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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 21, 2026
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The AX stack: what's fixed, where you can win
AI coding agents promise to make you more productive. On the surface they do, but in practice they fall short: agents generate code that doesn't compile, use a deprecated SDK, or pick the wrong service entirely. Is it you using it wrong? Is it your tech stack? Or is it the tools you...
Microsoft for Developers
May 21, 2026
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Plan Before You Build: Introducing the Plan agent in Visual Studio
You ask Copilot to tackle something big, it gets to work, and a dozen file changes later you realize you had a completely different approach in mind. The code isn't wrong... it just isn't what you were going for.
Last year, we introduced planning as a feature in Agent mode to help with...
Visual Studio Blog
May 21, 2026
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Announcing Agent Governance Toolkit MCP Extensions for .NET
Announcing a Public Preview .NET package that adds policy enforcement, startup tool scanning, fallback governance, and response sanitization to MCP servers with a single builder extension.
.NET Blog
May 21, 2026
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Improving C# Memory Safety
The `unsafe` keyword is being redesigned to mark caller-facing contracts rather than just syntax. Safety obligations between callers and callees become visible and reviewable. The model is motivated by the rise of AI-assisted code generation and arrives as a preview in .NET 11.
.NET Blog
May 21, 2026
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PowerShell is now notarized and hardened for macOS
PowerShell for macOS is now properly notarized and hardened, meeting both Apple and Microsoft security requirements.
PowerShell Team
May 21, 2026
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Coordinating AI-Assisted Development with AGENTS.md and Skills
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How to move AI-assisted development from ad-hoc experimentation to a coordinated team-wide capability using AGENTS.md and reusable skills with GitHub Copilot CLI
ISE Developer Blog
May 20, 2026
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Visual Studio Code 1.121
Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.121
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VS Code Blog
May 20, 2026
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PowerShell PSResource Roadmap and Best Practices
PowerShell is a critical automation and configuration platform across enterprises—and as that automation grows, how you source, validate, and distribute PowerShell packages becomes just as important as the scripts themselves.
Modern security guidance increasingly treats package feeds...
PowerShell Team
May 20, 2026
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Your dev loop is full of tribal knowledge
Aspire turns a team's scattered tribal knowledge into an explicit, incrementally-adoptable app model that humans, scripts, and AI agents can all use.
Aspire Blog