A customer tracked one of their crashes to an invalid handle exception being raised when one thread closed a handle that another thread was waiting for. Or at least that's how they presented the problem. The stack trace in the crash dump said ntdll!KiRaiseUserExceptionDispatcher+0x3a KERNELBASE!WaitForMultipleObjectsEx+0x
Unlocking a New DevOps Era GitHub Copilot for Azure was first introduced at Ignite 2024 as a public preview, empowering developers, IT operators, and DevOps practitioners to leverage natural language to provision, configure, and manage r
As organizations scale their development efforts, managing access to cloud resources becomes critical. Platform engineers need to strike a balance between enforcing governance and enabling developer agility. At Build 2025, we announced the general availability of project policies in Microsoft Dev Box, which provides a powerful
Cost is one of the most important concerns in any cloud-native rollout. IT admins need powerful tools to control costs without slowing development. At Build 2025, we were excited to announce the general availability of hibernat
We are happy to announce that Native vector support in Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance is moving to General Availability this summer. Deployments are already underway, and several regions have begun receiving the feature. What is going GA? Integrated Vector Data Type Azure SQL introduces a dedicated
A colleague added another header file to their project, and everything started blowing up with "ambiguous symbol" errors. #include "pch.h" #include "something.h" #include "newheader.h" #include <shlobj.h> ... This resulted in a build error in Visual Studi
At Microsoft Industry Solutions Engineering, we are big fans of integration tests. They are the best way to test that your system works as a whole, but sometimes, integration tests are overkill or too complex to set up that the return on investment is just not worth it. That's the situation one of our teams has recently found themselves in.
Introduction OpenAI’s Codex CLI is the same coding agent that powers ChatGPT’s Codex. You can now run this
