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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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Feb 26, 2026
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Vector Data in .NET - Building Blocks for AI Part 2
Discover how Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData brings unified vector database access to .NET - one interface for semantic search across any vector store with built-in support for embeddings, filtering, and RAG patterns.
.NET Blog
Feb 26, 2026
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Fence Barriers: Fine-Grained GPU Synchronization in Direct3D 12
Introducing Fence Barriers
We are excited to share the preview release of Fence Barriers (Tier-1), a new capability now available in AgilitySDK 1.719-preview (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx12agility/). Fence Barriers expand on Enhanced Barriers to provide support for...
DirectX Developer Blog
Feb 26, 2026
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D3D12 Shader Execution Reordering
Now officially released, Shader Execution Reordering (SER) is an addition to DirectX Raytracing that enables application shader code inform hardware how to find coherency across rays so they can be sorted to execute better in parallel. SER support is a required feature in Shader...
DirectX Developer Blog
Feb 26, 2026
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D3D12 Opacity Micromaps
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DirectX Raytracing (DXR) now supports Opacity Micromaps (OMMs), enabling hardware to handle alpha tested geometry more efficiently than relying only on costly AnyHit shader invocations.
At GDC 2025 DXR 1.2 was announced including OMMs, and you can see it discussed in this: GDC...
DirectX Developer Blog
Feb 26, 2026
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Azure SDK Release (February 2026)
Azure SDK releases every month. In this post, you'll find this month's highlights and release notes.
Azure SDK Blog
Feb 26, 2026
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Intercepting messages inside IsDialogMessage, installing the message filter
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IsDialogMessage extension point.The Old New Thing
Feb 26, 2026
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Building a Secure MCP Server with OAuth 2.1 and Azure AD: Lessons from the Field
How we built a production-ready MCP server with OAuth 2.1 authentication and On-Behalf-Of flow for Microsoft Graph, navigating a rapidly evolving specification.
ISE Developer Blog
Feb 26, 2026
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Building Long-Distance Next Edit Suggestions
Learn how we extended next edit suggestions to work across your entire file, reducing friction and improving productivity in GitHub Copilot.
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VS Code Blog
Feb 25, 2026
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The Polyglot Tax
Part 1 of 4 - The Multimodal Database Series
This is a four-part series about what happens when a single database engine handles relational, document, graph, vector, and analytical workloads natively - and what you stop paying for when it does.
You spin up a database, point an agent...
Azure SQL Dev Corner