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Today, we are excited to announce the second preview release of .NET 11! This release includes improvements across the .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, F#, Entity Framework Core, container images, and more. Check out the full release notes linked below and get started today. [cta-button …
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Welcome to our combined .NET servicing updates for March 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 and .NET Framework has been refreshed with the latest update as of March 10, 2026. This update …
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Mark your calendar and grab your new favorite t-shirt: Aspire Conf is happening March 23 at 9:00 AM PT, and everyone’s invited. Aspire Conf is our first online co Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspire/join-us-march-23-for-aspire-conf
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I noted in the past that Microsoft engineers had trouble fitting into the IBM corporate culture when on temporary assignment at IBM offices in Boca Raton, Florida. In particular, they struggled wit Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260310-00/?p=112131
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Coding agents are becoming part of everyday development, but quality of responses and usefulness still depends on the best context as input. That context comes in different forms starting from your environment, the code in the workspace, the model training knowledge, previous memory, agent instructions, and of course …
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Part 1 of the Azure Skills Plugin series Coding agents like GitHub Copilot and Claude Code are great at code, but getting your app to production on Azure is not just about writing co Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure/announcing-the-azure-skills-plugin
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Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.111 Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vscode-blog/march-2026-(version-1.111)
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Building AI agents is getting easier. Deploying them as part of a real application, with multiple services, persistent state, and production infrastructure, is where things get complicated. Developers from the .NET community have requested whether a real-world example that shows running on local machine as well as on …
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When I first found Visual Studio Dev Essentials, it felt like discovering a hidden door in the developer toolkit world. I’d heard about free tools and cloud credits, but I wasn’t sure if it would really matter in day-to-day coding Link to article: …
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Today we’re announcing the general availability of Email and SMS one‑time passcode (OTP) as second‑factor MFA for Native Authentication in Microsoft Entra External ID. This enables developers to add step‑up security to native sign‑in and sign‑up flows while keeping users fully inside their applications. This release …
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Some time ago, I was purchasing online tickets to an event. When I got to the end of the checkout flow, I got this: Your seats will be held for only a limited time. If you do not complete your transaction in time, your seats will be relea Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260309-01/?p=112120 …
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A customer was adding a feature to an old C++ code base, and the most convenient way to consume the feature was to use C++/WinRT. However, once they added C++/WinRT to their project, they ran into compiler errors in parts of their code that hadn't changed in decades. As an added wrinkle, the problem occurred only in …
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Business applications hold some of the most valuable data in an organization—customer’s financial records, sales pipeline, support cases, inventory orders—but that data has traditionally been locked behind app-specific experiences. Users switch between Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Outlook, and Teams to piece toget Link to …
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TL;DR Claude Opus 4.6 + Sonnet 4.6: Anthropic's frontier models arrive in Foundry with 1M-token context (beta), adaptive thinking, and context compaction — Opus for deep reasoning, Sonnet for cost-efficient scale. GPT-Realtime-1.5 & GPT-Audio-1.5: Next-gen audio models w Link to article: …
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We’re improving how add-ins appear on the ribbon in Outlook on the web and the new Outlook on Windows. These Outlook ribbon updates make add-ins easier to find and align the experience across Outlook clients. Improvements include: Showing the group name specified in your manifest for the add-in’s ribbon button (instead …
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Today we are excited to announce the Release Candidate (RC) of TypeScript 6.0! To get started using the RC, you can get it through npm with the following command: npm install -D typescript@rc TypeScript 6.0 is a unique release in t Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-6-0-rc
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A new release of the Microsoft build of Go including security fixes is now available for download. For more information about this release and the changes included, see the table below: Microsoft Release Upstream Tag Link to article: …
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A customer was using ReadDirectoryChangesW to monitor changes to a directory. However, they ran into a problem when they received a FILE_ACTION_REMOVED notification: Since the notification is raised when the item is deleted, they can't do a GetFileAttributesEx to find out whether Link to article: …
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Introduction: The Problem In a recent engagement, our team faced a complex challenge. Setting up a machine learning experiment required a long sequence of manual steps. None were individually hard, but together they created a fragile, error‑prone workflow. For example: – Users needed to provide key metadata (experiment …
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We briefly paused our quarterly release cycle to focus on reliability and performance, but now we're back with Windows Terminal 1.25! We are also updating Windows Terminal stable to version 1.24, which will include all of the features from Link to article: …
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