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U.S.-based tech giant Microsoft has launched a serverless blockchain-powered development kit for consortium environments.

Index types, nullable reference types, default interfaces, and async streams should improve code quality and make software more flexible over the long term

Today, we are happy to introduce the Azure Toolkit for JetBrains Rider – an open-source plugin that helps .NET developers easily create, develop, configure, test, manage and deploy web apps to Azure directly from within Rider, and work with resources such as storage, Redis cache … Continue reading →

Learn how to create a new WPF Application using the new .NET Core 3 platform.

Alexa skills can be developed using either Alexa Lambda functions or a REST API endpoint. Lambda function is Amazon's implementation of serverless functions available in AWS. Amazon recommends using Lambda functions; however, they are not easy to debug. While you can log to a CloudWatch log, you can't hit a breakpoint and step into the code. Debugging services, like RookOut for Node and Python, allow for live debugging, but there is no equivalent for C#.

We’re excited to announce today the release of ML.NET 0.7 – the latest release of the cross-platform and open source machine learning framework for .NET developers (ML.NET 0.1 was released at //Build 2018). This release focuses on enabling better support for recommendation based ML tasks, enabling anomaly detection, enhancing the customizability of the machine learning pipelines, enabling using ML.NET in x86 apps, and more.

Microsoft’s .NET Standard gets new update after almost a year.

In May, we announced .NET Core 3.0, the next major version of .NET Core that adds support for building desktop applications using WinForms, WPF, and Entity Framework 6. We also announced some exciting updates to .NET Framework which enable you to use the new modern controls from UWP in existing WinForms and WPF applications.

F# .NET Core Haskell GHC - Which programs are faster?

ML.NET is a free, cross-platform, and open source machine learning framework for .NET developers. It is also an extensible platform that powers Microsoft ser...