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Build your own claw and agent harness with Microsoft Agent Framework
What does it take to build your own "claw" - a capable, CLI-style agent that can plan, use tools, remember things, and safely act on your behalf? Coding agents and assistants like these can feel like magic, but underneath they are an agent harness: a loop around a language model wired up...
Read moreClick to read more about this postIn memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
Starting in Word and expanding to nearly every other word processor, and even things that aren't word processors.
Read moreClick to read more about this postStop overloading your skills
You built a skill for your technology. API references, authentication flows, SDK patterns, error handling, version info, all packed into one skill. The agent calls it, gets all that context, and generates code. The kicker? You've just wasted a lot of tokens.
It already knows
Models have...
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Jul 2, 2026
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Pure Virtual C++ 2026 Talks Announced
The featured talks for Pure Virtual C++ 2026 are here! Join us on July 21 for a free, one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community.
C++ Team Blog
Jul 2, 2026
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The case of the thread executing from an unloaded third-party DLL
Oops, I didn't realize that I was still doing that.
The Old New Thing
Jul 2, 2026
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Fundamentals of Azure DevOps with SQL projects
Building automated pipelines with your SQL database projects enables you to build a rich CI/CD ecosystem to ensure that your application is being deployed with good quality code and at high confidence of success. SQL Database Projects are compatible with just about every automation...
Azure SQL Dev Corner
Jul 1, 2026
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Visual Studio Code 1.127
Learn what is new in Visual Studio Code 1.127
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VS Code Blog
Jul 1, 2026
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Visual Studio Code 1.128 (Insiders)
Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.128 (Insiders)
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VS Code Blog
Jul 1, 2026
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Upcoming Change: NTLM Removal in Git (libcurl) – Impact to Azure DevOps Server Customers
Overview
In September 2026, NTLM support will be removed from libcurl, which is used by Git for HTTP(S) operations. As a result, Git operations over HTTPS against Azure DevOps Server (on-premises) will stop working for customers who rely on NTLM authentication. This change is part of a...
Azure DevOps Blog
Jul 1, 2026
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Audit Frontier AI Agents with SQL MCP Server
With On-Behalf-Of authentication, SQL MCP Server lets agents access Microsoft SQL without losing the user identity behind the request. Azure SQL can audit the signed-in user who invoked the operation, not just the agent, app, or MCP server that carried it out.
Azure SQL Dev Corner
Jul 1, 2026
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What AI benchmarks are not telling you
This is the sixth 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...
Microsoft for Developers
Jul 1, 2026
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It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Changing administrative settings
Unlocking the door from the inside.
The Old New Thing