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The New Loop: How Power Pages Builds Software with AI
Introduction
When I started writing software professionally in 2015, the tech landscape looked completely different. Tools and frameworks kept evolving since then, but the process of building software barely moved for a decade. That changed in the last couple of months. Here's what has...
Read moreClick to read more about this postThe problem: All-or-nothing batch processing in Azure Service Bus
Azure Functions lets you settle each Service Bus message on its own within a batch. Complete, abandon, dead-letter, or defer messages one by one to avoid duplicate processing and handle errors with precision.
Read moreClick to read more about this postGoverning MCP tool calls in .NET with the Agent Governance Toolkit
Learn how to govern MCP tool calls in .NET with the Agent Governance Toolkit—policy-based access control, security scanning, and response sanitization to reduce risk in AI agent systems.
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May 3, 2026
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Removing The Monkey Work of Migration
davidwright,
Arnaud,
Suzanne
Removing The Monkey Work of Migration; in this post we show how Git-Ape analyses an AWS deployment repo and generates an Azure-native replacement, with design critique built in.
This post walks through a real migration workflow: start with an AWS deployment repo and end with an...
All things Azure
May 3, 2026
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Introducing Apache Arrow Support in mssql-python
Reviewed by Sumit Sarabhai
Fetching a million rows from SQL Server into a Polars DataFrame used to mean a million Python objects, a million GC allocations, and then throwing it all away to build a DataFrame. Not anymore. mssql-python now supports fetching SQL Server data...
Microsoft for Python Developers Blog
May 1, 2026
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Python support for the Microsoft Teams SDK is now generally available
Lily,
Ricky,
Aamir
Python developers can now build Teams-native apps and agents using the same SDK surface that powers modern Teams experiences across our TypeScript and .NET stacks
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
May 1, 2026
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Sponsor group type requirements for agent identities
As part of moving to general availability (GA) for Entra Agent ID, agent identity objects will only accept dynamic membership groups and unified (Microsoft 365) groups as group-type sponsors.
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
May 1, 2026
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The new Run dialog: faster, cleaner, and more capable
We've shipped the new Run dialog - and we want to say thanks. As the team behind Windows Terminal and PowerToys, we're excited to bring this to Windows 11, and your feedback helped shape it!
Run has been rebuilt from the ground up:
Modern design: A refreshed look that matches Fluent...
Windows Command Line
May 1, 2026
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Introducing langchain-azure-cosmosdb: Build Agentic Apps and RAG with One Database
James,
Aayush
Build AI Agents and RAG Applications with the New LangChain + LangGraph Connector for Azure Cosmos DB
Building AI agents and RAG applications today means stitching together half a dozen services, a vector database, a chat history store, a checkpointer for agent state, a semantic cache, a...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
May 1, 2026
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Developing a cross-process reader/writer lock with limited readers, part 4: Abandonment
Recovering from death of the owner.
The Old New Thing
Apr 30, 2026
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Announcing WinUI 3 Gallery 2.9
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 3 Gallery 2.9, our first release built on Windows App...
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Apr 30, 2026
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Azure Developer CLI (azd) - April 2026
The Azure Developer CLI (azd) shipped five releases in April 2026. The biggest theme this month is multi-language hook support: write azd hooks in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or .NET alongside the existing Bash and PowerShell options. Here's what's in versions 1.23.14, 1.23.15,...
Azure SDK Blog