At Microsoft, we are constantly looking for ways to improve developer productivity and code quality. One of our most impactful innovations in this space is AI-powered code review assistant — an AI tool that augments pull request (PR) reviews. This AI Assistant started as an internal experiment and now has scaled to suppor

The C++ standard provides a std::chrono::high_resolution_clock which provides the implementation's clock with the smallest tick period. This gives you the best resolution available to the implementation. But what if you don't need the best resolution available to the implementation? For examp

Announcing Full Cross-Platform Support for the mssql-python Driver

Today we released PIX version 2507.11, which can be downloaded here. This release includes everything in the previous 2505.30 release, plus the following bug fixes: GPU Captures (capture time

The Go programming language is a great fit for building serverless applications. Go applications can be easily compiled to a single, statically linked binary, making deployment simple and reducing external dependencies. They start up quickly, which is ideal for serverless

We're excited to announce the July 2025 release of the Python, Pylance and Jupyter ext

Last time, attempted to intercept the ways that a C++ program could exit due to an unhandled exception by installing a custom unhandled str

GitHub Copilot along with its various models are capable of some amazing things. When in Agent mode the AI can create parts of or even entire applications from your written (or spoken!) instructions. You can just feel the vibes (coding), can't you? [alert type="note" heading="Note"]GitHub Copilot Agent mode is more than code completi