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Today, we are excited to announce the fourth preview release of .NET 11! This release includes improvements across the .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, C#, Entity Framework Core, and more. Check out the linked release notes below and get started today. [cta-button align="center" …
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Sometimes you need to know whether the current process has package identity. Certain Windows features require it, and behaviors can differ—both technically and culturally. For example, classic Windows applications often store settings in the registry, whereas packaged applications typically use Link to article: …
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Welcome to our combined .NET servicing updates for May 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 have been refreshed with the latest update as of May 12, 2026. This update contains …
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Today we're announcing the 1.1.0 release of Foundry Local — Microsoft's cross-platform local AI solution that lets developers bring AI directly into their applications with no cloud dependency, no network latency, and no per-token costs. This release adds the following: Live audio tra Link to article: …
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Microsoft C++ (MSVC) Build Tools version 14.51 is now generally available. It is the default compiler starting with Visual Studio 2026 18.6 and will receive 9 months of servicing fixes, as described in New release cadence and suppor Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/msvc-version-1451-available
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[caption id="attachment_1143" align="alignnone" width="1188"] Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/ifdef-windows/introducing-dotnet-new-templates-for-winui
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TL;DR Foundry Local (generally available, GA): Local model inference is production-ready on Windows, macOS on Apple Silicon, and Linux x64. GPT-5.5: The latest GPT-5 family model is available in Microsoft Foundry, with default quota for Tier 5 and Tier 6 subscriptions. Link to article: …
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Many of you who have published VM Applications may have come across a difficult conundrum regarding security. To create an application version, you must upload your application package to a Storage blob, then provide the address of that Storage blob for repl Link to article: …
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Some time ago, I wrote about programmatically controlling which handles are inherited by new processes in Win32 by using the PROC_THREAD_ATTRIBUTE_ Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260511-00/?p=112313
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We are excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of AI_GENERATE_EMBEDDINGS and CREATE Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql/generate-embeddings-function-and-external-model-object-support-are-now-generally-available-in-azure-sql
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Today we're announcing the public preview of the Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Evaluations tool. The Agent Evaluations CLI tool helps developer Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/announcing-the-public-preview-of-the-microsoft-365-copilot-agent-evaluations-tool
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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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A customer was using ReadDirectoryChangesW to monitor the contents of a directory, and they were concerned about the FILE_ACTION_RENAMED_OLD_FILE and FILE_ACTION_RENAMED_NEW_FILE pair of actions. The documentation doesn't guarantee that the tw Link to article: …
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A Tour of the Handoff Orchestration Pattern Most multi-agent systems start out simple: a router agent receives a user request, picks the right specialist, and forwards the conversation. As long as each specialist can complete its task in one pass, that model wor Link to article: …
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We're excited to announce the general availability (GA) of the mailbox import and export Microsoft Graph APIs. After a successful public preview period, these APIs are now ready for production use, enabling organizations and developers worldwide to efficiently manage, migrate, and integrate mailbox data in Exchange O …
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If you ever built an AI agent demo, you probably had this moment. Everything works: the agent interprets natural language, calls the right tools, and returns the right data. Then you start designing for the real users of the app. You think about data boundaries: what if someone tries to get data they're not supposed to …
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A few months ago, we shared How Copilot Studio uses .NET and WebAssembly for performance and innovation, describing how Microsoft Copilot Studio runs C# in the browser via .NET Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/copilot-studio-dotnet-10-migration
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Aspire 13.3 is here, and even though it's only been five weeks since 13.2, this one is still packed. We have the new Aspireify skill for agent-assisted onboarding. We have command results that bring structured output from resource commands into the dashboard, CLI, MCP tools, and integrations. We have browser logs, …
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We are excited to announce that GitHub Copilot build performance for Windows now supports project-specific builds! Available in the latest Visual Studio Insiders, you can target a single MSBuild project or CMake target instead of analyzing your entire solution. For game developers and teams working with Link to …
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This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2026.04.27 registry release and the 2026-04-06 and Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/whats-new-in-vcpkg-apr-2026
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