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After a busy January (catch up here), we're shifting focus to reliability and refinement. This month is about Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/roadmap-for-ai-in-visual-studio-february
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Auto-install azd extensions in dev containers Welcome to the first azd mini blog! Things move fast - new features ship, and it's easy to miss something useful. These short posts (1-minute reads, we promise) highlight features the team ships that you want to know about. No fluff, just what it is, why it m Link to …
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When Visual Studio 2026 reached General Availability in November, it included several versions of the Microsoft C++ (MSVC) Build Tools: 14.50 (initially shipped with Visual Studio 2026) 14.44 (initially Link to article: …
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We recently released the GitHub Copilot Coding Agent for Azure Boards to all customers. If you’re not already familiar with it, we recommend taking a few minutes to read this blog post for an overview and details. One of the top requests from cust Link to article: …
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I've set up a lot of dev machines in my life. Traditionally, this takes a lot of time to get everything just right, but now there's a faster way with WinGet Configuration files. Let me show you how to go from a fresh Windows install to a fully configured Link to article: …
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Learn what is new in the Visual Studio Code January 2026 Release (1.109). Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vscode-blog/january-2026-(version-1.109)
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Learn what is new in the Visual Studio Code January 2026 Release (1.109). Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/external-blogs/january-2026-insiders-version-1-109
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We are currently living through the "fragmentation phase" of the AI revolution. If you’re a developer, you know the drill: You have Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure/the-os-for-intelligence-how-github-bridges-the-fragmented-ai-landscape
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This upcoming Sunday is Super Bowl LX, the championship game of the top professional American football league. The Super Bowl thinks that it is so important that it uses Roman numerals.) The Super Bowl is the single largest sporting event in the United States. Link to article: …
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Suppose you are using a Win32 ListView control in report mode, and you've got all your columns set up perfectly, and you don't want the user to resize them. How do you do that? There is no ListView style for preventing column resize, but there is a header control style to prevent sizing: HDS_NOSIZING. This style Link …
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We’re announcing an important change for developers using Microsoft Graph APIs to create Teams Live Events. Starting March 31, 2026, the beta endpoint will no longer support the isBroadcast property of the on Link to article: …
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Series: Building Serverless Applications with Azure Functions and Azure Cosmos DB In the first post of this series, we focused on establishing the fundamentals of serverless architectur Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/part-2-building-a-python-crud-api-with-azure-functions-and-azure-cosmos-db
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If you use editor productivity extensions for Visual Studio 2026, there's good news—they can now load faster! Extension developers with existing MEF-based editor productivity extensions should read this blog to learn about recent changes and how they might be affected. Link to article: …
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Back in the day, if you wandered into the parking area behind Building 11 on the original Redmond Microsoft campus, you would find a very large satellite dish antenna. This antenna was used for receiving video signals, such as cable television feeds for distribution to the Redmond campus. One purpose was to provide …
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If you spend time in the Azure Portal’s using Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer, you know it’s a “lots of screens, lots of tabs, lots of work happening” kind of place. So I’m excited to share a small upgrade that makes a big difference: Dark Mode is now supported in Cosmos DB Data Explorer. Link to article: …
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A colleague was working in a project that used a number of data files to configure how the program worked. They wanted one portion of the configuration file to be included only if a particular build flag was set. Let's say that the configuration file is C:\repos\contoso\config\Contoso.config. & Link to article: …
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Microsoft Agent Framework now integrates with the Claude Agent SDK, enabling you to build AI agents powered by Claude's full agentic capabilities. This integration brings together the Agent Framework's consistent agent abstraction with Claude's powerful features, including fil Link to article: …
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When I described how SafeArrayAddRef keeps its reference count in a side table, commenter Koro Unhallowed wondered Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260130-00/?p=112025
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Welcome to the round up of the azd releases in January 2026! This blog post (covers release versions 1.23.0, 1.23.1, Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk/azure-developer-cli-azd-january-2026
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Thank you for your interest in the new Azure SDKs! We release new features, improvements, and bug fixes every month. Subscribe to our Azure SDK Blog RSS Feed to get notified when a new release is available. You can find links to packages, code, and docs on our Link to article: …
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