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Oct 1, 2024
OpenAPI at Microsoft

Welcome to the OpenAPI Blog

An introduction to the OpenAPI blog, what it is, and what you can expect to find here.
Oct 8, 2024
.NET Blog

.NET 9 Release Candidate 2 is now available!

Try out the latest features in .NET 9 Release Candidate 2 across the .NET SDK, libraries, runtime, ASP.NET Core, SignalR, .NET MAUI, and more!
Oct 10, 2024
C++ Team Blog

New Contextual Tools for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio

Visual Studio 2022 17.11 now allows you to pass your entire workspace or specific classes and functions as context for GitHub Copilot Chat. By referencing your entire codebase, down to specific classes and functions, Copilot Chat can deliver refined and accurate results tailored to your...
Oct 10, 2024
.NET Blog

Engineering the Scalable Vector Extension in .NET

Let's take an in-depth look at how the team implemented the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) for .NET.
Oct 11, 2024
Semantic Kernel

Announcement: Agent Framework Documentation Updates

The Semantic Kernel Agent Framework revolutionizes how developers can interact with Large Language Models (LLMs) by embedding dynamic, multi-step agents into their applications. By combining the power of LLMs with structured programming, the framework allows developers to build...

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Eirik Tsarpalis
Oct 15, 2024
.NET Blog

What's new in System.Text.Json in .NET 9

An overview of all new .NET 9 features in System.Text.Json for developers.
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Raymond Chen
Oct 15, 2024
The Old New Thing

A quick introduction to return address protection technologies

Detecting attempts to manipulate the return address.
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Grace Kulin
Oct 14, 2024
Azure SDK Blog

Azure Developer CLI (azd) - October 2024

This post announces the October release of the Azure Developer CLI (`azd`), including configurable api-version for ACA.
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Mehul Harry
Oct 14, 2024
.NET Blog

Catch the highlights from Azure Developers - .NET Aspire Day 2024!

Watch the top sessions on demand for insights and practical guidance on building distributed applications with .NET Aspire!
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Davide Mauri
Oct 14, 2024
Azure SQL Devs’ Corner

The ultimate chatbot?

RAG - Retrieval Augmented Generation - is by far one of the most common patterns today as it enables the creation of chatbots that can chat on your own data, as I described in my previous "Retrieval Augmented Generation with Azure SQL" blog post. As soon as you start to use it excitement...
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Raymond Chen
Oct 14, 2024
The Old New Thing

On naming things: The tension between naming something for what it is, what it does, or how it is used

You are guaranteed to make someone upset.
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Sophia
Oct 11, 2024
Semantic Kernel

Announcement: Agent Framework Documentation Updates

The Semantic Kernel Agent Framework revolutionizes how developers can interact with Large Language Models (LLMs) by embedding dynamic, multi-step agents into their applications. By combining the power of LLMs with structured programming, the framework allows developers to build...
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Raymond Chen
Oct 11, 2024
The Old New Thing

How can I explicitly specialize a templated C++ constructor?

Looking for a C++ tag type for representing another type.
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Oct 11, 2024
ISE Developer Blog

Multimodal RAG with Vision: From Experimentation to Implementation

This blog post delves into the experimentation journey of fine-tuning a multimodal RAG pipeline to best answer user queries that require both textual and image context. We ran our experiments by systematically testing various approaches, adjusting one configuration setting at a time and using clearly defined evaluation metrics to validate the performance of each component of the RAG pipeline in isolation, as well as the end-to-end inference flow.
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