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Read moreClick to read more about this postAspire Docs in Your Terminal (and Your AI's Brain)
Aspire 13.2 ships aspire docs, a CLI for browsing, searching, and reading official aspire.dev docs from your terminal, with the same source of truth available to AI skills and automation.
Read moreClick to read more about this postImproving the Markdown Editor for Work Items
We introduced the Markdown editor in July 2025 to bring Markdown support to large text fields in work items. Since then, we’ve received valuable customer feedback highlighting challenges with the editing experience, particularly when switching in and out of edit mode.
Many users found...
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Mar 2, 2026
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Give Your Agents Domain Expertise with Agent Skills in Microsoft Agent Framework
You can now equip your Microsoft Agent Framework agents with portable, reusable skill packages that provide domain expertise on demand — without changing a single line of your agent's core instructions. With built-in skills providers for both .NET and Python, your agents can discover...
Microsoft Agent Framework
Feb 27, 2026
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Updates to Team Calendar extension
We are excited to release a new update to the Team Calendar extension.
This update includes a series of visual refinements across the extension, introducing a more consistent design language, smoother transitions when expanding and collapsing sections, improved contrast for better...
Azure DevOps Blog
Feb 27, 2026
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Intercepting messages inside IsDialogMessage, fine-tuning the message filter
Making sure it triggers when you need it, and not when you don't.
The Old New Thing
Feb 27, 2026
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JCON Europe 2026: Java Modernization, Performance, and AI
Bruno,
Sandra
Java is the backbone of enterprise software engineering, and the conversations happening around it right now are the most exciting they've been in years. From AI-assisted development workflows to Kubernetes performance tuning, the community is moving fast - and JCON Europe 2026 is one of...
Microsoft for Java Developers
Feb 26, 2026
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Azure DocumentDB: A Fully Managed MongoDB-Compatible Database
Running MongoDB at scale eventually forces a trade-off: invest heavily in managing your own infrastructure or move to a managed service and risk losing the compatibility and portability your team depends on.
Azure DocumentDB is a fully managed, MongoDB-compatible database on...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Feb 26, 2026
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Measuring actual AI Impact for Engineering with Apache DevLake
If you want to skip the explain and get started super quick with adoption + impact insights, use gh-devlake to deploy a GitHub Copilot impact dashboard in a few CLI commands.
So! You've rolled out GitHub Copilot to your engineering teams. You've got the built-in dashboards. You...
All things Azure
Feb 26, 2026
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Announcing Shader Model 6.9 Retail and New D3D12 Improvements
Amar,
Serena
Today, we are pleased to announce that Shader Model 6.9 and other features have been officially released with Agility SDK 1.619 and complementary DXC 1.9.2602.16. Many of these features have been in preview status since 2025. Simultaneously, we are releasing a handful of new preview...
DirectX Developer Blog
Feb 26, 2026
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PIX 2602.25 and 2602.25-preview - support for new D3D features and misc quality-of-life improvements
Today we released PIX 2602.25 and 2602.25-preview, which can be downloaded here. These releases include everything in the previous 2601.15 release, plus:
2602.25: includes support for all of the new D3D12 features released today in Agility SDK 619.0, including Shader Model 6.9, DXR...
PIX on Windows