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April 24, 2020Apr 24, 202004/24/20
$select and $filter, as well as other OData query options, are an excellent way to receive only data that you need. However, they might not be the best option for reporting and analytical applications. If you want to get total sales to the particular customer and using only $select and $filter, you end up selecting all orders for that customer
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Happy Friday! We've made it to the end of April (next week's post is May 1st!). It hasn't been the easiest week, but thanks to this community I have some great reading for the weekend. From deciding what build pipeline to create to tackling problems like updating variables to troubleshooting hung builds or misplaced build artifacts to getting
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About 80 Microsoft Azure Government user community members joined us last month for our first-ever virtual meetup, Gov cloud demopalooza, featuring TechTrend Inc., Mobius Logic, Leidos and Microsoft. In case you missed it, we invite you to watch the replay on our Azure Government meetup channel to see the innovative demos and great i
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The C++/WinRT library can be used to implement both Windows Runtime interfaces as well as classic COM interfaces. One feature of classic COM that is absent (intentionally) from the Windows Runtime is interface derivation. If you're writing a class that needs to implement a derived COM interface, how do you express it? (The WRL library calls th
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In this post, Sr. Consultant Kendal Van Dyke explores pssdiag and SQL Nexus, free tools from Microsoft that help you capture and analyze SQL Server performance data. This is part 2 in a series of blog posts about pssdiag and SQL Nexus, free tools from Microsoft that help you capture and analyze SQL Server performance data. The previo
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In this post, App Dev Manager Candice Lai explains the steps to integrate Power Apps with Teams. Microsoft Teams is a coloration platform that can be easily customized to enhance the user experience by adding Power Apps to your Team Channel. In this blog, you will learn how this integration works. Prerequisites You need to have a Powe
April 23, 2020Apr 23, 202004/23/20
Hello Android developers! The Surface family of devices is known for great touch support, including pen input, and the Microsoft Surface Duo will be no different. By default, pen events are treated the same as a finger touch or mouse move, but you can detect and handle pen input differently, with a wider range of data such as pressure and o
April 23, 2020Apr 23, 202004/23/20
A new preview update of Blazor WebAssembly is now available! Here's what's new in this release: Get started To get started with Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 Preview 5 install the latest .NET Core 3.1 SDK. NOTE: Version 3.1.201 or later of the .NET Core SDK is required to use this Blazor WebAssembly release! Make sure you have the cor
April 23, 2020Apr 23, 202004/23/20
App Dev Managers Kyle Kapphahn and Matt Hyon examine some proven practices to help you plan and execute a high priority online event. Introduction Your team has a major upcoming event centered around your online services. How do you best align your team and prepare your services to ensure a successful event? We will walk you through th
April 23, 2020Apr 23, 202004/23/20
Today, we're releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 3. It contains a set of new features and performance improvements. We're continuing to work on the bigger features that will define the 5.0 release. The .NET 5.0 Preview 1 post covers what we are planning on building for .NET 5.0. Please take a look at the post and the dotnet/designs repository and share
