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Azure Backup for Azure Cosmos DB is a new option that lets you securely protect and recover your Azure Cosmos DB data for compliance, audit, and ransomware protection scenarios. It leverages Azure Backup’s vault isolation and Azure Cosmos DB’s native backup streams to deliver scalable, long-term data protection that …
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Have you tried asking GitHub Copilot about Aspire 13 or the new Agent Framework and found it either hallucinated an answer or told you that those things didn’t exist? This happens because the model used was trained before those things did exist, so it doesn’t know how to answer or help you. As you continue to innovate …
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As with every release, we publish a blog post about the new and interesting changes and additions in .NET networking space. This time, we are writing about HTTP improvements, new web sockets APIs, security Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-10-networking-improvements
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Building AI agents with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is powerful, but when it comes to hosting your MCP server in production, you need a solution that's reliable, scalable, and cost-effective. What if you could deploy your regular Node.js MCP server to a serverless platform that handles scaling automatically while …
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With the release of Aspire 13, Python has been elevated to a first-class citizen alongside .NET and JavaScript, transforming Aspire into a truly polyglot application platform. The new Aspire.Hosting.Python package provides comprehensive support for developing, debugging, and deploying Python applications within …
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Windows has three built-in text formats for the clipboard: CF_UNICODETEXT: UTF-16 text. CF_TEXT: 8-bit text in ANSI code page. CF_OEMTEXT: 8-bit text in OEM code page. If you don't provide all three formats, then the system Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251208-00/?p=111849
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2025 was a year of incredible progress for AI and our industry as a whole. At Microsoft and GitHub, we've innovated beyond isolated chats and prompts to building systems that collaborate with connected workflows and operational intelligence. This shift can be seen across the stack, from Microsoft Foundry, to GitHub …
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A customer wanted to know how their C# program could read its own standard output. They tried this: // Get my process Process p = Process.GetCurrentProcess(); // Make sure my standard output is not redirected p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false; p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = false; // Now read it -- fails string …
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At .NET Conf 2025 we celebrated the official launch of .NET 10 and Visual Studio 2026. The event provided a deeper dive into the world of .NET for developers worldwide and there were many announcements across the entir Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-conf-2025-recap
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As artificial intelligence continues to reshape industries and redefine the boundaries of innovation, Microsoft is proud to announce a leap forward in secure, high-performance computing in our Secret and Top Secret clouds: the integration of NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs into Azure’s AI infrastructure. This advancement …
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Ever since MCP launched, every customer has asked the same thing: Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure/locking-down-mcp-create-a-private-registry-on-azure-api-center-and-enforce-it-in-github-copilot-and-vs-code
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A customer wanted to know if they could read the standard output of an already-running process. They didn't explain why, but my guess is that their main process launches a helper process (not written by them) to begin some workflow, and eventually that helper process launches a console process, which produces the …
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There are many scenarios where Copilot Chat can feel limited by the built-in model training data. Maybe you want guidance on the latest web framework, documentation, or project-specific resources—but Copilot’s responses just aren’t specific enough. For developers who rely on up-to-date or esoteric …
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We're excited to announce the release of Dev Proxy v2.0. Following semantic versioning (SemVer), we're bumping the major version due to breaking changes in this release. While these changes are small, they improve Dev Proxy's accuracy and behavior - and we want you to be aware of them. This release also br Link to …
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MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a standard protocol that enables AI agents to securely connect with apps, data, and systems, supporting easy interoperability and seamless platform expansion. At Ignite, Microsoft Foundry introduced Foundry Too Link to article: …
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When building AI applications, context is key. AI models have a knowledge cutoff and do not have access to your personal or company data by default. To generate high-quality answers, AI apps need two things: Access to high-quality data The ability to surface the right information at the right time Link to article: …
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A straight look at what’s behind the keys We’ve all tried unlearning a keyboard shortcut - it feels like forgetting how to breathe. Muscle memory doesn’t mess around. We wrestle with this every time someone suggest a “quick” shortcut change. It’s not just editing a keybinding but navigating a history that makes Visual …
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A customer wanted to accept a directory entered by the user and verify that the user has permission to create files in that folder. The directory itself might not even be on a local hard drive; it could be a DVD or a remote network volume. They tried calling GetFileAttributes, but all they were told was that it was a …
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Liked this blog post? It was originally posted on Safia Abdalla's blog, https://blog.safia.rocks/, check out more content there! OK, sit down folks, because this one is gonna be a long one. This is the all-encompassing blog post about the thing I'v Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspire/aspire-pipelines …
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