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Version 3.8 of the Toolbox App restores keyboard navigation in project and tool lists. On macOS, manual IDE updates stay available even when the system reports the installation directory as protected. IDE updates remain available on macOS macOS was sometimes incorrectly reporting an IDE installation directory as …
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Learn how Ninth Wave built Compass, a multi-agent AI onboarding assistant on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that validates bank APIs against Financial Data Exchange (FDX) standards, scores compliance, and compresses open finance onboarding from weeks to minutes while meeting SOC 2 and PCI DSS requirements. Link to article: …
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Pick the right generative AI customization approach on AWS with an 8-step decision framework, from prompt engineering and RAG to fine-tuning, continued pre-training, and Amazon Nova Forge. Start simple and escalate only when you must. Link to article: …
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Foundation models made catalog-wide demand forecasting easy; the hard part is now acting on the forecast. This post builds a closed detect-decide-act loop on Databricks and Amazon Quick that reconciles demand surges against live supplier availability and places replenishment orders unattended, escalating to a human …
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Brian Dellisanti asked why ReadDirectoryChangesW didn't provide a way to correlate the two sides of a rename operation. I wasn't there, but I can guess. My guess is that the implementation alwa Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260914-00/?p=112696
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Building cross-cloud solutions with best-of-breed cloud-native databases means learning multiple SDKs, translating queries, handling different errors, and testing across providers. The Multicloud DB SDK for Java lets you share that work across Link to article: …
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Dynamic filtering, sorting, and pagination stay safe with allowlisted EF Core specifications, unique ordering, bounded pages, and reliable relational tests. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/09/14/dynamic-filtering-sorting-and-pagination-with-specifications
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Fyxer uses OpenAI models, fine-tuning, memory, and real user feedback to organize inboxes and draft emails in each user’s voice. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/fyxer
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XPath is widely known as the query language for XML documents. Most .NET developers associate it with XPathNavigator, XmlDocument, or XDocument. But what most people don't realize is that XPath can work with custom types too. In this post, I'll show you how to implement XPath for your own types and how it can be useful …
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Introduction A: かしこまりました。ご注文番号をお教えいただければ、配送状況をお調べいたします。 B: ご不安ですよね。ご注文番号をお教えいただければ、すぐにお調べいたします。 Which sentence do you think is more appropriate as a response from call center AI? Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/ise/japanese-llm-evaluation-pipeline-hackathon
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Over the past few months, we have continued shipping monthly Visual Studio 2026 releases, delivering improvements across all stages of the development cycle. In this blog post, we'll recap everything that changed from version 18.7 through 18.10 (released this month) that is relevant for C++ developers. This includes …
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Microsoft will be at CppCon 2026 in Aurora, Colorado, which is taking place from September 14 through 18. Join us for talks from Microsoft speakers and colleagues across the C++ community and visit the Microsoft booth Monday through Thursday to meet the team and discuss the tools, technologies, and challe Link to …
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Perplexity uses Astra to write communications, change software, and monitor production systems, and checks in much less frequently than with earlier models. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/perplexity-improving-accuracy-with-astra
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Learn OpenTelemetry RAG .NET tracing to connect retrieval, generation, latency, and cost boundaries with privacy-minimizing telemetry and evaluation signals. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/09/13/observing-net-rag-systems-opentelemetry-latency-and-cost
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When writing asynchronous methods, consider returning ValueTask instead of Task for performance-sensitive scenarios, especially when methods frequently complete synchronously. ValueTask can improve speed and reduce memory allocation, but it comes with usage restrictions. Use Task as a default while applying ValueTask …
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EF Core query filters can be bypassed. PostgreSQL row-level security enforces tenant isolation on reads and writes, if you connect with the right database role… Link to article: https://milanjovanovic.tech/blog/postgres-row-level-security-with-ef-core
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Multi-agent systems fail in ways traditional monitoring misses. This post presents a dual-layer approach to monitoring production agents: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations for continuous quality scoring and AWS DevOps Agent for autonomous infrastructure investigation, shown on a four-agent airline reservation …
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Comparing models on dollars per million tokens misses what production workloads actually pay for: outcomes. This post shares an open-source benchmarking harness that measures cost per correct answer, agent trajectory cost, and rubric-graded deliverable quality across OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock. Link to article: …
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Learn how to build and deploy an MCP App with interactive HTML widgets on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Because MCP Apps is a host-agnostic standard, the same server delivers the same rich experience across AI hosts like ChatGPT and Claude that support the extension. Link to article: …
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Compare the Pipeline Pattern vs System.IO.Pipelines in .NET, including PipeReader, PipeWriter, byte-buffer ownership, flow control, parsing, and completion. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/09/11/pipeline-pattern-vs-systemiopipelines-in-net
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