Microsoft has released next version of .NET Framework (do not get confused with .NET Core) . Though the .NET Framework 4.7 was released as part of Windows 10 Creators Update a month ago. You can now install the .NET Framework 4.7 on other versions of Windows Download the: .NET Framework 4.7 – Web installer | […]
Read more →LLM Output Parsing: Transforming Unstructured Text into Reliable Data Structures
Introduction: LLM outputs are inherently unstructured—models generate text, not data structures. Yet most applications need structured data: JSON for APIs, typed objects for business logic, specific formats for downstream processing. Output parsing bridges this gap, transforming free-form text into reliable, validated data structures. This guide covers the techniques that make parsing robust: format specification in […]
Read more →IoT Central–Microsoft’s SaaS solution for IoT
Microsoft has today released their IoT SaaS offering for customers and partners called as “Microsoft IoT Central”. IoT Central enables powerful IoT scenarios without requiring cloud solution expertise and also simplifies the development process and makes customers to make quick time to market solutions, making digital transformation more accessible to everyone without overhead of implement […]
Read more →Visual Studio 2017 Install error– 0x80131500 – Failed to Deserialize packages
I was frustrated by this error when I am trying to reinstall Visual Studio 2017 after my visual studio got corrupted/failed during upgrade to 15.1 ( or after a previous installation failed due to low disk space). There is a file called ‘state.json’ , in below mentioned path, which is creating this particular issue. %ProgramData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages\Instances\<instance> […]
Read more →Azure SDK for .NET 3.0 available for Visual Studio 2015/2017
Windows Azure SDK for .NET, which include SDKs, basic tools, and extended tools for Visual Studio development for Azure Cloud enabled applications. Microsoft has released latest Azure SDK for .NET along with Visual Studio 2017 (RTW). The new version v3.0 will support only Visual Studio 2015/2017, if you are using Visual Studio 2013 you can […]
Read more →Advanced RAG Patterns: From Query Rewriting to Self-Reflective Retrieval
Introduction: Basic RAG retrieves documents and stuffs them into context. Advanced RAG transforms retrieval into a sophisticated pipeline that dramatically improves answer quality. This guide covers the techniques that separate production RAG systems from prototypes: query rewriting to improve retrieval, hybrid search combining dense and sparse methods, cross-encoder reranking for precision, contextual compression to fit […]
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