What’s New in vcpkg (January 2025)


This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2025.01.13 registry release, 2025-01-11 tool release, as well as changes to vcpkg documentation throughout January. This release includes minor improvements and bug fixes. Some stats for this period: There are now 2,524 total ports available in the vcpkg curated registry. A […]

Announcing a free GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio


We’re excited to announce an all new free plan for GitHub Copilot, available for everyone today in Visual Studio. All you need is a GitHub account. No trial. No subscription. No credit card. With GitHub Copilot Free, you’ll receive: 2,000 code completions per month 50 chat messages per month Access to the latest AI models with […]

Improve the “R” in RAG and embrace Agentic RAG in Azure SQL


The RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) pattern, which is commonly discussed today, is based on the foundational idea that the retrieval part is done using vector search. This ensures that all the most relevant information available to answer the given question is returned and then fed to an LLM to generate the final answer. While vector […]

Guest Blog: Creative Writing Assistant – a multi-agent app sample with Semantic Kernel & .NET Aspire


Today we’re featuring a guest author, Ricardo Niepel, who’s a Senior Technical Specialist at Microsoft. He’s written an article we’re sharing below; we’ll turn it over to Ricardo to share more! If “Creative Writing Assistant” sounds familiar, it might be because we’ve previously released a similar multi-agent application built in Python during our Ignite conference […]