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Microsoft Visual C++ at CppCon 2023 Trip Report

The Visual C++ team attended CppCon 2023, the largest in-person C++ conference, in Aurora, Colorado from October 2-6th. There were over 700 attendees from the C++ community, and we really enjoyed getting a chance to meet all of you and talk about your unique backgrounds and C++ experiences.(image) Some of our team member’s talks are now ...


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Copy-on-Write in Win32 API Early Access

(Updated Apr 4, 2024 with some release news.) On October 25, 2023, the Windows filesystem team released an early preview of copy-on-write (CoW) linking in the Windows 11 Insider Canary channel. This builds automatic CoW linking into the Win32 APIs when using Dev Drive or ReFS. If released next year, this will eliminate the need to update ...


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New features for Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB is a cloud-native hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP) capability that enables near real-time analytics over operational data in Azure Cosmos DB. Azure Synapse Link creates a tight seamless integration between Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Synapse Analytics. We are excited to announce the ...


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Python in Visual Studio Code - November 2023 Release

The November 2023 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available. This month's updates include improvements to Shift+Enter when sending code to the terminal, deprecation of linting and formatting features, improvements to Python linting extensions, reconfiguration of test output, and virtual environment deactivation help. Keep reading to learn more!


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Effective Kubernetes for JakartaEE and Microprofile Developers

In this post, David Minkovski explores some best practices to get your deployment up and running on Kubernetes and Azure. Motivation Kubernetes has become one of the most loved solutions for managing containers. But can you tell me why people love it? Because it runs magic containers (essentially what you want) where you want. Whether...


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Timing Capture Statistical Comparison Features

Starting with the 2310.30 version of PIX on Windows, the Timing Capture Metrics view can produce a statistical comparision of the average duration for the points that represent PIX event hierarchies in two selected ranges of time.  Statistical comparisions help determine which portions of the event hierarchies had statistically different ...