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Jan 30, 2025

Document build instructions and more with enhanced C++ awareness from Copilot Chat in Visual Studio

C++ development often involves nuances beyond the file you’re developing in. This can leave developers with many mental tabs open, balancing all the relevant context for their project to develop their C++ code properly. Copilot Chat in Visual Studio can already utilize context...
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Jan 30, 2025

Introducing the Microsoft Graph Export-Import APIs for Exchange in public preview

We are happy to announce the launch of Export-Import APIs in limited Public Preview (Beta), a set of Microsoft Graph APIs that empower applications to discover, export and import contents from Exchange Online mailboxes in full fidelity.
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Feb 5, 2025
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Turning AI Prompts into Playing Cards: A Platform Engineering Experiment

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Taylor Cowan
The inspiration for this project came from my desire to leverage AI to create a tangible product that you can hold, touch, and share.  Cardmaker showcases the capabilities of modern AI as a tool to help its user craft a custom card deck.  But that's not all.  It also provides a unique...
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Feb 4, 2025
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Introducing Azure OpenAI Realtime API Support in JavaScript

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Deyaaeldeen Almahallawi
Introducing the new Realtime API support in the OpenAI JavaScript library, enabling developers to create highly interactive and responsive applications by instantly sending and receiving messages from Azure OpenAI models.
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Feb 4, 2025
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Using Azure OpenAI Chat Completion with data source and Function Calling

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Dmytro Struk
Azure OpenAI Chat Completion with data source provides powerful capabilities for integrating conversational AI into applications. However, using a data source and function calling in a single request is not supported yet. When both features are enabled, function calling is ignored, and...
Semantic Kernel
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Feb 4, 2025
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ASP.NET Core on .NET Framework servicing release advisory: ASP.NET Core 2.3

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Daniel Roth
ASP.NET Core 2.1 has been reshipped as ASP.NET Core 2.3 to help users on the unsupported ASP.NET Core 2.2 move to a supported version.
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Feb 4, 2025
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Full web support for conditional access policies across Azure DevOps and partner web properties

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Angel Wong
We’re happy to announce that we’ve made significant progress in updating our web authentication stack on Azure DevOps services and partner web properties to utilize Microsoft Entra tokens to handle web sessions. By replacing our previous cookies with Entra tokens, we’ve deepened...
Azure DevOps Blog
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Feb 4, 2025
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Announcing the Kiota support for Dart, now in public preview

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Maisa Rissi
What is Kiota, why and how to use it to create API clients for any OpenAPI described APIs and the new language support, Dart.
OpenAPI at Microsoft
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Feb 4, 2025
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Storing, querying and keeping embeddings updated: options and best practices

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Davide Mauri
Embeddings and vectors are becoming common terms not only for engineers involved in AI-related activities but also for those using databases. Some common points of discussion that frequently arise among users familiar with vectors and embeddings include: How can I quickly "vectorize"...
Azure SQL Devs’ Corner
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Feb 4, 2025
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The original name for Flexible Single Master Operations in Active Directory

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Raymond Chen
Not that kind of F-word.
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Feb 4, 2025
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Your fonts are now preserved when changing theme

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Mark Downie
Do you find yourself adjusting your font settings every time you change themes in Visual Studio, We've made some changes that we think will help. The latest update in Visual Studio 2022 allows theme switching without affecting font settings. This feature maintains the selected font...
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