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Meet the Microsoft Pluton processor

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Microsoft Pluton

The role of the Windows PC and trust in technology are more important than ever as our devices keep us connected and productive across work and life. Windows 10 is the most secure version of Windows ever, built with end-to-end security for protection from the edge to the cloud all the way down to the hardware. Advancements like Windows Hello biometric facial recognition, built-in Microsoft Defender Antivirus, and firmware protections and advanced system capabilities like System Guard, Application Control for Windows and more have helped Microsoft keep pace with the evolving threat landscape. Today, Microsoft alongside our…

Application Insights: select and filter

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Azure Application Insights has a specific language and syntax for select and filter data different from Structured Query Language (SQL). In this post, I am going to compare Analytics query language to SQL with examples for selection and filtration. First, navigate to analytics page of any Application Insights App by clicking Logs tab in the overview page of the app. Then, analytics tab opens a new editor window that you can type your query in it. Now, in the query editor we are going to write our queries using the…

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F# 5 and F# tools update

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In the last couple of weeks, I started to create posts about F#. Today, Microsoft has just announced some updates to F# 5 and F# tools update! They shipped a lot of preview features since F# 5 preview 1, and they have all been stabilizing since that release. Today, we’re happy to announce some minor additions to F# 5 and talk about some pretty cool performance work we’ve been doing. Here’s how you get the latest release: Install the latest .NET 5 preview SDK Install Jupyter Notebooks for .NET If you’re using Visual…

Adapting to Enterprise and B2E Xamarin Forms App Development

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Enterprise or Business to Employee (B2E) mobile apps can be quite different from their B2C counterparts. B2C apps, tend to focus on a small number of screens or feed for their main usage, and additional screens are not as frequently used, but there to serve ancillary functionality as needed. B2E apps, are focused on function, normally recording or accessing data for their day to day job. Many of them are replacing hand written recordings, for digital records, that are automatically synchronized to the main database. The fact that these users…

New Xamarin Application Developed to Track and Manage COVID-19 in Real-time

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Xamarin Application Developed to Track and Manage COVID-19 in Real-time

Volunteers re-engineer cancer treatment software to monitor coronavirus pandemic using Microsoft’s Xamarin mobile framework with Azure Mobile Angel has released a new mobile application built on the Xamarin platform to manage potential and at-risk coronavirus patients in real-time.  The free application monitors patients in clinics across the country through self-reported symptoms and prioritizes them in a triage list based on fever and other symptoms. With built-in telemedicine features, clinic staff can directly monitor patients while reducing in-person visits and potential exposure. The application also aggregates reports across the country so…

A successful Git branching model

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In this post I present the development model that I’ve introduced for some of my projects (both at work and private) about a year ago, and which has turned out to be very successful. I’ve been meaning to write about it for a while now, but I’ve never really found the time to do so thoroughly, until now. I won’t talk about any of the projects’ details, merely about the branching strategy and release management. Why git? For a thorough discussion on the pros and cons of Git compared to centralized…

Microsoft Buys Conversational AI Company Semantic Machines

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In a blog post, Microsoft Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of AI & Research David Ku announced the acquisition of Berkeley, California-based conversational AI company Semantic Machines. The natural language processing technology developed by Semantic Machines will be integrated into Microsoft’s products like Cortana and the Azure Bot Service. On its website, Semantic Machines says that existing natural language systems such as Apple Siri, Microsoft Cortana and Google Now only understands commands, but not conversations. However, Semantic Machines’ technology understands conversations rather than just commands. Some of the…

MongoDb example

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Simple example for MongoDB. Save and retrieve data from Azure Cosmos DB. Create an Azure Cosmos Db as MongoDb For creating a new MongoDb on Azure, search from the list of resources, Azure Cosmos Db. Then Add a new database and you see the following screen. Overview When you created a new MongoDb, you see an Overview where there are general information about how many queries the database did (split on insert, update, cancel, query, count, others). Under Connection String you have the connection to use in your application. In…