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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.
Read moreClick to read more about this postYour Migration's Source of Truth: The Modernization Assessment
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 12, 2026
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.NET 10.0.5 Out-of-Band Release - macOS Debugger Fix
An out-of-band release of .NET 10.0.5 to fix a critical debugger crash affecting macOS users with Visual Studio Code.
.NET Blog
Mar 12, 2026
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Windows stack limit checking retrospective: x86-32, also known as i386
One of the weirdest calling conventions you'll see.
The Old New Thing
Mar 12, 2026
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Advanced Shader Delivery: What’s New at GDC 2026
Today we announced the innovation we’re bringing in solving shader compilation for the ecosystem at our GDC Talk: Advanced Shader Delivery for Windows. Want to find out what this means for solving shader compilation for your title and customers? Read on!
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DirectX Developer Blog
Mar 11, 2026
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Temporary rollback: build identities can access Advanced Security: read alerts again
If you use build service identities like Project Collection Build Service to call Advanced Security APIs, the Advanced Security permission changes in Sprint 269 broke that. We restricted API access for build identities as a security improvement but failed to provide an early notice for...
Azure DevOps Blog
Mar 11, 2026
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DirectStorage 1.4 release adds support for Zstandard
Clarke,
Larry
Today we’re releasing the public preview of DirectStorage 1.4 and the initial public preview of the Game Asset Conditioning Library. Together, they introduce Zstandard (Zstd) compression as an option for game assets on Windows. This new support meets the needs of the gaming ecosystem,...
DirectX Developer Blog
Mar 11, 2026
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A Look Ahead at Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026: From AI Agents to Global Scale
Join us for Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026, a free global, virtual developer event focused on building modern applications with Azure Cosmos DB.
Date: April 28, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM–2:00 PM PT
Where: Streaming live on the Microsoft Developer YouTube channel, with additional...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Mar 11, 2026
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Announcing general availability of Azure Confidential Computing (ACC) virtual machines for U.S. government environments
Government agencies have an increased need for secure, verifiable, and compliant cloud environments that adhere to data sovereignty regulations, operate in a Zero Trust framework, and help reduce exposure to insider threats.
Today, Microsoft marks a major milestone in secure cloud...
Azure Government
Mar 11, 2026
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How do compilers ensure that large stack allocations do not skip over the guard page?
Don't take steps that are too large.
The Old New Thing
Mar 10, 2026
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.NET 11 Preview 2 is now available!
Find out about the new features in .NET 11 Preview 2 across the .NET runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, C#, .NET MAUI, and more!
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