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The MSVC Build Tools Preview is updated regularly with the latest features and fixes from the MSVC development team. This post covers updates from the past month, currently targeting the v14.52 release. This encompasses changes across the compiler frontend, backend, linker, standard library, and related tools. Although …
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The MSSQL extension for VS Code v1.44 continues to improve the SQL development experience with features that help you work faster and customize your workflow. In this release, we're introducing the Public Preview of Shortcuts Configuration and an Link to article: …
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Your Python agents can now pick up reusable bundles of domain expertise (instructions, reference material, and scripts that load only when a task calls for them) through a stable, production-ready API. Agent Skills for Python in Microsoft Agent Framework is stable and shipping: the core skills API has no experimental …
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Learn what is new in Visual Studio Code 1.129. Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vscode-blog/visual-studio-code-1.129
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You open the model picker, scroll past a dozen options, and pause. How are these models different? Which one should you actually use? And once you're a few hundred messages deep, how much capacity is even left before things start dropping off? We've all been there. These are the kinds of questions Visual Studio now …
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The number one crash in the display control panel looks like this: rax=ffffffff924bbde0 rbx=0000000000000001 rcx=0000000000030440 rdx=0000000000000002 rsi=0000000000030440 rdi=0000000080006011 rip=00007ffac835cd1e rsp=000000155e48e3f8 rbp=000000155e48e749 r8=0000000000000000 r9=0000000000000000 r10=007fffffffe41b69 …
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This is the eighth and final article in a series about Agent Experience (AX): the practice of making AI coding agents work correctly with your technology. The series covers what you can and can't control in the agent stack, how to measure whether your extensions are helping or hurting, and how to iterate toward better …
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In large C++ codebases, your code understanding and navigation depend on quickly determining how symbols, declarations, definitions, and references are connected across your project. In Visual Studio Insiders 18.9, the new whole codebase indexing (WCI) enhances the existing browse database via a deeper, more …
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Welcome to our combined .NET servicing updates for July 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 has been refreshed with the latest update as of July 14, 2026. This update contains security and …
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A few months ago I shared that .NET MAUI moves to CoreCLR in .NET 11, making CoreCLR the default runtime for your Android, iOS, and Mac Catalyst apps. That was Preview 4 and we have been heads down since then. Preview 6 marks the next milestone wh Link to article: …
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Today, we are excited to announce the sixth preview release of .NET 11! This release includes improvements across the .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, C#, Entity Framework Core, F#, and container images. Check out the linked release notes below and get started today. [cta-button …
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Visual Studio now includes built-in Agent Skills, created by experts from the .NET and Azure teams, to help you better customize your agentic workflow and complete development tasks more efficiently, starting with the 18.8 Release. Agent Skills are reusable capabilities that enable your agent to perform structured …
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Every package has a set of status flags describing its current health and availability. These can be queried via the Package.Status property. A package may report more than one status value at a time if multiple conditions apply. Packa Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/insidemsix/package-status
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The Microsoft Teams platform mission is to build the best collaborative platform in the world. We want to make it easy for developers to build agents that participate seamlessly in chats, channels, and meetings, helping teams turn ideas into action in real time. By bringing agents directly into the places where …
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Recall that Microspeak is not merely for jargon exclusive to Microsoft, but it's jargon that you need to know to survive at Microsoft. For most of my career at Microsoft, the term used by people who want to sound important to say that they want to delve more deeply into a topic was to drill down. Here are some …
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Large database migrations are where good planning either pays off or falls apart. In a MongoDB-compatible estate with thousands of collections, the hard part is not only moving data. It is deciding what to move, what to defer, how to sequence the w Link to article: …
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In my earlier overview of how compilers on different architectures perform stack probes, Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260713-00/?p=112528
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A new release of the Microsoft build of Go 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: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/go/go-1-26-5-2-microsoft-build-now-available
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