Creating Visual Studio 2017 Offline Installer

In my earlier article, I shared the details to download various Visual Studio Editions. This is an online installer which would require associated packages to be downloaded from online Microsoft sources.  Means Microsoft is not providing an Offline ISO as a download like in Visual Studio 2015. This would be a time consuming process depending […]

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Internet of Things (IoT)–Introduction

The Internet of things (IoT) is the inter-networking of physical devices, vehicles (also referred to as “connected devices” and “smart devices”), buildings, and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity which enable these objects to collect and exchange data. The IoT allows objects to be sensed or controlled remotely across existing […]

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Knowledge Distillation: Transferring Intelligence from Large to Small Models

Introduction: Knowledge distillation transfers the capabilities of large, expensive models into smaller, faster ones that can run efficiently in production. Instead of training a small model from scratch, distillation leverages the “dark knowledge” encoded in a teacher model’s soft probability distributions—information that hard labels alone cannot capture. This guide covers the techniques that make distillation […]

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 – hotfix build – 14.0.25422.1 (KB3165756)

Microsoft has released a hot-fix for Visual Studio 2015 Update 3, to fix certain critical issues identified after the release of Update 3. Supported Version Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 File name VS14-KB3165756.exe Date published 07/12/2016 File size 2.4 MB This update applied to: Visual Studio Professional 2015 Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 Visual Studio Community […]

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Static vs Singleton Classes

Recently while I was attending an interview I came across a question Static vs Singleton. Though I know the differences I couldn’t answer it properly, as I was not refreshed my programming knowledge before the interview. I would like to quote a reference to Jalpesh’s blog article (www.dotnetjalps.com) explaining the difference: Difference between Static and […]

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Conversation State Management: Building Context-Aware AI Assistants

Introduction: Conversation state management is the foundation of building coherent, context-aware AI assistants. Without proper state management, every message is processed in isolation—the assistant forgets what was discussed moments ago, loses track of user preferences, and fails to maintain the thread of complex multi-turn conversations. Effective state management involves storing conversation history, extracting and persisting […]

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