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Give your Foundry Agent Custom Tools with MCP Servers on Azure Functions
Learn how to connect your MCP server hosted on Azure Functions to Microsoft Foundry agents. This post covers authentication options and setup steps to give your AI agent access to custom MCP tools.
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Introducing GitHub Copilot Modernization and diving into the assessment report as part of cloud modernization process
Read moreClick to read more about this postGitHub Copilot for Eclipse Is Going Open Source
We’re excited to announce that the GitHub Copilot for Eclipse plugin is going open source under the MIT license and will be hosted on GitHub under the microsoft organization in the coming weeks.
By open-sourcing the project, we’re inviting the community to contribute,...
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Mar 13, 2026
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The Human Scale Problem in Platform Engineering
Diego,
Ray
We keep doing this thing where we solve a problem, celebrate the victory, then realize we've created three new problems we didn't even know existed.
Remember when manually configuring servers was the bottleneck? So we built containers. Great! Now we're orchestrating thousands of them....
All things Azure
Mar 13, 2026
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March Patches for Azure DevOps Server
We are releasing patches for our self‑hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly recommend that all customers stay on the latest, most secure version of Azure DevOps Server. The latest release, Azure DevOps Server, is available from the download page.
This patch addresses an...
Azure DevOps Blog
Mar 13, 2026
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Azure Developer CLI (azd): Debug hosted AI agents from your terminal
New azd ai agent show and monitor commands help you diagnose hosted AI agent failures directly from the CLI.
Azure SDK Blog
Mar 13, 2026
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Windows stack limit checking retrospective: MIPS
Optimizing out the unnecessary probes comes with its own complexity.
The Old New Thing
Mar 13, 2026
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What's New in Agent Skills: Code Skills, Script Execution, and Approval for Python
Code-Defined Skills, Script Execution, and Approval for Agent Skills in Python
When we introduced Agent Skills for Microsoft Agent Framework, you could package domain expertise as file-based skill directories and have agents discover and load them on demand. Now, the Python SDK takes...
Microsoft Agent Framework
Mar 13, 2026
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How VS Code Builds with AI
Learn how VS Code uses AI across its own development workflow with GitHub Copilot agent mode, automated testing, and AI-powered code review.
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VS Code Blog
Mar 12, 2026
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Evolving DirectX for the ML Era on Windows
Adele,
Serena
At GDC this year, we shared how machine learning is becoming foundational to real time graphics, and how DirectX is evolving to meet that shift across shader level and model level ML. ML is no longer a niche optimization or a postprocess trick. It’s increasingly embedded throughout the...
DirectX Developer Blog
Mar 12, 2026
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Microsoft at JavaOne: Empowering Java developers to lead the next era of AI
Java has powered some of the world’s most mission‑critical systems for decades and that’s a big part of why we’re excited to be back with the community at JavaOne 2026 (March 17–19 in Redwood City). At Microsoft, we get to work with Java teams every day: folks shipping at...
Microsoft for Java Developers
Mar 12, 2026
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Agent Harness in Agent Framework
Dmytro,
Chris,
Eduard
Agent harness is the layer where model reasoning connects to real execution: shell and filesystem access, approval flows, and context management across long-running sessions. With Agent Framework, these patterns can now be built consistently in both Python and .NET.
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Microsoft Agent Framework