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Slow builds are a consistent theme of feedback from C++ developers. We built GitHub Copilot build performance for Windows so you can leverage Copilot to optimize your project’s build times. This workflow will find optimizations that bring your build times down. At first, we only measured the impact of build …
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Last time, we speculated on how the buggy control panel extension truncated a value that it had right in front of it. When we sent our analysis to the Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260717-00/?p=112541
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You shipped a skill that calls an API. The agent uses it, user get results. But how do you know the results are good? How do you know your last change didn't quietly break the happy path, or that switching models won't regress the scenarios you already got right? You need to evaluate. Run your skill through a set of …
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Introduction: The Problem Imagine a catalog of 50,000 visual assets—characters, environments, props—and no way to search them except scrolling. Someone asks: "Find me all the night scenes with a warrior holding a weapon." Without structured metadata, that search is impossible. Manual tagging does not scale. …
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We’re excited to announce the general availability of unified manifest support for Word, Excel, PowerPoint Add-ins, in addition to Outlook Add-ins. Unified manifest support first launched for Outlook Add-ins. Now, it extends across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, making it possible to build a single app that works across …
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Pure Virtual C++ 2026 streams Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/pure-virtual-cpp-2026-meet-the-speakers-part-3-modernizing-c
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Perhaps you have seen SET NOCOUNT ON; at the beginning of a stored procedure and wondered why it is there. By default, SQL Server uses SET NOCOUNT OFF;, which sends messages such as “(10 rows affected) Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql/tsql-nocount
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We've built a new course to help you navigate the journey when you're the owner of an application built on a legacy .NET framework and it needs to be modernized. The whole concept of modernization is overwhelming! Security updates aren't being issued any longer! Dependencies are out of date because they're not being …
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Recently, a customer building servers with the Azure Functions Model Context Protocol (MCP) extension reached out and asked: How do I handle tools that take longer than the client is willing to wait? This becomes especially relevant when tool calls move beyond simple request/response into multi-step workflows and …
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Organizations are increasingly looking for greater Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-administrator-join-our-private-marketplace-preview
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Last time, we found that a crash in a control panel extension was caused by pointer truncation. The code had a perfectly good 64-bit pointer in its hand, but somehow lo Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260716-00/?p=112539
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The MSVC Build Tools Preview is updated regularly with the latest features and fixes from the MSVC development team. This post covers updates from the past month, currently targeting the v14.52 release. This encompasses changes across the compiler frontend, backend, linker, standard library, and related tools. Although …
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The MSSQL extension for VS Code v1.44 continues to improve the SQL development experience with features that help you work faster and customize your workflow. In this release, we're introducing the Public Preview of Shortcuts Configuration and an Link to article: …
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Your Python agents can now pick up reusable bundles of domain expertise (instructions, reference material, and scripts that load only when a task calls for them) through a stable, production-ready API. Agent Skills for Python in Microsoft Agent Framework is stable and shipping: the core skills API has no experimental …
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Learn what is new in Visual Studio Code 1.129. Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vscode-blog/visual-studio-code-1.129
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You open the model picker, scroll past a dozen options, and pause. How are these models different? Which one should you actually use? And once you're a few hundred messages deep, how much capacity is even left before things start dropping off? We've all been there. These are the kinds of questions Visual Studio now …
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The number one crash in the display control panel looks like this: rax=ffffffff924bbde0 rbx=0000000000000001 rcx=0000000000030440 rdx=0000000000000002 rsi=0000000000030440 rdi=0000000080006011 rip=00007ffac835cd1e rsp=000000155e48e3f8 rbp=000000155e48e749 r8=0000000000000000 r9=0000000000000000 r10=007fffffffe41b69 …
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This is the eighth and final article in a series about Agent Experience (AX): the practice of making AI coding agents work correctly with your technology. The series covers what you can and can't control in the agent stack, how to measure whether your extensions are helping or hurting, and how to iterate toward better …
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In large C++ codebases, your code understanding and navigation depend on quickly determining how symbols, declarations, definitions, and references are connected across your project. In Visual Studio Insiders 18.9, the new whole codebase indexing (WCI) enhances the existing browse database via a deeper, more …
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Welcome to our combined .NET servicing updates for July 2026. Let's get into the latest release of .NET & .NET Framework, here is a quick overview of what's new in our servicing releases: Security improvements .NET has been refreshed with the latest update as of July 14, 2026. This update contains security and …
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