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Discover how the cloud can make you a better and more productive developer. It can even improve how you collaborate with other developers. For our July roundup, we’re exploring the latest tools, training, and resources that will help you harness the power of the cloud in your development workflows. We have info on cloud-based dev environments (like Microsoft Dev Box and GitHub Codespaces), coding companions (such as GitHub Copilot for Azure), and cloud-native tools (like .NET Aspire). Read on and find out how you can improve productivity and build better apps. We also touch on other developer-related topics from around Microsoft, including a look at working with Data Wrangler in VS Code and how to add AI to Microsoft Mesh experiences.
Secure AI Apps on Azure
Learn how to secure your AI apps on Azure. This Reactor series will cover keyless authentication, user login with Microsoft Entra, data access control for RAG applications, and private network deployment. New episodes are live July 2–July 25, 2024 and then available on demand.
Get details: .NET Aspire Developers Day
Elevate your cloud native skills. Join .NET Aspire Developers Day on July 23, 2024 to take your .NET skills to the next level. This livestreaming event will be packed with keynotes, deep-dive sessions, demos, and interactive learning. Get the details and RSVP.
Python: Build real world applications with Python
Want to learn how to build applications with Python? This Microsoft Learn path will get you started. Learn language syntax, explore patterns for structuring your app, add AI, and test your apps.
Microsoft Learn: Remote development with Visual Studio Code
Want access to more powerful hardware, consistent dev environments, and an easy way to develop across different platforms? Remote development with VS Code is the key to improving your dev workflow. Check out this free learning path from Microsoft Learn to get started.
Understanding cloud-powered development environments
Get instant access to the latest hardware running in the cloud right next to your source code and CI/CD servers. Watch this Microsoft Build session on demand for a look at Microsoft Dev Box and GitHub Codespaces to explore your options.
Microsoft Learn: Get started with .NET Aspire
Ready to get started with .NET Aspire? Check out this collection of resources to learn about .NET Aspire—an opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building distributed applications. See how it helps with orchestration, tooling, and more.
Siemens Healthineers China expedites product time to market with Microsoft Dev Box
What happened when the Siemens Healthineers China dev team turned to Microsoft Dev Box for prebuilt, tailored dev and test environments in the cloud? Developers could collaborate more easily worldwide and complete projects faster. Learn more.
Beginner guide: Getting started with C# and .NET in VS Code
Take your first steps to building apps with .NET, C#, and VS Code. This video will help you set up your entire VS Code environment and necessary extensions in under 10 minutes.
GitHub Copilot for Azure: Your cloud coding companion in VS Code
Want to enhance your coding experience? Meet GitHub Copilot for Azure, the latest addition for your dev toolkit. This extension integrates with GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code, bringing Azure expertise right to your fingertips. Learn more.
Microsoft Learn: Accelerate developer productivity with GitHub and Azure for Developers
Learn all the skills you need to start coding in the cloud with GitHub Copilot. Discover how GitHub Copilot can help you write code faster, understand code from other developers, create documentation, debug problems, and learn new skills.
Quickstart for GitHub Codespaces
Try GitHub Codespaces in just 5 minutes. This step-by-step guide shows you how to create a codespace and use essential features. Connect to a forwarded port, publish to a new repository, and personalize your setup with extensions.
Deep dive into GitHub Codespaces
Dig deeper into GitHub Codespaces. GitHub Codespaces is an instant, cloud-based dev environment. Take a closer look at how GitHub Codespaces works under the hood. And learn how to customize your development environment.
The present and future of Copilot extensibility: Top 10 takeaways from Build 2024
Explore 10 key takeaways from Microsoft Build about Copilot extensibility. Discover new pathways to extend, customize, and amplify Copilot capabilities.
GitHub Copilot's @workspace - Deep Dive
Get to know GitHub Copilot's new @workspace participant—as well as its @terminal and @vscode participants. Watch some demos and find out how participants enable more relevant and faster suggestions and responses to questions.
What’s new for Office Add-ins at Build 2024
What’s new for Office Add-ins? Get an overview of new capabilities and features for Office Add-ins development announced at Microsoft Build. Get details about the VS Code extension and the GitHub Copilot extension for Office Add-ins.
C++ in VS Code: Building your Code with CMake
Discover the benefits of using a build system. This video shows how to add the CMake build system to a C++ project in VS Code. Learn how to navigate the CMake Tools extension, create a CMakeLists.txt file, and use CMake presets.
Do more in Microsoft Mesh with data and AI
Did you know you can use data and AI to enhance your custom Microsoft Mesh experience? Find out how to get started with AI in Mesh, and learn about a creative real-world example from Sulava, a Microsoft partner.
Discover the power of customization with Microsoft Copilot extensions
Microsoft Copilot extensions help enhance your organization's productivity, skills, and creativity. With extensions, users get a Copilot experience that’s customized with data, systems, and workflows. Check out this free infographic to learn more.
A developer's guide to customizing Copilot
Watch a developer's guide to customizing Copilot. This Microsoft Build session, available on demand, covers what you need to know to start developing Copilot extensions.
Build Your first end-to-end test with Playwright
Use Playwright to test a web app. This free Microsoft Learn module will show you how to run tests, view reports, and explore project structure. Find out how to use VS Code for everything from test execution and debugging to creating and refining test suites.
Mastering your data with Data Wrangler in VS Code
Harness your data with Data Wrangler. The free Data Wrangler extension offers data viewing and cleaning directly in VS Code and the Jupyter extension. It provides a rich UI to view and analyze your data, show visualizations, automatically generate Pandas code, and more.
Easy web deployment with GitHub Copilot
Discover easier web deployment with GitHub Copilot. This demo shows how to deploy a website to Azure Container Apps with help from GitHub Copilot in VS Code.
DevOps foundations: Core principles and practices
Explore core principles and practices of DevOps. This Microsoft Learn path will help you improve collaboration, agility, CI/CD, and automation in your organization throughout all phases of the application lifecycle.
Enhancing Microsoft Teams to support developer productivity and collaboration
Read about new tools and capabilities coming to Microsoft Teams to boost developer productivity and help dev teams collaborate more effectively.
Microsoft Loop transforms the way developer teams work
Microsoft Loop transforms the way developer teams work. It provides a central and flexible place for your work, helping teams stay in sync and on track. See how.
Continue reading...
Secure AI Apps on Azure
Learn how to secure your AI apps on Azure. This Reactor series will cover keyless authentication, user login with Microsoft Entra, data access control for RAG applications, and private network deployment. New episodes are live July 2–July 25, 2024 and then available on demand.
Get details: .NET Aspire Developers Day
Elevate your cloud native skills. Join .NET Aspire Developers Day on July 23, 2024 to take your .NET skills to the next level. This livestreaming event will be packed with keynotes, deep-dive sessions, demos, and interactive learning. Get the details and RSVP.
Python: Build real world applications with Python
Want to learn how to build applications with Python? This Microsoft Learn path will get you started. Learn language syntax, explore patterns for structuring your app, add AI, and test your apps.
Microsoft Learn: Remote development with Visual Studio Code
Want access to more powerful hardware, consistent dev environments, and an easy way to develop across different platforms? Remote development with VS Code is the key to improving your dev workflow. Check out this free learning path from Microsoft Learn to get started.
Understanding cloud-powered development environments
Get instant access to the latest hardware running in the cloud right next to your source code and CI/CD servers. Watch this Microsoft Build session on demand for a look at Microsoft Dev Box and GitHub Codespaces to explore your options.
Microsoft Learn: Get started with .NET Aspire
Ready to get started with .NET Aspire? Check out this collection of resources to learn about .NET Aspire—an opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building distributed applications. See how it helps with orchestration, tooling, and more.
Siemens Healthineers China expedites product time to market with Microsoft Dev Box
What happened when the Siemens Healthineers China dev team turned to Microsoft Dev Box for prebuilt, tailored dev and test environments in the cloud? Developers could collaborate more easily worldwide and complete projects faster. Learn more.
Beginner guide: Getting started with C# and .NET in VS Code
Take your first steps to building apps with .NET, C#, and VS Code. This video will help you set up your entire VS Code environment and necessary extensions in under 10 minutes.
GitHub Copilot for Azure: Your cloud coding companion in VS Code
Want to enhance your coding experience? Meet GitHub Copilot for Azure, the latest addition for your dev toolkit. This extension integrates with GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code, bringing Azure expertise right to your fingertips. Learn more.
Microsoft Learn: Accelerate developer productivity with GitHub and Azure for Developers
Learn all the skills you need to start coding in the cloud with GitHub Copilot. Discover how GitHub Copilot can help you write code faster, understand code from other developers, create documentation, debug problems, and learn new skills.
Quickstart for GitHub Codespaces
Try GitHub Codespaces in just 5 minutes. This step-by-step guide shows you how to create a codespace and use essential features. Connect to a forwarded port, publish to a new repository, and personalize your setup with extensions.
Deep dive into GitHub Codespaces
Dig deeper into GitHub Codespaces. GitHub Codespaces is an instant, cloud-based dev environment. Take a closer look at how GitHub Codespaces works under the hood. And learn how to customize your development environment.
The present and future of Copilot extensibility: Top 10 takeaways from Build 2024
Explore 10 key takeaways from Microsoft Build about Copilot extensibility. Discover new pathways to extend, customize, and amplify Copilot capabilities.
GitHub Copilot's @workspace - Deep Dive
Get to know GitHub Copilot's new @workspace participant—as well as its @terminal and @vscode participants. Watch some demos and find out how participants enable more relevant and faster suggestions and responses to questions.
What’s new for Office Add-ins at Build 2024
What’s new for Office Add-ins? Get an overview of new capabilities and features for Office Add-ins development announced at Microsoft Build. Get details about the VS Code extension and the GitHub Copilot extension for Office Add-ins.
C++ in VS Code: Building your Code with CMake
Discover the benefits of using a build system. This video shows how to add the CMake build system to a C++ project in VS Code. Learn how to navigate the CMake Tools extension, create a CMakeLists.txt file, and use CMake presets.
Do more in Microsoft Mesh with data and AI
Did you know you can use data and AI to enhance your custom Microsoft Mesh experience? Find out how to get started with AI in Mesh, and learn about a creative real-world example from Sulava, a Microsoft partner.
Discover the power of customization with Microsoft Copilot extensions
Microsoft Copilot extensions help enhance your organization's productivity, skills, and creativity. With extensions, users get a Copilot experience that’s customized with data, systems, and workflows. Check out this free infographic to learn more.
A developer's guide to customizing Copilot
Watch a developer's guide to customizing Copilot. This Microsoft Build session, available on demand, covers what you need to know to start developing Copilot extensions.
Build Your first end-to-end test with Playwright
Use Playwright to test a web app. This free Microsoft Learn module will show you how to run tests, view reports, and explore project structure. Find out how to use VS Code for everything from test execution and debugging to creating and refining test suites.
Mastering your data with Data Wrangler in VS Code
Harness your data with Data Wrangler. The free Data Wrangler extension offers data viewing and cleaning directly in VS Code and the Jupyter extension. It provides a rich UI to view and analyze your data, show visualizations, automatically generate Pandas code, and more.
Easy web deployment with GitHub Copilot
Discover easier web deployment with GitHub Copilot. This demo shows how to deploy a website to Azure Container Apps with help from GitHub Copilot in VS Code.
DevOps foundations: Core principles and practices
Explore core principles and practices of DevOps. This Microsoft Learn path will help you improve collaboration, agility, CI/CD, and automation in your organization throughout all phases of the application lifecycle.
Enhancing Microsoft Teams to support developer productivity and collaboration
Read about new tools and capabilities coming to Microsoft Teams to boost developer productivity and help dev teams collaborate more effectively.
Microsoft Loop transforms the way developer teams work
Microsoft Loop transforms the way developer teams work. It provides a central and flexible place for your work, helping teams stay in sync and on track. See how.
Continue reading...