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[alert type="important" heading="About the Author"]This is a guest post from Jean-Marc Prieur from Microsoft's 1ES (One Engineering System) team. We help reduce developer toil across Microsoft by making it easy to build services that are secure and compliant from the start, for instance with Aspire …
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The deployment model of .NET Framework 3.5 for future versions of Windows is changing. Starting with Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27965, .NET Framework 3.5 must be obtained as a standalone installer and is no longer included as an optional Windows component. .NET Framework 3.5 is now available as a standalone …
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A new release of the Microsoft build of Go including security fixes is now available for download. For more information about this release and the changes included, see the table below: Microsoft Release Upstream Tag Link to article: …
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Strengthen Identity Security and Eliminate Account Keys Identity is becoming the new security perimeter. As organizations modernize their cloud applications, long‑lived secrets and shared keys introduce unnecessary risk. Azure Cosmos DB now fully supports Microsoft Entra ID for both control plane and data plane access, …
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Last time, we saw how to prevent the user from changing the widths of ListView columns, but the technique required version 6 of the common controls. What if you're stuck in the dark Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260205-00/?p=112042
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Introduction Log analysis helps you maintain reliable applications by identifying issues, troubleshooting problems, and gaining operational insights. Traditional log analysis struggles with unstructured data and requires hours of manual work to extract meaningful patterns. Generative AI transforms this process by …
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Qodana is a static code analysis tool that brings code inspections and quick-fixes from JetBrains IDEs to the realm of continuous integration. It can be run in the cloud, executed from a Docker container, integrated into CI/CD pipelines, or invoked through a JetBrains IDE. Qodana already offers an impressive suite of …
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Learn how to install and configure Needlr for dependency injection in .NET with step-by-step setup, NuGet packages, and your first fluent DI application. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/02/05/getting-started-with-needlr-fluent-di-for-net-applications
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An autonomous lab combining OpenAI’s GPT-5 with Ginkgo Bioworks’ cloud automation cut cell-free protein synthesis costs by 40% through closed-loop experimentation. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-lowers-protein-synthesis-cost
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OpenAI introduces Trusted Access for Cyber, a trust-based framework that expands access to frontier cyber capabilities while strengthening safeguards against misuse. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/trusted-access-for-cyber
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February is a strange little month. Short, quiet, and typically uneventful. There are fewer distractions and fewer launches, which makes it the ideal time to slow down and take a look at what is actually driving the tech world at the moment. This issue leans into that calm, with Trisha Gee joining us as our […] Link to …
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Introduction Building and operating edge applications is a team sport, especially when you're working with Azure IoT Operations (AIO), custom Rust services, and a mix of cloud and on-prem environments. Over the past year, our team set out to create a minimal GitOps workflow that's simple enough for small pilots, but …
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OpenAI Frontier is an enterprise platform for building, deploying, and managing AI agents with shared context, onboarding, permissions, and governance. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-frontier
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GPT‑5.3-Codex is the most capable agentic coding model to date, combining the frontier coding performance of GPT‑5.2-Codex with the reasoning and professional knowledge capabilities of GPT‑5.2. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-3-codex-system-card
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GPT-5.3-Codex is a Codex-native agent that pairs frontier coding performance with general reasoning to support long-horizon, real-world technical work. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex
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A family shares how ChatGPT helped them prepare for critical cancer treatment decisions for their son alongside expert guidance from his doctors. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/navigating-health-questions
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VS Code has become the unified interface for all your coding agents. Manage local, background, and cloud agents in one place, use Claude and Codex agents alongside Copilot, and benefit from open standards like MCP and Agent Skills. Read the Link to article: …
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There's a larger blog post with the features and benefits of Windows MIDI Services coming later this month (February 2026). This is just a quick post here to assist users with known issues or workarounds, in the interest of remaining transparent on this project. We performed a ton of testing with customers, partners, …
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After a busy January (catch up here), we're shifting focus to reliability and refinement. This month is about Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/roadmap-for-ai-in-visual-studio-february
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Auto-install azd extensions in dev containers Welcome to the first azd mini blog! Things move fast - new features ship, and it's easy to miss something useful. These short posts (1-minute reads, we promise) highlight features the team ships that you want to know about. No fluff, just what it is, why it m Link to …
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