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Using Agents to Setup Experiments
When setting up an experiment is complex, agents can automate the process to make it faster and more reliable.
Read moreClick to read more about this postBuild a real-world example with Microsoft Agent Framework, Microsoft Foundry, MCP and Aspire
Building AI agents is getting easier. Deploying them as part of a real application, with multiple services, persistent state, and production infrastructure, is where things get complicated. Developers from the .NET community have requested whether a real-world example that shows running...
Read moreClick to read more about this postThe mystery of the posted message that was dispatched before reaching the main message loop
Perhaps it's because you dispatched it.
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Mar 18, 2026
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Visual Studio Code 1.112
Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.112
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VS Code Blog
Mar 18, 2026
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When Infrastructure Scales But Understanding Doesn't
Diego,
Ray
We all know this, even if we don't like to admit it: modern infrastructure can scale infinitely, but human understanding doesn't.
We've all seen it happen - organizations going from managing dozens of servers to thousands of containers, from deploying weekly to deploying hundreds of...
All things Azure
Mar 18, 2026
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Announcing PowerShell 7.6 (LTS) GA Release
We're excited to announce the General Availability of PowerShell 7.6, the next Long Term Support
(LTS) release of PowerShell. PowerShell 7.6 is built on .NET 10 (LTS), continuing the alignment
between PowerShell and the modern .NET platform.
PowerShell 7.6 includes reliability...
PowerShell Team
Mar 18, 2026
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Pin Clustering in .NET MAUI Maps
.NET MAUI 11 adds pin clustering to the Map control, automatically grouping nearby pins into cluster markers. Learn how to enable clustering, create separate clustering groups, and handle cluster taps on Android and iOS.
.NET Blog
Mar 18, 2026
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Azure Developer CLI (azd): Run and test AI agents locally with azd
PuiChee,
Travis
New azd ai agent run and invoke commands let you start and test AI agents from your terminal—locally or in the cloud.
Azure SDK Blog
Mar 18, 2026
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Authentication Tokens Are Not a Data Contract
Authentication tokens exist to answer one question: is this caller authorized to do this?
They are not intended to be a stable data interface, a schema you can depend on, or an input into application logic.
If your application decodes tokens and reads claims from them, this is an...
Azure DevOps Blog
Mar 18, 2026
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DiskANN Vector Index Improvements
Davide,
Pooja
Remember when we announced the Public Preview of DiskANN vector indexes back in November and mentioned that once you created the index, your table became read‑only? Yeah… about that... 😅 We shipped early because the demand for Vector search in SQL was overwhelming. We knew the...
Azure SQL Dev Corner
Mar 18, 2026
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Handling Long-Running Operations with Background Responses
Sergey,
Eduard
Handling Long-Running Operations with Background Responses
AI agents powered by reasoning models can take minutes to work through complex problems — deep research, multi-step analysis, lengthy content generation. In a traditional request-response pattern, that means your client sits...
Microsoft Agent Framework
Mar 18, 2026
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MSSQL Extension for VS Code: SQL Notebooks, AI-Powered Schema Design, Data API builder & More
Yo-Lei,
Tauseef,
Carlos
The MSSQL extension for VS Code v1.41 continues to evolve, delivering features that make SQL development more integrated, more powerful, and more developer-friendly. In this release, we're introducing the Public Preview of Schema Designer with GitHub Copilot, Data API builder, and SQL...
Azure SQL Dev Corner