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Last time, I confessed that I lied when i said that we can't use std::unique_ptr to manage the registration cookie. T Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260807-00/?p=112597
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When a test fails in CI, "the build is red" is only the starting point. The useful questions are whether this change caused the failure, whether the test has failed before, and where to find the evidence. If answering them means searching a job log, downloading an artifact, and finding the teammate who …
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Software is shifting from apps built for people to agents that can reason over context and act on someone's behalf. Microsoft 365 Copilot put that shift in front of hundreds of millions of users, and Work IQ gave agents a production-ready intelligence layer to build on. What's been missing is the path in between: …
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It's now easier to track development progress without leaving your Kanban board. Azure Boards now displays pull request annotations directly on work item cards, making it easy to see at a glance when work is actively moving through code review. Link to article: …
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We're excited to announce the Azure DevOps service connection, a new way to access Azure DevOps from your pipelines using a Microsoft Entra workload identity (a service principal or managed identity) instead of a Personal Access Token (PAT) or session token. This post walks through what it is, how to set it up, and the …
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Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.132 Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vscode-blog/visual-studio-code-1.132
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Today, we're excited to announce the general availability of the Azure DevOps MCP Server 🎉 The Azure DevOps MCP Server gives AI assistants secure, contextual access to your Azure DevOps projects so they can help you plan, build, and ship software more effectively. With the Link to article: …
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A year ago, I wrote a .NET Blog post about running GPT-OSS locally with Ollama and C#. That sample used IChatClient from Microsoft.Extensions.AI to build one of the most familiar Local AI scenarios: a chat application. Chat is a great place Link to article: …
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Developers increasingly want to build agents that can reason about code, modify files, execute commands, interact with developer tools, and work across entire repositories. While GitHub Copilot already provides a powerful coding harness for these scenarios, developers often need additional capabili Link to article: …
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Just as https://devblogs.microsoft.com/insidemsix/there-is-no-install-its-stage-and-register/ explained that Install is not truly an installation operation in MSIX, Remove is similarly not an uninstall operation. This can be surprising - sometimes even alarming - to developers coming from traditional installer tech …
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Grounding an assistant in runbooks is the easy half. The interesting engineering is in the boundary between what a model proposes and what an authenticated person actually authorizes. An operations assistant stops being a demo the moment it can act. Answering "which runbook covers this alert" is a search …
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Many developers publish packages to NuGet.org via API keys. In recent years, API keys and Personal Access Tokens (PATs) have been frequently used as an attack vector to gain access to systems. There are multiple problems with API keys and PATs; the two biggest ones are that they are loose strings that are easy to lose, …
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A common request to a coding agent is only one line: Generate unit tests. That request leaves important questions open. Which code needs tests? Which test framework does the project use? Where should the tests go? How does the build find them? What should the tests check? The agent can learn from the repository, Link …
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Dataverse Native Authorization Model for Power Pages How mapped identities, security roles, and record filters move external-user authorization closer to the data. We’re introducing a major update to the Power Pages security model: authorization for external users is now enforced natively in Dataverse. Customers Link …
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