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Test the latest AI features in Kotlin

November 23, 2023 Nov 23, 2023 11/23/23

Craig Dunn

Hello prompt engineers, Last week we looked at one of the new OpenAI features – Assistants – in the web playground, but good news: the OpenAI Kotlin library is already being updated with the new APIs and you can start to try them out right now in your Android codebase with snapshot package builds. With a few minor configuration ...

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Surface Duo Blog

Community Feedback Building 17.8 & 17.9 Preview 1

November 23, 2023 Nov 23, 2023 11/23/23

Jason Chlus

The Visual Studio team depends on community feedback from all users to help create, design, and improve Visual Studio. We’re thrilled to announce that Visual Studio version 17.8 (available here today) utilized more than 360 feedback items from Developer Community. We are currently working hard to build the next version of Visual Studio and ...

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Visual Studio Blog

On the need to keep most event sources alive if you want them to raise events

November 23, 2023 Nov 23, 2023 11/23/23

Raymond Chen

You can't receive a notification from something that doesn't exist.

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The Old New Thing

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Patterns for optimizing data retrieval from Cosmos DB

November 23, 2023 Nov 23, 2023 11/23/23

Maggie Salak

In this blog post, we share how our team improved the performance of read operations on documents stored in Cosmos DB.

ISE Developer Blog

Visual Studio 2022 – 17.8 Performance Enhancements

November 22, 2023 Nov 22, 2023 11/22/23

Nayana Srikanth

Version 17.8 welcomes an array of exhilarating performance enhancements, including Improved Razor/Blazor Responsiveness, Enhanced F5 Speed, Optimized IntelliSense for C++ Unreal Engine and Build Acceleration for Non-SDK style .NET Projects. At the heart of these changes is our commitment to enhancing performance, providing an ideal...

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Visual Studio Blog

Microsoft Graph CLI v1.0.0 is now generally available

November 22, 2023 Nov 22, 2023 11/22/23

Carol Mbasinge Kigoonya

Microsoft Graph CLI, the command-line tool that provides convenient methods to access Microsoft Graph API capabilities on any operating system and any shell, is now available.

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Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

How can I convert a Windows Runtime `SoftwareBitmap` to a WIC bitmap?

November 22, 2023 Nov 22, 2023 11/22/23

Raymond Chen

The reverse of ISoftwareBitmapNativeFactory::CreateFromWICBitmap.

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The Old New Thing

Link unfurling and search based message extensions in Outlook generally available

November 21, 2023 Nov 21, 2023 11/21/23

Namrata Khubchandani

Extend your existing search based message extensions and link unfurling in Microsoft Teams to Outlook without any new technical investments.

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Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

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Decoding AI: Part 6, Creating boundary conditions in generative AI

November 21, 2023 Nov 21, 2023 11/21/23

Siddhartha Chaturvedi, Miri Rodriguez

Welcome to Part 6 of our Decoding AI: A government perspective learning series! In our previous blog, we discussed the importance of trust in AI, especially for large language models and generative AI. In this module, we dive deeper into how to create boundary conditions in generative AI, the topic on everybody’s mind, as we explore the ...

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Azure Government

New Boards Hub, Fall Update

November 21, 2023 Nov 21, 2023 11/21/23

Dan Hellem

If you have been following these posts, then you are more than familiar with our New Boards Hub initiative. We have been doing our best to keep our community informed of the new features and our rollout plans. Now is a good time to provide an update on where things are at with a couple of our new preview features, as well as our rollout plans...

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Azure DevOps Blog