Grafting a DispatcherQueue onto an existing thread.

Encryption options for data at rest on Azure Cosmos DB that is available today. Azure Cosmos DB strives to provide the best-in-class security features. Encryption of data at rest is one such important security feature. Encryption of data at rest using Microsoft’s service-managed keys is enabled by default.

Windows Terminal is back with another preview release! Windows Terminal Preview 1.21 introduces long-awaited features like Buffer Restore and fontfall back as well as new experimental features like Scratchpad and the ability to load up an image as a texture. There’s also a LOT MORE stuff so check out the rest of this blog post to learn more!

What’s New in vcpkg (April 2024) This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2024.04.26 release as well as changes to vcpkg documentation throughout April. This month’s vcpkg release includes improvements for visually generated dependency graphs,

Explore various C# 12 refactoring scenarios for a variety of target types using collection expressions, collection initializers, and the spread syntax.

A simpler version with its own quirks.

The Microsoft builds of the Go security patches released today, May 7, are now available for download. The new versions are: 1.22.3-1 1.21.10-1 For more information about the changes included in this release, take a look at the upstream Go announcement: [security] Go 1.22.3 and Go 1.21.10 are released.

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of the Data Wrangler extension for Visual Studio Code! Data Wrangler is a free extension that offers data viewing and cleaning that is directly integrated into VS Code and the Jupyter extension.