Blogs summary – Sunday 28 July 2024
Here are some recent posts I found from interesting Azure, Microsoft and .NET blogs.
New from .NET Blog
- .NET 9 Preview 6 is now available!
- .NET 6 will reach End of Support on November 12, 2024
- Introducing CoreWCF and WCF Client Azure Queue Storage bindings for .NET
- Add AI to Your .NET Apps Easily with Prompty
- What’s new in .NET Aspire 8.1 for cloud native developers!
- Announcing .NET Conf: Focus on AI – August 20th 2024
- How use a Blazor QuickGrid with GraphQL
New from Azure DevOps Blog
New from GitHub Changelog
- Security overview dashboards, secret scanning metrics and enablement trends reports are now generally available
- Deprecation of API endpoint to enable or disable a security feature for an organization
- Enable secret scanning for non-provider patterns on repositories with the REST API
- Copilot text completion for pull request descriptions beta
- GitHub Private Mirrors App – Public Beta
- Deprecation of enum field “detached” from the “get repositories associated with a code security configuration” endpoint
- Actions Usage Metrics is generally available
- Validation on package name when submitting a new GitHub security advisory (GHSA)
- Copilot Enterprise Mixed Licensing beta
- CodeQL 2.18.1: Kotlin & Swift mobile support is generally available, TypeScript 5.5 support, C# build-mode: none public beta
New from Microsoft Learn Blog
New from Visual Studio Blog
- Get Hands-On with Visual Studio and Azure: Live at Microsoft HQ this August!
- Making Visual Studio a bit more visual
- Three New Premium Visual Studio Subscriber Benefits Announced
- Visual Studio tip: Using Ctrl-L to delete a line with and without Clipboard backup
Thanks for reading!