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At Microsoft, we are constantly exploring innovative ways to enhance our workflows, improve productivity, and ensure we have a secure supply chain that uses modern tools. One of our recent initiatives was to rebuild the .NET Framework build system by leveraging AI to automate the process. Here’s the story of how we …
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Azure AI Foundry extension for Visual Studio Code April 2025 Update Azure AI Foundry is a trusted platform for designing, customizing, and managing AI applications, with a portal that enables secure data integration, model customization, and enterprise-grade governance. Earlier this month, we announced the public …
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The Remote File Explorer in Visual Studio provides developers with a convenient way to browse, view, and edit files on remote machines—directly from within the IDE. It’s a powerful tool for managing remote environments without leaving your development workflow. Scott Hanselman published a new YouTube video to his …
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Introducing the next-gen images playground in Azure AI Foundry, a high-fidelity UX sandbox for developers to rapidly prototype with state-of-the-art image generation models like gpt-image-1 from Azure OpenAI Service 1. This playground enables real-time experimentation, prompt optimization, and integration with …
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Still one definition, but two types. Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250501-00/?p=111134
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Dev Proxy v0.27 is even more developer-friendly, helping you generate API specs faster, improving suggestions while editing, and laying the foundation for more flexible AI integrations. Link to article: …
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Overview We are excited to introduce Schema Compare in the MSSQL Extension for VS Code! It can be tedious to manually manage and synchronize different database versions. Enter Schema Compare, the powerful new feature for MSSQL in VS Code that transforms this tedious task into a seamless experience. With intuitive …
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In this post, learn how to setup a DevOps pipeline to build and publish a .NET MAUI library with GitHub Actions. Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-maui-libraries-github-actions
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Disagreements over the fine print. Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250430-00/?p=111129
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The GitHub Copilot for Xcode extension now allows you to ask questions about your entire codebase using the @workspace context. Additionally, we have integrated support for new models, including OpenAI GPT-4.1, GPT-4.5, o3, o4-mini, Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude 3.7 Sonnet, to enhance your chat conversations and introduce …
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We are thrilled to unveil exciting new enhancements in the My Virtual Machine view within Azure DevTest Labs that will revolutionize your VM management experience. With these updates, managing your virtual machines has never been easier or more efficient. Imagine being able to multi-select VMs to start, stop, restart, …
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Granting an exception to a system policy. Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250429-42/?p=111127
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This post highlights the latest features and updates in Azure AI Foundry for April 2025, focusing on new models, agents, and tools that enhance AI development capabilities. Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-azure-ai-foundry-april-2025
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Pure Virtual C++ is our free, one-day, virtual conference for the whole C++ community. It’s running live tomorrow, 30th April, from 14:00 to 16:30 UTC. The talks are: 14:00 UTC: Welcome to v1.0 of the meta::[[verse]]! with Inbal Levi 14:30 UTC: Proxy: Next Generation Polymorphism with Mingxin Wang 15:00 UTC: Making …
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Today we’re excited to welcome Jonathan David, as a guest author on the Semantic Kernel blog. We’ll turn it over to Jonathan to dive into Letting AI Help Make the World More Accessible – Analyzing Website Accessibility with Semantic Kernel and OmniParser. With the European Accessibility Act and Germany’s …
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In this blog post, we will provide some guidelines on how to mitigate prompt injection attacks in Model Context Protocol (MCP) and share the steps Microsoft has taken to address emerging risks such as this one for our customers. MCP is an open protocol spearheaded by Anthropic that defines a standardized interface for …
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Have you ever encountered unexpected issues due to file encoding when working in cross-platform environments? These frustrating problems can disrupt your workflow and consume valuable time. Visual Studio addresses these concerns with a new feature – the Default File Encoding option. You can now specify the encoding …
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We are excited to announce the public preview release of the ASP.NET Core OData Web API Template Pack. This template helps you create an ASP.NET Core Web API project with OData support, providing a streamlined setup for .NET 8.0 and above. The following preview release is now available on NuGet: …
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It's waiting for Godot and eventually gives up. Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250428-00/?p=111121
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Ever wished your AI agents could tap into live data or execute actions beyond their built-in capabilities? Enter Model Context Protocol (MCP)—a game-changer for integrating external tools and data sources directly into your Copilot Studio agents. 🧠 What is MCP? Think of MCP as a universal adapter for AI applications. …
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