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Agentic DevOps in action: Reimagining every phase of the developer lifecycle
What if your dev tools could take the first pass at a feature, file a bug report, propose a fix—and deploy it? With Agentic DevOps and GitHub Copilot, they can. Here's how agents will reshape every step of the software development lifecycle.
Read moreImprove the commands in your extensions
As Visual Studio extension authors, our goal is to create tools that empower developers across diverse environments. A key part of this mission involves ensuring that your extension commands remain accessible and consistent across all Visual Studio locales. In your VSSDK extensions, by...
Read moreAddress Sanitizer Updates for Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.14
Introduction
It has been an exciting few months for the Address Sanitizer (ASan) since our last update. In addition to our continuous focus on quality and correctness, our internal “dogfooding” (i.e. internal adoption) effort has reached several important milestones.
In this...
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Jun 3, 2025
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Enhancing Conversational Agents with Azure AI Language Conversational Language Understanding and Custom Question Answering
As we focus our work on empowering the agent design experience, a list of the new features in the we published earlier this week, including the intent triage agent and the exact question-answering agent, utilizing Conversational language understanding (CLU) and Custom question...
Azure AI Foundry Blog
Jun 3, 2025
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Using AI Foundry with .NET MAUI
Using AI Foundry with .NET MAUI brings the power of LLMs to mobile and desktop applications.
.NET Blog
Jun 3, 2025
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Azure SDK Release (May 2025)
Azure SDK releases every month. In this post, you'll find this month's highlights and release notes.
Azure SDK Blog
Jun 3, 2025
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Cloud Academy: Unlock Your Azure Skills and Accelerate Your Career
When we launched the Cloud Academy benefit for Visual Studio Professional and Enterprise subscribers back in March 2025, our goal was simple: give you the hands-on, practical learning experience you need to confidently master Azure and cloud technologies — without spending a dime beyond...
Visual Studio Blog
Jun 3, 2025
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The symbolism of the magnifying glass is not universal
Just making things bigger?
The Old New Thing
Jun 2, 2025
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A story of collaborating agents: chatting with your database the right way
Today, more and more customers are embracing AI with one clear goal in mind: they want to chat with their data. And by "data," they mean all of it: structured tables, unstructured documents, images, audio, and more.
This demand has given rise to hybrid approaches that blend semantic...
Azure SQL Devs’ Corner
Jun 2, 2025
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Extension Manager updates in Visual Studio
The latest updates in Visual Studio 2022 introduced features specifically designed to improve how you manage extensions. These updates offer tools that help you automate processes, provide detailed controls for configuration, and enhance the user interface to streamline your development...
Visual Studio Blog
Jun 2, 2025
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D3D12 Cooperative Vector
Amar,
Greg
Welcome to the preview release for Cooperative Vector support in D3D12. This exposes powerful new hardware acceleration for vector and matrix operations, enabling developers to efficiently drive neural rendering techniques directly from individual shader threads in real-time...
DirectX Developer Blog
Jun 2, 2025
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Stating the obvious about debugging an invalid parameter error when freeing memory
Writing it down for posterity.
The Old New Thing