Last month’s Microsoft Build event featured exciting announcements and in-depth sessions on the latest developer tools and technologies. Throughout June, we’re looking at highlights from Microsoft Build. Explore news, challenges, training, and announcements. Get started with Dev Box, find out how to build cloud-native apps with the new .NET Aspire, build a custom copilot, and join a challenge to keep building new skills.
Microsoft Learn Challenge: Build Edition
Are you ready for the Microsoft Learn Challenge: Build Edition? Immerse yourself in Azure AI, Copilot, GitHub, and Microsoft Fabric to elevate and learn new skills. Challenge runs through June 21. Start today.
Announcing: .NET Aspire is now available
Easily build cloud-native apps with intuitive orchestration tools, comprehensive observability, and versatile deployment. Learn more.
Build apps from the cloud with Microsoft Dev Box, Visual Studio, and more
Microsoft Dev Box is evolving to meet the needs of teams, developers, and administrators. Learn about the latest features and integrations coming to Dev Box that optimize the developer experience from onboarding to deployment.
Season of AI Community Events
Microsoft AI is coming to a community event near you. Get started with generative AI, do more with Copilot, explore Azure AI Studio, and more. Find a local event and sign up to learn new skills from experts.
Let’s Learn .NET Aspire
Check out this beginner video series to learn the fundamentals of using C# and .NET to build real-world apps. On June 27, the Let’s Learn series will delve into building cloud-native apps with .NET Aspire. Streaming live and then available on demand.
Announcing the AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
The new AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code is a powerful VS Code extension that lets developers easily explore, test, and integrate models from Azure AI Studio and HuggingFace into their applications.
AI Apps: Driving innovation from development to production
AI is redefining applications, driving new possibilities, and changing how apps are developed. Check out this blog post to explore AI, the latest tools, and the impact recent advancements are having on modern apps and development.
Accelerate business growth with AI
Discover how Microsoft Copilot can help transform your business. Build your own copilot or enhance workflows with Copilot extensions. The opportunities for innovation are endless.
AI in action: Powering up with Power Automate
Check out this series of videos to explore different ways to use AI with Power Automate. Create custom AI prompts, extend Microsoft 365 Copilot, add generative AI to your cloud flows, and more.
.NET AI Community Standup: What’s new in AI Samples?
Watch this .NET AI Community Standup to discover the latest updates to the AI-SAMPLES GitHub repository—including new support for open-source LLMs (like Phi-3 and Llama 3). This is a great session for developers wanting to incorporate AI into their .NET applications.
Develop .NET applications with AI features
Explore ways to use AI with .NET. Browse sample code, tutorials, quickstarts, and conceptual articles in the .NET for Azure developers documentation.
Get started with .NET 8 and AI using new quickstart tutorials
Want to add AI to your .NET apps? These quickstart tutorials provide step-by-step guidance to help you get started with .NET 8 and AI.
.NET announcements and updates from Microsoft Build 2024
Microsoft Build 2024 presented new features and tools designed to make .NET development faster and easier. Here’s a roundup of .NET updates and announcements.
Azure Cosmos DB AI developer guides
Elevate your Azure Cosmos DB skills with the Microsoft Azure Enablement Show. This episode explores two new Azure Cosmos DB developer guides—one for Node.js and one for Python— and a new learning path for building a chat bot using Azure OpenAI.
Build intelligent apps with Python
Build intelligent apps with Python. This episode of the Microsoft Azure Enablement Show looks at how you can use Python to build intelligent, modern apps. Then discover resources and tools that Microsoft offers for your Python skilling.
Accelerate developer productivity with GitHub and Azure for developers
Start building the skills you need to code in the cloud with GitHub Copilot. This skilling plan on Microsoft Learn will get you started. Let GitHub help you write code, understand code from other developers, create documentation, and solve issues in your code.
Enhancing Microsoft Teams to support developer productivity and collaboration
Learn about new capabilities coming to Microsoft Teams that will help developers to be more productive and improve collaboration.
Curating a collection of free Microsoft Copilot prompts
Announcing a new collection of prompts to help you use Microsoft Copilot more effectively across Microsoft 365. Read the blog for an overview and check out the collection repo on GitHub.
Dev Proxy v0.17 includes integration with Azure API Center
Do more with APIs. Discover how the new Dev Proxy v0.17, which includes integration with Azure API Center, will help you build robust apps connected to APIs. Read details and find out how to get started with Dev Proxy.
Intro to RAG: Empowering your custom copilot with your data using Azure AI Search and Teams Toolkit
Watch an intro to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) using Python and Teams Toolkit. Learn how to integrate your data with Azure AI Search to power a custom Copilot, giving AI responses access to external data sources.
Where is the Microsoft 365 API?
Where is the Microsoft 365 API? Microsoft Graph is the main API for Microsoft 365. But Microsoft 365 has many more APIs and libraries. Watch this video for a complete overview.
Official Collection: Microsoft Dev Box
Increase productivity and developer satisfaction with Microsoft Dev Box—cloud-based workstations optimized for developers. Get started with this collection of resources from Microsoft Learn. Watch an overview, read a quickstart guide, find out how to manage secure access to your dev boxes, and more.
Build a copilot with Azure AI Studio
Don’t miss this episode of the Microsoft Azure Enablement Show if you're looking to advance your expertise in AI technologies. Watch now to learn how to use Azure AI Studio to build your own copilot.
Official Collection: Build your own copilot with Microsoft Copilot Studio
Build and deploy your own copilot using the latest features and updates from Copilot Studio. This collection of learning resources covers everything you need to know.
Boost dev team agility with customized, project-specific templates in Azure Deployment Environments
Azure Deployment Environments makes it easier to perform deployments with Pulumi and further streamline app infrastructure provisioning. Learn how new features in Azure Deployment Environments can increase dev team agility.
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