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Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework: The Open-Source Engine for Agentic AI Apps
Why agents need a new foundation
Over the last year, developers have been experimenting with AI agents in every imaginable form. Agents are not just chatbots or copilots — they are autonomous software components that can reason about goals, call tools and APIs, collaborate with other...
Read moreMicrosoft’s OpenJDK builds now ready for Java 25
We’re excited to announce that the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK binaries are now available for Java 25. As always, our builds aim to provide a high-quality, production-ready build of OpenJDK, with binaries tested across platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS) and backed by our support and...
Read moreVS Live! Orlando – Your Ultimate Learning Adventure
Imagine swapping stories with fellow developers over dinner as the Florida sun sets, then beginning the next morning with a stroll past the resort’s palm-lined walkways before catching your first session across 41 dynamic tracks. From there, immerse yourself in a full day of learning...
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Jun 2, 2025
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D3D12 Cooperative Vector
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Greg
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
Jun 2, 2025
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Stating the obvious about debugging an invalid parameter error when freeing memory
Writing it down for posterity.
The Old New Thing
Jun 2, 2025
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GitHub Secret Protection and GitHub Code Security for Azure DevOps
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
May 30, 2025
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Powering Real-Time Messaging at Scale with Azure Cosmos DB
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...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
May 30, 2025
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D3D12 Opacity Micromaps
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Adam
DirectX Raytracing (DXR) now supports Opacity Micromaps (OMMs), enabling hardware to handle alpha tested geometry more efficiently than relying only on costly AnyHit shader invocations.
At GDC 2025 DXR 1.2 was announced including OMMs, and you can see it discussed in this: GDC...
DirectX Developer Blog
May 30, 2025
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D3D12 Shader Execution Reordering
Shader Execution Reordering (SER) is an addition to DirectX Raytracing that enables application shader code inform hardware how to find coherency across rays so they can be sorted to execute better in parallel.
At GDC 2025 DXR 1.2 was announced including SER, and you can see it...
DirectX Developer Blog
May 30, 2025
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PIX 2505.30 and 2505.30-preview: support for DXR 1.2, Cooperative Vectors and more
Today we released two new versions of PIX, which can be downloaded here. These complement the new D3D12 Agility SDKs released today.
The new versions of PIX are:
PIX 2505.30 – supports the new retail D3D12 features released today in Agility SDK 1.616, including:
Opacity...
PIX on Windows