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When I presented my study of a crash caused by a thread executing from an unloaded third-party DLL, someone asked how I concluded that CcNamespace.dll was the ringleader of the fa Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260703-00/?p=112504
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Context In a recent engagement, the team built an LLM-based contract intelligence pipeline on Azure Databricks. The goal was to extract entitlements from a large corpus of inconsistently formatted service-contract PDFs — what is covered, on which equipment, and under which terms — so downstream systems can tell what is …
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The talks are set for Pure Virtual C++ 2026, our free, one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community. We're excited to reveal the featured session lineup and the speakers bringing it to you. Ma Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/pure-virtual-cpp-2026-talks-announced
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The Explorer team was investigating a crash that was occuring at a relatively high rate and found that it took the form of a thread executing from an unloaded third-party DLL. 0:173> k RetAddr Call Site 00000000557c5820 <Unloaded_LibUtils_CloudNs_3.dll>+0x265fe 0000000000000008 <Unloaded_LibU Link to …
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Building automated pipelines with your SQL database projects enables you to build a rich CI/CD ecosystem to ensure that your application is being deployed with good quality code and at high confidence of success. SQL Database Projects are compatible with just about every automation environment because fundamentally …
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All modern AI solutions eventually need agents to query or mutate data in Microsoft SQL. Deciding how to do this safely, for example, how to handle NL2SQL, will be an important choice. Next come the twins: authentication and authorization. In this article, we discuss pass-through agentic authentic Link to article: …
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Learn what is new in Visual Studio Code 1.127 Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vscode-blog/visual-studio-code-1.127
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Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.128 (Insiders) Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vscode-blog/visual-studio-code-1.128-(insiders)
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This is the sixth article in a series about Agent Experience (AX): the practice of making AI coding agents work correctly with your technology. The series covers what you can and can't control in the agent stack, how to measure whether your extensions are helping or hurting, and how to iterate toward better outcomes. …
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A security vulnerability report arrived that went roughly like this: An attacker can bypass security policies by modifying the following registry keys to disable ⟦security feature 1⟧ and ⟦security feature 2⟧. The statement is true, but what they don't mention is that administrator privileg Link to article: …
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We’re halfway through 2026, and Microsoft SQL has not slowed down. Since SQLCon/FabCon in March (where we released a ton of things, and those updates can be found in this udpates video), we shipped a wave of updates across SQL Server, Azure SQL, and SQL database in Fabric, with M Link to article: …
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GitHub Copilot is now a first-class, native option in JetBrains AI Assistant agent picker(read more). You can select it directly from the chat interface, no extra configuration need Link to article: …
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June brings one of the most significant updates to SharePoint Framework in recent years with the introduction of SharePoint Copilot Apps. Where May was about reaching general availability of SPFx 1.23 and setting our foundation, June is about pointing that foundation at w Link to article: …
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In May, Data API builder (DAB) 2.0 was released to preview, and in June it went generally available. With this new release, DAB introduced a new feature for REST endpoints: the ability to customize endpoints with compound paths. This feature allows developers to compose a sophisticated API surface dedicated to their …
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In a previous post we introduced the Microsoft Binlog MCP Server and showed how an AI assistant can investigate MSBuild binary logs through natural language. Picture the payoff in CI: a pull request build fails, and instead of a human downloading Link to article: …
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MSIX supports making a package available to all users; the formal term is provisioning. Provisioning a package family makes it available to all users, whereas registration makes a package available to a single user. Per-User vs All Users Traditional installers often provide a "per-machine" installation mode …
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Mailbox requirement set 1.16 is now generally available for Outlook add-ins. This release reflects our continued investment in closing the gap between COM/VSTO and web add-ins, with a focus on message and information security. Mail Link to article: …
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During my discussion of the evolution of system-windows window and class extra bytes, I noted that even though IDs are typically small integers, people liked to stash pointers there, so we Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260630-00/?p=112488
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We're excited to release React Native Windows 0.84.0, aligned with React Native 0.84.1. React Native Windows v0.84 delivers input-handling improvements such as standard click events and imperative focus, theme-aware defaults and robust hit-testing semantics. Link to article: …
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.NET 8 and .NET 9 will reach end of support on November 10, 2026. After that date, Microsoft will no longer provide servicing updates, security fixes, or technical support for these versions. We recommend upgrading to Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-8-9-end-of-support
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