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Introduction When I started writing software professionally in 2015, the tech landscape looked completely different. Tools and frameworks kept evolving since then, but the process of building software barely moved for a decade. That changed in the last couple of months. Here's what has changed in how the Power Pages …
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As organizations move from single-agent prototypes to multi-agent production systems, the ability for agents to communicate reliably across platforms and organizational boundaries becomes essential. With the release of A2A Protocol v1.0 and updated support in the Microsoft Agent Framework, you can now connect and …
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GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio is becoming more agentic with every release. This update brings cloud agent integration front and center, letting you start remote coding sessions without leaving the IDE. Custom agents now support user-level definitions that travel with you across projects, C++ code editing tools for …
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Azure Service Bus is one of the most widely used messaging services for building event-driven applications on Azure. When you use Azure Functions with a Service Bus trigger in batch mode, your function receives multiple messages at once for efficient, high-throughput processing. But what happens when one message in the …
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April continues the strong momentum for the SharePoint Framework and the broader Microsoft 365 extensibility ecosystem. Over the past month, we have been making steady progress across the SPFx roadmap, refining delivery plans, connecting with the community in person, and preparing the next wav Link to article: …
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Created 10 years ago, SkiaSharp has long been the backbone of cross-platform 2D graphics in .NET. It powers graphics rendering across mobile, desktop, web, and server targets with consistent, high-quality output using the open-source Skia engine. SkiaS Link to article: …
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In the world of modern .NET development, applications need to maintain high throughput, scale rapidly, and most importantly, deliver performance and responsiveness in all circumstances. This becomes increasingly difficult as functional complexity increases, data sources expand, and we contend with ever-evolving …
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Say you want to have the functionality of a reader/writer lock, but have it work cross-process. The built-in SRWLOCK works only within a single process. Can we build a reader/writer lock that works across processes? For convenience, let's say that you want to support a maximum of N simultaneous readers, for s Link to …
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Today is the day. Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026, in partnership with AMD, is a free virtual developer event focused on building modern, scalable applications with Azure Cosmos DB. The Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/welcome-to-azure-cosmos-db-conf-2026
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Python Environments — April 2026 Release We're excited to announce the latest update to the Python Environments extension for Visual Studio Code. This release focuses on startup performance, reliability, Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-in-visual-studio-code-april-2026-release
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Azure Data Studio (ADS) retired on February 6, 2025, and support ended on February 28, 2026. The recommended path forward is Visual Studio Code with the MSSQL extension. If you used ADS daily, this guide gets you productive quickly in VS Code. The focus is on importing your existing setup, restoring familiar shortcuts …
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Overview Today, we are pleased to announce that Shader Model 6.10 and other features have been officially released with Agility SDK 1.720-preview and complementary DXC 1.10.2605.2. AgilitySDK 1.720-preview exposes the following features. There's more de Link to article: …
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Welcome to the D3D12 LinAlg Matrix Preview release! Today, we are excited to announce the preview release for the D3D12 Linear Algebra APIs! This feature set unlocks comprehensive hardware acceleration for Matrix-oriented operations across various use cases. Previously, we announced the Link to article: …
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In our exploration of calling conventions for various processors on Windows, we learned that in many cases, some of the parameters are passed in registers. Suppose that there is a function that takes two parameters, but you know that the function ignores the second parameter if the first parameter is positive. What …
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We're excited to announce that the Azure MCP Server is now available as an MCP Bundle (.mcpb). This means you can install the Azure MCP Server into Claude Desktop and other MCP-compatible clients Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk/azure-mcp-server-mcpb-support
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When people talk about building AI agents, they usually focus on models, tools, and prompts. In practice, one of the most important architectural decisions is much simpler: where does the conversation history live? Imagine a user asks your agent a complex question, clicks “try again,” explores tw Link to article: …
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One of the handy helpers in the Windows Implementation Library (WIL) is wil::scope_exit. We've used it to Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260424-00/?p=112266
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On March 31, 2026, malicious versions of the widely used JavaScript HTTP client library Axios were briefly published to the npm registry as part of a supply chain attack. The affected versions — 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 — included a hidden malicious dependency Link to article: …
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We're excited to announce that the Azure MCP Server is now available as an MCP Bundle (.mcpb). This means you can install the Azure MCP Server into Claude Desktop and other MCP-compatible clients Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk/azure-mcp-server-mcpb-support
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