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Our Favorite NEW Visual Studio Features of 2024

Last year, the Visual Studio team delivered many new developer-focused improvements and AI integrations, many of which came directly from your feedback on Developer Community. In this post, we highlight the team’s favorite features from 2024 that boost productivity, streamline workflows, and enhance your coding experience. Let’s dive in! Image Hover Preview: See your images […]
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16 Jan 2025

Deep dive into TMDL view for Power BI Desktop (Preview)

We’re excited to introduce TMDL view for Power BI Desktop. This new feature lets you script, modify, and apply changes using Tabular Model Definition Language (TMDL), providing an alternative experience to semantic modeling using code, instead of a gra...

16 Jan 2025

Google AI Developers Community Spotlight Contest

The Google AI Developers Community Spotlight Contest is seeking innovative, diverse projects using Google's AI tools like Gemini and Gemma to create code repositories, videos, documentation, and more.

Google

14 Jan 2025

Building a better smart home

The public beta launch of Home APIs for Android allows developers to create better smart home experiences. This launch emphasizes investments in Matter to improve device connectivity and interoperability, and increase smart home accessibility.

Google

14 Jan 2025

Build the future of home with Google Home APIs

The Google Home APIs are now in public developer beta for Android, allowing developers to build innovative smart home experiences for over 600M devices using Google's hubs, Matter infrastructure, and automation engine.

Google

14 Jan 2025

Join us at VS Live! 2025 Las Vegas

Join Your Favorite Speakers at VS Live! Las Vegas With the new year here, many developers are looking for the best ways to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving tech landscape. That’s why Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas, March 10-14, 2025, is a must-attend event! Stay ahead of the curve with the latest enhancements in […]
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14 Jan 2025

Save to OneDrive and SharePoint: Updated File Picker (Preview)

We are thrilled to announce that we have made updates to the Power BI file picker to create an easier and more intuitive time navigating through existing files and saving new files.

14 Jan 2025

Power BI January 2025 Feature Summary

Welcome to the January 2025 update!

Get ready to elevate your data analysis experience! We’re thrilled to announce a series of powerful new features designed to make exploring your data easier and more intuitive than ever. With the addition of the &...

14 Jan 2025

Enhanced Change Signature in C++

Change Signature allows you to modify a function’s parameters, including reordering, adding, removing, or altering them across various locations. Previously, the Change Signature feature in Visual Studio involved multiple clicks and nested pop-up windows. In Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12, we’ve reduced the number of clicks and eliminated these nested steps to streamline the process. […]
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13 Jan 2025

Benchmarking with Visual Studio Profiler

In Visual Studio 17.13 Preview we have released our updated BenchmarkDotNet diagnosers, allowing you to use more of the tools in the performance profiler to analyze benchmarks. With this change it is super quick to dig into CPU usage and allocations of benchmarks making the measure, change, measure cycle quick and efficient. Benchmarking a real […]
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7 Jan 2025

Unlocking insights with Meter Histogram in the profiler

Are you struggling with performance bottlenecks in your applications? Look no further! Visual Studio 2022 introduces the Meter Histogram feature in its performance profiling suite, providing you with the tools to analyze and visualize histogram data like never before. The Meter Histogram is a key enhancement to Visual Studio’s performance profiling suite. This feature enables […]
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6 Jan 2025

Looking back at the first year of the Gemini era

The range of family of Gemini models has expanded in the past year in response to developer needs, introducing faster and more cost-effective models, and enhancing tools in Google AI Studio.

Google

4 Jan 2025

The next chapter of the Gemini era for developers

Gemini 2.0 Flash has enhanced capabilities like multimodal outputs and native tool use, and introduces new coding agents to improve developer productivity, now available for testing in Google AI Studio.

Google

4 Jan 2025

Gemini 2.0: Level Up Your Apps with Real-Time Multimodal Interactions

The Multimodal Live API for Gemini 2.0 enables real-time multimodal interactions between humans and computers, and can be used to build real-time virtual assistants and adaptive educational tools.

Google

4 Jan 2025

Introducing the Android XR SDK Developer Preview

The Android XR SDK, a new platform for building extended reality (XR) experiences on Android, is now available for devs to try, and to give feedback.

Google

4 Jan 2025

Registration is Open for Google Cloud Next 2025

Google Cloud Next 2025, happening April 9-11 in Las Vegas, will feature expanded developer content, interactive experiences, and opportunities to connect with peers and Google experts.

Google

4 Jan 2025

Apigee API hub is now generally available

Apigee API hub is a centralized repository for your entire API ecosystem, providing a single source of truth.

Google

4 Jan 2025

Celebrating Flutter’s “Production Era”

Flutter is transitioning into its “production era,” marked by widespread developer adoption and success stories, including deeper iOS fidelity, seamless platform integration, and enhanced developer tools, making it a top choice for building apps at sca...

Google

4 Jan 2025

Dive Deep into Gemini: Explore Starter Apps in AI Studio

Explore three Gemini starter apps that provide developers with production ready tools to build AI-powered projects with open source functionalities like spatial analysis, and video interactions.

Google

4 Jan 2025

Build Go applications using Project IDX and the Gemini API

Learn how to build Go applications using Project IDX, an AI-assisted workspace for full-stack app development.

Google

4 Jan 2025

Celebrating innovation: Gemini API Developer Competition

Explore innovative projects from the Gemini API Competition, like Omni, EcoTrack, ITMZ, Jana AI, Eagle AI, and AlphaFit, demonstrating the potential of the Gemini API to enhance productivity, promote sustainability, and improve well-being.

Google

4 Jan 2025

Beyond English: How Gemma open models are bridging the language gap

AI Singapore and INSAIT teams have leveraged Gemma, a family of open-source language models, to create LLMs tailored to the unique needs of their communities, in a show of innovation and inclusivity in AI.

Google

4 Jan 2025

Learn to build and run AI powered apps at Firebase Demo Day ‘24

Explore Firebase's new AI-powered app development tools and resources, including demos, documentation, and best practices at Firebase Demo Day 2024.

Google

4 Jan 2025

Introducing Google Developer Program premium membership

The Google Developer Program premium membership offers benefits such as Google Cloud credits, certification vouchers, and access to Cloud Skills Boost.

Google

4 Jan 2025

Introducing PaliGemma 2: Powerful Vision-Language Models, Simple Fine-Tuning

PaliGemma 2, the next evolution in tunable vision-language models, comes with new features such as scalable performance, long captioning, and expanded capabilities. Get started with pre-trained models, documentation, and tutorials.

Google

4 Jan 2025

See the Similarity: Personalizing Visual Search with Multimodal Embeddings

Learn how to build a visual search tool using Google's Multimodal Embeddings API and explore how to apply this technology for searching images, slides, and more.

Google

4 Jan 2025

Unlocking the Potential of Quantum Computing: A Developer’s Guide to Error Correction

A free Coursera course on quantum error correction, developed by Google Quantum AI, explains the importance of error correction in quantum computing and provides an overview of quantum errors.

Google

4 Jan 2025

OpusClip achieves 30% cost savings in visual description processing with Gemini Flash

OpusClip utilizes Gemini 1.5 Flash's multimodal capabilities to enhance video understanding and streamline content creation, leading to cost savings and increased engagement.

Google

4 Jan 2025

Announcing the Winners of the Gemini API Developer Competition!

The winners of the Gemini API Developer Competition showcased the potential of the Gemini API in creating impactful solutions, from AI-powered personal assistants to tools for accessibility and creativity.

Google

4 Jan 2025

Join us at the Women in AI Summit 2024!

All are invited to Women in AI Summit 2024 to explore the latest in generative AI with sessions for all expertise levels, focusing on Google AI tools, models, solutions, and insight from women leaders in the AI field.

Google

4 Jan 2025

7 examples of Gemini’s multimodal capabilities in action

Explore real-world applications of Gemini's multimodal AI capabilities, from detailed image descriptions, information extraction, object detection, video summarization, and more.

Google

4 Jan 2025

Dock the Code Search window in Visual Studio 2022

Ever felt frustrated with the search window cluttering your workspace? The latest feature in Visual Studio 2022 gives you more control over the behavior of the Code and Feature Search window, making your search experience smoother and more efficient. Some users have shared that the search window feels intrusive, interrupting your work by appearing mid-screen […]
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31 Dec 2024

Go to line anywhere with Code Search for Visual Studio 2022

Finding the exact line of code where an issue is occurring can be like searching for a needle in a haystack. Whether you are debugging an error on line 43 of a file or diving into a specific section of code, you can efficiently jump to the right places with this newest addition to Code […]
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30 Dec 2024

Connect securely to your Azure resources

Visual Studio 2022’s Connected Services features are being updated to help you start secure. In the past, for example with Azure Storage, we’d inject the entire connection string into your configuration. With this update, we’ve removed the secrets from the UX – and from what we save to configuration – altogether. This means your code […]
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24 Dec 2024

Security updates to Azure publishing from Visual Studio

Visual Studio 2022 introduces a new feature to improve the security of publishing applications to Azure App Service. This feature is designed to disable Basic Authentication and enable integrated security for a more secure publishing process. Basic Authentication has been identified as a less secure method for managing app deployments. Visual Studio 2022 addresses this […]
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23 Dec 2024

Achieving AI-powered success: Learnings from Cloud Cultures Season 3

In the Cloud Cultures series, leaders from 12 different countries share how they’re tackling some of the world’s most complex challenges.
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Azure

19 Dec 2024

Important Update coming to R and Python visuals in Power BI

Update for R/Py visuals in PBI

19 Dec 2024

GitHub Copilot Free is here in Visual Studio

If you haven’t already heard, GitHub just announced Copilot Free! And great news: you can already start using Copilot Free right now in Visual Studio. It’s available now, and we’re putting the finishing touches on a more streamlined experience in January. We’re excited to bring these benefits to the entire Visual Studio family. With Copilot […]
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18 Dec 2024

Microsoft Cost Management—2024 year in review

Introduction The year 2024 was all about accelerating advancements in AI technologies with improved and much more powerful language models, agent eco-systems and accompanying tools to build them, and of course advancements in the silicon layer. As companies adopt these new technologies, they are also focused on the ROI (Return on investment) and you as
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Azure

18 Dec 2024

Announcing the o1 model in Azure OpenAI Service: Multimodal reasoning with “astounding” analysis

We are pleased to announce that the o1 model is coming soon to Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service. This multimodal model brings advanced reasoning capabilities and improvements that will significantly enhance your AI applications and solutions. The o1 model supports both text and vision inputs, making it ideal for a wide range of applications from complex problem-solving to contextual AI experiences.
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Azure

17 Dec 2024

Refresh your Find results

Are you tired of having to repeatedly launch the Find window in Visual Studio to update your search results? Whether you’ve just refactored some code or pulled recent changes, having to redo a search to get updated results is no longer necessary. With the new refresh option, you can now update your Find results without […]
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17 Dec 2024

Paginated reports supports Power BI language in the Power BI service

Paginated reports supports Power BI language in the Power BI service

17 Dec 2024

Real-world success with continuous modernization

Take a look at three companies who invested in continuous, holistic modernization with remarkable success.
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Azure

11 Dec 2024

Power BI 2024 Holiday recap

Season’s greetings, Power BI Community! As we wrap up an incredible year, the Microsoft Power BI team is taking a break for December. All planned updates will roll out in January including the next Power BI Desktop release. As we approach another...

10 Dec 2024

Geocoding: The first step towards unlocking location intelligence

Microsoft Azure Maps is a collection of mapping and location APIs that enable enterprises to add location intelligence into their solutions.
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Azure

9 Dec 2024

Power BI in Teams – ‘Teams activity analytics’ report deprecation

Teams activity analytics; Teams Analytics Connector

9 Dec 2024

Unveiling the future of AI innovation for ISVs

At Microsoft Ignite in November 2024, we announced offerings and resources to empower software companies in the landscape of AI-powered experiences.
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Azure

5 Dec 2024

Drive efficient software development and boost DevEx with GitHub Copilot

In this blog, we’ll explore how the unique features of Copilot enhance each element of DevEx across the SPACE framework.
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Azure

4 Dec 2024

Laying a secure cloud foundation for AI-powered enterprises

Azure is designed to unify operations, streamline application development, and consolidate data management across distributed infrastructures.
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Azure

3 Dec 2024

On-premises data gateway November 2024 release

This is the November 2024 release of the on-premises data gateway.

2 Dec 2024

Microsoft Cost Management updates—November 2024

At Microsoft Ignite, we announced key product updates to enable your FinOps journey.
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Azure

27 Nov 2024

Introducing the Core Visuals Vision Board

The Core Visuals Vision Board is the newest resource from the Core Visuals Team for the Power BI community.

26 Nov 2024

Introducing org apps, now in preview – multiple apps per workspace, custom colors, and more!

We’re excited to tell you more about org apps, now in public preview. Fabric org apps are Power BI workspace apps rebuilt for Fabric as a new item type. With org apps as items, you can create multiple org apps per workspace. And you work with org...

25 Nov 2024

The next wave of Azure innovation: Azure AI Foundry, intelligent data, and more

News and advancements from Microsoft Ignite to showcase our commitment to your success in this dynamic era. Let’s get started.
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Azure

19 Nov 2024

Scale your AI transformation with a powerful, secure, and adaptive cloud infrastructure

At Microsoft Ignite, we’re introducing significant updates across our entire cloud and AI infrastructure.
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Azure

19 Nov 2024

Announcing Metrics Sets are widely available in Preview

The blog post introduces the Metric Sets Public Preview, a feature designed to enhance metric management across organizations by providing a centralized, consistent, and trusted metric system. Key benefits include centralized metric management, enablin...

18 Nov 2024

Microsoft is a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Application Platform

We are excited to share that Microsoft has been recognized as a Leader in the inaugural Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platform. In this report, Gartner placed Microsoft furthest in Completeness of Vision.
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Azure

12 Nov 2024

Gemini API and Google AI Studio now offer Grounding with Google Search

Grounding with Google Search for the Gemini API and Google AI Studio enhances the accuracy and freshness of Gemini's responses by leveraging Google Search data.

Google

12 Nov 2024

Supercharging AI Coding Assistants with Gemini Models’ Long Context

Sourcegraph's Cody AI assistant, integrated with Google's Gemini 1.5 Flash, can evaluate the advantages of using long-context windows in AI models for code generation and understanding.

Google

12 Nov 2024

Updates to the Google Photos APIs: Picker API launch and Library API changes

The new Picker API enables secure photo selection, while the Library API will focus on managing photos and videos uploaded by your application.

Google

12 Nov 2024