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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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Today we’re releasing the public preview of DirectStorage 1.4 and the initial public preview of the Game Asset Conditioning Library. Together, they introduce Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directstorage-1-4-release-adds-support-for-zstandard
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Government agencies have an increased need for secure, verifiable, and compliant cloud environments that adhere to data sovereignty regulations, operate in a Zero Trust framework, and help reduce exposure to insider threats. Today, Microsoft marks a major milestone in secure cloud innovation with the general …
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Some time ago we took a closer look at the stack guard page and how a rogue stack access from another thread into the guard page could result in the guard page being lost. (And we used this information Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260311-00/?p=112134
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Today, we are excited to announce the second preview release of .NET 11! This release includes improvements across the .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, F#, Entity Framework Core, container images, and more. Check out the full release notes linked below and get started today. [cta-button …
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Welcome to our combined .NET servicing updates for March 2026. Let's get into the latest release of .NET & .NET Framework, here is a quick overview of what's new in our servicing releases: Security improvements .NET and .NET Framework has been refreshed with the latest update as of March 10, 2026. This update …
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Mark your calendar and grab your new favorite t-shirt: Aspire Conf is happening March 23 at 9:00 AM PT, and everyone’s invited. Aspire Conf is our first online co Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspire/join-us-march-23-for-aspire-conf
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I noted in the past that Microsoft engineers had trouble fitting into the IBM corporate culture when on temporary assignment at IBM offices in Boca Raton, Florida. In particular, they struggled wit Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260310-00/?p=112131
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Coding agents are becoming part of everyday development, but quality of responses and usefulness still depends on the best context as input. That context comes in different forms starting from your environment, the code in the workspace, the model training knowledge, previous memory, agent instructions, and of course …
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Part 1 of the Azure Skills Plugin series Coding agents like GitHub Copilot and Claude Code are great at code, but getting your app to production on Azure is not just about writing co Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure/announcing-the-azure-skills-plugin
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Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.111 Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vscode-blog/march-2026-(version-1.111)
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Building AI agents is getting easier. Deploying them as part of a real application, with multiple services, persistent state, and production infrastructure, is where things get complicated. Developers from the .NET community have requested whether a real-world example that shows running on local machine as well as on …
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When I first found Visual Studio Dev Essentials, it felt like discovering a hidden door in the developer toolkit world. I’d heard about free tools and cloud credits, but I wasn’t sure if it would really matter in day-to-day coding Link to article: …
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Today we’re announcing the general availability of Email and SMS one‑time passcode (OTP) as second‑factor MFA for Native Authentication in Microsoft Entra External ID. This enables developers to add step‑up security to native sign‑in and sign‑up flows while keeping users fully inside their applications. This release …
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Some time ago, I was purchasing online tickets to an event. When I got to the end of the checkout flow, I got this: Your seats will be held for only a limited time. If you do not complete your transaction in time, your seats will be relea Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260309-01/?p=112120 …
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