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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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Aspire Integrations, Batteries Included

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Sebastien Ros
Aspire provides a *batteries included* approach through **integrations**
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Dec 11, 2025
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Studying the various locale mismatch scenarios in Windows clipboard text format synthesis

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Raymond Chen
If they don't match, then the 8-bit strings are basically broken already.
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Azure Cosmos DB vNext Emulator: Query and Observability Enhancements
Dec 11, 2025
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Azure Cosmos DB vNext Emulator: Query and Observability Enhancements

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Abhishek Gupta
The Azure Cosmos DB Linux-based vNext emulator (preview) is a local version of the Azure Cosmos DB service that runs as a Docker container on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It provides a cost-effective way to develop and test applications locally without requiring an Azure subscription or...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Azure Cosmos DB: Necoming a Search-Native Database
Dec 10, 2025
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Azure Cosmos DB : Becoming a Search-Native Database

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For years, “Database” and “Search systems" (think Elastic Search) lived in separate worlds. While both Databases and Search Systems operate in the same domain (storing, indexing and querying data), they prioritized different aspects. OLTP Databases prioritized Structured and...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
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Dec 10, 2025
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November 2025 (version 1.107)

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Visual Studio Code Team
What's new in the Visual Studio Code November 2025 Release (1.107). Read the full article
VS Code Blog
General Availability of SharePoint Framework 1.22
Dec 10, 2025
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General Availability of SharePoint Framework 1.22 - A Major Refresh of the Build & Tooling Experience

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Vesa Juvonen
We are excited to announce general availability for the SharePoint Framework 1.22. This time focus is primarily on updating the build toolchain and to address npm audit issues.
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
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Dec 10, 2025
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Streamlining your Git workflow with Visual Studio 2026

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Mads Kristensen
You’re a .NET developer with a busy morning, and an Azure DevOps ticket drops: “Login endpoint 500s under load.” You’ve got to fix it, review a teammate’s feature branch, and keep your repo clean - all before lunch. Visual Studio’s Git tools turn this everyday Git workflow of...
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Dec 10, 2025
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How does Windows synthesize the CF_LOCALE clipboard format?

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Raymond Chen
Getting it from a place that might have been obvious in the past, but maybe not today.
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Dec 10, 2025
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Agent Onboarding Process for Agentic Systems: Maintain accuracy at scale

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A robust agent onboarding process is the backbone of scalable, reliable multi-agent AI systems—enforcing uniqueness, rigorous evaluation, and responsible AI practices at every step.
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