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The New Loop: How Power Pages Builds Software with AI
Introduction
When I started writing software professionally in 2015, the tech landscape looked completely different. Tools and frameworks kept evolving since then, but the process of building software barely moved for a decade. That changed in the last couple of months. Here's what has...
Read moreClick to read more about this postThe problem: All-or-nothing batch processing in Azure Service Bus
Azure Functions lets you settle each Service Bus message on its own within a batch. Complete, abandon, dead-letter, or defer messages one by one to avoid duplicate processing and handle errors with precision.
Read moreClick to read more about this postGoverning MCP tool calls in .NET with the Agent Governance Toolkit
Learn how to govern MCP tool calls in .NET with the Agent Governance Toolkit—policy-based access control, security scanning, and response sanitization to reduce risk in AI agent systems.
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Feb 4, 2026
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Azure Boards integration with GitHub Copilot includes custom agent support
We recently released the GitHub Copilot Coding Agent for Azure Boards to all customers. If you’re not already familiar with it, we recommend taking a few minutes to read this blog post for an overview and details.
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Azure DevOps Blog
Feb 4, 2026
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WinGet Configuration: Set up your dev machine in one command
I've set up a lot of dev machines in my life. Traditionally, this takes a lot of time to get everything just right, but now there's a faster way with WinGet Configuration files. Let me show you how to go from a fresh Windows install to a fully configured dev environment with a single...
Microsoft for Developers
Feb 4, 2026
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How can I prevent the user from changing the widths of ListView columns?
You can ask the header to be non-resizing.
The Old New Thing
Feb 3, 2026
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Deprecation notice: Teams Live Events meeting creation via Microsoft Graph
Creating Teams Live Events via the Microsoft Graph isBroadcast API is deprecated. We encourage developers to use Virtual Event APIs instead.
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
Feb 3, 2026
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Part 2: Building a Python CRUD API with Azure Functions and Azure Cosmos DB
Series: Building Serverless Applications with Azure Functions and Azure Cosmos DB
In the first post of this series, we focused on establishing the fundamentals of serverless architecture by building and deploying a simple HTTP API using Azure Functions and FastAPI. The post centred on...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Feb 3, 2026
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Performance improvements to MEF-based editor productivity extensions
Tina,
Amadeus
If you use editor productivity extensions for Visual Studio 2026, there's good news—they can now load faster! Extension developers with existing MEF-based editor productivity extensions should read this blog to learn about recent changes and how they might be affected.
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Visual Studio Blog
Feb 3, 2026
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Some small stories about the giant satellite dish antenna that was behind Microsoft Building 11
A little trivia.
The Old New Thing
Feb 2, 2026
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Java OpenJDK January 2026 Patch & Security Update
Hello Java customers!
We are happy to announce the latest January 2026 patch & security update release for the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK. Download and install the binaries today.
OpenJDK 25.0.2
OpenJDK 21.0.10
OpenJDK 17.0.18
OpenJDK 11.0.30
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Microsoft for Java Developers