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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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May 30, 2025
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Powering Real-Time Messaging at Scale with Azure Cosmos DB
Microsoft Teams, Copilot, Azure Communication Services and many other product offerings from Microsoft, rely on a unified messaging platform that powers real-time communication and collaboration at an unprecedented scale. This messaging platform has become critical for enabling...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
May 30, 2025
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D3D12 Opacity Micromaps
Amar,
Adam
DirectX Raytracing (DXR) now supports Opacity Micromaps (OMMs), enabling hardware to handle alpha tested geometry more efficiently than relying only on costly AnyHit shader invocations.
At GDC 2025 DXR 1.2 was announced including OMMs, and you can see it discussed in this: GDC...
DirectX Developer Blog
May 30, 2025
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D3D12 Shader Execution Reordering
Shader Execution Reordering (SER) is an addition to DirectX Raytracing that enables application shader code inform hardware how to find coherency across rays so they can be sorted to execute better in parallel.
At GDC 2025 DXR 1.2 was announced including SER, and you can see it...
DirectX Developer Blog
May 30, 2025
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PIX 2505.30 and 2505.30-preview: support for DXR 1.2, Cooperative Vectors and more
Today we released two new versions of PIX, which can be downloaded here. These complement the new D3D12 Agility SDKs released today.
The new versions of PIX are:
PIX 2505.30 – supports the new retail D3D12 features released today in Agility SDK 1.616, including:
Opacity...
PIX on Windows
May 30, 2025
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Agility SDK 1.717-preview and 1.616-retail
We are pleased to announce both a retail and preview Agility SDK release with several new features, available on Agility SDK Downloads today! As usual, the features in this release come with Day One PIX support. Please read the PIX blog post for more information.
Agility SDK...
DirectX Developer Blog
May 30, 2025
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Using an oracle to see where your code is producing the wrong output
If there is a reference implementation, then use it as a check.
The Old New Thing
May 30, 2025
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The Future of Semantic Kernel: A Commitment to Innovation and Collaboration
Evan,
Mark,
Nick
Semantic Kernel is Microsoft’s core framework for enterprise AI orchestration, remaining secure, stable, and rapidly evolving with unified multi-agent support and deep Azure integration, backed by ongoing investment and a clear long-term roadmap.
Azure AI Foundry Blog
May 30, 2025
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Efficient Ground Truth Generation for Search Evaluation
Geisa,
Phong
This article discusses the challenges and methodologies for creating a reliable groundtruth dataset for search evaluation. It highlights the use of TREC Pooling and GPT-4o assisted ranking to overcome the labor-intensive process of manual labeling, ensuring high-quality search evaluations even with limited data.
ISE Developer Blog
May 29, 2025
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Go from prompt to playback with Sora from Azure OpenAI in the video playground in Azure AI Foundry
The video playground in Azure AI Foundry is a high-fidelity testbed for prototyping with cutting-edge video generation models like Sora from Azure OpenAI. It offers a controlled environment for developers to experiment with prompt structures, evaluate model consistency, and optimize outputs for industry use cases.
Azure AI Foundry Blog