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Thank you for your interest in the new Azure SDKs! We release new features, improvements, and bug fixes every month. Subscribe to our Azure SDK Blog RSS Feed to get notified when a new release is available. You can find links to packages, code, and docs on our Link to article: …
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Agents are more useful when they can remember what matters beyond the current conversation. Today, we're announcing a new preview integration that gives Microsoft Agent Framework agents durable, cross-session memory backed by Azure Cosmos DB. The new Python package, agent-framework-azure-cosmos-memory Link to article: …
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Application developers already know what happens when one method does everything: it becomes difficult to read, test, reason over, and safely change. We use patterns like decomposition, encapsulation, and explicit dependencies because they solve those problems. T-SQL does not give us classes, inheritance, interfaces, …
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Schema change is inevitable. We do not get everything right the first time, and even when we do, the world around the database keeps changing. Requirements mature, products evolve, and assumptions that made sense years ago eventually stop matching reality. Businesses change too. We acquire companies, merge Link to …
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If you ship an application with Native AOT, a green managed test run leaves a gap. Native AOT compiles ahead of time, removes unused code, and requires alternatives to runti Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/mstest-source-generation
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A new release of the Microsoft build of Go 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: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/go/go-1-27-1-1-and-1-26-8-1-microsoft-builds-now-available
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Learn what is new in Visual Studio Code 1.136 Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vscode-blog/visual-studio-code-1.136
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Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.136 (Insiders) Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/external-blogs/visual-studio-code-1-136-insiders
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A user asked for per-solution color themes. It already ships, and it goes further than they asked. You run several instances of Visual Studio side by side, one per solution, and they all look identical. Same taskbar icon, same alt-tab thumbnail, same chrome. So, you land in the wrong one, start typing, and realize …
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AI coding agents can build SharePoint Framework solutions. But should you trust them to choose the right toolchain and package versions by themselves, then apply every upgrade step correctly? We wanted evidence. Before publishing SPFx Dev Skills, the SharePoint Framework team an Link to article: …
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How does MSIX service a package while it's in use? Simple: It doesn't. A core principle of MSIX servicing is: Do not service a package while it's in use. Deployment provides several ways to deal with that constraint. Options range from terminating applications to deferring servicing until the Link to article: …
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Today I will show you how we can tackle one of the most common tasks when working in a development team or managing an open-source project, and that is working with Pull Requests. While we're going to be using the GitHub tooling within Visual Studio for this, the approach would be very similar with Azure DevOps. …
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This blog post shows how to expand the capabilities of Azure SRE Agent by giving it access to MCP servers hosted on Azure Connector Namespace. Connector Namespace is a managed MCP hosting platform that removes the operational and management overhead of self-hosting MCP servers. It entered public preview at Microsoft …
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When you need to move an entire database or move the objects in a database, bacpac and dacpac files often come up because of all of the tooling options to interact with them. Bacpac and dacpac files share some core similarities as well as some major differences in how they're used in SqlPackage and other SQL tools, but …
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How to read this article This article picks up where my Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure/only-believe-what-you-can-validate
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The 2002 release of the original .NET Framework shipped ADO.NET and System.Data.SqlClient, the driver for SQL Server that gave .NET applications a standard connection approach. Over the years, updates, enhancements, and patches solidified these BCL classes as an integral dependency for millions of line-of-business …
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