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Jun 3, 2025
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Azure SDK Release (May 2025)

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Ronnie Geraghty
Azure SDK releases every month. In this post, you'll find this month's highlights and release notes.
Azure SDK Blog
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Jun 3, 2025
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Cloud Academy: Unlock Your Azure Skills and Accelerate Your Career

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Jim Harrer
When we launched the Cloud Academy benefit for Visual Studio Professional and Enterprise subscribers back in March 2025, our goal was simple: give you the hands-on, practical learning experience you need to confidently master Azure and cloud technologies — without spending a dime beyond...
Visual Studio Blog
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Jun 3, 2025
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The symbolism of the magnifying glass is not universal

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Raymond Chen
Just making things bigger?
The Old New Thing
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Jun 2, 2025
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A story of collaborating agents: chatting with your database the right way

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Davide Mauri
Today, more and more customers are embracing AI with one clear goal in mind: they want to chat with their data. And by "data," they mean all of it:  structured tables, unstructured documents, images, audio, and more. This demand has given rise to hybrid approaches that blend semantic...
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Jun 2, 2025
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Extension Manager updates in Visual Studio

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Javier De la Garza
The latest updates in Visual Studio 2022 introduced features specifically designed to improve how you manage extensions. These updates offer tools that help you automate processes, provide detailed controls for configuration, and enhance the user interface to streamline your development...
Visual Studio Blog
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Jun 2, 2025
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D3D12 Cooperative Vector

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Welcome to the preview release for Cooperative Vector support in D3D12.  This exposes powerful new hardware acceleration for vector and matrix operations, enabling developers to efficiently drive neural rendering techniques directly from individual shader threads in real-time...
DirectX Developer Blog
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Jun 2, 2025
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Stating the obvious about debugging an invalid parameter error when freeing memory

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Raymond Chen
Writing it down for posterity.
The Old New Thing
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Jun 2, 2025
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GitHub Secret Protection and GitHub Code Security for Azure DevOps

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Laura Jiang
Following the changes to GitHub Advanced Security on GitHub, we're launching the standalone security products of GitHub Secret Protection and GitHub Code Security for Azure DevOps today. You can bring the protection of Advanced Security to your enterprise with the flexibility to enable...
Azure DevOps Blog
Powering Real-Time Messaging at Scale with Azure Cosmos DB
May 30, 2025
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Powering Real-Time Messaging at Scale with Azure Cosmos DB

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Surendra Singh
Microsoft Teams, Copilot, Azure Communication Services and many other product offerings from Microsoft, rely on a unified messaging platform that powers real-time communication and collaboration at an unprecedented scale. This messaging platform has become critical for enabling...
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