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With Visual Studio 2026 version 18.0 getting closer to General Availability (GA), we want to share with you how you can upgrade your projects from your current versions of Visual Studio and the Microsoft C++ (MSVC) Build Tools to the latest versions. Link to article: …
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You might, for some reason, be building some XAML in code rather than markup. Starting with this XAML: <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251030-00/?p=111746
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We continue to be humbled by the incredible momentum of SharePoint Framework (SPFx) and the growth it is driving with our customers and partners. There are tens of millions of users across the world using custom SPFx solutions on a daily basis in Microsoft 365 – built by our customers and pa Link to article: …
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The October 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 (v17.14) is now available. In this month, we are bringing you improvements to model choices, agentic flows, and chat thread management. Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-october-update
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We're thrilled to announce the release of Dev Proxy v1.3.0! This update introduces two powerful new plugins: HAR file generation for universal debugging and LLM usage tracking for cost optimization, along with enhanced permissions analysis and improved OpenAPI spec generation for complex testing scenarios. In this …
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Hello Java customers! We are happy to announce the latest July 2025 patch & security update release for the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK. Download and install the binaries today. OpenJDK 25.0.1 OpenJDK 21.0.9 OpenJDK 17.0.17 OpenJDK 11.0.29 Link to article: …
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In the next few months, Microsoft will be removing the legacy authentication protocol known as IDCRL (Identity Client Run Time Library) in SharePoint and force calls to rely on OpenID connect and OAuth Protocols. Since 2018, regular sign-in for services such as OneDrive and SharePoint has always relied on the more …
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AI is changing how we build software, but it also introduces new challenges: how do you know if your AI application is giving the right answers and producing the right outcomes? Evaluations (often referred to simply as ‘evals’) provide a structured way to measure quality so you can trust your results. In this blog, …
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[alert type="important"]GitHub Copilot app modernization for C++, GitHub Copilot build performance for Windows, and C++ code editing tools for GitHub Copilot will be available soon in Private Preview. Join the waitlist for Private Preview today.[/alert] Yesterday at GitHub Universe, Gi Link to article: …
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We’re deprecating the previewImageUrl property in the resourceVisualization complex type for Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/deprecation-of-the-previewimageurl-property-for-insights-items-that-reference-file-attachments
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Windows Control Flow Guard (CFG) is a defense in depth feature which validates indirect call targets. The idea is that each module that is enabled for CFG provides a bitmap that describes which addresses in the module are intended to be targets of indirect calls. When CFG is enabled in a process, indirect function …
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With GitHub’s announcement of Copilot Custom Agents, developers now have powerful new tools to automate and accelerate their workflows. These custom agents enhance Copilot by serving as intelligent accelerators with specialized expertise, able to analyze codebases, plan tasks, and execu Link to article: …
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Today, we’re not just shipping software, we’re opening the door to a new era of cloud automation and AI-powered development. Azure MCP server 1.0 is now officially available as a stable release! If you’re a developer, an AI enthusiast, or just someone who loves seeing what’s possible when cloud a Link to article: …
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MCP registry and allowlist controls for GitHub Copilot in JetBrains IDEs and Eclipse are now available in public preview in nightly/pre-release builds. Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/mcp-registry-and-allowlist-controls-for-copilot-in-jetbrains-and-eclipse-now-in-public-preview
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We’re excited to announce that MCP Registry and Allowlist Controls in GitHub Copilot for Xcode are now available in public preview in pre-release builds. These capabilities help Xcode developers discover, install, and manage Model Context Protocol (MCP) Link to article: …
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This article was co-authored by Zack Rossman, Staff Software Engineer, Veeam; Ashlie Martinez, Staff Software Engineer, Veeam; and James Nguyen, Senior Principal Cloud Solution Architect, AI/ML, Microsoft. Don't miss: Hear all about about Veeam's AI-powered semantic search use case and architecture setup Link to …
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A long time ago, somebody asked, "How did the new Windows 95 user interface get brought to the Windows NT code base? The development of Windows 95 lined up with the endgame of Windows NT 3.1, so how did the finished Windows 95 code get brought to the Windows NT code base for Windows NT 4.0? Did they reimplement it …
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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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A denial of service vulnerability report was filed against a program, let's call it Notepad. The actual text of the report was very hard to understand because the grammar was all messed up. I'll give the finder the benefit of the doubt on the assumption that they are not a native English speaker. Here's a cleaned-up …
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