Microsoft’s prompt engine is a library for helping developers create prompts for Large Language Models (LLMs). Prompt engineering, a technique for enabling specific behavior out of LLMs like GPT-3 and Codex, involves crafting inputs that coax the model to produce certain kinds of outputs. Also, few-shot prompting is a discipline that provides examples of inputs … continue reading
The team at Microsoft has announced an extension in Visual Studio that allows users to upgrade their .NET Framework or .NET Core web and desktop applications directly within Visual Studio. According to the blog post, if a user’s application is built for .NET Framework or .NET Core, now is the time to upgrade to .NET … continue reading
You may be familiar with the quote “software is eating the world,” but as of late it seems more like “ChatGPT is eating the world.” Ever since its public debut, it’s dominated front pages of the news, sparked many conversations about how AI will shape the future, and if you look at the trending page … continue reading
While it has been speculated for a few weeks that Microsoft had plans to integrate ChatGPT into its search engine Bing, the company has finally made it official. This comes shortly after the company had made a large multi-billion dollar investment in OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Search rival Google also just announced its own … continue reading
Microsoft announced the beta for TypeScript 5.0, the next major release of the JavaScript-based programming language. With 5.0, Microsoft is working to make the language smaller, simpler, and faster. For example, the 5.0 beta takes 81% of the time to build VS Code that would take TypeScript 4.9 to do so. These performance improvements were … continue reading
Fans of Windows Terminal now have a new preview release to enjoy. Windows Terminal is a terminal application that offers features like multiple tabs, panes, Unicode support, and custom themes. The Windows Terminal preview is now at version 1.17 and Windows Terminal has been updated to version 1.16. As a reminder, new features in 1.16 … continue reading
OpenAI and Microsoft have announced that they are expanding their current partnership. This comes on the heels of OpenAI’s public release of ChatGPT at the tailend of last year, which has been making waves throughout the industry as people experiment with its capabilities. Microsoft had previously made large investments in OpenAI in 2019 and 2021, … continue reading
Microsoft announced version 8.1 of the .NET Community Toolkit, which includes highly requested features, bug fixes, and performance improvements to the MVVM Toolkit source generators. The new version includes custom attributes for ‘[ObservableProperty].’ With no constraints on the types of attributes that this feature supports, this allows complete flexibility in annotations for generated properties, all … continue reading
LEADTOOLS released version 22 of its platform, which adds support for .NET 7, eSignatures, OCR Enhancements, Medical Web Viewer updates, and more. LEADTOOLS is a suite of software development tools that can be used to create applications for document, medical, and multimedia imaging. It includes software components for capturing, manipulating, and viewing images, as well … continue reading
Microsoft today released a new preview version of the Microsoft Graph Developer Proxy, which enables developers to verify that their app correctly handles errors that can occur when it is being used at scale. This release introduces support for simulating errors on Microsoft Graph and other APIs as well as contextual guidance to help improve … continue reading
Microsoft today announced that its Graph Powershell SDK v2 is now available in public preview. With this, users gain access to several new features. Among these features is the ability to write more robust scripts that are both less prone to errors and less ambiguous. V2 allows users to combine both production and preview in … continue reading
Microsoft announced that Spring Cloud Azure version 4.5.0 has been released and is available from Maven Central. This is the first stable version to support passwordless connections to Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Spring Cloud Azure is a framework that provides a way to build cloud-native applications using Azure services. It … continue reading
