault of the tools,” says Jon Ingold, co-founder of indie studio Inkle. And so the studio, step-by-step, came up with a better way of writing stories for games: Ink. “One of the things I was really keen on was finding a way to write that was fluent, because almost all interactive text writing tools are very far removed from being fluent.” He then explains: “So you set s...

The out-of-band Exchange patch released March 2 covers seven unique CVEs, four of which are under active attack. Organizations running on-premises Exchange Servers are advised to address the vulnerabilities as soon as possible, as attackers are continuing to scan for and exploit them. Microsoft today pushed additional patches for older, unsupported versions of Exchange Server. Todays Patch Tuesday release addresses vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Azure and Azure DevOps, Azure Sphere, Inte...

Reseller News Join Reseller News Sign up to gain exclusive access to email subscriptions, event invitations, competitions, giveaways, and much more.Sign up now Visual Studio 2019 16.9 brings memory error detection, C++ capabilities Microsoft has made Visual Studio 2019 16.9 generally available and unveiled a preview of Visual Studio 2019 16.10 Credit: Dreamstime Microsoft has reached two milestones with its signature Visual Studio IDE, making Visual Studio 2019 16.9 available as a...

Bugs in Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code are the least of it Share Copy Patch Tuesday A week after Microsoft warned that four zero-day flaws and three others in its Exchange Server were being actively exploited and issued out-of-band remediation, the cloudy Windows biz has delivered software fixes to address 82 other vulnerabilities as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday ritual. All told, that makes 89 CVEs for the month, 14 of which have been deemed critical. Microsoft says two of these...