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Jan 7, 2025
Benchmarking with Visual Studio Profiler
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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azd CDN changing January 2025
This blog post makes customers aware of a critical Content Delivery Network (CDN) change for azd (the Azure Developer CLI) because the CDN provider is changing from Edgio to Azure Front Door.
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Important Update: blog migration to quantum.microsoft.com
We are excited to announce that the Q# blog will be migrating to a new home at Azure Quantum in Feb 2025. This move will allow us to provide you with a more integrated and enhanced experience, featuring the latest updates and resources in the world of quantum computing. Stay tuned for...
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Dec 18, 2024
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Effortlessly access cloud resources across Azure tenants without using secrets
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Announcing the Public Preview of Managed Identities as Federated Identity Credentials for Microsoft Entra. Enhance security by removing secrets, simplify setup, and enable seamless cross-tenant access to Entra-protected resources like Azure and Microsoft Graph.
Microsoft Entra Identity Platform
Dec 18, 2024
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Is there a way to split the git history of a file or combine the histories of two files without a merge commit?
Studying how git recovers history.
The Old New Thing
Dec 17, 2024
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.NET Conf 2024 Recap - Celebrating .NET 9, AI, Community, & More
.NET Conf 2024 is over, but you can catch up with all the announcement and fun with video recordings, slides, demos, and more.
.NET Blog
Dec 17, 2024
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Embedding models and dimensions: optimizing the performance to resource-usage ratio
Since the release of vector preview, we've been working with many customers that are building AI solution on Azure SQL and SQL Server and one of the most common questions is how to support high-dimensional data, for example more than 2000 dimensions per vector. In fact, at the moment, the...
Azure SQL Devs’ Corner
Dec 17, 2024
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Microspeak terms that didn't take hold: airspace, synthetics, and AOI
Sometimes they don't stick.
The Old New Thing
Dec 17, 2024
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Refresh your Find results
Are you tired of having to repeatedly launch the Find window in Visual Studio to update your search results? Whether you've just refactored some code or pulled recent changes, having to redo a search to get updated results is no longer necessary. With the new refresh option, you can now...
Visual Studio Blog
Dec 16, 2024
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Azure SQL ❤️ Python!
I recently presented at Python Day 2024 on Langchain integration. I created a slide deck that I believe can be useful beyond just the session, so I wanted to share it here for everyone's benefit.
The deck covers the most common topics for a Python developer:
Is there a free...
Azure SQL Devs’ Corner
Dec 16, 2024
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Exploring Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData with Qdrant and Azure AI Search
Discover how to use Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData to implement semantic search using Qdrant and Azure AI Search
.NET Blog
Dec 16, 2024
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Why do we have header files <pshpackN.h> and <poppack.h> instead of just issuing the pragma directly?
Because the pragma may not work everywhere.
The Old New Thing