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Jan 31, 2024

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

Justin,

Kevin,

Ken

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.

Jan 29, 2024

How to deploy .NET Aspire apps to Azure Container Apps

Jiachen Jiang

Let's take a look at how you can easily deploy .NET Aspire Apps to Azure Container Apps with just a few commands with the Azure Developer CLI!

Jan 25, 2024

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

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.

Jan 24, 2024

Introducing the MSTest Runner – CLI, Visual Studio, & More

Amaury,

Marco,

Jakub

MSTest runner is a new, light-weight and portable runner for MSTest tests available in the .NET CLI, Visual Studio, and more!

Jan 23, 2024

.NET Framework January 2024 Cumulative Update Preview

Salini Agarwal

January 2024 Cumulative Update Preview Updates for .NET Framework.

Jan 16, 2024

Introducing NuGetSolver: A Powerful Tool for Resolving NuGet Dependency Conflicts in Visual Studio

Erick Yondon

Managing dependencies on complex projects can be overwhelming. Developers often grapple with numerous direct and transitive dependencies across multiple projects. When different projects share dependencies with varying versions, manual conflict resolution becomes necessary, which can be tedious and error-prone, as fixing one issue may inadvertently create others. Today, we are excited to introduce a new experimental Visual Studio extension called NuGetSolver which was developed in collaboration with Microsoft Research, which aims to simplify the process by automatically resolving NuGet dependency conflicts in ...

Jan 12, 2024