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Copilot Studio gets faster with .NET 10 on WebAssembly
Microsoft Copilot Studio recently upgraded its .NET WebAssembly engine to .NET 10. The migration was straightforward, simplified deployment, and delivered another round of meaningful performance gains for end users.
Read moreClick to read more about this postSQL query generation from natural language
Evaluating AI agents for NL-to-SQL generation across Azure Databricks AI/BI Genie, GitHub Copilot CLI, and Microsoft Agent Framework. We achieved ~75% accuracy with schema documentation and runtime validation, while discovering that business logic errors represent a fundamental limitation requiring domain expertise.
Read moreClick to read more about this postDurable Workflows in the Microsoft Agent Framework
Build durable AI agent workflows with the Microsoft Agent Framework. Start with in-process console apps, add durability with the Durable Task runtime, scale with parallel AI agents, and host on Azure Functions for serverless execution.
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May 11, 2026
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Publishing VM Applications in a Secure World
Many of you who have published VM Applications may have come across a difficult conundrum regarding security. To create an application version, you must upload your application package to a Storage blob, then provide the address of that Storage blob for replication to occur. The problem...
Azure VM Runtime Team
May 11, 2026
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Additional notes on controlling which handles are inherited by CreateProcess
Putting the handles in a private container.
The Old New Thing
May 8, 2026
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Generate Embeddings Function and External Model Object Support Are Now Generally Available in Azure SQL
We are excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of AI_GENERATE_EMBEDDINGS and CREATE EXTERNAL MODEL in Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance.
These two T-SQL features — CREATE EXTERNAL MODEL and AI_GENERATE_EMBEDDINGS — work together as a single,...
Azure SQL Dev Corner
May 8, 2026
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Announcing the public preview of the Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Evaluations tool
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The Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Evaluations tool helps developers measure and improve the quality of agents they build for Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
May 8, 2026
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Go 1.26.3-1 and 1.25.10-1 Microsoft builds now available
A new release of the Microsoft build of Go including security fixes is now available for download.
Microsoft for Go Developers
May 8, 2026
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Developing more confidence when tracking renames via ReadDirectoryChangesW
You can track the file ID.
The Old New Thing
May 7, 2026
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A Tour of Handoff Orchestration Pattern
A Tour of the Handoff Orchestration Pattern
Most multi-agent systems start out simple: a router agent receives a user request, picks the right specialist, and forwards the conversation. As long as each specialist can complete its task in one pass, that model works fine.
The first...
Microsoft Agent Framework
May 7, 2026
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Project-Specific Build Optimizations with GitHub Copilot
We are excited to announce that GitHub Copilot build performance for Windows now supports project-specific builds! Available in the latest Visual Studio Insiders, you can target a single MSBuild project or CMake target instead of analyzing your entire solution. For game developers and...
C++ Team Blog
May 7, 2026
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What's New in vcpkg (Apr 2026)
These updates include improved locking for parallel builds, cross-platform PE dependency analysis, manifest support for the depend-info command, and other improvements and bug fixes.
C++ Team Blog