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Oct 21, 2024

Semantic Kernel

Customer Case Study: How Microsoft streamlined regulatory compliance with GenAI

Customer Case Study: How Microsoft streamlined regulatory compliance with GenAI Today we're featuring an external blog from EY featuring Microsoft's Semantic Kernel. This case study reveals how Microsoft legal teams are using GenAI to confidently manage regulatory change. Learn...

Oct 21, 2024

Azure Cosmos DB Blog

Updates to Azure Cosmos DB's Portal Networking Settings

We are happy to share with you an update to the Azure Cosmos DB networking configuration options within the Azure Portal. This update introduces a split in the IP address list, now presented as two distinct categories: user IP addresses and Portal Middleware IPs. Managing IP access...

Oct 17, 2024

C++ Team Blog

Enhanced Breakpoint Expressions for C++ Debugging in Visual Studio

Conditional Breakpoints Performance Improvement Debugging C++ code can be a time-consuming process, especially when dealing with complex scenarios. As a developer, it's frustrating to go through extensive setup and wait for a specific conditional breakpoint to trigger so you can analyze...

Oct 21, 2024

Windows MIDI and Music dev

Make Great Music with Windows on Arm

This week has been amazing, with our musician work really coming together at Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit 2024! There's only so much time available in a keynote, so I thought I'd expand a bit more on the music-related announcements, especially for the new in-box features. Music is all...

Oct 17, 2024

.NET Blog

.NET Conf 2024 Student Zone

The .NET Conf Student Zone is a beginner-friendly, virtual event where experts will teach you how to build amazing projects - all using C# and .NET!

November 12, 2024 - November 14, 2024

.NET Conf 2024

.NET 9 launches at .NET Conf 2024! Tune in with the .NET community to celebrate and learn about the new release on November 12-14.

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Oct 22, 2024

Azure SQL Devs’ Corner

Soccer Analytics Copilot with Azure SQL and OpenAI

The Football (aka Soccer in US 😀) Analisys Copilot provides an intuitive interface for users to interact with complex football data without needing advanced technical skills. By utilizing natural language processing, users can ask questions and retrieve detailed insights from vast...

David Ortinau

Oct 22, 2024

.NET Blog

.NET MAUI Welcomes Syncfusion Open-source Contributions

Announcing the release of the Syncfusion Toolkit for .NET MAUI, a set of free, open-source controls for .NET MAUI! Syncfusion has made 14 impressive UI controls freely available for .NET MAUI developers.

Raymond Chen

Oct 22, 2024

The Old New Thing

Did Windows 95 shrink the default font size of windowed MS-DOS apps?

The effect was that it shrunk, but only sometimes.

Sinem Akinci

Oct 22, 2024

Visual Studio Blog

Debug CMake Scripts on Linux with Visual Studio

If you are working on a CMake project that targets Linux, you may have encountered some challenges when trying to debug your CMake scripts and CMakeLists.txt files. You may have wondered why your variables are not set correctly, or why your custom commands are not executed as expected. Or...

Derek Keeler

Oct 21, 2024

Microsoft for Java Developers

Java OpenJDK October 2024 Patch & Security Updates

Hello Java customers! We are happy to announce the latest October 2024 patch & security update release for the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK. Download and install the binaries today. OpenJDK 21.0.5 OpenJDK 17.0.13 OpenJDK 11.0.25 Check our release notes page for details...

Sophia Lagerkrans-Pandey

Oct 21, 2024

Semantic Kernel

Customer Case Study: How Microsoft streamlined regulatory compliance with GenAI

Windows MIDI Services Architecture Diagram

Pete Brown

Oct 21, 2024

Windows MIDI and Music dev

Windows MIDI Services October 2024 Update

It's been a little while since I last posted an update about Windows MIDI Services outside of our Discord Server, but we've been busy! With all the announcements today at Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit, I thought I'd dive in a bit on where we are with our new MIDI 1.0 and MIDI 2.0 stack on...