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Make Visual Studio look the way you want

Themes are personal. Some of us live in dark mode, some swear by high contrast, and some of us have very strong opinions about that one shade of blue from years ago. The new themes in Visual Studio 2026 are built on Fluent, which gives us a much more consistent and accessible foundation,...
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Jun 22, 2026
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Models don't have preferences, they have context

Waldek Mastykarz
You open a fresh chat, type "What framework should I use for a web app?", and the model says "React." You screenshot it, share it, and write "Claude prefers React." It gets engagement. People nod along. A few reply with their own results. And now we have a consensus: Claude prefers React....
Microsoft for Developers
Jun 22, 2026
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How to Use Deep Agents with Azure Cosmos DB – Plan, act, and verify against operational data

Abhishek Gupta
Deep Agents is an agent harness built on LangGraph, for agents that need to work through a task over many steps instead of a single LLM call. The agent runs tools, looks at the results, and uses that to pick the next one, keeping a todo list as it goes. On top of that loop the harness...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Jun 22, 2026
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Retirement of Azure DevOps issuer in Workload identity federation service connections

Eric van Wijk
We are announcing the deprecation of the Azure DevOps issuer in workload identity federation (WIF) service connections, with planned retirement on July 1, 2027. The Azure DevOps issuer uses the https://vstoken.dev.azure.com prefix in federated credentials. This change is part of...
Azure DevOps Blog
Jun 21, 2026
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Copilot 在 JetBrains IDE:功能更新与 Claude 作为 Agent 提供方预览

Jialuo Gan
本次更新为 GitHub Copilot for JetBrains IDEs 带来了对来自 GitHub 的组织和企业级 agent 的支持,让你可以在 Copilot CLI 会话中排队和引导消息,引入了全新的 agent 调试日志摘要视图,并将 Claude 作为 agent...
Java Blog in Chinese
Jun 19, 2026
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What does it mean when the bottom bit of my HMODULE is set?

Raymond Chen
A special kind of HMODULE.
The Old New Thing
Jun 19, 2026
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Separating Deterministic Extraction from AI Inference in Industrial Summarization

Viktor Ciroski
When 100% of our prototype outputs were valid JSON but 0% met the data contract, we discovered the LLM was doing work that software should own. A field classification exercise and 4-pass pipeline brought schema compliance from 0% to 100%.
ISE Developer Blog
Jun 18, 2026
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Meet the Agent Academy Hackathon Winners

April Dunnam
From May 12 to June 2, 2026, builders from around the world put their Agent Academy learning to the test by designing, building, and shipping real, working AI agents with Copilot Studio. After two weeks of judging, we’re thrilled to announce the Agent Academy Hackathon winners. 🏆...
Power Platform Developer Blog
Jun 18, 2026
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Outcome-driven learning systems: Enterprise RL with OpenEnv and Foundry

Govind Kamtamneni
We shipped a lot at Build 2026: hosted agents, Toolboxes, Foundry IQ, Memory, Managed Compute, fine‑tuning, Frontier Tuning, and a new evaluation and optimization stack. Read as a feature list, it is a lot to hold in your head. So here is a simpler way to see it: these are the parts...
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Jun 18, 2026
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DirectX Dump Files Preview Now Available!

Jacques van Rhyn
At this year’s GDC, we shared our vision for bringing console‑level GPU developer tools to Windows. As part of that announcement, we introduced DirectX Dump Files as a major step forward in GPU crash debugging on Windows. Today, we’re excited to make our DirectX Dump Files public...
DirectX Developer Blog