Supercharge Your AI Pair Programming Experience with Project-Specific Context and Control AI-assisted development has rapidly transformed how engineers write code, collaborate, and ship software. GitHub Copilot, powered by OpenAI’s Codex and now evolving with GPT-5...
James Gosling is a name that resonates through the halls of computer science, software engineering, and more recently, cloud computing. Best known as the "Father of Java," Gosling's influence stretches far beyond the iconic programming language. His work has quietly...
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Sure, you could always install Visual Studio 2022 on your local machine, but there are times when a quick, easy to provision Virtual Machine with...
I recently worked on a project where I was required to write an Azure Function that would watch for newly stored files in Azure Blob Storage, copy...
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Did you know the Azure Cloud Shell includes support for Python? You can write Python scripts, save then, upload, and run them directly within the...
With the release of the v1.50 (September 2020) update of Visual Studio Code comes official support for Linux ARMv7 and ARM64. This means that...
Azure DevOps was down yesterday due to an Azure Front Door (AFD) related issue. Today, Microsoft has been experiencing a series of "Service...
The new "Developer's Guide to Azure" eBook published from Microsoft, written by Build5Nines' own Chris Pietschmann, is your guide to getting started...
Just as all Azure Web Apps need configuration values, most applications also need to have database Connection String values configured. With Azure...
All web applications have some kind of configurations that are set on the server. The method of storing and accessing these settings varies on...
We all know that in production environments we shouldn't use the "right-click publish" feature within Visual Studio. However, there are plenty of...
Ever wish you had a Docker dev workstation in Azure? About two months ago, we introduced the Azure Kung Fu VM, and judging by the views of that...
The Visual Studio Codespaces (formerly Visual Studio Online / VSO) web-based IDE is now available to be used. Based on the popular Visual Studio...
Microsoft's web-based development environment, Visual Studio Online, has been rebranded to Visual Studio Codespaces. This is a web-based development...
When working with any command-line tool, like Git, it can be easy to forget some of the commands you don't use very often. This is true for those...
In the continuation of the move towards all role-based certifications, Microsoft has announced that they are officially retiring all of the MCSE,...
The AZ-204 Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure certification exam tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Developer. This exam tests...