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A Developer's Guide to Fine-Tuning GPT-4o for Image Classification on Azure AI Foundry
Whether you’re a machine learning practitioner, app developer, or just curious about the latest in AI, this guide shows how you can quickly boost image classification accuracy using cutting-edge Vision-Language Models (VLM) on Azure—no deep learning expertise required.
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Read moreStreamlined Setup, Stronger Guardrails for Microsoft Dev Box
We’re excited to introduce a new capability that simplifies Dev Box setup—enabling platform engineers and project admins to specify images and SKUs directly when configuring Dev Box pools, without needing to create Dev Box definitions at the Dev Center level.
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Oct 23, 2025
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Unlocking Enterprise AI Complexity: Multi-Agent Orchestration with the Microsoft Agent Framework
The Architectural Imperative: Why Multi-Agent Orchestration is Essential
In modern enterprise AI systems, the scope and complexity of real-world business challenges quickly exceed the capabilities of a single, monolithic AI Agent. Facing tasks like end-to-end customer journey management,...
Semantic Kernel
Oct 23, 2025
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Integration Testing with Testcontainers
How to leverage Testcontainers for integration testing
ISE Developer Blog
Oct 22, 2025
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Bringing Context to Copilot: Azure Cosmos DB Best Practices, Right in Your VS Code Workspace
Developers love GitHub Copilot for its instant, intelligent code suggestions. But what if those suggestions could also reflect your specific database and workload patterns? That’s now possible with a new feature in Azure Cosmos DB for VS Code.
Starting today, when you connect to...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Oct 22, 2025
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Introducing Planning in Visual Studio (Public Preview)
Quick prompts are great for small fixes, but they fall short on big projects. You end up rewriting instructions, tweaking them constantly, and hoping the model stays on track. It gives Copilot a visible, structured path to follow, one that updates as it works and keeps you in control at...
Visual Studio Blog
Oct 22, 2025
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Build an AI Agentic RAG search application with React, SQL Azure and Azure Static Web Apps
Introduction
Leveraging OpenAI for semantic searches on structured databases like Azure SQL enhances search accuracy and context-awareness, providing more relevant and insightful results.
This example showcases the use of Azure SQL for storing and searching data with AI. By...
Azure SQL Devs’ Corner
Oct 22, 2025
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What makes cheap_steady_clock faster than std::chrono::high_resolution_clock ?
It's quite a bit faster, though maybe you don't care.
The Old New Thing
Oct 21, 2025
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Modernizing Visual Studio Extension Compatibility: Effortless Migration for Extension Developers and Users
We have great news for extension users and developers: Visual Studio 2026 is introducing an extension compatibility model designed specifically to make your life easier. Our top priority is to ensure that your extensions continue to work seamlessly across Visual Studio releases - with no...
Visual Studio Blog
Oct 21, 2025
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Microspeak: The hockey stick on wheels
You're always a year away.
The Old New Thing
Oct 21, 2025
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“Cost Management” Is Now “Account Throughput” and It’s Moving
We’ve made a small but important change in the Azure portal for Azure Cosmos DB to make it easier to manage your account-level throughput.
The “Cost Management” section has been renamed to “Account Throughput” and can now be found under the Settings section of your Azure...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog