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Jan 9, 2025
Exploring the Essentials: Building Basics with Microsoft Copilot Studio
Exploring the Essentials: Building Basics with Microsoft Copilot Studio
Don’t know how to start with building an agent in Microsoft Copilot Studio? We’ve got you covered! In our AI in Action: Building with Copilot Studio series on the Microsoft Power Platform YouTube channel, we have...
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Empowering AI Agents with Tools via OpenAPI: A Hands-On Guide with Microsoft Semantic Kernel Agents
Today the Semantic Kernel team is happy to welcome back our guest author, Akshay Kokane. We will turn it over to him to dive into his recent Medium article on Semantic Kernel.
As we advance towards an Agentic Approach in the AI world, I would like to share my insights on how Semantic...
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Announcing the Public Preview of Apple Identity Provider Support for Microsoft Entra External ID
Announcing the public preview of "Sign in with Apple" support for Microsoft Entra External ID. This feature allows users to sign up and sign in to applications using their Apple ID. Apple joins Google and Facebook as pre-configured social identity providers, supporting Single Sign-On (SSO) through the OAuth framework.
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Jan 14, 2025
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.NET and .NET Framework January 2025 servicing releases updates
Tara,
Rahul
Welcome to our combined .NET servicing updates for January 2025. Let's get into the latest release of .NET & .NET Framework, here is a quick overview of what's new in these releases:
Security Improvements
.NET updates
.NET Framework updates
Security...
.NET Blog
Jan 14, 2025
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Join us at VS Live! 2025 Las Vegas
Join Your Favorite Speakers at VS Live! Las Vegas
With the new year here, many developers are looking for the best ways to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving tech landscape. That’s why Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas, March 10-14, 2025, is a must-attend event!
Stay ahead of the curve...
Visual Studio Blog
Jan 14, 2025
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Join the Conversation: Call for Proposals for Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2025!
Are you passionate about Azure Cosmos DB? Do you have insights, experiences, or innovations that the developer community would love to hear? Now is your chance to shine at the Azure Cosmos DB Conference 2025 – a free, virtual developer event co-organized by Microsoft and the vibrant...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Jan 14, 2025
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Microspeak: The walk-on topic
Just walk on in with your topic.
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Jan 14, 2025
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Announcing Powerful Devs Conference + Hack Together 2025
We are excited to invite you to participate in this year’s Powerful Devs Conference + Hackathon, commencing on February 12, 2025. The conference will be followed by a two-week Hack Together, ending on February 28, 2025. Join us to unleash your creativity and build innovation solutions!
Power Platform Developer Blog
Jan 13, 2025
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Cosmos DB Embeddings Generator Sample
Ever since our first preview announcement for vector indexing and support for DiskANN and then again when we announced the GA for these features, customers have been asking us to make it easier to generate Azure OpenAI embeddings on their data in Azure Cosmos DB.
So we did just that...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Jan 13, 2025
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A simplified overview of ways to add or update elements in a std::map
And using it to find missing opportunities.
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Jan 13, 2025
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Enhanced Change Signature in C++
Change Signature allows you to modify a function's parameters, including reordering, adding, removing, or altering them across various locations. Previously, the Change Signature feature in Visual Studio involved multiple clicks and nested pop-up windows. In Visual Studio 2022 version...
Visual Studio Blog
Jan 10, 2025
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Why does inadvertently passing a std::string instead of a char const* to a variadic function crash on x86-32 but not x86-64?
Looking at the calling convention and the small string optimization.
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