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Aspire Docs in Your Terminal (and Your AI's Brain)

Aspire 13.2 ships aspire docs, a CLI for browsing, searching, and reading official aspire.dev docs from your terminal, with the same source of truth available to AI skills and automation.
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Improving the Markdown Editor for Work Items

We introduced the Markdown editor in July 2025 to bring Markdown support to large text fields in work items. Since then, we’ve received valuable customer feedback highlighting challenges with the editing experience, particularly when switching in and out of edit mode. Many users found...
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Why doesn't the system let you declare your own messages to have the same semantics as WM_COPY­DATA?

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Raymond Chen
Tempting but misleading.
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Apr 1, 2026
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Visual Studio Code 1.114

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Apr 1, 2026
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Python in Visual Studio Code - March 2026 Release

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Vedha Ranganathan
The March 2026 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code is now available. Keep on reading to learn more!
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Apr 1, 2026
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What's New in vcpkg (Feb 2026 - Mar 2026): Parallel file installation and more!

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Augustin Popa
These updates include a security fix for OpenSSL packaging on Windows, parallel file installation for improved performance, and other improvements and bug fixes.
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Apr 1, 2026
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PowerShell 7.6 release postmortem and investments

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Jason Helmick
This post shares context on the delayed timing of the PowerShell 7.6 release, our learnings, and the changes the team has already begun making to improve release predictability and transparency.
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Apr 1, 2026
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General Availability: Social Identity Providers for Native Authentication via Browser‑Delegated Flows (web-view) in Microsoft Entra External ID

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Sasha Mars
We’re excited to announce the General Availability of Social Identity Provider (IdP) support for Native Authentication in Microsoft Entra External ID. This release enables developers to integrate popular social sign‑in options such as Google, Facebook, and Apple — into native and...
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Apr 1, 2026
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Improving the Markdown Editor for Work Items

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Dan Hellem
We introduced the Markdown editor in July 2025 to bring Markdown support to large text fields in work items. Since then, we’ve received valuable customer feedback highlighting challenges with the editing experience, particularly when switching in and out of edit mode. Many users found...
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Apr 1, 2026
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The Polyglot tax - Part 3

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Aditya Badramraju
Vectors, Analytics, and the End of ETL Part 3 of 4 - The Multimodal Database Series In Part 1: The Polyglot Tax we laid out the fraud detection scenario: a transaction comes in, and before you approve or deny it you need five checks. Order history (relational). Device fingerprint...
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Apr 1, 2026
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Dataverse Skills: Your Coding Agent Now Speaks Dataverse

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Suyash Kshirsagar
Building enterprise solutions is shifting from writing code to directing AI agents. Instead of stitching together APIs, CLIs, and scripts, developers are increasingly describing intent and letting agents execute. For enterprise platforms like Dataverse, this creates a new requirement:...
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