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Planning with Semantic Kernel using Automatic Function Calling

July 23, 2024 Jul 23, 2024 07/23/24

Hello, everyone! AI planning is a powerful tool that allows to generate and execute complex workflows in applications based on specified goal. In Semantic Kernel, it's possible to implement planning logic using FunctionCallingStepwisePlanner class. Today we want to introduce a new way how to achieve the same results by using Automatic ...

Semantic Kernel

The future of Planners in Semantic Kernel

July 23, 2024 Jul 23, 2024 07/23/24

Matthew Bolanos

Since the very earlier days of Semantic Kernel, we have shipped experimental “planners” that use prompts to generate multi-step plans. This was extremely powerful because it allowed developers to use LLMs (which were created to merely generate text) to begin automating business processes. Since then, the Semantic Kernel team has evolved...

Semantic Kernel

What's new in .NET Aspire 8.1 for cloud native developers!

July 23, 2024 Jul 23, 2024 07/23/24

Mitch Denny

Let's take a look at what is new with .NET Aspire 8.1 for building cloud native applications!

.NET Blog

Genetec uses Visual Studio, CMake, vcpkg, and Docker for remote Linux C++ development

July 23, 2024 Jul 23, 2024 07/23/24

Sinem Akinci

Over the past couple of months, the Microsoft C++ team reached out to a series of customers voting on a suggestion ticket asking for Remote Linux Unit Testing support to understand their full set of interactions and needs with CMake and remote Linux scenarios in Visual Studio. After these discussions, we built out a backlog of work items to ...

C++ Team Blog

Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code update – July 2024

July 23, 2024 Jul 23, 2024 07/23/24

Junjie Li

Learn about the latest Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code updates including a faster and more reliable way to debug your Teams applications.

Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

Unquoted service paths: The new frontier in script kiddie security vulnerability reports

July 23, 2024 Jul 23, 2024 07/23/24

Raymond Chen

Usually not exploitable, but the script kiddies don't know that.

The Old New Thing

C# 13：探索最新的预览功能

July 23, 2024 Jul 23, 2024 07/23/24

Mia Wu

本篇翻译于Kathleen Dollard 的C# 13: Explore the latest preview features - .NET Blog (microsoft.com) C# 13 已初具雏形，其新特性侧重于灵活性、性能以及使您最喜欢的功能在日常中变得更容易使用。我们以公开的方式构建 C#，在今年的 Microsoft Build 大会上，我们会让您一睹 C# 13...

.NET中文官方博客

Announcing v7.0 Support on vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

July 22, 2024 Jul 22, 2024 07/22/24

Sudhanshu Vishodia

(image) We are thrilled to announce that vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB now officially supports version 7.0. This addition expands our range of supported versions to include 5.0, 6.0, and now 7.0, providing you with more options when setting up a new cluster. Simply select the version of your choice ...

Azure Cosmos DB Blog

Improving GitHub Copilot Completions in VS Code for C++ Developers

July 22, 2024 Jul 22, 2024 07/22/24

Erika Sweet

GitHub Copilot code completions are autocomplete-stye suggestions that appear inline as you code. Until today, they have used context from your active file and other tabs open in the editor to inform the suggestion that is returned. However, we know that more contextually relevant input leads to better suggestions. Our team has made changes to...

C++ Team Blog