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Get started with GitHub Copilot CLI: A free, hands-on course
Learn GitHub Copilot CLI with this free, 8-chapter hands-on course. Review code, generate tests, debug issues, and build custom agents and skills - all from your terminal. No AI experience needed. Works with GitHub Copilot Free. Clone the repo or open in Codespaces to get started.
Read moreClick to read more about this postPlatform Engineering for the Agentic AI era
For the last decade, platform engineering has relied on explicit API interaction layers: CLIs, SDKs, pipelines, wrappers, and UI workflows that translate human intent into machine‑safe API calls. AI agents are now short‑circuiting much of that stack. By combining natural language...
Read moreClick to read more about this postVisual Studio at GDC Festival of Gaming 2026
Join us at GDC Festival of Gaming 2026 for a deep dive into Visual Studio, GitHub Copilot, PowerToys, and the Windows tools that speed up your daily dev workflow. We'll show how these tools work together to boost productivity and cut friction across your entire inner loop.
Session...
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Mar 17, 2026
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PowerToys 0.98 is here: new Keyboard Manager UX, the Command Palette Dock and better CursorWrap!
We're back with a fresh PowerToys release – PowerToys 0.98! This month introduces the new Command Palette Dock, along with a refreshed Keyboard Manager experience and many other improvements across the utilities. You can grab the update by checking for updates in PowerToys or by...
Windows Command Line
Mar 17, 2026
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RT.Assistant: A Multi-Agent Voice Bot Using .NET and OpenAI
Guest blog post on building a real time assistant using OpenAI Realtime API using .NET, F#, Microsoft.Extensions.AI and .NET MAUI.
.NET Blog
Mar 17, 2026
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Introducing the Azure Cosmos DB Plugin for Cursor
We're excited to announce the Cursor plugin for Azure Cosmos DB bringing AI-powered database expertise, best practices guidance, and live database connectivity directly into your coding workflow.
Whether you're designing a new data model, optimizing queries, or building a RAG...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Mar 17, 2026
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Windows stack limit checking retrospective: x86-32 also known as i386, second try
Appeasing the invisible return address predictor.
The Old New Thing
Mar 17, 2026
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Azure DevOps Remote MCP Server (public preview)
When we released the local Azure DevOps MCP Server, it gave customers a way to connect Azure DevOps data with tools like Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code through GitHub Copilot Chat. The next step was to make this experience easier to get started with and to enable it for services...
Azure DevOps Blog
Mar 16, 2026
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Foundry Agent Service is GA: private networking, Voice Live, and enterprise-grade evaluations
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The next-gen Foundry Agent Service is generally available today with end-to-end private networking, Voice Live integration, expanded MCP authentication, GA evaluations with continuous monitoring, and hosted agent deployments in six new Azure regions.
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Mar 16, 2026
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Awesome GitHub Copilot just got a website, and a learning hub, and plugins!
Back in July, we launched the Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations repo with a simple goal: give the community a place to share custom instructions, prompts, and chat modes to customize the AI responses from GitHub Copilot. We were hoping for maybe one community contribution per...
Microsoft for Developers
Mar 16, 2026
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Azure Cosmos DB at FOSSASIA Summit 2026: Sessions, Conversations, and Community
The FOSSASIA Summit 2026 was an incredible gathering of developers, open-source contributors, startups, and technology enthusiasts from across the region. This year, Azure Cosmos DB and Azure DocumentDB were present at the summit with both technical sessions and a dedicated booth, giving...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Mar 16, 2026
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Get the Inside Scoop on Visual Studio Subscriptions, Straight to Your Inbox
Get the Inside Scoop on Visual Studio Subscriptions, Straight to Your Inbox
A few weeks ago I was talking with a Visual Studio Enterprise subscriber. Seasoned .NET developer. Ships production code. Knows his stack inside and out.
During the conversation I mentioned one of...
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