The Azure SDKs release every month. This post includes the month's highlights and release notes.

We're happy to announce the official launch of the .NET Community Toolkit 8.3 release, featuring .NET 8 and NativeAOT support, performance improvements, several bug fixes and enhancements, and more!

Boost your dev workflow with the C# Dev Kit August 2024 release, which brings enhanced Razor IntelliSense, updated Project Status Bar, and new Project Configuration Options!

As applications migrate to the cloud, they must be designed to handle inevitable failures gracefully. Network issues, service outages, and other transient faults are common in distributed systems. Without proper handling mechanisms, these failures can lead to system instability and poor user experiences.

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The user insights feature in Microsoft Entra External ID, now generally available, provides valuable metrics on user behavior through Microsoft Graph APIs and dashboards in the Microsoft Entra admin center. This blog post will guide you through building a customized Power BI dashboard using user insights to analyze metrics like total user count, active users, and MFA usage.

In Visual Studio 2022 v17.11, you’ll discover several new features that address specific issues developers have reported. These updates don’t belong to a distinct category, but we’re dedicated to sharing them with you in this blog post. You can download the update and view the comprehensive release notes for full details.

Retrieval Augmented Generation, or RAG, is one of the hottest topics at the moment as it opens up the possibility of interacting with data using natural language, which is a long-time dream finally coming true. It is very likely that a lot of your data is already stored or will be stored in Azure SQL,