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I struggled to get started. For ages, I kept putting off building this website, creating a new programming language for Visual Studio, and coming up with fresh color themes. Each project looked overwhelming, and I couldn’t find the time or motivation to jump in. It all just felt like too much at once. But when a …
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Many languages¹ that have exceptions also have a finally clause, so you can write try { ⟦ stuff ⟧ } finally { always(); } A quick checks shows that this control structure exists in Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, but not C++. C++ says, "We have try...finally at home." Link to article: …
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Delivering high-quality software requires clarity, speed, and collaboration. That’s why we introduced the New Test Run Hub in Azure Test Plans. A modern, streamlined experience designed to make test execution and analysis fast and Link to article: …
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Welcome to the December 2025 edition of the Azure Developer CLI (azd) release blog—our final release of the year! This post covers releases 1.22.0 through 1.22.5, wrapping up 2025. To share your feedback and questions, join the December release discussion on GitHub. Link to article: …
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Security vulnerabilities don't fix themselves. Someone needs to track them, prioritize them, and actually ship the fix. If you've ever tried to manage security alerts alongside your regular sprint work, though, you know the friction: you're looking at an alert in one tab, switching to your backlog in another, trying to …
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Say you have a shortcut file and you want to see what its target is. The natural thing to do is to call IShellLink::GetPath, which returns S_FALSE if the shortcut does not target a path, or returns S_OK and a path to the target. But for some shortcuts, it returns S_OK but produces a Link to article: …
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TL;DR Move from prototype to production in hours, not weeks: The new Microsoft Agent Framework and Hosted Agents let you build, test, and deploy multi-agent AI systems with enterprise-grade security—no Kubernetes or container headaches. Orchestrate any model, anywhere: Model Link to article: …
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Introduction AI coding agents/assistants such as GitHub Copilot have become common in modern software engineering workflows. Their strengths—rapid pattern completion, context-aware suggestions, and the ability to learn style from local code—stem from broad training on large corpora of public, general-purpose code. …
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For the past few articles (starting with conversion between CF_OEMTEXT and CF_TEXT), we've been looking at how Windows performs text conversion Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251218-00/?p=111882
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Introduction: The Challenge In the early days of Microsoft Copilot Studio, our team noticed a recurring pattern. Across customer engagements, organizations were consistently struggling to integrate copilots with Azure AI Search. Organizations were consistently struggling to integrate copilot with Azure AI Search - not …
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Connecting the Dots: How Graph Databases Drive Innova Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/janusgraph-azure-cassandra-graph-databases
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DirectX12 shipped in 2015 with a simple goal: give developers more control so games run faster, look better, and scale across Windows PC and console. Over the last decade, DirectX 12 delivered on that promise. We added features and made it easier for developers to focus on gameplay & graphics by providing more …
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Aspire 13.1 - Our holiday gift to you 🎁 Before we head off for the holidays, we wanted to leave you with one more release. Aspire 13.1 is packed with improvements to make your AI coding assistants first-class citizens in your development workflow, along with CLI enhancements, dashboard refinements, and streamlined …
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We've been looking at how Windows performs automatic conversion between the three text formats CF_TEXT, CF_OEMTEXT, and CF_UNICODETEXT. The use of UTF-8 as the 8-bit character set is growing in popularity, and Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251217-00/?p=111880
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Email is a key part of how people get things done, whether it’s booking a reservation, confirming a package delivery, or managing a cab reservation. But as inboxes become increasingly cluttered, important transactional information often gets buried. Users are forced to open multip Link to article: …
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In our previous blog we introduced Azure Command Launcher for Java (jaz) —a safe, resource-aware way to launch the JVM without hand-tuning dozens of flags. This follow-up shares performance results, focusing on Link to article: …
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In November, we introduced C++ code editing tools for GitHub Copilot as a Private Preview, focusing on partnering with customers to tackle one of the common, taxing challenges for C++ development: refactoring at s Link to article: …
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Earlier this year, we announced that all major .NET test frameworks now support Microsoft.Testing.Platform. The next logical step? Making sure it works seamlessly with your CI/CD pipelines. Today, we're announcing comprehensive Azure DevOps integration for Microsof Link to article: …
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It starts the way these things always start. A red build. Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-2026-debugging-with-copilot
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Our investigation of why the CF_OEMTEXT clipboard format is not being created from CF_TEXT via AnsiToOem led us to the realization that Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251216-00/?p=111873
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