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Enabling real-time dashboards: Power BI DirectQuery mode and Dataflows support in Azure Cosmos DB

March 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023 03/14/23

The Azure Cosmos DB V2 Connector for Power BI, with support for querying the Azure Cosmos DB transactional store in both DirectQuery and Import modes, is now in preview. The new V2 connector also supports Azure Cosmos DB as a data source in Power BI dataflows. It’s available now on Power BI components including Desktop, Power BI service, ...

Azure Cosmos DB Blog

ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 2

March 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023 03/14/23

Daniel Roth

.NET 8 Preview 2 is now available! Check out what's new in ASP.NET Core in this update.

.NET Blog

EF Core 8 Preview 2: Lite and familiar

March 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023 03/14/23

Arthur Vickers

Announcing Entity Framework Core 8 (EF8) Preview 2 with support for JSON columns in SQLite and HierarchyId in SQL Server/Azure SQL

.NET Blog

Announcing .NET 8 Preview 2

March 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023 03/14/23

Alexandra Barry

.NET 8 Preview 2 contains a few updates/new features from Preview 1, including introspection support for function pointers, as well as some other runtime and libraries improvements.

.NET Blog

.NET March 2023 Updates – .NET 7.0.4, .NET 6.0.15

March 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023 03/14/23

Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)

Check out March 2023 updates for .NET 7.0. and .NET 6.0

.NET Blog

Hack Together: Microsoft Graph and .NET week 2 recap and final week overview

March 13, 2023 Mar 13, 2023 03/13/23

Ayca Bas

On March 1st, we launched “Hack Together: Microsoft Graph and .NET” to hack and learn about Microsoft Graph and .NET. Time passes so quickly; we've reached the last week of our hack!

Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

PSReadLine 2.3.0-beta0 Release

March 13, 2023 Mar 13, 2023 03/13/23

Steven Bucher

Announcement of PSReadLine 2.3.0-beta0 release and description of the new features and fixes available.

PowerShell Team

What is the expression language used by the Resource Compiler for non-preprocessor expressions?

March 13, 2023 Mar 13, 2023 03/13/23

Raymond Chen

Oddly different for a different audience.

The Old New Thing

Long running RunCommands

March 10, 2023 Mar 10, 2023 03/10/23

Joseph Calev

Recently, there's been a bit of confusion involving long running RunCommands. For reference, the default wait time for RunCommand has been 90 minutes - the same as all other extensions. But what if you have a script that takes longer? Well, we've added a timeoutInSeconds parameter just for that purpose! az vm run-command create --...

Azure VM Runtime Team