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User preferences and settings are fundamental components of modern web applications. When developing SharePoint Framework (SPFx) solutions, the ability to store and manage user-specific configurations across devices and sessions becomes crucial for delivering personalized experiences. This article explores a robust, …
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This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2025.12.12 and 2026.01.16 registry releases and the Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/whats-new-in-vcpkg-nov-2025-jan-2026
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When Anthropic released their Agent Skills framework, they published a blueprint for how enterprise organizations should structure AI agent capabilities. The pattern is straightforward: package procedural knowledge into composable skills that AI agents can discover and apply contextually. Microsoft, OpenAI, Cursor, and …
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Applications often need access to data without needing access to everything. Social Security numbers, email addresses, and phone numbers are common examples. Storing them is required. Exposing them broadly is not. This is especially valuable when exposing a database to an AI agent through MCP servers like SQL MCP …
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Last time, we had figured out how to prevent the version 5 ListView Win32 common control from resizing columns, but we noticed that the cursor st Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260206-00/?p=112045
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Sometimes applications need to remove data without actually losing it. Soft delete keeps rows in the database while making them invisible to normal application access. This is especially valuable when exposing a database to an AI agent through MCP servers like SQL MCP Server, where safety and reversibility matter. Lea …
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[alert type="important" heading="About the Author"]This is a guest post from Jean-Marc Prieur from Microsoft's 1ES (One Engineering System) team. We help reduce developer toil across Microsoft by making it easy to build services that are secure and compliant from the start, for instance with Aspire …
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The deployment model of .NET Framework 3.5 for future versions of Windows is changing. Starting with Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27965, .NET Framework 3.5 must be obtained as a standalone installer and is no longer included as an optional Windows component. .NET Framework 3.5 is now available as a standalone …
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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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Strengthen Identity Security and Eliminate Account Keys Identity is becoming the new security perimeter. As organizations modernize their cloud applications, long‑lived secrets and shared keys introduce unnecessary risk. Azure Cosmos DB now fully supports Microsoft Entra ID for both control plane and data plane access, …
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Last time, we saw how to prevent the user from changing the widths of ListView columns, but the technique required version 6 of the common controls. What if you're stuck in the dark Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260205-00/?p=112042
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Introduction Building and operating edge applications is a team sport, especially when you're working with Azure IoT Operations (AIO), custom Rust services, and a mix of cloud and on-prem environments. Over the past year, our team set out to create a minimal GitOps workflow that's simple enough for small pilots, but …
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VS Code has become the unified interface for all your coding agents. Manage local, background, and cloud agents in one place, use Claude and Codex agents alongside Copilot, and benefit from open standards like MCP and Agent Skills. Read the Link to article: …
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There's a larger blog post with the features and benefits of Windows MIDI Services coming later this month (February 2026). This is just a quick post here to assist users with known issues or workarounds, in the interest of remaining transparent on this project. We performed a ton of testing with customers, partners, …
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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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