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Introducing Agent Optimizer in Foundry Agent Service
With hosted agents, we made it straightforward to build and deploy agents on Foundry. You write your logic, run azd deploy, and your agent is live. But “live” and “production-ready” aren’t the same thing.
The gap shows up quickly. Your customer support agent handles...
Read moreClick to read more about this postHow Microsoft is migrating repositories to GitHub
For the past decade, Azure DevOps has powered software development at Microsoft, supporting some of our largest repositories and most complex engineering workflows across Azure Repos, Boards, and Pipelines.
Software development is being reshaped by AI, and where code lives now have a...
Read moreClick to read more about this postBuild 2026: From observability to ROI for AI agents on any framework
9 min read · June 3, 2026 · Sebastian Kohlmeier
Shipping an AI agent is the easy part. Keeping it accurate, safe, and accountable in production is where teams get stuck. Agents are non-deterministic. Their behavior shifts as models update, tools change, and traffic...
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Mar 9, 2026
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Extend your coding agent with .NET Skills
Introducing the dotnet/skills repository and how .NET agent skills can improve coding agent workflows.
.NET Blog
Mar 9, 2026
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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...
Microsoft for Developers
Mar 9, 2026
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Visual Studio Dev Essentials: Free, Practical Tools for Every Developer
When I first found Visual Studio Dev Essentials, it felt like discovering a hidden door in the developer toolkit world. I’d heard about free tools and cloud credits, but I wasn’t sure if it would really matter in day-to-day coding life. The short answer: it absolutely...
Visual Studio Blog
Mar 9, 2026
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General Availability: Email and SMS OTP as Second‑Factor MFA for Native Authentication in Entra External ID
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Email and SMS one‑time passcode (OTP) as second‑factor MFA for Native Authentication in Microsoft Entra External ID. This enables developers to add step‑up security to native sign‑in and sign‑up flows while keeping users fully...
Microsoft Entra Identity Platform
Mar 9, 2026
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Learning to read C++ compiler errors: Ambiguous overloaded operator
Look for the conflicting definitions to see where they are coming from.
The Old New Thing
Mar 9, 2026
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Build business understanding with Dataverse in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot is now embedded as an in-app sidecar within Power Apps, Dynamics 365 Sales, and Dynamics 365 Customer Service—removing the need to switch between apps to find context or complete steps.
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
Mar 6, 2026
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What's new in Microsoft Foundry | February 2026
February brings Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 with 1M-token context, GPT-Realtime-1.5 and GPT-Audio-1.5, Grok 4.0 GA, the Microsoft Agent Framework reaching Release Candidate, and the Foundry REST API quietly going GA — laying the foundation for imminent SDK GA announcements across Python, .NET, JS/TS, and Java.
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Mar 6, 2026
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Prepare your add-in for Outlook ribbon improvements
We’re improving how add-ins appear on the ribbon in Outlook on the web and the new Outlook on Windows. These updates make add-ins easier to find and align the experience across Outlook clients.
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog