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A common request to a coding agent is only one line: Generate unit tests. That request leaves important questions open. Which code needs tests? Which test framework does the project use? Where should the tests go? How does the build find them? What should the tests check? The agent can learn from the repository, Link …
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Dataverse Native Authorization Model for Power Pages How mapped identities, security roles, and record filters move external-user authorization closer to the data. We’re introducing a major update to the Power Pages security model: authorization for external users is now enforced natively in Dataverse. Customers Link …
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Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA) is one of the most powerful tools available for understanding system performance on Windows. It helps engineers investigate Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) traces across CPU, memory, disk, networking, scheduling, input, and many other areas of the operating system. That power also …
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This is the July round-up for the Azure Developer CLI (azd). Five releases shipped since the last post: 1.27.0, 1.27.1, Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk/azure-developer-cli-azd-july-2026
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Microsoft Agent Framework supports creating agents that use the GitHub Copilot SDK as their backend. GitHub Copilot agents provide access to powerful coding-oriented AI capabilities, including shell command execution, file operations, URL fetching, Model Context Prot Link to article: …
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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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Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.131 Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vscode-blog/visual-studio-code-1.131
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Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.132 (Insiders) Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vscode-blog/visual-studio-code-1.132-(insiders)
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Not every question deserves the same amount of thought. Renaming a variable isn't the same as debugging a memory leak, and they don't need the same level of thinking. So why should your model treat them the same way every time? Starting in Visual Studio 18.9 Insiders 2, it doesn't have to. Supported models now come …
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Last time, we fixed the problem of an exception thrown from the custom deleter's constructor resulting in a reference leak. But wait, there's another source of exceptions. Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260729-00/?p=112570
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MAI-Code-1-Flash is a lightweight coding model purpose built for the fast, iterative work developers do every day in GitHub. In this post, we share what the data is telling us about how it performs in real developer workflows. Read the full article Link to article: …
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The Model Context Protocol (MCP) C# SDK has reached v2.0, implementing the 2026-07-28 revision of the MCP specification. It's the largest revision of the protocol since it launched. Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-v20-of-the-official-mcp-csharp-sdk
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A recent conversation started (as many interesting conversations do) with a simple question: "Why is MSIX secure?" MSIX includes multiple layers of protection designed to defend against both accidental damage and malicious tampering. But as with all good security solutions, it's not the individual elements so …
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The best AI assistance is the kind you can steer, understand, and rely on. The July update is built around all three. There's a new Agent (Preview) in Copilot Chat, built on the same GitHub Copilot SDK that powers the GitHub Copilot CLI, that gets more done with less back-and Link to article: …
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Great code has a long memory. The fix you shipped last quarter, the refactor that touched a dozen files, the one-line change that explained why something works the way it does — it's all there in your commit history. The hard part has always been finding it. Today, we're excited to announce that Commit Search is …
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SQL database projects are a fundamental tool for keeping your database in source control, tracking changes and collaborating on quickly evolving database needs. Not to be forgotten, their superpower is being able to dynamically generate deployment scripts that match the dec Link to article: …
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Your agents can now discover and load Agent Skills directly from a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Instead of shipping every skill inside your application or copying skill folders into each deployment, you point an agent at an MCP server and it pulls the skills it needs on demand. A central team can p Link to …
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Writing a query that works is easy. Writing a query that scales is a different story. Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/documentdb/query-performance-tuning-guide
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You know the moment. CI goes red, or a build that took 8 seconds yesterday now takes 40, and you're staring at a wall of MSBuild output trying to find the one line that matters. The answer is almost always sitting in the bi Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/msbuild-binlog-analyzer-vscode
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