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Team Work Item Automation Rules (Private Preview)

October 2, 2023 Oct 2, 2023 10/2/23

Customers have been requesting to automate state transitions for a while. Take this request from 2018: “When a User Story contains several child tasks, often developers update the child tasks but not the overall state of the User Story. It would be great to automatically update the state of the User Story according to the state of the child...

Azure DevOps Blog

Announcing the Power Platform solutions with AI and Copilot Learning Path

October 2, 2023 Oct 2, 2023 10/2/23

Gomolemo Mohapi

The Power Platform Advocacy Team is pleased to announce the release of the Create Power Platform solutions with AI and Copilot learning path published on Microsoft Learn. This learning path introduces you to creating Power Platform solutions with Copilot to speed up development time and add AI functionality to make your solutions more ...

Power Platform Developer Blog

How do I manually update a remote tracking branch, say, to undo a fetch?

October 2, 2023 Oct 2, 2023 10/2/23

Raymond Chen

Updating refs to point to whatever you like.

The Old New Thing

Build Reliable and Secure C++ programs — Microsoft Learn

October 2, 2023 Oct 2, 2023 10/2/23

Herb Sutter

“The world is built on C and C++” is no overstatement — C and C++ are foundational languages for our global society and are always in the world’s top 10 most heavily used languages now and for the foreseeable future. Visual Studio has always supported many programming languages and we encourage new languages and experiments; diversity ...

C++ Team Blog

Postgres 16 available in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, powered by Citus

September 30, 2023 Sep 30, 2023 09/30/23

Nik Larin

Big news in the Postgres world: PostgreSQL 16 was released just over 2 weeks ago. And today we're announcing that Postgres 16 is generally available for production workloads on Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL. That’s right, in production: this announcement is not just a preview of Postgres 16 support. Whether you need to ...

Azure Cosmos DB Blog

Top 5 AppSource validation errors for Office Add-ins submissions – September 2023

September 29, 2023 Sep 29, 2023 09/29/23

Elizabeth Samuel

AppSource validation ensures your Office Add-in submission follows Microsoft’s quality standards. This blog post covers the five current most common validation pitfalls.

Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

Deprecation of Teams live events API on Microsoft Graph

September 29, 2023 Sep 29, 2023 09/29/23

Sam Chung , Annie Wang

The deprecation of Teams live events is set to happen on September 30th, 2024. After this date, all Teams live events services will cease to function.

Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

Template meta-programming: Avoiding saying a type before it is complete

September 29, 2023 Sep 29, 2023 09/29/23

Raymond Chen

Deferring use until after the class is defined.

The Old New Thing

Exploring the Free Try Azure Cosmos DB Experience

September 28, 2023 Sep 28, 2023 09/28/23

Jay Gordon

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, data is at the heart of everything we do. From e-commerce and healthcare to gaming and finance, businesses across all industries are relying on data to drive innovation, make informed decisions, and deliver exceptional user experiences. To harness the full potential of your data, you need a ...

Azure Cosmos DB Blog

Join us in shaping the future of multicloud workload identity

September 28, 2023 Sep 28, 2023 09/28/23

Hosam Shahin , Pieter Kasselman

As businesses adopt multicloud strategies, the challenge of deploying, maintaining, and managing least privilege access between workloads within and across clouds is growing. We’re building a streamlined, unified solution and we want your input. Join us on this journey!

Microsoft Entra Identity Developer Blog