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Feb 6, 2025

Azure Functions vs. Indexers: AI Data Ingestion

This article compares Azure Functions with pre-built indexers for data ingestion in Azure AI Search, with a focus on using Azure Functions for a flexible, scalable approach. It explores key steps like data migration, index creation, and deployment automation.

Feb 6, 2025

Customer Case Study: How preezie’s AI shopping assistant is reshaping Blue Bungalow’s online store

Introduction Blue Bungalow, one of Australia’s leading fashion retailers, faced a common challenge in eCommerce—how to create a more engaging, seamless, and personalised shopping experience for customers online. They wanted to implement AI-powered assistance to provide personalised...

Feb 6, 2025

.NET 9 Networking Improvements

Introducing new networking features in .NET 9 including HTTP space, HttpClientFactory, security and more!

Feb 10, 2025

GitHub Copilot Chat Explained: The Life of a Prompt

sombanerjee

Ever wondered what happens behind the scenes when you chat with GitHub Copilot in VS Code? Let's pull back the curtain and explore how this AI coding assistant processes your prompts, from local workspace scanning to interacting with OpenAI's language models. This article...

All things Azure

Feb 10, 2025

Guest Blog: Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Portfolio Manager: A Multi-Agent System with Microsoft Semantic Kernel and Azure OpenAI

Sophia,

Akshay

Today the Semantic Kernel team is excited to welcome back a guest author, Akshay Kokane to share his recent Medium article using Semantic Kernel and Azure OpenAI, showcasing a step-by-step guide to building a Portfolio Manager. We’ll turn it over to him to dive into his work...

Semantic Kernel

Feb 10, 2025

Microsoft.Testing.Platform: Now Supported by All Major .NET Test Frameworks

Amaury Levé

All major .NET testing frameworks are now supporting Microsoft.Testing.Platform. Whether you are using Expecto, MSTest, NUnit, TUnit, or xUnit.net, you can now leverage the new testing platform to run your tests.

.NET Blog

Feb 10, 2025

.NET Aspire and Data API builder with the Community Toolkit

Jerry Nixon

Announcing .NET Aspire Integration with Data API builder (DAB) As engineers add components to their solution architecture, their development environments can become complex and difficult to replicate across teams and environments. Placing each service in a dedicated...

Azure SQL Devs’ Corner

Feb 10, 2025

VisualStudio.Extensibility: Managing .NET runtime versions

Tina Schrepfer (LI)

We continue to invest in the VisualStudio.Extensibility SDK to allow developers like you to create extensions that run faster and smoother than ever before! VisualStudio.Extensibility helps you build extensions that run outside the main Visual Studio IDE process for improved performance...

Visual Studio Blog