Hi everyone,

Your weekly dose of 5 Highlights Thursday is here, a list of information and links that you may find helpful in your Azure journey. Feel free to forward this along to anyone who you think may enjoy such sharing.

1. Learning Path: Get started with GitHub and Visual Studio Code

GitHub Copilot can do much more than just help you write code. It can help you understand someone else’s code, write documentation, learn a new technology, or debug a problem.

This collection of resources will help you get more out of GitHub Copilot:

GitHub and Visual Studio Code

GitHub and Visual Studio Code

2. Microsoft AI Tour

The Microsoft AI Tour offers free one-day, in-person sessions that will help you discover new opportunities to increase productivity with AI and enhance your skills to deliver more value using AI and Microsoft Azure. Find an event near you.

Microsoft AI Tour

Microsoft AI Tour

3. Build intelligent apps with AI and cloud-native technologies

Start building intelligent, cloud-native apps. Explore learning resources from #MicrosoftLearn. Follow step-by-step guidance, interactive content, and documentation to learn about #OpenAI, Azure Kubernetes Service #AKS, and cloud-native apps.

intelligent apps with AI

intelligent apps with AI

4. Learn .NET 8 with New Beginner Videos

New to .NET? Check out these new .NET 8 for beginners videos to tackle #dotNET one step at a time, from C# to generative AI to .NET IoT and more.

Learn what .NET is, what you can build with it, how to get started.

.NET 8

.NET 8

5. Azure Takeoff Show – Using Copilot and PowerAutomate for Email

This was so much fun don’t miss out and join Me & Hatim Nagarwala to discover the power of Power Automate and #Copilot. Learn how to automate tasks with Excel and email using Power Automata’s low-code platform and Copilot’s natural language query suggestions. 🚀 Watch a live demo on creating a flow that reads Excel data from OneDrive, checks task status, and sends reminder emails. Don’t miss out—level up your cloud skills and become a Power Automate and Copilot pro!


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Have a wonderful Thursday 🙂
Taswar