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Choosing the Right Azure Hosting Model for AI Agents: A Deep Dive into Foundry Hosted Agents
AI agents are quickly moving from experiments to production‑critical components of modern applications. But while many teams know how to build agents, far fewer are confident they’re hosting them on the right foundation.
Most organizations start by deploying agents the same way...
Read moreClick to read more about this postOne-click security scanning and org-wide alert triage come to Advanced Security
We're shipping two major capabilities that change how security teams enable and act on application security in Azure DevOps: CodeQL default setup makes it possible to enable code scanning across your organization without configuring a single pipeline, and a new combined alerts experience...
Read moreClick to read more about this postDevOps Playbook for the Agentic Era
Practices, Principles, and Strategic Direction
Software delivery has entered a new phase. AI agents are no longer confined to autocomplete suggestions in the editor. They are opening pull requests, generating code across multiple files, proposing infrastructure changes, responding to...
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Mar 6, 2026
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When ReadDirectoryChangesW reports that a deletion occurred, how can I learn more about the deleted thing?
It's already gone. If you need more information, you should have been remembering it.
The Old New Thing
Mar 6, 2026
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Using Agents to Setup Experiments
When setting up an experiment is complex, agents can automate the process to make it faster and more reliable.
ISE Developer Blog
Mar 5, 2026
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Visual Studio at GDC Festival of Gaming 2026
Join us at GDC Festival of Gaming 2026 for a deep dive into Visual Studio, GitHub Copilot, PowerToys, and the Windows tools that speed up your daily dev workflow. We'll show how these tools work together to boost productivity and cut friction across your entire inner loop.
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C++ Team Blog
Mar 5, 2026
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Windows Terminal Preview 1.25 Release
We briefly paused our quarterly release cycle to focus on reliability and performance, but now we're back with Windows Terminal 1.25!
We are also updating Windows Terminal stable to version 1.24, which will include all of the features from this previous blog post. Some notable features...
Windows Command Line
Mar 5, 2026
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Release v1.0 of the official MCP C# SDK
Discover what’s new in the v1.0 release of the official MCP C# SDK, including enhanced authorization, richer metadata, and powerful patterns for tool calling and long-running requests.
.NET Blog
Mar 5, 2026
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The mystery of the posted message that was dispatched before reaching the main message loop
Perhaps it's because you dispatched it.
The Old New Thing
Mar 5, 2026
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Platform Engineering for the Agentic AI era
Arnaud,
davidwright
For the last decade, platform engineering has relied on explicit API interaction layers: CLIs, SDKs, pipelines, wrappers, and UI workflows that translate human intent into machine‑safe API calls. AI agents are now short‑circuiting much of that stack. By combining natural language...
All things Azure
Mar 5, 2026
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Announcing WinUI Gallery 2.8
Niels,
Marcel
Hey WinUI developers! If you’re new around here, WinUI Gallery is the go-to app for exploring WinUI 3 controls, samples, design guidance, and handy tools — all in one place. Today, we’re excited to announce WinUI Gallery 2.8, bringing jump list support, new samples,...
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Mar 5, 2026
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Making agents practical for real-world development
Explore agent orchestration, extensibility, and continuity in VS Code 1.110: lifecycle hooks, agent skills, session memory, and integrated browser tools.
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