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Part 1 of 4 - The Multimodal Database Series This is a four-part series about what happens when a single database engine handles relational, document, graph, vector, and analytical workloads natively - and what you stop paying for when it does. You spin up a database, point an agent at it, and start building. The f …
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Here's what shipped in azd this February! This post covers release versions 1.23.3, 1.23.4, Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk/azure-developer-cli-azd-february-2026
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Last time, we looked at recognizing that the user clicked the Close button (or equivalent nonclient gestures) on a dialog. The other system-provided pathway to dismissi Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260225-00/?p=112087
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We move towards spring 2026 with strong momentum across the SharePoint Framework and an increasing sense of excitement across the ecosystem. SPFx continues to be a foundational platform for building intelligent, secure, and scalable experiences across Microsoft 365, with adoption growing and feedback from customers and …
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Every experience in Office is designed using the principle "the user is in control." It’s critical that customers are the ones who make choices about their user experience, ensuring it fits their specific needs and workflows. Customers have asked for greater user control over add-in launch behavior in Office. …
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An 82-year-old German industrial engineer, a 22-year-old UI framework, and an AI that finally understands WinForms Designer serialization walk into a hotel room at midnight. There's no punchline. Just a dead dongle and a dead ... line. Well, I admit, it's sort of hard to believe, but how these three are connected is …
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This month’s Visual Studio update continues our focus on helping you move faster and stay in flow, with practical improvements across AI assistance, debugging, testing, and modernization. Building on the momentum from January’s editor updates, the February release brings smarter diagnostics and targeted support for …
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We're excited to announce improved Python support for the Azure Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server! Python developers can now install and run Azure MCP Server directly from PyPI using familiar tools like uvx and pip. Whether you're Link to article: …
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We started by exploring the signals the dialog manager uses for dismissing a dialog. Now we can use that information to customize the dismiss behavior. Let's start with a diagr Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260224-00/?p=112082
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Last year we published AI Dev Gallery, an open-source app full of interactive Windows AI examples. A common follow-up question from Electron developers has been: “How can we build similar on-device AI experiences in our Electron Link to article: …
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Last time, we saw that GetAsyncKeyState is not the way to detect whether the ESC key was down at the time the current input Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260223-00/?p=112080
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Data API builder (DAB) supports multi-source configurations Data API builder (DAB) connects to your database with a safe REST or GraphQL endpoint. But DAB is not limited to just one database. Using a multi-source configuration, you can connect to more than one database simultaneously. Learn more about Data A Link to …
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For two decades, I've Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260220-01/?p=112076
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Suppose you want to distinguish between dismissing a dialog by pressing ESC and dismissing a dialog by clicking the Close button. One suggestion I saw was to call GetAsyncKeyState(VK_ESCAPE) to check whether the ESC is down. In general, any time you see GetAsyncKeySt Link to article: …
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Introduction: The Problem Agentic systems have some discretion in the parameters they send to tooling, but there are cases, such as experimentation, when you need 100% adherence to a set of parameters. In practice, this tension exists because modern LLM-based agents are optimized for semantic correctness and …
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We're thrilled to announce that Microsoft Agent Framework has reached Release Candidate status for both .NET and Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/semantic-kernel/migrate-your-semantic-kernel-and-autogen-projects-to-microsoft-agent-framework-release-candidate
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We're happy to announce that Microsoft Agent Framework is now in Release Candidate status for both .NET and Python. Release Candidate is an important milestone on the road to General Availability — it means the A Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/microsoft-agent-framework-reaches-release-candidate …
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Agents in Visual Studio now go beyond a single general-purpose assistant. We're shipping a set of curated preset agents that tap into deep IDE capabilities; debugging, profiling, testing alongside a framework for building your own custom agents tailored to how your team works. Built in agents Each preset agent is …
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C++ code navigation and build system tooling play an important role in the developer inner-loop. Code navigation tooling provides a precise, semantic understanding of your codebase, while build system tooling helps you express build configurations and variants for reproducible builds. In the VS Code ecosystem, these …
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There are a few different built-in ways to close a dialog box in the classic Windows dialog manager. Let's run them down. First, there's hitting the ESC key. The ESC key, as with all keyboard navigation, is handled by the IsDialogMessage function. Assuming that the dialog control with f Link to article: …
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