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Authentication tokens exist to answer one question: is this caller authorized to do this? They are not intended to be a stable data interface, a schema you can depend on, or an input into application logic. If your application decodes tokens and reads claims from them, this is an important heads-up. Token C Link to …
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If you've ever loaded a map with dozens — or hundreds — of pins, you know the result: an overlapping mess that's impossible to interact with. Starting in .NET MAUI 11 Preview 2, the Map control supports pin clustering out of the box on Android and iOS/Mac Catalyst. Link to article: …
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You can now run an AI agent on your local machine and send it messages—all from azd, no portal required. What's new? The azure.ai.agents extension adds two commands: Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk/azd-ai-agent-run-invoke
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Remember when we announced the Public Preview of DiskANN vector indexes back in November and mentioned that once you created the index, your table became read‑only? Yeahâ Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql/diskann-vector-index-improvements
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Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.112 Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vscode-blog/visual-studio-code-1.112
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Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.112 (Insiders) Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/external-blogs/vs-code-1-112-insiders
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Handling Long-Running Operations with Background Responses AI agents powered by reasoning models can take minutes to work through complex problems — deep research, multi-step analysis, lengthy content generation. In a traditional request-response pattern, that means your client sits idle waiting for a connection that …
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We all know this, even if we don't like to admit it: modern infrastructure can scale infinitely, but human understanding doesn't. We've all seen it happen - organizations going from managing dozens of servers to thousands of containers, from deploying weekly to deploying hundreds of times per day, from serving …
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The MSSQL extension for VS Code v1.41 continues to evolve, delivering features that make SQL development more integrated, more powerful, and more developer-friendly. In this release, we're introducing the Public Preview of Schema Designer with GitHub Copi Link to article: …
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We’d like to inform you about an update to how inline image attachments are handled Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/changes-to-attachment-ids-for-inline-images-in-outlook-add-ins
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Taming the Noisy Inbox: How I Used MCP to Automate Email and Teams Triage How the Model Context Protocol (MCP) turns your AI coding assistant into a workplace productivity engine — connecting Microsoft 365 data to your terminal workflow. The Problem We All Share If you work in a customer-facing role, y Link to article: …
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Part 2 of the Azure Skills Plugin series Previously: Announcing the Azure Skills Plugin This post is all about getting you up and running. I won't go d Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure/azure-skills-plugin-lets-get-started
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This is a guest post by Faisal Waris, an AI strategist in the telecom industry. Faisal built RT.Assistant to explore how .NET, F#, and the OpenAI Realtime API can come together in a production-style, multi-agent voice application. RT.Assistant i Link to article: …
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We're excited to announce the Cursor plugin for Azure Cosmos DB bringing AI-powered database expertise, best practices guidance, and live database connectivity directly into your coding workflow. Whether you're designing a new data model, optimizing queries, or building a RAG appl Link to article: …
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The last time we looked at the Windows stack limit checker on x86-32 (also known as i386), we noted that the function has changed over the years. Here's the revised version. Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260317-00/?p=112144
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When we released the local Azure DevOps MCP Server, it gave customers a way to connect Azure DevOps data with tools like Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code through GitHub Copilot Chat. The next step was to make this experience easier to get started with and to enable it for servi Link to article: …
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The hardest part of shipping production AI agents isn't the prototype — it's everything after. Network isolation requirements. Compliance audits. Voice channels your operations team actually wants to use. Evaluations that aren't just a pre-ship checkbox. Today's GA release of the next Link to article: …
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Back in July, we launched the Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations repo with a simple goal: give the community a place to share custom instructions, prompts, and chat modes to customize the AI Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/blog/awesome-github-copilot-just-got-a-website-and-a-learning-hub-and-plugins
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The FOSSASIA Summit 2026 was an incredible gathering of developers, open-source contributors, startups, and technology enthusiasts from across the region. This year, Azure Cosmos DB and Azure DocumentDB were present at the summit with both technical sessions and a dedicated booth, giving us a great opportunity to …
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