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.NET AI Essentials - The Core Building Blocks Explained
Learn how Microsoft.Extensions.AI provides a unified API for building intelligent .NET applications with any LLM provider - one interface, endless possibilities, with built-in middleware, telemetry, structured outputs and more.
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Microsoft Agent Framework now integrates with the GitHub Copilot SDK, enabling you to build AI agents powered by GitHub Copilot. This integration brings together the Agent Framework's consistent agent abstraction with GitHub Copilot's capabilities, including function calling, streaming...
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Oct 22, 2025
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Build an AI Agentic RAG search application with React, SQL Azure and Azure Static Web Apps
Introduction
Leveraging OpenAI for semantic searches on structured databases like Azure SQL enhances search accuracy and context-awareness, providing more relevant and insightful results.
This example showcases the use of Azure SQL for storing and searching data with AI. By...
Azure SQL Devs’ Corner
Oct 22, 2025
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What makes cheap_steady_clock faster than std::chrono::high_resolution_clock ?
It's quite a bit faster, though maybe you don't care.
The Old New Thing
Oct 22, 2025
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Expanding Model Choice in VS Code with Bring Your Own Key
Learn how the new Language Model Chat Provider API in VS Code is enabling more model choice and extensibility for chat experiences via the Bring Your Own Key experience.
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VS Code Blog
Oct 21, 2025
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Modernizing Visual Studio Extension Compatibility: Effortless Migration for Extension Developers and Users
We have great news for extension users and developers: Visual Studio 2026 is introducing an extension compatibility model designed specifically to make your life easier. Our top priority is to ensure that your extensions continue to work seamlessly across Visual Studio releases - with no...
Visual Studio Blog
Oct 21, 2025
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Microspeak: The hockey stick on wheels
You're always a year away.
The Old New Thing
Oct 21, 2025
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“Cost Management” Is Now “Account Throughput” and It’s Moving
We’ve made a small but important change in the Azure portal for Azure Cosmos DB to make it easier to manage your account-level throughput.
The “Cost Management” section has been renamed to “Account Throughput” and can now be found under the Settings section of your Azure...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Oct 20, 2025
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What about the icons in pifmgr.dll?
Just for fun.
The Old New Thing
Oct 20, 2025
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Announcing latest Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK: Powering the Future of AI with OpenAI
We're thrilled to announce the stable release of Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK version 4.14.0! This release brings together months of innovation and collaboration, featuring ground-breaking capabilities that have been battle-tested in production environments. Many of these features were...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Oct 20, 2025
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A Developer's Guide to Fine-Tuning GPT-4o for Image Classification on Azure AI Foundry
Whether you’re a machine learning practitioner, app developer, or just curious about the latest in AI, this guide shows how you can quickly boost image classification accuracy using cutting-edge Vision-Language Models (VLM) on Azure—no deep learning expertise required.
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Microsoft Foundry Blog