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Give Your Agents Domain Expertise with Agent Skills in Microsoft Agent Framework
You can now equip your Microsoft Agent Framework agents with portable, reusable skill packages that provide domain expertise on demand — without changing a single line of your agent's core instructions. With the new FileAgentSkillsProvider, available for both .NET and Python, your...
Read moreClick to read more about this postGitHub Copilot Dev Days: Build faster with GitHub Copilot CLI, in VS Code & Visual Studio, and beyond!
Modern software development is moving fast—and AI is now a practical part of how Microsoft developers design, build, and ship applications every day. From writing code in Visual Studio and VS Code, to building cloud-native apps on Azure, developers are looking for ways to stay...
Read moreClick to read more about this postWhat sort of horrible things happen if my dialog has a non-button with the control ID of IDCANCEL?
You get notifications that might not make sense.
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Mar 5, 2026
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Visual 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.
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C++ Team Blog
Mar 5, 2026
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Windows Terminal Preview 1.25 Release
We briefly paused our quarterly release cycle to focus on reliability and performance, but now we're back with Windows Terminal 1.25!
We are also updating Windows Terminal stable to version 1.24, which will include all of the features from this previous blog post. Some notable features...
Windows Command Line
Mar 5, 2026
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Release v1.0 of the official MCP C# SDK
Discover what’s new in the v1.0 release of the official MCP C# SDK, including enhanced authorization, richer metadata, and powerful patterns for tool calling and long-running requests.
.NET Blog
Mar 5, 2026
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The mystery of the posted message that was dispatched before reaching the main message loop
Perhaps it's because you dispatched it.
The Old New Thing
Mar 5, 2026
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Platform Engineering for the Agentic AI era
arnaud,
davidwright
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...
All things Azure
Mar 5, 2026
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Announcing WinUI Gallery 2.8
Niels,
Marcel
Hey WinUI developers! If you’re new around here, WinUI Gallery is the go-to app for exploring WinUI controls, samples, design guidance, and handy tools — all in one place. Today, we’re excited to announce WinUI Gallery 2.8, bringing jump list support, new samples,...
#ifdef Windows
Mar 4, 2026
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C++ Performance Improvements in MSVC Build Tools v14.51
MSVC Build Tools v14.51 improves performance through a wide range of new optimizations.
C++ Team Blog
Mar 4, 2026
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February 2026 (version 1.110)
What's new in the Visual Studio Code February 2026 Release (1.110).
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VS Code Blog
Mar 4, 2026
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The Polyglot tax - Part 2
When JSON Met Graph
Part 2 of 4 - The Multimodal Database Series
A note on naming. Throughout this series, when we say "SQL Server 2025" we also mean Azure SQL. The multimodal capabilities we discuss - native JSON, graph, vector, and columnstore - are available across both the...
Azure SQL Dev Corner