Always Encrypted is a new feature in SQL Server 2016, which encrypts the data both at rest *and* in motion (and keeps it encrypted in memory). So this protects the data from rogue administrators, backup thieves, and man-in-the-middle attacks. Unlike TDE, as well, Always Encrypted allows you to encrypt only certain columns, rather than the entire database.

When C# started back in 2001, Java and C# were similar languages. But in the last 20 years, C# has quickly evolved in its unique way.  

Microsoft has published the code for its new Fluid Framework on GitHub, offering developers a TypeScript library for building "distributed, real-time collaborative web applications". 

At the core of Android Studio is an intelligent code editor capable of advanced code completion, refactoring, and code analysis.

The powerful code editor helps you be a more productive Android app developer. 

For Linux users, Microsoft offers a new Skype app, which is a web app bundled with its own Electron engine. For those of you not familiar with Electron, it is a framework for creating GUI apps which uses Node.js on the backend and Chromium as the frontend. 

• Support for .NET Core 2.0: you can now edit, run, debug, test, navigate and refactor your shiny new .NET Core applications.
  
• Rider 2017.2 comes with ReSharper 2017.2 as its engine for providing .NET support. This means a number of features announced with ReSharper 2017.2 are now available in Rider. 

.NET on Azure for Beginners
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.NET on Azure for Beginners will teach you the basics of Azure and how to leverage its services and features to build amazing cloud applications. You will learn how to deploy web apps, work with storage and data, authenticate and use Managed Identity, harness the power of containers, and even deploy with GitHub Actions. By the end of this series, you will have the skills and confidence to start developing your own .NET applications on Azure! 

In this post I'm going to outline my approach on writing Directives for Angular 1.x releases. There's a lot of confusion around how and why and where to do things with Directives, but they are actually very simple once you grasp the concepts and separation ideas

We’re excited to announce a new open source project on GitHub from the WCF team at Microsoft.  This new version of WCF targets .NET Core and has been donated to the family of .NET Foundation open source projects.