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Building AI-powered Microsoft Copilot with SignalR and other open-source tools

January 31, 2024 Jan 31, 2024 01/31/24

Microsoft Copilot is powered by several open-source tools, such as SignalR, Adaptive Cards, Markdown, and object-basin to solve the unique challenges in building AI-enabled applications at scale. In this article, we share the design considerations and how we integrated various tools with a focus on how we stream messages and responses to the front-end UI while giving some overview of what happens on the server-side.

Microsoft Office’s RTC (Real-Time Channel) migration to modern .NET

January 25, 2024 Jan 25, 2024 01/25/24

Gilad Oren

Real-Time Channel is Microsoft Office Online's service that powers real time collaboration and coauthoring. This blog post describes the journey to migrate the service from .NET Framework to modern .NET.

Announcing the Azure Migrate application and code assessment tool for .NET

January 3, 2024 Jan 3, 2024 01/3/24

Olia Gavrysh

The new tool to help you move your .NET applications from on-premises to Azure is available in Visual Studio Marketplace and as a .NET CLI tool!

Announcing .NET Aspire Preview 2

December 20, 2023 Dec 20, 2023 12/20/23

Damian Edwards

.NET Aspire Preview 2 is now available and includes many improvements and new capabilities.

.NET Conf 2023 Recap – Celebrating Community, Innovation, and the Launch of .NET 8

December 7, 2023 Dec 7, 2023 12/7/23

Jon Galloway, Mehul Harry

.NET Conf 2023 is over, but you can re-live the largest .NET event of the year with full access to video recordings, slides, demos, and more.

Extending WebAssembly to the Cloud with .NET

December 4, 2023 Dec 4, 2023 12/4/23

Richard Lander

We're closely following the progress of WebAssembly, including WebAssembly System Interface (WASI). There's a new experimental workload in .NET 8 for WASI that extends the capabilities of Wasm towards the Cloud.