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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 9, 2024

Azure Cosmos DB Blog

Introducing RBAC Authentication and more for the Azure Cosmos DB Integrated Cache

We’re excited to announce new features for the Azure Cosmos DB integrated cache! The integrated cache is built into the dedicated gateway, and now there’s new ways to authenticate your requests. Security is top of mind for many organizations, and you can now use Role-Based Access...

Oct 8, 2024

Azure Cosmos DB Blog

Announcing Private Preview: VS Code Extension of vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

Overview We're excited to introduce a new VS Code extension for vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB ! This tool allows users to connect, query, and manage vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB directly within VS Code, streamlining your workflow. Limited Private...

Oct 8, 2024

Semantic Kernel

Microsoft.Extensions.AI: Simplifying AI Integration for .NET Partners

We are thrilled to announce the launch of Microsoft.Extensions.AI for .NET! Our collaboration with the .NET team since the debut of Semantic Kernel has resulted in a powerful new feature that aligns with the best practices of both current and upcoming .NET releases. With the...

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 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...

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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Oscar

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.

Mryam Girmay

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...

Kunal Pathak

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.

Nick Zhu

Oct 10, 2024

Microsoft for Java Developers

Java on Visual Studio Code Update - September 2024

Hi everyone, welcome to the September update for Visual Studio Code for Java! In this blog, we will cover some important Spring feature updates and Gradle enhancements, let's get started! Spring Updates Explain SpEL expressions, query statements, and AOP pointcut expressions with GitHub...