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Minecraft Spring Sale blooms with deals, discounts and a free skin pack The Minecraft Spring Sale is now underway. From now until April 18 at 10 a.m. PT you’ll find free content as well as daily discounts at the Minecraft Marketplace. “If you’re new to Minecraft: Bedrock Edition or you’ve simply never clicked that third button on your loading screen, then let me tell you what lies behind that door, friend. Worlds! Skins! Maps! Mini-games!” writes Sophie Austin on Minecraft.net. “You can add new textures to your game, change your character’s style, or jump into a whole new world to tame pets, beat bosses and more. Minecraft Marketplace is full of fantastic creations and, until April 18, this imaginative wonderland of ideas and additions is going to be on sale. Every day, three new items will be at 75% off and a [ more… ]

Retrieve source maps securely in production in Microsoft Edge DevTools With version 99 of Microsoft Edge, DevTools can securely download source maps from the Azure Artifacts symbol server. This means you can use Azure Pipelines to publish source maps to a secure location, and have DevTools retrieve them at runtime and offer a familiar debugging experience by displaying your original source code. In this post, Rob Paveza from the DevTools team will walk you through how to configure this feature, how it can help your in-production debugging, and where we plan to go from here. When I first joined Microsoft, an early task for me – and for many new hires – was to triage and possibly fix bugs. What’s happening? What’s the root cause? Is it user-visible? Windows crashes are reported via Windows Error Reporting, and it’s amazing really [ more… ]