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Streamlining your Git workflow with Visual Studio 2026

You’re a .NET developer with a busy morning, and an Azure DevOps ticket drops: “Login endpoint 500s under load.” You’ve got to fix it, review a teammate’s feature branch, and keep your repo clean - all before lunch. Visual Studio’s Git tools turn this everyday Git workflow of...
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Retirement of Global Personal Access Tokens in Azure DevOps

In the new year, we’ll be retiring the Global Personal Access Token (PAT) type in Azure DevOps. Global PATs allow users to authenticate across all accessible organizations. While this can feel convenient, a single credential with broad reach creates a concentrated security risk —...
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JanusGraph and Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra: A Powerful Combination
Dec 17, 2025
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Unlock the power of distributed graph databases with JanusGraph and Azure Apache Cassandra

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Srikanth Sridhar
Connecting the Dots: How Graph Databases Drive Innovation In today’s data-rich world, organizations face challenges that go beyond simple tables and rows. Whether it’s uncovering hidden relationships in social networks, detecting fraud, or powering recommendation engines, graph...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
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Dec 17, 2025
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Celebrating 10 Years of DirectX 12

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Stefan Bojanic
DirectX12 shipped in 2015 with a simple goal: give developers more control so games run faster, look better, and scale across Windows PC and console. Over the last decade, DirectX 12 delivered on that promise. We added features and made it easier for developers to focus on gameplay &...
DirectX Developer Blog
Dec 17, 2025
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Aspire 13.1 - Our holiday gift to you

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David Fowler
Aspire 13.1 is here with CLI-based MCP for AI agents, dashboard improvements, Azure updates, and TLS termination support.
Aspire Blog
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Dec 17, 2025
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Deducing the consequences of Windows clipboard text formats on UTF-8

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Raymond Chen
Working out the implications.
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Dec 16, 2025
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Unlock your email potential with Schema.org

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Karishma S
Email is a key part of how people get things done, whether it’s booking a reservation, confirming a package delivery, or managing a cab reservation. But as inboxes become increasingly cluttered, important transactional information often gets buried. Users are forced to open multiple...
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
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Dec 16, 2025
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C++ code editing tools for GitHub Copilot: now in Public Preview

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Sinem Akinci
In November, we introduced C++ code editing tools for GitHub Copilot as a Private Preview, focusing on partnering with customers to tackle one of the common, taxing challenges for C++ development: refactoring at scale. Since then, we've listened to feedback and refined our tooling to make...
C++ Team Blog
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Dec 16, 2025
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Beyond Ergonomics: How the Azure Command Launcher for Java Improves GC Stability and Throughput on Azure VMs

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Monica Beckwith
In our previous blog we introduced Azure Command Launcher for Java (jaz) —a safe, resource-aware way to launch the JVM without hand-tuning dozens of flags. This follow-up shares performance results, focusing on how jaz affects G1 behavior, heap dynamics, and pause characteristics under...
Microsoft for Java Developers
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Dec 16, 2025
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Microsoft.Testing.Platform Now Fully Supported in Azure DevOps

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Youssef Fahmy
Azure DevOps enhanced support for Microsoft.Testing.Platform, from running tests to publishing results!
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Dec 16, 2025
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Debugging, but Without the Drama (A Visual Studio 2026 Story)

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Harshada Hole
It starts the way these things always start.  A red build. A failing test. And that quiet, sinking feeling of “This worked yesterday.”  Meet Sam. Sam’s not a junior, not a rockstar, just a solid developer who’s shipped enough code to know that bugs don’t care how...
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