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Introducing the Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations repo

Today we're excited to announce the launch of the Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations repo! The Awesome Copilot repo is a community-driven resource with custom instructions, reusable prompts, and custom chat modes that helps you get consistent AI assistance. In other words,...
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Join us for MCP Dev Days - July 29-30

Get ready for two days of deep technical insight, community connection, and hands-on learning at MCP Dev Days, a virtual event dedicated to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — the emerging standard that bridges AI models and the tools they rely on. You can watch MCP Dev Days by...
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Jul 7, 2025
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Dubious security vulnerability: If I perform this complex series of manual steps, I can crash a program I am running

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Raymond Chen
What security boundary did you cross?
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Microsoft build of Go Telemetry - Helping Us Build Better Tools

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Starting with Go 1.25, we're enabling telemetry collection in the Microsoft build of Go to gather valuable usage data that helps us prioritize future roadmap items and improve the developer experience.
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Jul 4, 2025
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What’s New in vcpkg (June 2025)

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Augustin Popa
This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2025.06.13 registry release, 2025-04-16, 2025-05-19, and 2025-06-02 tool releases, as well as changes to vcpkg documentation throughout May and June. This release includes bug fixes, several documentation...
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Jul 4, 2025
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Why doesn't LVIF_INDENT work without an image list?

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Raymond Chen
Its original client had an image list.
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Jul 3, 2025
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Automating Secure and Scalable AI Deployments on Azure with HashiCorp

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While the promise of AI continues to generate momentum, many organizations face a familiar challenge: getting AI projects beyond the prototype phase. According to Gartner, only 30% of AI initiatives make it into production, and RAND reports that up to 80% fail to deliver expected...
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If the Format­Message function fails, and I requested that it allocate a buffer, do I have to free the buffer?

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There was no buffer returned, so there's nothing to free anyway.
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Jul 2, 2025
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Local AI + .NET = AltText Magic in One C# Script

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Bruno Capuano
Learn how to generate image AltText using .NET 10 and local AI models — all in a single C# file with dotnet run app.cs. A fun and accessible example of what AI can do beyond chat.
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Introducing the Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations repo

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Today we're excited to announce the launch of the Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations repo! The Awesome Copilot repo is a community-driven resource with custom instructions, reusable prompts, and custom chat modes that helps you get consistent AI assistance. In other words,...
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