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C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness for GitHub Copilot in VS Code

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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Visual Studio 2026 February update announcement with feature cards highlighting faster Razor Hot Reload, C++ app modernization, WinForms expert agent, and slash commands for custom prompts, with a link to release notes.
Feb 24, 2026
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Visual Studio February Update

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Mark Downie
This month’s Visual Studio update continues our focus on helping you move faster and stay in flow, with practical improvements across AI assistance, debugging, testing, and modernization. Building on the momentum from January’s editor updates, the February release brings smarter...
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Feb 24, 2026
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Improved Python (PyPi/uvx) support in Azure MCP Server

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Xiang Yan
Azure MCP Server now offers first-class Python support via PyPI and uvx, making it easier than ever for Python developers to integrate Azure into their agentic workflows.
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Feb 24, 2026
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Customizing the ways the dialog manager dismisses itself: Isolating the Close pathway

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Raymond Chen
Intercepting the flow in your message loop.
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Feb 23, 2026
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Use Windows on-device AI in your Electron app

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Chiara Mooney
Last year we published AI Dev Gallery, an open-source app full of interactive Windows AI examples. A common follow-up question from Electron developers has been: “How can we build similar on-device AI experiences in our Electron apps?” In this blog, we’ll walk through how we built...
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Feb 23, 2026
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Customizing the ways the dialog manager dismisses itself: Detecting the ESC key, second (failed) attempt

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Raymond Chen
Sniffing the synchronous keyboard state is still not precise enough.
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Feb 20, 2026
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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. ...
Azure SQL Dev Corner
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Feb 20, 2026
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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.
The Old New Thing
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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.
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