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Debugging distributed apps is hard. When something goes wrong, the problem could be in any service, and the evidence is scattered across separate log streams, trace collectors, and configuration sources. Aspire makes telemetry a first-class concern by configuring OpenTelemetry by default and collecting all telemetry in …
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This month's Visual Studio update gives you new ways to customize GitHub Copilot. Custom agents allow you to build specialized Copilot agents tailored to your team's workflow, backed by the tools and knowledge sources that matter to your project. Alongside that, agent skills bring reusable instruction sets, and a new …
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My colleagues over in enterprise product support often get corporate customers who report that "Your latest update broke our system." After studying the problem (which is usually quite laborious because they have to go back and forth with the customer to capture logs and dumps and traces), they eventually …
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The Azure Developer CLI (azd) shipped seven releases in March 2026. Most notably, azd now has a local run-and-debug loop for AI agents, GitHub Copilot–powered project setup, and Container App Jobs deployment. Here's what's in versions 1.2 Link to article: …
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In this post, we explore how to write Azure service-related unit tests for Spring Boot projects using Docker and Spring Cloud Azure. What is Spring Cloud Azure? Spring Cloud Azure is an open-source project that makes it easier to use Azure services in Spring applications. For more information about this topic, see the …
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A customer wanted to know the maximum number of values that can be stored in a single registry key. They found that they ran into problems when they reached a certain number of values, which was well over a quarter million. Okay, wait a second. Why are you adding over a quarter million values to a registry key!? The …
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So far, we've been looking at how a dialog box owner can customize the dialog message loop. But what about the dialog itself? Can the dialog customize its own dialog message loop? Sure. It just has to steal the messages from its owner. The dialog box can subclass its owner and grab the WM_ENTERIDLE mess Link to …
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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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We're implementing a significant update in our service affecting applications that modify sensitive email properties on non-draft email messages. These sensitive email properties include the subject, body, recipients, and a number of other properties when changed using any of the Link to article: …
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Aspire 13.2 brings TypeScript AppHost support to the same application model that existing Aspire users already know. You still define resources, references, startup dependencies, endpoints, and deployment intent in code. You still get the same dashboard, service disc Link to article: …
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Last time, we looked at how the owner of a dialog can take control just before the dialog box message loop goes idle. I said that I pulled a trick Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260326-00/?p=112167
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The landscape of AI development has evolved dramatically. Modern intelligent agents require real-time web access to provide accurate, grounded responses. With the retirement of direct Bing Search API access, developers must transition from direct Link to article: …
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Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.113 Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vscode-blog/visual-studio-code-1.113
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A customer wanted to know how to change a dialog box's message loop so that it used MsgWaitForMultipleObjects instead of GetMessage. (I'm guessing that they had a handle that they wanted to wait on while the dialog was up.) The standard dialog box message loop checks only for messages, not kernel handles. Link to …
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March 2026 continues the momentum for the SharePoint Framework and the broader Microsoft 365 ecosystem, with a strong mix of platform progress, community energy, and clear signals about where SPFx is heading next. As we move deeper into the year, SPFx remains a critical foundation for modern e Link to article: …
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And the developers running Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI didn't notice... [caption id="attachment_2050" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure/your-entire-engineering-floor-just-stopped-coding
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Microsoft Entra is a globally distributed service that provides identity and access management to millions of customers world-wide. To scale reliably and remain resilient during failures, Microsoft Entra uses an eventually consistent directory model. Key takeaway A successful write to Microsoft Entra does not guarantee …
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A few months ago, I was talking with a developer who said something that stuck with me: “I love building apps. I just don’t love rebuilding the same UI controls over and over again.” Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/syncfusion-for-visual-studio
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Back in the days of 16-bit Windows, many system components were redistributable, meaning that programs that used those components could include a copy of those system components and install them onto the system as part of the program's installer. The guidance for installing the system components was that if the …
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We recently released a step-by-step course f Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/%f0%9f%93%a2langchain4j-got-a-new-video-series
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