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Custom Agents in Visual Studio: Built in and Build-Your-Own agents

Agents in Visual Studio now go beyond a single general-purpose assistant. We're shipping a set of curated preset agents that tap into deep IDE capabilities; debugging, profiling, testing alongside a framework for building your own custom agents tailored to how your team works. Built in...
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Light up Multiple Databases with a Single API with Data API builder's multi-source configuration

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Jerry Nixon
Data API builder (DAB) supports multi-source configurations Data API builder (DAB) connects to your database with a safe REST or GraphQL endpoint. But DAB is not limited to just one database. Using a multi-source configuration, you can connect to more than one database simultaneously. ...
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Customizing the ways the dialog manager dismisses itself: Detecting the ESC key, first (failed) attempt

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Raymond Chen
Sniffing the asynchronous keyboard state.
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Feb 20, 2026
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Using Codes to Increase Adherence to Prompts

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Peter Lasne
Agentic systems have some discretion in the parameters they sent to tooling, but there are cases, such as experimentation, when you need 100% adherence to a set of parameters.
ISE Developer Blog
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Feb 19, 2026
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Migrate your Semantic Kernel and AutoGen projects to Microsoft Agent Framework Release Candidate

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We're thrilled to announce that Microsoft Agent Framework has reached Release Candidate status for both .NET and Python. Release Candidate is an important milestone on the road to General Availability — it means the API surface is stable, and all features that we intend to release with...
Semantic Kernel
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Feb 19, 2026
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Microsoft Agent Framework Reaches Release Candidate

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Shawn Henry
We're happy to announce that Microsoft Agent Framework is now in Release Candidate status for both .NET and Python. Release Candidate is an important milestone on the road to General Availability — it means the API surface is stable, and all features that we intend to release with...
Microsoft Foundry Blog
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Feb 19, 2026
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C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness for GitHub Copilot in VS Code

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Sinem Akinci
C++ code navigation and build system tooling play an important role in the developer inner-loop. Code navigation tooling provides a precise, semantic understanding of your codebase, while build system tooling helps you express build configurations and variants for reproducible builds. In...
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Feb 19, 2026
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Custom Agents in Visual Studio: Built in and Build-Your-Own agents

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Rhea,
Kelly
Agents in Visual Studio now go beyond a single general-purpose assistant. We're shipping a set of curated preset agents that tap into deep IDE capabilities; debugging, profiling, testing alongside a framework for building your own custom agents tailored to how your team works. Built in...
Visual Studio Blog
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Feb 19, 2026
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Exploring the signals the dialog manager uses for dismissing a dialog

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Raymond Chen
Summarizing the flow.
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