Microsoft rolls out new tools in Teams, Cloud at developer event
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San Francisco, May 25 (IANS) Announcing that over 95 per cent of the worlds largest companies are running their businesses on Microsoft Cloud, the tech giant on Tuesday shared new features in its productivity apps, Azure Cloud and Developer Tooling, helping developers to build productively, collaborate securely and innovate at scale.
Kicking off its virtual ‘Build 2021′ developer conference, Microsoft said that the latest update of Visual Studio 2019 is now generally available.
It includes productivity enhancements for .NET and C++ development, enhanced built-in Git tooling, support for creating GitHub Actions workflows directly from the IDE (integrated development environment), improved container tooling and new Azure integrations for cloud development.
Microsoft announced several new developer features at Build 2021 for Microsoft Teams. Many of the new features focus on helping people work together in real-time.
Microsoft Teams is an extensible platform and so it should come as no surprise that Microsoft is announcing some new developer capabilities at Build 2021.
SPFx is also being extended to support web parts (components) based on Microsoft Viva, a platform for employee-oriented resources such as training and knowledge management.
Microsoft is also introducing a Developer Portal for Teams, an update and rename for the existing App Studio. The Developer Portal, now in preview, is the primary tool for configuring, distributing, and managing your Microsoft Teams apps.
Here, developers can register applications, add environments which enable global variables, and test and preview Teams applications. There are also metrics on usage.
The new (or revamped) Developer Portal for Teams applications
New media APIs, expected this summer, will include real-time access to audio and video streams for purposes such as transcription and translation, as well as what the company calls insights gathering.
Microsoft Search is getting new capabilities thanks to Microsoft Graph May 25, 2021 11:00 EDT with 0 comments
Microsoft has announced a series of improvements to Microsoft Graph s capabilities, including new search features for organizations. First off, the company announced new capabilities for the Windows search bar, which lives next to the Start menu. In addition to results from the web, the search bar will soon be able to pull results from enterprise tools like Salesforce, Dynamics 365, and more, thanks to Microsoft Graph connectors available to developers.
That s not all, though, as Microsoft also announced Microsoft Search Federation, a new and more unified search tool for businesses. Microsoft says organizations often use different search tools like Microsoft Search or Azure Cognitive Search, and Search Federation aims to bring those systems together to make the experience more seamless.