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We’ve all been there: a bug report lands in your inbox with a title like "App crashes sometimes" and zero reproduction steps. Your morning, which was supposed to be spent building new features, is now a forensic investigation. You’re Link to article: …
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We're shipping two major capabilities that change how security teams enable and act on application security in Azure DevOps: CodeQL default setup makes it possible to enable code scanning across your organization without configuring a single pipeline, and a new combined alerts experience in Security Overview Link to …
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AI agents are quickly moving from experiments to production‑critical components of modern applications. But while many teams know how to build agents, far fewer are confident they’re hosting them on the right foundation. Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure/hostedagent
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Practices, Principles, and Strategic Direction Software delivery has entered a new phase. AI agents are no longer confined to autocomplete suggestions in the editor. They are opening pull requests, generating code across multiple files, proposing infrastructure changes, responding to issues with working …
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Welcome to our combined .NET servicing updates for April 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 April 14, 2026. This update …
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Today, we are excited to announce the third preview release of .NET 11! This release includes improvements across the .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, C#, Entity Framework Core, container images, and more. Check out the linked release notes below and get started today. [cta-button …
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Updating azd used to mean remembering which package manager you installed it with. Now one command handles it on every platform. What's new? The azd update command updates the Azure Developer CLI (azd) to the latest version. It works on Windows, macOS, and Linux regardless of how you originally ins Link to article: …
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We are releasing patches for our self‑hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly recommend that all customers remain on the latest, most secure version to ensure optimal protection and reliability. The latest release of Azure DevOps Serv Link to article: …
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PostgreSQL is a powerful and hugely popular database engine, and it really comes alive across Microsoft developer platforms. You can build with PostgreSQL across Azure offerings, develop productively in Visual Studio Code with strong extensions and tooling, and connect your data to agentic development workflows and AI …
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Aspire 13.2 is here, and has some new features that will make it easier for you to interact with your databases. Do you like Azure Data Lake Storage? We have a new Azure Data Lake Storage integration for you to use. Do you like MongoDB b Link to article: …
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Some time ago, I noted that there was a walkthrough of the original Microsoft Building 3. If you go behind the receptionist desk, you'll see a telephone at the receptionist's station, but off to side, th Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260414-00/?p=112231
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We are pleased to announce the availability of the release candidate for Microsoft C++ (MSVC) Build Tools version 14.51. This is the last MSVC v14.51 preview before it moves to stable status and full support. You can download it from the Visual Studio 2026 Insiders Channel. As this is t Link to article: …
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A colleague told me that there was an O(N) algorithm for finding a duplicated item in an array of N integers in the range 1 to N − 1. There must be a duplicate due to the pigeonhole principle. There might be more than one duplicated value; you merely have to find any duplicate.¹ Link to article: …
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Your agents can now draw on skills authored in three different ways – as files on disk, as inline C# code, or as encapsulated classes – and combine them freely in a single provider. Add built-in script execution support and a human-approval mechanism for script calls, and you have a practical authoring model that fits …
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We're excited to announce the stable release of Azure MCP Server 2.0, a significant milestone for building secure and flexible agentic workflows on Azure. Azure MCP Server is open-source software that implements the Model Context Protocol specification and enables AI agen Link to article: …
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Beginning with PowerShell 7.7-preview.1 (April 2026), the MSIX package will be the primary installation method for PowerShell on Windows. We will no longer ship the MSI installer package for new PowerShell releases. For existing releases, including PowerShell 7.6, we will continue to provide MSI pack Link to article: …
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Last time, we looked at adding or removing a handle from an active WaitForMultipleObjects, and we developed an asynchronous mechanism that requests that the Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260410-00/?p=112223
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In Part 1 of this blog series set the stage for why platform engineering is being reshaped by agentic AI. (read it here) Basically we outline how instead of humans translating intent through layers of CLIs, SDKs, and b Link to article: …
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We’re pleased to provide an update on C++23 support in the Microsoft C++ (MSVC) Build Tools. This blog post will cover the feature additions in MSVC Build Tools version 14.51, including C++23 language features, libraries, and ISO C++ Core Working Group (CWG) and Library Working Group (LWG) Issue resolutions. We’ll also …
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Today we’re thrilled to announce the General Availability (GA) of Foundry Local — Microsoft’s cross-platform local AI solution that lets developers bring AI directly into their applications across modalities like chat and audio, with no cloud dependency, no network laten Link to article: …
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