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We're back after the summer break, and August picks up right where June left off. We've shipped Beta 3 of SharePoint Framework 1.24, the Copilot Components public preview - the capability we announced in June as SharePoint Copilo Link to article: …
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Welcome to the August 2026 edition of the Azure Developer CLI (azd) release blog. This post covers releases 1.30.0, 1.31.0, Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk/azure-developer-cli-azd-august-2026
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This is a guest post by Sam Basu. Sam is a technologist, author, speaker, Microsoft MVP and Developer Advocate for Uno Platform. If you've spent any time building software in the last couple of years, you've felt the shift. AI is no longer a novelty sitting on the sidelines – it's right there in the editor, the term …
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Part 4 of Build your own claw and agent harness with Microsoft Agent Framework. Over the last three parts our personal finance assistant grew from a single tool into a genuinely capable agent: it plans, Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/agent-framework/agent-harness-making-your-claw-production-ready
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The Azure DevOps plugin is now available for the GitHub Copilot app, allowing you to view and manage Azure DevOps pull requests and work items directly in the Copilot app. What you can do The initial release supports: View your work items Link to article: …
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Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.135 Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vscode-blog/visual-studio-code-1.135
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A few months ago, we introduced a new guided agentic workflow in the Visual Studio Debugger Agent designed to help you move from a bug report to a verified fix without spending your morning guessing where to begin. Link to article: …
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Today, we’re announcing the public preview of GitHub Copilot Code Review for Azure Repos, making the feature available to all Azure DevOps customers using the service. There’s no longer a need to sign up for early access. Customers can now enable Copilot Code Review for their Azure Repos repositories and start using …
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An agent or workflow is only useful when people and other systems can reach it through the interfaces and channels they already use. That might be an OpenAI Responses client, Telegram, another agent using A2A, or an MCP client. As a builder of agents and workflow, you need control over which channels you expose it to …
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Bob Ward and I recently released a series of videos, read more in the original blog post or go directly to the series on YouTube. The Azure SQL Datab Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql/new-azure-sql-foundations-video-series-with-github-samples
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Explore how the VS Code Agent Host and AHP support multiple agent harnesses with durable, synchronized local and remote sessions. Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vscode-blog/introducing-the-agent-host-for-persistent,-portable-agent-sessions
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Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.135 (Insiders) Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vscode-blog/visual-studio-code-1.135-(insiders)
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Hey .NET Fans! It's that time of year again: .NET Conf is back November 10-12, 2026. We'll spend three days learning from the people who build and use .NET, catching up with the community, and l Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-conf-2026
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As previously discussed, we can divide processes into the two broad categories of packaged vs unpackaged, based on if the process HAS or LACKS package identity. Packaged processes can be divided into three broad categories: Universal Link to article: …
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Most developers I talk to aren't asking whether Azure SQL Database can handle their next app. They're asking where to start when it comes to modernization, migration, and AI in the database. If you're reading this, you're probably in a similar boat: you've got an existing schema or databases, a scaling question you …
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The August update gives you more control over two parts of development that can get complicated quickly: choosing the right level of AI assistance and managing work across Git branches and repositories. You can now tune model thinking effort for the task in front of you, share custom agents across your organization, …
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We are happy to announce a 30-day trial experience for Azure SRE Agent. New customers can create and configure the SRE Agent at their own pace, with no charges for setup time or keeping agents ready. During the trial, you can connect your agents to telemetry, source code, incident management platforms, and other …
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The best AI in Visual Studio is the AI you can bring with you. Developers don't work in a single-model world anymore. You might reach for one model for everyday coding, another for a domain-specific problem, and an approved model for work that must stay within your organization's governance boundaries. So, the question …
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