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Highlights from the Power BI Weekly Newsletter for 16th December 2025: - Power BI 2025 holiday recap: A decade of innovation and impact (Alex Powers) - Power BI Copilot And Report Filters And Slicers (Chris Webb) - Introducing DAX Lib, the “app store” for DAX User-Defined Functions (Marco Russo) - Introducing DAX Optimizer Basic (Marco Russo) To read the full issue, subscribe to the email newsletter or RSS feed, see the link in the comments: 👇

Highlights from the Azure Weekly Newsletter for 21st December 2025 (the final of the year): - 2025 Year in Review: What's new across SQL Server, Azure SQL and SQL database in Fabric (Anna Hoffman) - Microsoft Fabric IQ Puts Ontology Back on the Map — and Back in the Confusion (George Anadiotis) - Microsoft and NASA apply AI agents to key hydrology data, deepening our understanding of Earth - From Simple Prompts to Complex Insights: AI Expands the Boundaries of Data Transformation (Preview) (Miguel Angel Escobar) To read the full issue, subscribe to the email newsletter or RSS feed, see the link in the comments 👇

Highlights from the Azure Weekly Newsletter for 14th December 2025: - Microsoft Fabric + Snowflake: Zero-copy interoperability and practical details (Christian Henrik Reich) - Next-Level RAG on Azure: Building Knowledge Bases with Azure AI Search and Foundry. (Dave Rendon - MVP, MCT) - Microsoft Agent Framework: Implementing Human-in-the-Loop AI Agents (Jamie Maguire) - End-to-End Observability for Azure Databricks: From Infrastructure to Internal Application Logging (Rafia Aqil) - Lakehouse Schemas (Generally Available) (Ted Vilutis) To read the full issue, subscribe to the email newsletter or RSS feed, see the link in the comments 👇

It's time for my favourite blog post of the year - the annual performance benchmark of our .NET based AIS (Automatic Identification System) - Marine Vessel Telemetry - parsing library. Every vessel over a certain size has to transmit information (name, location, status, direction etc). There are lots of vessels on the planet, so you need efficient code to attempt to process all of that telemetry. We created the library in 2019 (against .NET Core 2.0), and so far we've enjoyed significant yearly performance boosts from each and every new version of .NET, without having to change a line of code! .NET 6 +20% .NET 7 +19% .NET 8 +27% .NET 9 +9% And now in .NET 10, another 7% 🎉 We benchmark two scenarios - simple and complex. Over the past 6 years we've seen a cumulative +125% perf increase for the complex scenario and +134% for the simple. On a Surface Laptop Studio 2 we can now process 10 Million Messages / Second. 🤯 And there's still room for improvement with support for the latest CPU architectures and improved APIs! 😮 Thanks to Scott Hanselman, Stephen Toub, Adam Sitnik and all the other countless .NET contributors who, over the years, have relentlessly focused on improving performance and making .NET such a great platform to build upon. ❤️ So many Orgs spend a fortune on data processing, but smart engineering can significantly reduce the cost, environmental impact, and the "time to insight". 👉 For more details, see Ian Griffiths post: https://lnkd.in/e2qGFwqh #dotnet #csharp #hpc #ais #marine #intelligence

Highlights from the Power BI Weekly Newsletter for 2nd December 2025: - Responsive SVG Charts in Power BI Core Visuals (Andrzej Leszkiewicz) - Refresh a Power BI PRO Semantic Model with your Fabric pipeline (Dániel Gábor Patkós) - Filter Pane or Slicer Pane in Power BI? (Gary Carpenter) - Talk to Your Data Model: Introducing the Power BI Modeling MCP (Jeffrey Wang) - Deprecating Power BI Q&A (Mònica Calleja Luque) To read the full issue, subscribe to the email newsletter or RSS feed, see the link in the comments 👇

Highlights from the Azure Weekly Newsletter for 7th December 2025: - Serverless Workspaces are live in Azure Databricks (Anavi Nahar) - Microsoft Sentinel, Security, and Ignite (Henrik F. Wojcik) - Experiment, Prototype, and Validate Azure Bicep with the Bicep Console (John Lokerse) - Turning everyday documents from SharePoint and OneDrive into analytics ready data with OneLake shortcuts (Miquella de Boer) - Automatically Signing a Windows EXE with Azure Trusted Signing, dotnet sign, and GitHub Actions (Scott Hanselman) - Azure Blob Storage SFTP - Resumable Uploads (GA) (The Azure Updates Team) - Foundry IQ for Multi-Source AI Knowledge Bases (Zachary Cavanell) To read the full issue, subscribe to the email newsletter or RSS feed, see the link in the comments 👇

Highlights from the Azure Weekly Newsletter for 30th November 2025: - Azure Skilling at Microsoft Ignite 2025 (Aaron S.) - Function Calling with Small Language Models (Abdulhamid Onawole) - Snowflake, Fabric and Power BI Integration Options (Greg Beaumont) - Adventures in Least Privilege: When an owner isn't an owner (James Dawson) - Azure Governance Ignite 2025 (Jodi B.) - Watch replays of Microsoft Entra sessions at Microsoft Ignite 2025 (Kaitlin Murphy) - From Concept to Code: Building Production-Ready Multi-Agent Systems with Microsoft Foundry (lo kinfey) - Govern in OneLake Catalog for Fabric admins (Preview) (Naama Tsafrir) - Gaining Confidence with Az CLI and Az PowerShell: Introducing What if & Export Bicep (Steven Bucher) To read the full issue, subscribe to the email newsletter or RSS feed, see the link in the comments 👇

Highlights from the Power BI Weekly Newsletter for 25th November 2025: - Bind A Power BI Thin Report To A Local Model (📊 Ed Hansberry) - The Power BI modeling MCP server in plain English (Eugene Meidinger) - TMDL Visual Studio Code Extension (Generally Available) (Grace Gong) - Image Visual Enhancements for Report Creators (Jacinda Eng) - New Card visual in reports (Generally Available) (Jacinda Eng) - Model-dependent and model-independent user-defined functions in DAX (Marco Russo) - Standalone Copilot in Power BI mobile apps: Chat with your data anytime anywhere (Preview) (Michal Foster Heldy) - New card visual preview to GA impact FAQ (Zoe Douglas) To read the full issue, subscribe to the email newsletter or RSS feed, see the link in the comments 👇

We've just released a new version of the Interactive Extensions for .NET (Ix .NET). Now that .NET 10.0 offers built-in support for LINQ to IAsyncEnumerable<T>, it's time for Ix .NET's System.Linq.Async to step back. https://lnkd.in/ePngcb78 #csharp #dotnet #dotnet10 #oss #reactive

Highlights from the #MSIgnite 2025 Azure Weekly Newsletter for the W/E 23rd November 2025: - Mirroring for SQL Server in Microsoft Fabric (GA) (Ajay Jagannathan) - Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell (Ignite 2025 Announcement) (Alex Wang) - Microsoft and Databricks: Advancing Openness and Interoperability with OneLake (Arun Ulag) - Making Sense of Microsoft Ignite 2025 for Azure and AI Architects. (Dave Rendon - MVP, MCT) - GPT-5.1 Now Available in Microsoft Copilot Studio as Experimental Model (David Ramel) - Azure Copilot agents and AI infrastructure innovations (Jeremy Winter) - Azure at Microsoft Ignite 2025: All the intelligent cloud news explained (Jessica Hawk) - What's new in OneLake and the Fabric platform: more sources, security, and capacity tooling (Kim Manis) - Igniting Your Pipelines: New Data Factory Features Announced at Ignite (Mark Kromer) - Deployment capabilities preview in Azure Copilot (Marvin Morales) - What's New for Fabric Data Agents at Ignite 2025: Unlocking Deeper Data Reasoning and Seamless AI Interoperability (Nellie Gustafsson) - Fabric Capacity Events in Real-Time Hub (Preview) (Pankaj Arora) - Data Clustering in Fabric Data Warehouse (Preview) (Peri Rocha) - Granular RBAC in Azure Monitor Logs (GA) (Ron Frenkel) - First look at Microsoft Fabric Graph (Sander van de Velde) - Public Preview of Agent Loop in Azure Logic Apps Consumption (Shree Divya) - Agent mitigations and guardrail customization (Public Preview) (The Azure Updates Team) - Azure Databricks Genie in Copilot Studio (Public Preview) (The Azure Updates Team) - Built-in memory in Foundry Agent Service (Public Preview) (The Azure Updates Team) - Claude in Microsoft Foundry (Public Preview) (The Azure Updates Team) - Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric (GA) (The Azure Updates Team) - Visual Studio 2026 (GA) (The Azure Updates Team) - Azure Monitor to Fabric Eventhouse (Preview) (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon) - From Data Platform to Intelligence Platform: Introducing Microsoft Fabric IQ (Yitzhak Kesselman) - Azure MCP Server is Now Built-In with Visual Studio 2026: A New Era for Agentic Workflows (Yun Jung Choi) To read the full issue, subscribe to the email newsletter or RSS feed, see the link in the comments 👇