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Build 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...
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Mar 19, 2026
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Accelerating .NET MAUI Development with AI Agents

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David Ortinau
Learn how custom-built AI agents are dramatically improving the .NET MAUI contribution workflow, reducing issue resolution time by 50-70% while increasing test coverage and code quality.
.NET Blog
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Mar 19, 2026
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Remote MCP Server preview in Microsoft Foundry

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Dan Hellem
Earlier this week we release the public preview for our Azure DevOps MCP Server. Today we are excited to let you know that the Azure DevOps MCP Server is now available to use in Microsoft Foundry. For those who are new to Foundry, Microsoft Foundry is a unified platform for building and...
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Mar 19, 2026
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Windows stack limit checking retrospective: amd64, also known as x86-64

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Raymond Chen
Reaching the modern day.
The Old New Thing
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Mar 19, 2026
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From Azure IoT Operations Data Processor Pipelines to Dataflows

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Maho Pacheco
In this post we explore the evolution from Azure IoT Operations Data Processor Pipelines to Dataflows, why we adopted a hybrid strategy with custom Rust pods, and the architectural lessons we learned building event detection systems at the edge.
ISE Developer Blog
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Mar 18, 2026
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Visual Studio Code 1.112

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Visual Studio Code Team
Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.112 Read the full article
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Mar 18, 2026
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When Infrastructure Scales But Understanding Doesn't

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Diego,
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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...
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Mar 18, 2026
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Announcing PowerShell 7.6 (LTS) GA Release

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Jason Helmick
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...
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Mar 18, 2026
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Azure Developer CLI (azd): Run and test AI agents locally with azd

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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
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Mar 18, 2026
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Authentication Tokens Are Not a Data Contract

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Angel Wong
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