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Give your Foundry Agent Custom Tools with MCP Servers on Azure Functions
Learn how to connect your MCP server hosted on Azure Functions to Microsoft Foundry agents. This post covers authentication options and setup steps to give your AI agent access to custom MCP tools.
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Introducing GitHub Copilot Modernization and diving into the assessment report as part of cloud modernization process
Read moreClick to read more about this postGitHub Copilot for Eclipse Is Going Open Source
We’re excited to announce that the GitHub Copilot for Eclipse plugin is going open source under the MIT license and will be hosted on GitHub under the microsoft organization in the coming weeks.
By open-sourcing the project, we’re inviting the community to contribute,...
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Apr 15, 2026
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Visual Studio Code 1.116
Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.116 (Insiders)
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Apr 15, 2026
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Pin Clustering in .NET MAUI Maps
.NET MAUI 11 adds pin clustering to the Map control, automatically grouping nearby pins into cluster markers. Learn how to enable clustering, create separate clustering groups, and handle cluster taps on Android and iOS.
.NET Blog
Apr 15, 2026
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Stop Hunting Bugs: Meet the New Visual Studio Debugger Agent
We’ve all been there: a bug report lands in your inbox with a title like "App crashes sometimes" and zero reproduction steps. Your morning, which was supposed to be spent building new features, is now a forensic investigation. You’re setting scattershot breakpoints, staring at...
Visual Studio Blog
Apr 15, 2026
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One-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...
Azure DevOps Blog
Apr 15, 2026
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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...
All things Azure
Apr 15, 2026
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DevOps 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...
All things Azure
Apr 14, 2026
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.NET and .NET Framework April 2026 servicing releases updates
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A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for April 2026.
.NET Blog
Apr 14, 2026
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.NET 11 Preview 3 is now available!
Find out about the new features in .NET 11 Preview 3 across the .NET runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, C#, Entity Framework Core, container images, and more!
.NET Blog
Apr 14, 2026
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Stop juggling package managers—just run `azd update`
Update the Azure Developer CLI with a single command on any platform and switch release channels.
Azure SDK Blog