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With the new .NET API Catalog tool it’s easy to explore .NET APIs and discover what support exists for each API on each version of .NET.

Running on Azure, the tool has an in memory object model pulled from Azure Blob Storage. The deployment of the website is fully automated and works each time a commit happens to internal CoreFxTools Git repo, which is hosted on VSTS, without disrupting service.

“Search is a feature that can make or break a mobile app, but it can be incredibly difficult to get right.”
In this post, Xamarin’s Mike James shows you how to implement intelligent search in your app with Azure Search: http://xmn.io/29DCYhl

Today Microsoft released its first public developer preview of the SharePoint Framework.
With this initial release, developers can start building client-side web parts using modern script development tools and the SharePoint Workbench, as well as deploy client-side web parts to classic web part pages in Office 365 Developer tenants.

You can find the early documentation at https://github.com/SharePoint/sp-dev-docs/wiki: keep in mind it is an initial developer release so it’s rough around the edges.

For further details about this release click here.

SharePoint 2007 Extended Support ends 10th October 2017. This means you will no longer receive automatic fixes, updates, online technical assistance or security updates.

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There’s no question that the strategic planning process is changing. For example, start ups that can engage IT early on and secure technology quickly put larger organisations with more bureaucracy to navigate on the back foot.

An article we found on CIO.com looks at what the changes to the strategy planning process means for IT, specifically the CIO. One finding of note in the article is that IT projects are now increasingly treated as business endeavours rather than technical ones: “They are framed as the automation of business processes that support strategy. When they are successful they are incremental, and the technology is used as foundational, paving the way for other strategic projects.”

You can read the article in full on CIO.com here.

Source: CIO.com