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Feb 14, 2025

GitHub Copilot for Xcode Chat – Public Preview Now Available

We’re excited to announce that GitHub Copilot for Xcode Chat is now in public preview, bringing the power of AI to help developers code more efficiently. With just a GitHub account, you can enable Copilot in Xcode and start leveraging AI-driven suggestions and interactive chat features...
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Feb 12, 2025

GitHub Copilot for Eclipse: Code Completion Now in Public Preview

We are excited to announce the Public Preview of GitHub Copilot for Eclipse. As part of the broader GitHub Copilot family, which enhances productivity in various IDEs, this latest integration ensures that developers using Eclipse can benefit from AI-assisted coding like never...
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Feb 6, 2025
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The default C locale is not a very interesting one

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Raymond Chen
It barely understands anything.
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February 2025: A look at the latest Microsoft Entra key feature releases, announcements, and updates

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James Casey
This is the February 2025 edition of our monthly developer update, summarizing the latest news and developments in Microsoft Entra. This month, we bring you feature updates, public previews, announcements, and other important updates. Read on to learn more and make the most of Microsoft...
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Feb 6, 2025
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Azure Functions vs. Indexers: AI Data Ingestion

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Ivan Sholokh
This article compares Azure Functions with pre-built indexers for data ingestion in Azure AI Search, with a focus on using Azure Functions for a flexible, scalable approach. It explores key steps like data migration, index creation, and deployment automation.
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Feb 5, 2025
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Windows Terminal Preview 1.23 Release

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Christopher Nguyen
Happy New Year everyone! Here is our first Windows Terminal Preview release of the year! In this release, we focused on porting many of our beloved settings to the Settings UI. We also have several bug fixes and accessibility updates as well. We are also updating Windows Terminal stable...
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Feb 5, 2025
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Go 1.23.6-1 and 1.22.12-1 Microsoft builds now available

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Davis Goodin
A new release of the Microsoft build of Go including security fixes is now available for download.
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Feb 5, 2025
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Guest Blog: Let your Copilot Declarative Agent think deep with DeepSeek-R1

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Today we'd like to feature a guest author on our Semantic Kernel blog, Mahmoud Hassan, a Microsoft Valuable Professional (MVP) focused on AI. We'll turn it over to him to dive into his work below.   In recent days, there has been significant attention in the AI community...
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Feb 5, 2025
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Use Azure Cosmos DB as a Docker container in CI/CD pipelines

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Abhishek Gupta
There are lot of benefits to using Docker containers in CI/CD pipelines, especially for stateful systems like databases. For example, when you run integration tests, each CI job can start the database in an isolated container with a clean state, preventing conflicts between tests. This...
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Feb 5, 2025
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Announcing: Windows MIDI Services Customer Preview 1!

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Pete Brown
Today, we're releasing the latest version of Windows MIDI Services to the Windows Insider Canary Channel, fully enabled for anyone to evaluate. We recommend this for technical users (as with any Canary release) and not for production use because we will have bugs. You can learn more about...
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Feb 5, 2025
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On exactly when XAML bindings are evaluated if an element is not yet loaded

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Raymond Chen
It depends on which abstraction you prefer.
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