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A new eBook by David McCarter offers software engineers practical strategies for effectively navigating the recruiting process. It emphasizes understanding recruiter dynamics, identifying high-quality recruiters, and avoiding common pitfalls. The guide aims to empower engineers to make informed career decisions and …
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This release is a patch release to fix a thread deadlock and security issue. From the release notes:Thread DeadlockThanks to @t0m-4 for reporting this issue, which due to Microsoft deprecating some of the "sync" APIs for decryption, led to potential thread starvation and locking issues. The Link to article: …
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Last time, we looked at how the 80386 performed stack probing on entry to a function with a large local frame. Today we'll look at MIPS, which differs in a few ways. ; on entry, t8 = desired sta Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260313-00/?p=112138
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Last week marked the fruition of almost a year of hard work by the entire PyCharm team. On March 4th, 2026, we hosted Python Unplugged on PyTV, our first-ever community conference featuring a 90s music-inspired online conference for the Python community. The PyCharm team is a fixture at Python conferences globally, …
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End-to-end (E2E) tests are particularly important for native applications that run on various platforms (Android/iOS), screen sizes, and OS versions. E2E testing picks up differences in behavior across this fragmented ecosystem. But keeping E2E tests reliable is often more challenging than writing them in the first …
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Prototype pattern real-world example in C#: complete implementation with game object system, code examples, and practical use case demonstration. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/03/13/prototype-pattern-realworld-example-in-c-complete-implementation
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Claude Code is quickly becoming a go-to AI coding assistant for developers and increasingly for non-developers who want to build with code. But to truly unlock its potential, it needs the right local infrastructure, tool access, and security boundaries. In this blog, we’ll show you how to run Claude Code with Docker to …
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Agents have enormous potential to power secure, personal AI assistants that automate complex tasks and workflows. Realizing that potential, however, requires strong isolation, a codebase that teams can easily inspect and understand, and clear control boundaries they can trust. Today, NanoClaw, a lightweight agent …
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Code-Defined Skills, Script Execution, and Approval for Agent Skills in Python When we introduced Agent Skills for Microsoft Agent Framework, you could package domain expertise as file-based s Link to article: …
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The first Datalore release of the year delivers several new features that make working with data even easier. These updates are already available to Datalore Cloud users. For Datalore On-Premises, instance administrators can enable them by updating their Datalore instance. Let’s dive in! Data explorer Datalore 2026.1 …
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Learn how VS Code uses AI across its own development workflow with GitHub Copilot agent mode, automated testing, and AI-powered code review. Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vscode-blog/how-vs-code-builds-with-ai
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Today, we’re announcing two new Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon Bedrock, TimeToFirstToken and EstimatedTPMQuotaUsage. In this post, we cover how these work and how to set alarms, establish baselines, and proactively manage capacity using them. Link to article: …
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In this post, you will understand how Policy in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore creates a deterministic enforcement layer that operates independently of the agent's own reasoning. You will learn how to turn natural language descriptions of your business rules into Cedar policies, then use those policies to enforce …
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Learn to build an AI code review bot with Semantic Kernel in C#. Uses ChatCompletionAgent with four plugins for bug, security, performance, and style review. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/03/12/build-an-ai-code-review-bot-with-semantic-kernel-in-c
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At GDC this year, we shared how machine learning is becoming foundational to real time graphics, and how DirectX is evolving to meet that shift across shader level and model level ML. ML is no longer a niche optimization or a postprocess trick. It’s increasingly embedded throughout the graphics pipeline, influencing …
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Java has powered some of the world’s most mission‑critical systems for decades and that’s a big part of why we’re excited to be back with the community at JavaOne 2026 (March 17–19 in Redwood City). At Microsoft, we get to work with Java teams every day: folks shipping at massive scale, running on tight SLAs, …
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Agent harness is the layer where model reasoning connects to real execution: shell and filesystem access, approval flows, and context management across long-running sessions. With Agent Framework, these patterns can now be built consistently in both Python and .NET. In this post, we’ll look at three practical building …
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On March 12th, 2026, the DirectX team and our hardware partners hosted DirectX: Br Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx-bringing-console-level-developer-tools-to-windows
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Modernizing a .NET application is rarely a single step. It requires understanding the current state of the codebase, evaluating dependencies, identifying potential breaking changes, and sequencing updates carefully. Until recently, GitHub Copilot modernization for .NET ran primarily inside Visual Studio. That worked …
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We are releasing .NET 10.0.5 as an out-of-band (OOB) update to address a regression introduced in .NET 10.0.4. What's the issue? .NET 10.0.4 introduced a regression that causes the debugger to crash when debugging applications on macOS using Visual Studio Code. After installing .NET SDK 10.0.104 or 10.0.200, the …
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