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Semantic Kernel: Orchestrating AI Agents with Plugins and Planners
Semantic Kernel abstracts the complexity of working with multiple AI services while providing extensibility through plugins. This allows developers to…
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Semantic Kernel: Building AI Orchestration with .NET
Semantic Kernel provides a clean abstraction for building AI-powered features while maintaining flexibility to switch between different LLM providers.
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Building Conversational AI with Azure Bot Service and GPT-4o
Leverage Teams-specific capabilities like adaptive cards, task modules, and message extensions to create rich interactive experiences.
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Semantic Kernel v2: Building Composable AI Applications in C#
Semantic Kernel v2 brings enterprise-grade patterns to AI development, making it easier to build maintainable, testable AI applications.
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Calling Azure OpenAI from C# Before There's an Official .NET SDK
Azure OpenAI is GA but has no official .NET SDK yet. How I'd build a thin, typed C# client over the 2022-12-01 REST API that is easy to delete later.
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Tuples in C#, TypeScript and Rust: Same Syntax, Different Rules
How C# 11, TypeScript 4.9 and Rust 1.66 treat tuples: naming, mutability, equality and pattern matching, and when a named type is the better choice.
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C# 11 Features: Raw String Literals, Required Members, and More
No more escaping nightmares. Raw string literals start and end with at least three quotes: They work with interpolation too just add more dollar signs: This…
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.NET 7 Release Candidate: Final Preview Before GA
.NET 7 continues the tradition of making .NET faster and more cloud-native with each release. Here's a preview of the key improvements we'll see at GA.
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Power BI .NET SDK: Building C# Applications with Power BI
The Power BI .NET SDK provides: Strongly typed API access Simplified authentication Full Power BI API coverage Easy integration with .NET applications SDK…
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C# 10 Features: Writing Cleaner, More Expressive Code
C# 10 continues the trend of making the language more expressive while reducing boilerplate. Combined with .NET 6's performance improvements, it's a great…
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.NET 6 GA: The Long-Term Support Release That Changes Everything
No Startup.cs, no Main method, no namespace declarations. This is possible thanks to C# 10's global usings and file-scoped namespaces.
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Pulumi for Azure Infrastructure as Code
Pulumi is the infrastructure-as-code choice for teams where "I don't want to learn another DSL" is a genuine constraint. You write infrastructure in C#…
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C# 10 Preview Features for Modern Development
C# 10 is the language release I've been most anticipating in a long time. Record structs, global usings, file-scoped namespaces, extended property…
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Azure Functions on .NET 5: A First Look at the Isolated Worker Preview
What the .NET 5 isolated worker preview for Azure Functions looks like in January 2021, what it costs you today, and when to stay on .NET Core 3.1.
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Durable Functions Orchestrators: Replay, Determinism and Compensation
How Durable Functions orchestrators replay from history, the determinism rules that follow, and how to build retries and compensation into a C# workflow.
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Designing an Azure Cognitive Search Index with the v11 .NET SDK
How to size an Azure Cognitive Search service, design index fields you won't regret, and query safely with the newly GA Azure.Search.Documents v11 SDK.
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Key Vault in ASP.NET Core 3.1 with Azure.Identity and Managed Identity
Wiring Azure Key Vault into ASP.NET Core 3.1 config with Azure.Identity 1.2, managed identity and access policies, plus the trade-offs to know before you ship.
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Building a Microsoft Teams Bot with Bot Framework v4 and .NET Core
A practical path from echo bot to Teams: TeamsActivityHandler, Adaptive Cards, proactive messages, Bot Channels Registration and the app manifest.
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Power BI Embedded for Customers: App-Owns-Data with a Service Principal
How to embed Power BI reports in a customer-facing app with a service principal, embed tokens, row-level security and a right-sized A SKU capacity.
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Moving to the Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK v3: Patterns I Keep
What changed from the v2 DocumentClient to the Cosmos DB .NET SDK v3, and the client, query, batch and bulk patterns I reuse after migrating.
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Azure Functions v3 on .NET Core 3.1: The Setup I Actually Use
A practical Azure Functions v3 and .NET Core 3.1 setup: pinned packages, dependency injection, Polly retries, deployment, and the plan limits that bite.