Zure Digest is a collection of Azure and other development-related links, curated by the Azure Guild of the Zure. This edition focuses on the most interesting highlights, especially from Ignite and .NET Conf. 2021. Enjoy!

Ignite Fall 2021 News

• Book of News
  • Welcome everyone to Microsoft Ignite, and once again we have a book’s worth of news about Microsoft 365, Azure, Dynamics 365, Security, Power Platform, AI and much more.
• Azure Service Bus Premium: Large Message Support Generally Available
  • The introduction of full JMS 2.0 compliance for Service Bus Premium in the beginning of 2021 is convincing more and more customers to drop their existing, expensive JMS message broker products, in some cases even on-premises clusters, and replace them with Azure Service Bus, for existing workloads. Those workloads have often been built with the assumption of message size limits exceeding the prior Azure Service Bus limit of 1 MByte per message, which was a blocker for adoption. With the new maximum message size of 100MByte, the vast majority of customers are now unblocked for their migrations.
• Azure OpenAI Service combines access to powerful GPT-3 language models
  • Since OpenAI, an AI research and deployment company, introduced its groundbreaking GPT-3 natural language model platform last year, users have discovered countless things that these AI models can do with their powerful and comprehensive understanding of language.
    For instance, a sports franchise that’s developing a new app to engage with fans during games could use the models’ ability to quickly and abstractly summarize information to convert transcripts of live television commentary into game highlights that someone could choose to include within the app.
• Introducing Azure Container Apps: a serverless container service for running modern apps at scale
  • At Ignite, we announced Azure Container Apps, a serverless application centric hosting service where users do not see or manage any underlying VMs, orchestrators, or other cloud infrastructure. Azure Container Apps enables executing application code packaged in any container and is unopinionated about runtime or programming model. Applications can scale in response to HTTP requests, events (e.g. storage queue messages, Kafka topics, etc.), or simply run as always-on background jobs. Azure Container Apps addresses specific requirements for microservices including encrypted service to service communication and the independent versioning and scaling of services.
• Announcing SQL Server 2022 preview
  • Today we are announcing the preview of SQL Server 2022, the most Azure-enabled release of SQL Server yet, with continued innovation in performance, security, and availability.
• Azure Web PubSub preview now available
  • Develop web applications with real-time messaging using Azure Web PubSub, a fully managed service that supports native and serverless WebSockets. Create loosely coupled, scalable applications—including chats, live broadcasting, and IoT dashboards—with the publish-subscribe messaging pattern. Keep your focus on functionality while Web PubSub manages the flow of data and content to your webpages and mobile applications.
• Azure Chaos Studio
  • Improve application resilience by introducing faults and simulating outages
• Updates to Azure API management include GraphQL preview, WebSocket API general availability and more
• New Azure Arc releases, including deep and native integration with Azure Stack HCI, enhanced integration with VMware vSphere and more
  

.NET 6.0 News

• .NET Conf 2021 is happening right now (Nov. 9. – 11.)
  • .NET Conf is a free, three-day, virtual developer event that celebrates the major releases of the .NET development platform. It is co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft, and sponsored by the .NET Foundation and our ecosystem partners. Come celebrate and learn about what you can do with .NET 6.
• Announcing .NET 6 — The Fastest .NET Yet
  • Welcome to .NET 6. Today’s release is the result of just over a year’s worth of effort by the .NET Team and community. C# 10 and F# 6 deliver language improvements that make your code simpler and better.
• Breaking changes in .NET 6
  • If you’re migrating an app to .NET 6, the breaking changes listed here might affect you. Changes are grouped by technology area, such as ASP.NET Core or Windows Forms.
• Visual Studio 2022 now available
  • I am really excited to announce that we’ve reached general availability for Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6, both of which are now available for download. Visual Studio 2022 will help you go from idea to code faster than ever. Developer productivity and quality-of-life improvements are at the heart of Visual Studio 2022, and we’re excited for you to try it out.
• Welcome to C# 10
  • Today, we are happy to announce the release of C# 10 as part of .NET 6 and Visual Studio 2022. In this post, we’re covering a lot of the new C# 10 features that make your code prettier, more expressive, and faster.
• Announcing ASP.NET Core in .NET 6
  • .NET 6 is now released! ASP.NET Core in .NET 6 includes everything you need to build rich modern web UI and powerful back-end services. Here’s a sampling of the great new features and improvements in ASP.NET Core for .NET 6
• General Availability of PowerShell 7.2
  • We’re pleased to announce the General Availability of PowerShell 7.2!
  • What’s New in PowerShell 7.2
• Announcing NuGet 6.0 – Source Mapping, Package Vulnerabilities, Faster Solution Load, Oh My!
  • NuGet 6.0 is one of many releases in our .NET unification journey. Our NuGet tooling helps developers discover new .NET packages to use for their .NET applications, while making package management easier during your daily development

Day 0 Azure Support

• .NET 6 on App Service
  • We are happy to announce that App Service is rolling out day 0 support for .NET 6.0 applications across all public regions and scenarios on both Windows and Linux App Service plans.
• Azure Functions 4.0 and .NET 6 support are now generally available
  • The Azure Functions team is excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Azure Functions 4.0. This is the latest release of Azure Functions that supports: .NET 6, Node.js 14, Python 3.7-3.9, Java 8 & 11, PowerShell 7.0, and other languages and runtimes using custom handlers.
• Full-stack .NET 6 Apps with Blazor WebAssembly and Azure Static Web Apps
  • .NET 6 is the latest version of .NET and it’s generally available today. The Azure Static Web Apps team is excited to announce that you can now run full-stack .NET 6 apps on Static Web Apps!

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See also

• Zure Digest Build Special
• Zure Digest part 3