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The Azure Cosmos DB Agent Kit is an open-source collection of skills that teaches your AI coding assistant (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Gemini CLI) expert-level Azure Cosmos DB best practices. Install with one command, get production-ready g Link to article: …
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The Windows Runtime has interfaces IAsyncAction and IAsyncOperation which represent asynchronous activity: The function starts the work and returns immediately, and then it calls you back when the work completes. Most language projections allow you to treat these as coroutines, so you can await Link to article: …
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Last year, we launched our new GitHub Copilot build performance capabilities in Private Preview. With help from our fantastic C++ community, we gathered insights and addressed key feedback. We’re happy to share that GitHub Copilot build performance for Windows is now in Public Preview. Today, all C++ developers can try …
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Some time ago, I discussed custom dialog classes. You can specify that a dialog template use your custom dialog class by putting the custom class's name in the CLASS statement of the dialog template. A c Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260121-00/?p=112002
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Code will be generated, not written. Working with 100+ companies, I have seen this firsthand: most enterprise workloads taking dependencies on AI SDKs are usually net-new microservices. Hardly anyone has Windows-scale codebases for their new AI features. This is modular, greenfield work. Perfect for coding agents. The …
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We're excited to announce that the Azure Performance Diagnostics Tool for Java is now available for preview as part of the Azure SRE Agent platform, bringing intelligent, automated Java performance diagnoses. Currently supporting Java workloads deployed to Azure Kubernetes S Link to article: …
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Today we released PIX version 2601.15, which can be downloaded here. This release includes everything in the previous 2509.25 release, plus: A new Intel plugin with many new featu Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/pix/pix-2601-15
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A new release of the Microsoft build of Go including security fixes is now available for download. For more information about this release and the changes included, see the table below: Microsoft Release Upstream Tag Link to article: …
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Remember, Microspeak is not necessarily jargon exclusive to Microsoft, but it's jargon that you need to know if you work at Microsoft. When something has gone horribly wrong and requires immediate attention, one way to describe it is to say that it is on fire. The obvious metaphor here is that the situation is so …
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We’re excited to announce a limited private preview that introduces the ability to add additional fields as filters on both the backlog and Kanban boards. This feature has been a long-standing request from the developer com Link to article: …
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Commenter Otul Osan wondered what was happening when the user held the Shift key when restarting Windows. Windows displays the message "Windows is restarting" rather than doing a full cold restart of the system. Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260119-06/?p=111995
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App developers require performance, stability, and cross-platform consistency such as fast startups, smooth UI, and seamless code sharing across Windows, Android, and iOS as these factors directly impact user experience, development efficiency, and business outcomes. High performance and stability ensure apps run …
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We thought it was a good time to check in and highlight some of the work happening in Azure Repos. In this post, we’ve covered several recent improvements, along with a preview of features that are coming soon. To stay up to date, be sure to visit the Link to article: …
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A customer wanted to retrieve the TabIndex of a dialog box control. They were able to get its class name and Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260116-00/?p=111991
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Introduction This post is Part 1 of the series Serverless Application Development with Azure Functions and Az Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/building-your-first-serverless-http-api-on-azure-with-azure-functions-fastapi
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Introduction In recent years, Small Language Models (SLMs) have become increasingly important. SLMs are language models with far fewer parameters and use significantly fewer resources than their Large Language Model (LLM) counterparts, while still achieving comparable performance in specific tasks. SLMs are ideal for …
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