Update to Direct Lake documentation

We recently made a significant update to the Direct Lake documentation. Direct Lake accelerates time to data-driven decisions by unlocking incredible performance directly against OneLake, without the need to manage costly, time-consuming data refreshes...
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Microsoft
2 Oct 2024

Discover Hidden Insights with Profiler’s External Code Decompilation

Have you ever wondered what’s happening under the hood of your .NET application? Do you want to quickly and easily identify and fix performance bottlenecks? If so, Visual Studio has the perfect tool for you: the profiler. The profiler allows you to analyze your code’s performance, pinpoint hot paths, detect memory leaks, address thread contention, […]
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Microsoft
2 Oct 2024

Announcing new products and features for Azure OpenAI Service including GPT-4o-Realtime-Preview with audio and speech capabilities

We are thrilled to announce the public preview of GPT-4o-Realtime-Preview for audio and speech, a major enhancement to Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service that adds advanced voice capabilities and expands GPT-4o's multimodal offerings.
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Azure
1 Oct 2024

Visual Studio 2022 – Recent performance enhancements 

Visual Studio 2022 continues to be faster with each version. In this blog post we will highlight a couple of the more significant enhancements you’ll experience in 17.11, such as a more efficient C# language service, faster conditional breakpoints and symbol searches in C++. Reduced CPU usage by C# language service Code Indexing In 17.10 […]
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Microsoft
1 Oct 2024

WordPress 6.7 Beta 1

WordPress 6.7 Beta 1 is now ready for download and testing!

This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it is recommended you evaluate Beta 1 on a test server and site.
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Wordpress
1 Oct 2024

Effortless Instrumentation profiling with Persistent Target Selection

Ever wished to assess your code’s performance without repeatedly choosing the target process or executable for each instrumentation profiling session? If so, you’re among many developers who find this task cumbersome and prone to errors, especially when profiling the same target repeatedly. We understand your frustration and have a solution: Visual Studio 2022 introduces a […]
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Microsoft
30 Sep 2024

How to add a WooCommerce add-to-cart button

The add-to-cart button is a key element for any online store, including those built on WooCommerce. Without the add-to-cart button, customers won’t be able to check out any items. It’s also important to place it strategically to ease the customers’ buy...
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Wordpress
29 Sep 2024

Developer insights: Building resilient end-to-end security

Explore how Microsoft's platform-centric approach builds resilient digital ecosystems. This first post in our end-to-end security series covers its definition and benefits in cybersecurity.
The post Developer insights: Building resilient end-to-end security appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
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Azure
26 Sep 2024

Creating a React TODO app in Visual Studio 2022

In this tutorial we will create a React front-end, with JavaScript, of a TODO web app using a Visual Studio 2022. To get started install Visual Studio with the Node.js development workload. This will include the JavaScript/TypeScript (JSTS) projects and the associated support. The code for this app can be found at sayedihashimi/todojswebapp (github.com). Create […]
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Microsoft
26 Sep 2024

How to migrate from WPEngine to Hostinger

Any website owner might need to migrate to a different hosting provider at some point. If that’s you, why not migrate to Hostinger?  As a hosting provider recommended by WordPress.org, we curate our hosting solutions to meet all needs, budgets, an...
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Wordpress
26 Sep 2024

Organize Your Breakpoints like a pro

Do you feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of breakpoints in your Visual Studio project? Wish you could categorize and toggle them on and off with ease? The new breakpoint group feature in Visual Studio 2022 is here to transform your debugging experience. Breakpoint groups allow you to create custom collections of breakpoints and apply […]
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Microsoft
25 Sep 2024

Google & Arm – Raising The Bar on GPU Security

Posted by Xuan Xing, Eugene Rodionov, Jon Bottarini, Adam Bacchus - Android Red Team;
Amit Chaudhary, Lyndon Fawcett, Joseph Artgole - Arm Product Security Team


Who cares about GPUs?



You, me, and the entire ecosystem! GPUs (graphics processin...
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Google
24 Sep 2024

Microsoft Trustworthy AI: Unlocking human potential starts with trust   

At Microsoft, we have commitments to ensuring Trustworthy AI and are building industry-leading supporting technology. Our commitments and capabilities go hand in hand to make sure our customers and developers are protected at every layer. Building on our commitments, today we are announcing new product capabilities to strengthen the security, safety and privacy of AI systems.
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Azure
24 Sep 2024

Next-Gen Code Coverage in Visual Studio: Enhanced C++ Support and Security

We’re excited to share the latest changes in Visual Studio’s code coverage components. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out our previous blog posts: What’s New in Our Code Coverage Tooling? and Code coverage features in Visual Studio Enterprise. C++ Code Coverage Tired of instable native code coverage that doesn’t support ARM64? Now, […]
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Microsoft
24 Sep 2024

Level up your collaborations with the pull request experience in Visual Studio

One of our main goals is to help you and your team collaborate more effectively and efficiently on your software projects. That’s why we are constantly improving our Version Control features, especially the ones related to the pull request workflow. Starting in Visual Studio version 17.11, you can enjoy a smoother and smarter pull request […]
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Microsoft
23 Sep 2024

Create birthdays in Google Calendar

What’s changing Currently, Google Calendar automatically pulls in birthday information from Google Contacts. However, it is not currently possible to create birthday events directly in Calendar. To ensure a birthday is never missed, we’re int...
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Google
19 Sep 2024

Achieve agility and scale in a dynamic cloud world

At Microsoft, we want to give you more choice, flexibility, and resiliency for your cloud solutions, and we encourage you to take advantage of these benefits by adopting a multi-region growth strategy.
The post Achieve agility and scale in a dynamic cloud world appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
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Azure
19 Sep 2024

Multi-Project Launch Configuration

Are you tired of the hassle of manually configuring your development environment every time you want to launch multiple projects? We’ve heard your feedback and are thrilled to announce a feature in Visual Studio that simplifies your workflow. The Multi-Project Launch Configuration feature in Visual Studio allows developers to set up and save profiles for […]
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Microsoft
18 Sep 2024