Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2020
Azure Text Analytics v3 is now generally available
Azure Text Analytics v3 with sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction, language detection and named entity recognition capabilities, as well as model version controls, is now generally available.
Azure Databases extension for Visual Studio Code
Azure Databases extension for Visual Studio Code, with support for Azure Cosmos DB and Azure PostgreSQL, is now available.
Service Bus Explorer on the Azure portal is now available in preview
Send, receive and peek from queues, topics and subscriptions, now from the Azure portal (in preview).
Announcing .NET 5 Preview 4 and our Journey to one .NET
Preview 4 for .NET 5 is now available, with general availability coming in November. This release continues the journey to unify the .NET platform across workloads and will provide developers more productive cloud native development.
ASP.NET Blazor now supports WebAssembly
ASP.NET Blazor, which allows developers to build interactive web UIs with C#, now supports WebAssembly. Build client-side web apps that run completely in the browser and run faster and with less memory than JavaScript.
.NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) announced
.NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) will allow developers to build apps for any device from a single code codebase and project system, including desktop and mobile devices across operating systems.
New Azure extensions for Visual Studio Code
Two new extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available that make it easier to work with Azure—Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Resource Groups.
Support for Linux workloads in the App Service Migration Assistant tool
The App Service Migration Assistant tool now supports migrating containerized web applications from on-premises container images to App Service on Linux.
Azure Bot Service and Bot Framework updates for Build 2020
See the list of enhancements and new capabilities designed to make chatbot development more productive, including the GAs of Bot Framework Composer and Virtual Assistant solution accelerators, as well as support for human hand-off scenarios.
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 PowerShell and CLI are now generally available
Use PowerShell and Azure CLI filesystem semantics for operations on Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 filesystems, directories and files.
Azure Sphere update 20.04 is now available
The 20.04 release of Azure Sphere OS includes new features to support EAP-TLS networking and certificate management. A single Windows SDK now supports both Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.
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