At the Build 2016 conference, Microsoft announced the Microsoft Bot Framework, a package of tools for building intelligent bots that could be integrated with a variety of communication platforms. With Microsoft Bot Framework Succinctly, you can jump right into building your own bots with the framework, whether you want to make bots for personal use only, or customer-facing bots for your business. Author Ed Freitas provides clear guidance from setting up a bot project in Visual Studio and writing your first bare-bones bot, to publishing one capable of searching for current flight prices.
Microsoft today shipped the sixth preview of .NET 5, saying the milestone release designed to combine all things .NET is only two steps away from becoming feature complete in Preview 8, with the final GA release scheduled for November.
Office 2019 will only work on Windows 10 + what’s the difference between an MSI and Click To Run?
webpack is arguably the most popular bundler right now and this is the first major release in over two years. We get big improvements to caching (and therefore performance), reduced bundle sizes with better tree shaking, and a variety of breaking changes to prepare for the future (automatic Node polyfills are gone, for one).
ASP.NET Core 2.1 introduces new application host for Windows services. We can now run ASP.NET Core applications as Windows services with minimal effort. This blog post introduces how it is done and how to build and run Windows services on ASP.NET Core without any need for dirty hacks.
GitHub License Checker
Adding a permissive license to your open source projects makes it easy for others to benefit from reusing your code. I typically recommend the MIT license for most projects because it’s simple, well understood, and allows the code to be used for essentially any purpose.
Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge on Windows 10
CSS Values is a simple single page web app (SPA) that lets you search for almost any CSS property and get a simple list of possible values.
