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Governance at the Speed of Agents: Microsoft Agent Framework and Agent Governance Toolkit, Better Together
Building powerful AI agents is only half the story, running them safely in production is the real challenge. As customers adopt Microsoft Agent Framework for agent orchestration, a clear need has emerged for robust, built-in governance. In this post, Imran Siddique from the AGT team walks...
Read moreClick to read more about this postExponential backoff and circuit breaker for Service Bus-triggered Azure Functions
Use exponential backoff and circuit breaker patterns in Azure Functions with Service Bus SDK bindings. Control retry storms, protect dependencies, and degrade gracefully under transient failures.
Read moreClick to read more about this postJust shows that nobody cares about debugging the parity flag any more
Reported incorrectly since the day it was written.
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May 19, 2026
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Introducing Sample Profile Guided Optimization in MSVC
Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) has long been one of the most powerful tools in the MSVC compiler's arsenal for improving the runtime performance of C and C++ applications. By using execution profile data collected from representative workloads, PGO enables the compiler to make smarter...
C++ Team Blog
May 19, 2026
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How to run evals for the model router
Sanjeev,
leestott,
Marie-Louise
Walk through running quality, cost, and latency evaluations for the Foundry model router using an open-source GitHub repo designed for router-aware eval pipelines.
Microsoft Foundry Blog
May 19, 2026
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Package Identity
An MSIX package identity is composed of a five-part tuple that uniquely identifies a package. It consists of the following attributes:
Name
Version
Architecture
Resource Id
Publisher
Together, these fields form the canonical identity of a package. Programmatically, this identity can...
Inside MSIX
May 19, 2026
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Agentic-Agile: Why Agent Development Needs Agile (Not Just Prompts)
"A bad system will beat a good person [or agent] every time" ~Dr. William Edwards Deming (with apologies)
I started vibe coding by writing prompts (often dictated into my phone), refining them with an agent in M365 Copilot, and creating handoff files to use with GitHub Copilot CLI. The...
Microsoft for Developers
May 19, 2026
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Eliminate LLM Cold starts: Load models up to 6x Faster with Azure Blob Storage and Run:AI Model Streamer
Stop paying for idle GPUs while model weights copy to disk. Stream them straight into GPU memory instead with Run:AI Streamer from Azure Blob Storage.
The Problem: Every Cold Start Costs You More Than Money
GPU compute is among the most expensive cloud infrastructure, and every...
Azure SDK Blog
May 19, 2026
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NuGet PackageReference for C++ Projects in Visual Studio
Native C++ projects (.vcxproj) now support NuGet PackageReference, the same modern package management experience .NET developers have used for years. Available as an experimental feature in Visual Studio 2026 version 18.7.
C++ Team Blog
May 18, 2026
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NuGet Package Pruning: Cleaner Dependencies and Actionable Vulnerability Reports
Package pruning in .NET 10 removes platform-provided packages from your dependency graph. With transitive auditing enabled by default, projects with these defaults have 70% fewer transitive vulnerability reports compared to projects using the previous defaults.
.NET Blog
May 18, 2026
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Just shows that nobody cares about debugging the parity flag any more
Reported incorrectly since the day it was written.
The Old New Thing
May 15, 2026
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Advanced Shader Delivery expands Public Preview with AMD
Last October, we released Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD) on the ROG Xbox Ally handhelds. Advanced Shader Delivery addresses one of the most frustrating challenges for PC players today – long load times and disruptive stuttering during a game’s first launch. The feature works by...
DirectX Developer Blog