Microsoft Developer Blogs

Get the latest information, insights, announcements, and news from Microsoft.

Azure Networking Team reaches peak productivity with Visual Studio's new remote Linux capabilities and improvements

Over the past couple of months, the Microsoft C++ team reached out to a series of customers voting on a suggestion ticket asking for Remote Linux Unit Testing support to better understand their full set of interactions and needs with CMake and Remote Linux scenarios in Visual Studio. After these discussions, we built out a backlog of work ...


Build your APIs with DAB using Containers - Part 1

Are you tired of spending countless hours building APIs from scratch? With Data API Builder (DAB), you can create your API in just minutes! All you need to do is create a JSON configuration file to describe your database entities (tables, views, stored procedures, or collections) from your Azure SQL Database, SQL Server, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL...


Visual Studio 17.9 Preview 2 has arrived!

Welcome to the release of Visual Studio 2022 17.9 Preview 2, which wraps up our development efforts for 2023. This update brings new features and enhancements, building on the solid foundation set by Preview 1 in November.  In this preview, we've made some improvements to the C++ and .NET MAUI development experiences. You'll find the...


OpenAI Assistant code interpreter on Android

Hello prompt engineers, Over the last few weeks, we’ve looked at different aspects of the new OpenAI Assistant API, both prototyping in the playground and using Kotlin in the JetchatAI sample. In this post we’re going to add the Code Interpreter feature which allows the Assistants API to write and run Python code in a sandboxed ...


Migrating from the Sequential and Stepwise planners to the new Handlebars and Stepwise planner

As part of our Ignite release, we shipped the new gen-4 and gen-5 planners developed by the Semantic Kernel team. These new planners can handle many more functions (2-3X more), leverage more complex logic (e.g., loops, conditionals, and complex objects), all while using fewer tokens. Because of just how much better these new planners are, ...