App Development

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  Licensing Reference Microsoft Foundry Microsoft Foundry is an Azure platform service, consolidating agents, models, and tools with enterprise capabilities   Product Reference Web PubSub Web PubSub is a generic service for adding live communication capabilities to custom applications   Product Reference SignalR Service SignalR Service is a managed service for adding live communication capabilities to .NET applications   Product Reference Visual Studio Visual Studio is a Windows-based integrated development environment (IDE) that provides graphical tools for designing,...more   Product Reference Azure DevOps Services Azure DevOps Services is a set of Microsoft-hosted software development services for hosting source code,...more   Product Reference GitHub The GitHub developer service is a full-featured application life-cycle environment with developer productivity tools that...more   Licensing Reference DevTest Labs Azure DevTest Labs is a service for standardizing and governing development and test environments   Product Reference Visual Studio Code Visual Studio (VS) Code is a free code editor derived from open source technologies and...more   Product Reference DevTest Labs Azure DevTest Labs is a service for standardizing and governing development and test environments   Product Reference Host Integration Server The Host Integration Server (HIS) software enables organizations to integrate IBM mainframe and midrange applications...more   Licensing Reference Visual Studio The brand name used for both fee-based and free application development tools and related on-premises...more   Licensing Reference Visual Studio Code A cross-platform code editor with extensible support for development operations such as building and debugging...more   Product Reference .NET .NET is Microsoft’s enterprise application development platform   Product Reference Other Runtimes and APIs Description of Office Add-ins, Visual Basic 6.0, and other supported runtimes and APIs.   Licensing Reference Power Automate Packaging Illustration shows Power Automate license types and the features of each.   Licensing Reference GitHub GitHub, offered as both an online service and as on-premises software, provides an application life-cycle...more

Application Platforms Roadmap

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