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Visual Studio Code
Develop, maintain, collaborate and deploy apps for web and any OS.
GitHub
Join the open source community on the largest and most advanced dev platform in the world.
.NET
.NET is a free, cross-platform, open source developer platform. Get tools and libraries to build any type of app, including web, mobile, desktop, games, IoT, cloud, and microservices.
Open. Collaborative. Flexible.
Open Source enables Microsoft products and services to bring choice, technology and community to our customers.
Get stuck into GitHub and Azure
Curated video guides to help you learn new skills.
Intro to GitHub CoPilot!
Join April and Rizel as they walk you through some of the amazing features of GitHub CoPilot.
Embrace the open source future
Leveraging the power of the open source community lets developers create cost-efficient solutions that are built with collaboration in mind. Whether you're looking to innovate faster and more securely with open source on Azure, or take advantage of open source offerings like .NET or Visual Studio, there are plenty of avenues in which you can start your open source journey.
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Learn about open source
When you go all in on open source, there are no limits to what you can achieve.
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#thenewpOSSible
Learn more about open source software and the numerous ways you can get involved.
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Implement open-source software
This course explores open source software and corporate concerns with software components.
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Create an open source program
Learn to create a successful open source program by establishing contributor guidance, following proven processes, and leveraging community standards.
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Contribute to an open-source project on GitHub
Learn how to use GitHub to find open-source projects and tasks to contribute to.
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Dev resources
Watch content on-demand, get up to speed on the latest news, and join our dev-driven communities.
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Microsoft Learn TV
Microsoft’s Learn TV is the home for unlimited technical shows and live events that you can watch anytime, anywhere.
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Sign up for Microsoft Source
Always stay at the forefront of new tech with Microsoft Source, your monthly dev newsletter.
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Discover the latest articles
Read the latest dev news, get tips, best practices and more.
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Developer driven communities
Join a dev community that cares about the same tech as you do from gaming, web, development and app design to machine learning and system administration.s
Keep on learning
Poornima lets her work do the talking. She continues to build the skills and showcase her expertise as a developer with certifications and flexible learning paths.
Power up your skills
We can help you continue to grow your capabilities with hands on training and learning paths. Plus, gain industry recognised certifications that will help advance your career.
Tools and languages
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Code examples
Explore our code samples and discover the things you can build.
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Code examples for Cognitive Services Quickstarts
This repository contains the code examples used by the QuickStarts on the Cognitive Services Documentation.
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Code examples for Cognitive Services Quickstarts
This repository contains the code examples used by the QuickStarts on the Cognitive Services Documentation.
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Blazor sample applications
A repository of example code to accompany the official Microsoft Blazor documentation.
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Azure IoT Samples for C# (.NET)
A set of easy-to-understand, continuously-tested samples for connecting to Azure IoT Hub via the Azure IoT SDK for .NET.
Transcend boundaries with tailored industry solutions
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Build the skills for the latest tech
Learn new skills and advance your career with interactive, hands-on learning.
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Introduction to GitHub Actions
Learn what GitHub Actions, action flow, and its elements are. Understand what events are, explore jobs and runners, and how to read console output from actions.
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Create serverless applications
Learn how to leverage functions to execute server-side logic and build serverless architectures.
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Getting started with GitHub
GitHub provides important DevOps features that companies and organisations of all sizes need for their public and private projects.
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How you can improve your DevOps practices
Before you can move your DevOps forward, you should spend time looking at the way it is now.
Master the most in-demand skills and advance your career
Gaining a Microsoft certification means you're more likely to progress in your career and increase your salary.
Trained and certified teams responsible for core IT activities are generally 20% more productive than uncertified staff.
58% of certified professionals reported that Azure certifications have helped them improve their career progression opportunities.
42% of the professionals who earned Azure certifications ended up increasing their salary.
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Get globally recognised certifications
Show you're keeping up to date with technology by earing globally recognised certifications in Microsoft solutions.
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Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate
Candidates for the Azure Data Scientist Associate certification should have subject matter expertise applying data science and machine learning to implement and run machine learning workloads on Azure.
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Microsoft Certified: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies
Showcase your expertise in serving as part of a larger team to plan and implement cloud-based management and security.
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Microsoft Certified: Microsoft Azure IoT Developer
Candidates for this exam are Azure IoT developers with subject matter expertise in creating and maintaining the cloud and device portions of an IoT solution.
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Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals
Showcase your knowledge of common ML and AI workloads and how to implement them on Azure.
Open to anyone with an idea
The Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub brings people, knowledge, and benefits together to help founders at every stage solve startup challenges. Get free access to technology (including GitHub and Visual Studio), coaching and resources to support you in building your app. You can sign up in minutes, and there's no funding required.
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Microsoft for Startups blog
Discover more about how Microsoft for Startups is helping founders at every stage.
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Five tips for building inclusive and accessible software
Making your startup accessible doesn't have to be complicated or expensive. Here are five tips to get you started.
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Scaling up for the future
Learn how Live Tech Games is using Azure to create a stable platform for tens of thousands of concurrent users.
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Securing growth plans with Microsoft Azure
MYPINPAD CEO Barry Levett explains how Azure enables them to deliver services to customers at scale and pace.
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Improving lives with natural language processing
Tiernan Mines, CEO at Hello Lamp Post, talks about how they use Azure to power their natural language processing, and what the future has in store for smart cities.
Explore IDEs
What do you want to [code, build, debug, deploy, collaborate on, analyse, learn] today?
Visual Studio 2022 Launch
Faster and more reliable 64-bit IDE. Comes with .NET 6 including support for MAUI, Blazor apps and Hot reload. Enhanced IntelliCode completions. Latest toolchain to target C++ 20.
Visual Studio 2022 For Mac Preview
Join us in shaping the next major release of Visual Studio for Mac. Experience a fast and fluid, modern .NET IDE hand-tailored for the Mac, with updated menus and terminology.
GitHub Codespaces
Get productive fast with cloud-hosted dev environments that can handle everything from small tasks to large, long-term projects. GitHub Codespaces works with your favourite tools and includes a browser-based editor.
Rich Code Navigation
Try Rich Code Navigation to instantly see high-precision navigation actions in your workflow. Find exact references, definitions, and implementations without having to wait for codebases to load locally.
Visual Studio IntelliCode
Try IntelliCode suggestions - it learns from your edits locally and lets you know where else in your code you could apply the same change.
Visual Studio Live Share
Enjoy collaborative editing and debugging in real-time. Pair programming, code reviews, and more made easy with shared servers, terminals, diffs, and comments.
Build, sell, and thrive
Are you an independent service vendor (ISV) ready to accelerate your journey with Microsoft? With the ISV Success Program you can build, publish and grow your apps faster. You can boost innovation with free access to powerful dev tools, one-to-one technical consultations, curated training resources and more.
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White papers and e-books
View popular white papers, analyst reports, and e-books for in-depth guides on how you can use best use Microsoft technology as an ISV.
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Technical guide to building SaaS apps on Azure
Learn how to bring your SaaS applications to customers around the world with Azure capabilities and tools in this guide created for ISVs.
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The business value of Microsoft Azure for ISVs
Learn how hundreds of ISVs increased productivity and cut operational costs by choosing Azure as their strategic cloud partner.
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Take your business to the next level with a multicloud strategy
As an ISV or SaaS company, you can accelerate innovation, build apps faster and reach more customers by using multiple cloud assets that span multiple cloud vendors.
Search for GitHub Actions
Easily automate your software workflows with GitHub Actions, now with world-class CI/CD. Build, test, and deploy your code right from GitHub. Make code reviews, branch management, and issue triaging work the way you want.
Developer driven communities
Join a dev community that cares about the same tech as you do from gaming, web, development, app design, machine learning and system admins.
Stay at the forefront of tech
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Passion projects
Chris and Karl talk all about the CloudWithChris.com integration platform, and the numerous automation/integration activities that Chris has in place to save time.
Find your tech community
Discover our amazing Microsoft-focussed technical communities around the UK. Many groups are running regular online, hybrid or in-person where you can hear from expert speakers and network with members. The communities centre around .NET to data science, SQL and everything in between. Use our map below to find your new community and if you want yours included, please let us know.
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