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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 7, 2025
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Emergency power resets on Lenovo, HP, Dell, and Acer laptops

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Looking for the magic button.
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Benchmarking with Visual Studio Profiler

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Nik Karpinsky
In Visual Studio 17.13 Preview we have released our updated BenchmarkDotNet diagnosers, allowing you to use more of the tools in the performance profiler to analyze benchmarks. With this change it is super quick to dig into CPU usage and allocations of benchmarks making the measure,...
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VS Code Java中的JavaC支持发布!

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大家新年好!我们很高兴宣布,Visual Studio Code Java、JDT 和 JDT-LS 现已部分支持使用 Javac 作为底层编译器。这项支持是红帽和微软经过近一年合作的成果。 此更改旨在确保对最新 Java 特性的及时支持,并使 VS Code 上的...
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Jan 6, 2025
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Enabling Neural Rendering in DirectX: Cooperative Vector Support Coming Soon

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Neural Rendering: A New Paradigm in 3D Graphics Programming In the constantly advancing landscape of 3D graphics, neural rendering technology represents a significant evolution. Neural rendering broadly defines the suite of techniques that leverage AI/ML to dramatically transform...
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Jan 6, 2025
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What’s New in vcpkg (December 2024)

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Augustin Popa
This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2024.12.16 registry release, 2024-12-09 tool release, as well as changes to vcpkg documentation throughout December. This release includes a command line option to force vcpkg to use classic mode even if a...
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Jan 6, 2025
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Reducing personal access token (PAT) usage across Azure DevOps

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Angel Wong
In the new year, we’ll be making moves towards strengthening Microsoft and our customers' security posture in regards to the usage and creation of personal access tokens (PATs). If you’ve been following this blog, you may have noticed we’ve been distancing away from PATs as the...
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Jan 6, 2025
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How can I tell whether a change to a control was due to the user or due to my program?

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Raymond Chen
You know when it was done by your program because you did it.
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Unlocking insights with Meter Histogram in the profiler

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Are you struggling with performance bottlenecks in your applications? Look no further! Visual Studio 2022 introduces the Meter Histogram feature in its performance profiling suite, providing you with the tools to analyze and visualize histogram data like never before. The Meter...
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