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Jan 9, 2025

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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Jan 10, 2025

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

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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...
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Join us at VS Live! 2025 Las Vegas

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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...
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Jan 14, 2025
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Join the Conversation: Call for Proposals for Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2025!

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Jay Gordon
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...
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Jan 14, 2025
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Microspeak: The walk-on topic

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Raymond Chen
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

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April Dunnam
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!
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Jan 13, 2025
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Cosmos DB Embeddings Generator Sample

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Mark Brown
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...
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Jan 13, 2025
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A simplified overview of ways to add or update elements in a std::map

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Raymond Chen
And using it to find missing opportunities.
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Jan 13, 2025
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Enhanced Change Signature in C++

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Mryam Girmay
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...
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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?

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Looking at the calling convention and the small string optimization.
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