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PIX and ID3D12ManualWriteTrackingResource 

Summary If you’re using GPU_UPLOAD heaps and you are experiencing capture-time performance issues when you launch your application via PIX (e.g. your game’s framerate drops) then read on to learn how ID3D12ManualWriteTrackingResource might help you.   Background When taking a GPU Capture, PIX (and other graphics debugging tools...


Agility SDK 1.710.0-preview: GPU Upload Heaps and Non-normalized Sampling

We’re pleased to announce that we have a new preview Agility SDK out today, letting developers experiment with two new features: GPU Upload Heaps and Non-normalized Sampling!  Head to Agility SDK Downloads to grab it.  GPU Upload Heaps  Introduction Historically a GPU’s VRAM was inaccessible to the CPU, forcing programs to have ...


OpenAI Android developer assistance

Hello budding prompt engineers, Many developers are already getting assistance from GitHub Copilot completing code and more recently the conversational additions to GitHub pull requests, documentation, and the CLI. In this post we’ll look at some of the ways that Android developers can take advantage of OpenAI- and ChatGPT-powered...


Introducing Service Principal and Managed Identity support on Azure DevOps

We are proud to announce that Service Principals and Managed Identities can now be used to authenticate with Azure DevOps. For those who have not heard of them before, these Azure Active Directory identities enable teams to gain access to your Azure DevOps organizations acting as their own application, not as a human user or service account...


Highlights from Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2023!

Azure Cosmos DB Conf returned this year with the exciting launch of a new version of Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB, and a variety of sessions on how to drive developer productivity, cloud-scale innovation, and cost savings with Azure Cosmos DB. Customers and partners such as Databricks, LinkedIn, and Cazton joined a host of Azure Cosmos DB ...


Semantic Kernel Planner: Improvements with Embeddings and Semantic Memory

Semantic Kernel (SK) is a lightweight SDK that lets you mix conventional programming languages, like C# and Python, with the latest in Large Language Model (LLM) AI “prompts” with prompt templating, chaining, and planning capabilities.  Its Planner Skill allows users to create and execute plans based on semantic queries. Recently, the...