Those from Redmond also announced Trial version of SQL Server 2022. Promoted as the most complete version of SQL Server for Azure, it integrates with Azure Synapse Link and Microsoft Purview to enable customers to get insight, forecast and manage data in bulk. It also includes improved disaster recovery integration with Azure SQL Managed Instances, as well as “non-ETL” connections to cloud analytics. This allows database administrators to manage the state of their data with greater flexibility and minimal impact on users.

Azure Cosmos DB now has new business features. These include increased serverless capacity of up to 1 TB, shared performance across database partitions and support for hierarchical partition keys, as well as support for MongoDB data in the Azure Cosmos DB Linux desktop emulator.

On the other hand, the new free continuous data backup and recovery feature enables seven-day data recovery, in addition to random wipe recovery and role-based access control support for the MongoDB API from Azure Cosmos DB. In addition, Microsoft and F5 have announced the launch of Nginx for Azure, although it is also in the testing phase.

Development tools and DevOps

One of the most striking editions of this Build 2022 is Microsoft DevBox, a set of cloud tools, as the name suggests, give developers access to high-performance cloud workstations that are pre-configured and ready to code for specific projects. WITH Azure Deployment EnvironmentAnother innovation, development teams will have multiple devices to synchronize application infrastructure with project templates that provide consistency and best practices.

Development teams can preconfigure different Microsoft Dev Box workstations for different tasks and projects with all kinds of tools and dependencies needed for each project, allowing each member of the development team to get up and running quickly in one environment and prepare to develop and run your applications. in minutes.

In addition, Microsoft Dev Box ensures that unified governance, security, and compliance remain in the hands of IT teams. To do this, they use Windows 365 to integrate each Dev box with Intune and Microsoft Endpoint Manager. Microsoft Dev Box is compatible with any development IDE, SDK, or internal tool that works with Windows.

Another novelty in development tools is .NET Multiplatform application user interface or .NET MAUI. It is a framework for developing natively compiled applications for various platforms for iOS, Android, Mac OS and Windows using C # and XAML in a single code base. This framework addresses the challenges that developers face when creating native applications for different operating systems. With .NET, MAUIs will have a common framework for everyone, developed in .NET 6. In addition, it allows web developers to create hybrid web applications with C # instead of JavaScript.

Microsoft 365: Loop and Teams

New in Microsoft 365 for developers are several improvements to Loop and Teams. Starting next month, although in the testing phase, developers will be able to generate Loop components by updating the adaptive cards they have, or by developing new Loop components based on Adaptive Cards. These new components will be synchronized across Teams chats and Outlook emails, where they will be copied and pasted.

As for Teams, it has new tools to develop richer and more collaboration opportunities. LiveShare, a new collaboration environment in Teams, allows meeting participants to interact in new ways with shared applications directly in the Teams meeting window. In addition, the Teams SDK has new extensions that are still being tested to make it easier to integrate Live Share features into applications.

Teams now includes, among other enhancements, version 2.0 of the JavaScript SDK, collaboration controls in Microsoft Power Apps, and the Microsoft Graph API for Teams. The Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code is now available. It is also, although being tested, for Visual Studio.

Power Platform: Power Pages becomes independent

Microsoft’s Power platform also has new features. The most striking is Power Pages, a developer of low code websites for businesses. As a result, website development is more within the reach of professionals and companies that are less developmental, as they will be able to configure and publish websites for desktops or mobile devices through seamless, visual and hassle-free.

Until now, Power Pages was part of the Power Apps known as Power Apps Portals, but now it has become separate and has become the fifth element of the Power Platform as a standalone tool. In addition, it has been redesigned and includes several new features. Among them is Design Studio, in testing that allows you to design, create and publish wens from scratch or from one of its templates.

Templates Hub offers a full-featured website with test data for managing schedules, registering and submitting applications. Lean Hub offers tutorials, feature guides, and videos to learn how to develop websites, model business data, and work with code components.

Developer tools includes integrations with Visual Studio, Github and Azure DevOps to help implement advanced business requirements. Power Pages also has security and management tools and a low-code Microsoft Dataverse data platform that you can use to collect and share business data with website visitors.

What’s new in Windows for developers

Windows and even Microsoft Edge also offer new features for developers. So Microsoft Edge offers them Internet Explorer 11 mode support. This means that web developers will no longer have to work on backward compatibility with certain browsers.

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), a developer for Linux cloud and web development workflows, is now available in the Microsoft Store, and the Windows for Android subsystem now runs on Android Open Source Project (AOSP) 12.1, which brings build improvements. windows and resizing in terms of networking and integration development tools, as well as a broader catalog of applications. Microsoft Store also has a trial version.

The latest version of the Windows App SDK, 1.1, which will be available soon, includes Fluent visuals in WinUI 3, push notifications, new C ++ environment variable APIs, and performance improvements. Updates include Template Studio for WinUI 3, the .NET Upgrade Assistant for migrating UWP applications to WinUI 3, and updated Edge development tools.

Starting later this year, developers will be able to start development Widgets for Windows 11 as experiences for Wind32 and progressive web applications thanks to the Adaptive Cards platform. Hybrid Loop also comes as a novelty, a cross-platform development model for developing artificial intelligence experiences for the cloud and edge.

Microsoft also introduced Build 2022 Volterra project, with which developers can take advantage of the integrated neural processor unit to develop applications that run local and AI-accelerated workloads. This will allow Windows developers to develop, test, and debug native ARM applications using tools such as Visual Studio, Windows Terminal, WSL, VSCode, Microsoft Office, and Teams.