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Dec 18, 2024
GitHub Copilot Free is here in Visual Studio
If you haven’t already heard, GitHub just announced Copilot Free! And great news: you can already start using Copilot Free right now in Visual Studio. It's available now, and we're putting the finishing touches on a more streamlined experience in January.
We’re excited to bring...
Read moreDec 20, 2024
Unwrap some Semantic Kernel (Power)Toys this holiday season
Windows PowerToys has always been one of my favorite productivity hacks, and its latest release adds Paste with Advanced AI, which takes it to a new level. This feature, powered by Semantic Kernel, transforms how you work with text, images, and data from your clipboard by applying...
Read moreDec 19, 2024
Global Expansion – "G3J Learn Semantic Kernel" Show – A Deep Dive in Korean!
Global Expansion – "G3J Learn Semantic Kernel" Show – A Deep Dive in Korean!
Localization Increases Demand
Following the success of this multi-language delivery, we quickly noticed a surge in demand for localized content. Developers from different parts of the world have expressed...
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Dec 26, 2024
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Why are Win32 resources strings bundled at all? And why bundles of 16?
Balancing multiple performance factors.
The Old New Thing
Dec 25, 2024
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How can I check if two GUIDs are equal when they are provided as strings?
A customer asked if there was a helper function in the system that accepted two strings and reported whether the GUIDs they represent are equal.
This is a tricky question, because you first have to decide what "represent" means.
There are many ways of representing a GUID as a string. It...
The Old New Thing
Dec 24, 2024
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A design flaw in the Windows 3D Pipes screen saver pointed out by a customer
Time-wasting.
The Old New Thing
Dec 24, 2024
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Connect securely to your Azure resources
Visual Studio 2022's Connected Services features are being updated to help you start secure. In the past, for example with Azure Storage, we’d inject the entire connection string into your configuration. With this update, we’ve removed the secrets from the UX – and from what we save...
Visual Studio Blog
Dec 23, 2024
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Top .NET Blogs Posts of 2024
Let's take a look back at the top .NET blogs from 2024 from exciting announcements, deep dives on new features, and so much more.
.NET Blog
Dec 23, 2024
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Announcing the Office Add-ins Development Kit GA
The Office Add-ins Development Kit for Visual Studio Code is now generally available! After months of public preview, we've gathered invaluable feedback from the community and improved the experience.
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
Dec 23, 2024
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A common proposed solution to certain categories of IFNDR: Getting the linker to verify identical functions
You could do it, but it could cramp your style.
The Old New Thing
Dec 23, 2024
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Security updates to Azure publishing from Visual Studio
Visual Studio 2022 introduces a new feature to improve the security of publishing applications to Azure App Service. This feature is designed to disable Basic Authentication and enable integrated security for a more secure publishing process.
Basic Authentication has been...
Visual Studio Blog
Dec 20, 2024
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Unwrap some Semantic Kernel (Power)Toys this holiday season
Windows PowerToys has always been one of my favorite productivity hacks, and its latest release adds Paste with Advanced AI, which takes it to a new level. This feature, powered by Semantic Kernel, transforms how you work with text, images, and data from your clipboard by applying...
Semantic Kernel