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Oct 21, 2024
Semantic Kernel
Customer Case Study: How Microsoft streamlined regulatory compliance with GenAI
Customer Case Study: How Microsoft streamlined regulatory compliance with GenAI
Today we're featuring an external blog from EY featuring Microsoft's Semantic Kernel. This case study reveals how Microsoft legal teams are using GenAI to confidently manage regulatory change. Learn...
Oct 21, 2024
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Updates to Azure Cosmos DB's Portal Networking Settings
We are happy to share with you an update to the Azure Cosmos DB networking configuration options within the Azure Portal. This update introduces a split in the IP address list, now presented as two distinct categories: user IP addresses and Portal Middleware IPs. Managing IP access...
Oct 17, 2024
C++ Team Blog
Enhanced Breakpoint Expressions for C++ Debugging in Visual Studio
Conditional Breakpoints Performance Improvement
Debugging C++ code can be a time-consuming process, especially when dealing with complex scenarios. As a developer, it's frustrating to go through extensive setup and wait for a specific conditional breakpoint to trigger so you can analyze...
Oct 21, 2024
Windows MIDI and Music dev
Make Great Music with Windows on Arm
This week has been amazing, with our musician work really coming together at Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit 2024! There's only so much time available in a keynote, so I thought I'd expand a bit more on the music-related announcements, especially for the new in-box features.
Music is all...
Oct 17, 2024
.NET Blog
.NET Conf 2024 Student Zone
The .NET Conf Student Zone is a beginner-friendly, virtual event where experts will teach you how to build amazing projects - all using C# and .NET!
Events
November 12, 2024 - November 14, 2024
.NET Conf 2024
.NET 9 launches at .NET Conf 2024! Tune in with the .NET community to celebrate and learn about the new release on November 12-14.
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Oct 23, 2024
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
Specify runtime requirements in app manifest: Your key to success across Microsoft 365
Specify Runtime Requirements in App Manifest: Your Key to Success across Microsoft 365 Hosts
Through extensive user research, we've identified what M365 users value most for boosting productivity. They want uninterrupted workflows, an all-in-one workspace, and minimal context switching....
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Oct 23, 2024
.NET Blog
eShop infused with AI - a comprehensive intelligent app sample
Go beyond a simple demo app that demonstrates a chat bot and explore a real-world scale application that is infused with AI and illustrates the value of intelligent apps with features like semantic search, summarization, classification, sentiment scoring, chatbot, test data generation, evaluation tool, and E2E testing.
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Oct 23, 2024
DirectX Developer Blog
DirectSR Preview: Now Supporting AMD FidelityFXâ„¢ Super Resolution (FSR) 3.1 Upscaler
Following our initial announcement of the DirectSR preview, we are pleased to share an update. DirectSR, our standardized super resolution (SR) API for D3D12 titles, now supports FSR 3.1 (upscaler-only), bringing enhanced upscaling capabilities to further improve your gaming experience....
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Oct 23, 2024
The Old New Thing
How do I create a Windows Runtime IRandomAccessStream around a bunch of bytes or a classic COM IStream?
Another wrapper function.
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Oct 23, 2024
Visual Studio Blog
Get Hands-On with Visual Studio, .NET, AI, and More at Live! 360 next month.
Visual Studio LIVE! Orlando 2024
November 17-22 | Loews Royal Pacific Resort, Orlando, FL
We’re only four weeks away from the final Visual Studio Live! event of the year, and we’re close to capacity! Live! 360 Orlando offers something for everyone—whether you’re a developer, IT...
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Oct 22, 2024
Azure SQL Devs’ Corner
Soccer Analytics Copilot with Azure SQL and OpenAI
The Football (aka Soccer in US 😀) Analisys Copilot provides an intuitive interface for users to interact with complex football data without needing advanced technical skills. By utilizing natural language processing, users can ask questions and retrieve detailed insights from vast...
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Oct 22, 2024
.NET Blog
.NET MAUI Welcomes Syncfusion Open-source Contributions
Announcing the release of the Syncfusion Toolkit for .NET MAUI, a set of free, open-source controls for .NET MAUI! Syncfusion has made 14 impressive UI controls freely available for .NET MAUI developers.
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Oct 22, 2024
The Old New Thing
Did Windows 95 shrink the default font size of windowed MS-DOS apps?
The effect was that it shrunk, but only sometimes.
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Oct 22, 2024
Visual Studio Blog
Debug CMake Scripts on Linux with Visual Studio
If you are working on a CMake project that targets Linux, you may have encountered some challenges when trying to debug your CMake scripts and CMakeLists.txt files. You may have wondered why your variables are not set correctly, or why your custom commands are not executed as expected. Or...
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