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PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 20

We are excited to announce that an update to our preview of PowerShellGet 3.0 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery! This release includes a major refactor of the module to remove the dependency on the NuGet client APIs for remote repositories. This version of the module, along with the PowerShellGet compatibility module, will be ...


Python in Visual Studio Code - April 2023 Release

The April 2023 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available. This release includes Data Wrangler, a create environment button embedded in dependency files, environments API for extension authors, kernel picker improvements, and move symbol refactoring. Keep reading to learn more!


Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL vs. Azure Database for PostgreSQL: When to choose which

Do you have PostgreSQL workloads? You can take advantage of your familiar Postgres tools while benefiting from high performance and unlimited scale on Azure. We offer multiple fully-managed, open-source database options for hosting your Postgres data. Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL is ideal for building new cloud-native and highly scalable ...


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...