Microsoft Developer Blogs

Updates on Ways to Engage with the Semantic Kernel Team

March 12, 2024 Mar 12, 2024 03/12/24

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey

We have some updates on how to engage with the core Semantic Kernel team! If you are part of the Semantic Kernel community, you have two options to meet with us virtually: community office hours and kernel development syncs. Both are held on Wednesday with different options to make it easy for folks around the world to join. The original ...

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March patches for Azure DevOps Server

March 12, 2024 Mar 12, 2024 03/12/24

Gloridel Morales

This month, we are releasing fixes that impact our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. The following versions of the products have been patched. Check out the links for each version for more details. Azure DevOps Server 2022.1 Patch 3 If you have Azure DevOps Server 2022.1, you should install Azure DevOps Server 2022.1 Patch 3...

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Azure DevOps Blog

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Azure DevOps Server Patches

Refining Your Search: Introducing NuGet.org's Compatible Framework Filters

March 12, 2024 Mar 12, 2024 03/12/24

Advay Tandon , Jon Douglas

Last year, we introduced search by target frameworks on NuGet.org, allowing you to filter your search results based on the framework(s) that a package targets. We received plenty of great feedback from you on how to make the filters more effective, and we are excited to announce that we are adding new search options that will now allow you to ...

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The NuGet Blog

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Feature Announcement NuGet.org

Introducing Visual Studio 17.10 – Preview 2 is Here!

March 12, 2024 Mar 12, 2024 03/12/24

Mark Downie

We hope you all enjoyed the new and updated features that came with our first preview of Visual Studio 17.10, and now we have even more to share! This release brings additional tools to help you improve your code reviews with Copilot, diagnostics improvements, as well as additional Extensibility and WinForms enhancements. Browse this list ...

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Visual Studio Blog

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Visual Studio 2022

.NET March 2024 Updates – .NET 8.0.3, 7.0.17, .NET 6.0.28

March 12, 2024 Mar 12, 2024 03/12/24

Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)

Check out latest March 2024 updates for .NET 8.0, .NET 7.0, and .NET 6.0.

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.NET Blog

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.NET .NET Core

Azure Developer CLI (azd) - March 2024 Release

March 12, 2024 Mar 12, 2024 03/12/24

Grace Kulin

This post announces the March release of the Azure Developer CLI (`azd`), which includes sovereign cloud support, support for third-party container registries, Visual Studio publish experience for .NET Aspire, and various other .NET Aspire enhancements.

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How well does _com_ptr_t support class template argument deduction (CTAD)?

March 12, 2024 Mar 12, 2024 03/12/24

Raymond Chen

Not very well, thanks to storing the pointer and IID pair in a helper type.

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The Old New Thing

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Code

Data Science Day 2024 - Schedule Announcement

March 11, 2024 Mar 11, 2024 03/11/24

Dawn Wages

Python Data Science Day is a full day of 25 min and 5 min community contributed content March 14th, 2024 streaming on the VS Code YouTube channel.

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Enhanced Automation in Python: Auto Tool Calling for OpenAI Models in the Semantic Kernel SDK

March 11, 2024 Mar 11, 2024 03/11/24

Evan Mattson , Eduard van Valkenburg

Greetings, Semantic Kernel Python developers and enthusiasts! We're happy to share a significant update to the Semantic Kernel Python SDK now available in 0.9.1b1 -- a leap towards more efficient and streamlined OpenAI model integration. Your feedback, the need to align with the .NET Semantic Kernel SDK, and our commitment to enhancing ...

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Semantic Kernel

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Semantic Kernel Python

D3D12 Work Graphs

March 11, 2024 Mar 11, 2024 03/11/24

Amar Patel , Tex Riddell

This is the official release of D3D12 Work Graphs, enabling new types of GPU autonomy, originally available as a preview in 2023. To start, here's what Epic sees: With the proliferation of GPU-driven rendering techniques - such as Nanite in Unreal Engine 5 - the role of the CPU is trending towards primarily resource management and ...

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DirectX Developer Blog

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DirectX D3D12