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Microsoft is poised to revolutionize its flagship integrated development environment (IDE), Visual Studio, by embedding artificial intelligence (AI) at its core. An internal memo from Jay Parikh, Executive Vice President of CoreAI at Microsoft, outlines plans for "Visual Studio 18," a...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of startup engineering, efficiency and innovation are paramount. Microsoft 365 Copilot emerges as a transformative tool, seamlessly integrating advanced AI capabilities into the familiar suite of Microsoft applications. This integration offers startup engineers...

Artificial intelligence has already begun reshaping nearly every facet of our tech lives—and coding is no exception. Recently, a thorough test of GitHub Copilot, the AI-powered assistant built into Visual Studio Code and based on the GPT-4 architecture, has revealed a curious blend of triumph...

Microsoft has once again made waves in the artificial intelligence community by unveiling AutoGen v0.4, a major evolution of its innovative framework aimed at pushing the boundaries of agentic AI. This release reimagines the very foundation of agent-based systems with a focus on scale...

This is a repost, now that ChatGPT is working again... Hi. I need some clarification and/or help with a multi-threaded application being debugged with Visual Studio. I notice that when I hit a breakpoint in a thread, it stops, and I can examine the status and values, but when I step to the...

Memory leaks occur when the JavaScript code of an application retains more and more objects in memory that it doesn’t need any longer instead of releasing them for the browser to garbage collect (GC). For long-running apps, small memory leaks of only a few kilobytes can add up to noticeably...

In the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, Device Portal now offers several new tools from across Windows to help you location test your UWP, explore Mixed Reality, build new hardware peripherals and test your apps new installation pipeline. It’s a little bit of goodness for everyone, and we’re...

Today, we released a new Windows 10 Creators Update SDK Preview to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 15021 or greater). The Preview SDK is a pre-release and cannot be used in a production environment. Please only install the SDK on your test machine. The Preview SDK...

Today, we released a new Windows 10 Creators Update SDK Preview to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 15003 or greater). The Preview SDK is a pre-release and cannot be used in a production environment. Please only install the SDK on your test machine. The Preview SDK...

Hi guys, my wifes computer came down with a buttload of bluescreens over evening and we have no idea, why. I got a memory dump and tried to use the debugger but I'm not really getting anything useful (for my knowhow level) of it. Maybe one of you guys can do it...

Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2012 enables remote debugging, remote testing, and performance unit testing on computers that don't have Visual Studio installed. This set of tools also enables the installation of a developer license, deployment, and performance profiling of Windows apps to...

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder walk you through the download of the Windows 10 SDK and the latest Sysinternals tools. We harvest the Debugging Tools for Windows, Windows Performance Toolkit, and Application Verifier files from the SDK. Previous Versions: Link...

Loading Dump File [C:\Users\Matt.INNOVA\Desktop\021314-14492-01.dmp] Mini Kernel Dump File: Only registers and stack trace are available Symbol search path is: *** Invalid *** **************************************************************************** * Symbol loading may be unreliable without...

Hey guys, I've been having some issues with BSoD's recently, and Microsoft Support told me it was hardware when it definately was not. I have the .dmp analyzed by WinDBG, so here it is: Microsoft (R) Windows Debugger Version 6.12.0002.633 AMD64 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights...

hello, I'm posting because my PC crashing every day.. I see only Bugcheck 109 caused by ntkrnlmp.exe and memory_corruption, but there is no errors in Memtest86+, I have tested for 8 passes, please, help. Scan from SF Diagnstic Tool in attachments. BugCheck 109, {a3a039d89a6d9af7...

I'm seeing some very odd remote desktop problems at work. The server is 2008 Server R2 64-bit. Unfortunately, I do not have administrative privileges. I have to escalate to another group in order to analyze logs. I have done this, but my team may meanwhile sit idle for days. All clients...

Hello, On my new Computer I experience a lot of Blue Screens. The Computer is bought in pieces and self-assembled in October 2011. I am running Win7 on a TrueCrypt encrypted system partition. No other Operation Systems installed so far. When I assembled it I tested the Memory for ~10 hours...

Many of you use Sysinternals tools to help you manage computing responsibilities ranging from monitoring/understanding process activity with Process Explorer to debugging Win32 code with DebugView. With over 70 utilities to choose from, Sysinternals tools cover a wide swath of computing, from...

Hi, I am writing a small app in C# which pings remote hosts. When I end a debugging session in Visual Studio I receive a BSOD, the dump file reports a problem in tcpip.sys. Can anyone can help with this. Thanks...

Link RemovedWhen we asked you*Link Removed, one of the top three most requested topics was How to Unit Test Workflows. On this episode, I'll show you how to test Simple activities using WorkflowInvoker Complex activities with bookmarks and WorkflowApplication WorkflowServices...