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Aspire 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.
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Improving 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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Dec 16, 2025
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Azure Boards integration with GitHub Copilot

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Dan Hellem
A few months ago we introduced the Azure Boards integration with GitHub Copilot in private preview. The goal was simple: allow teams to take a work item from Azure Boards and send it directly to GitHub Copilot so the coding agent could begin working on it, track progress, and generate a...
Azure DevOps Blog
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Dec 15, 2025
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Build declarative agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot with MCP

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Rishabh Agrawal
With introduction of MCP support, it’s now much easier for developers to integrate their business workflows, SaaS, and LoB systems into Copilot via declarative agent.  
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
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Dec 15, 2025
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How to Build iOS Widgets with .NET MAUI

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Toine de Boer
Build professional iOS widgets with .NET MAUI, from static displays to interactive widgets.
.NET Blog
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Dec 15, 2025
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Behind the scenes of the Visual Studio feedback system

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Mads Kristensen
Here on the Visual Studio team, our top priority is making your coding experience smoother and more enjoyable. And that begins with truly listening to your feedback. We understand that sometimes sharing your thoughts can feel like tossing bug reports and suggestions into a black hole. It...
Visual Studio Blog
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Dec 15, 2025
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The Windows clipboard automatic text conversion algorithm is path-dependent

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Raymond Chen
When the journey is not half of the fun.
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Dec 12, 2025
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Resolving an ambiguity in the Windows clipboard automated text conversion table

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Raymond Chen
Who goes first?
The Old New Thing
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Dec 12, 2025
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Retirement of Global Personal Access Tokens in Azure DevOps

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Angel Wong
In the new year, we’ll be retiring the Global Personal Access Token (PAT) type in the Azure DevOps Services product. No changes will be made to global PATs in the Azure DevOps Server product. Global PATs allow users to authenticate across all accessible organizations. While this can...
Azure DevOps Blog
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Dec 11, 2025
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Making Windows Terminal awesome with GitHub Copilot CLI

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Kayla Cinnamon
As someone who lives and breathes in the command line, I love making my terminal feel like home. Windows Terminal is full of personalization options that really allow for a custom experience. Additionally, I can stay within my terminal for my development with GitHub Copilot with the...
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