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MCP Beyond the Chat Window: Build Diagnostics in CI
A practical tour of the Model Context Protocol tools for .NET build diagnostics - the full Binlog MCP toolset, how those tools run inside a GitHub Actions workflow, and what the evaluation data says about the efficiency gains.
Read moreClick to read more about this postNot all model upgrades are upgrades
A new model drops with lower per-token pricing and better benchmarks. You switch. A week later someone asks why the agent is burning 12x more tokens on the same task while producing worse output.
We ran 150 agent tasks across 15 scenarios on two models, Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Claude...
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Jun 17, 2026
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Azure Backup for Azure Cosmos DB Public Preview Adds Immutable Backups and Long-Term Retention
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Azure Backup for Azure Cosmos DB Public Preview Adds Immutable Backups and Long-Term Retention
Picture the first few hours after a serious data incident. A production application is down. Security teams are still trying to understand what happened. Application owners need to know...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Jun 17, 2026
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Improving token efficiency for GitHub Copilot in VS Code
Learn how we're improving token efficiency for GitHub Copilot to reduce costs and latency for VS Code users.
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VS Code Blog
Jun 16, 2026
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Boosting Adobe Photoshop’s Performance with MSVC and SPGO
Boosting Adobe Photoshop’s Performance with MSVC and SPGO
Adobe and Microsoft worked together to improve Photoshop performance and responsiveness on Windows by combining MSVC’s peak-performance build settings with Sample-based Profile-Guided Optimization (SPGO). The collaboration...
C++ Team Blog
Jun 16, 2026
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Aspire in VS Code: the 13.4 developer loop
Aspire 13.4 brings more of the local development loop into VS Code: AppHost CodeLens actions, live resource state, dashboard shortcuts, typed resource command prompts, TypeScript AppHost support, and multi-language debugging.
Aspire Blog
Jun 16, 2026
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Third Rule of MSIX
MSIX has several core principles underlying its design and implementation. Engineers half-jokingly call these The Rules of MSIX. The Third Rule of MSIX is arguably the most important and certainly the most foundational:
Package identity is unique across space and...
Inside MSIX
Jun 16, 2026
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Competing against yourself
You shipped a new CLI: better developer experience, modern architecture, and optimized for agents. You deprecated the old one, updated the docs, and blogged about it. Developers are migrating. Then someone asks an AI coding agent to scaffold a project, and the agent... uses the old...
Microsoft for Developers
Jun 16, 2026
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Retrofitting the WM_COPYDATA message onto Windows 3.1
It was carefully designed to be trivial.
The Old New Thing
Jun 16, 2026
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Announcing General Availability of the Azure Cosmos DB Built-in Connector for Logic Apps Standard
Today, we're excited to announce the general availability of the Azure Cosmos DB built-in connector for Azure Logic Apps Standard. This connector gives you a native, high-performance way to integrate Azure Cosmos DB into your Standard logic app workflows, with better throughput, lower...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Jun 15, 2026
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GitHub Copilot for JetBrains is moving to Copilot CLI as the default agent harness
Copilot CLI is becoming the default agent harness in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains, and our local harness will be deprecated.
This change provides greater consistency across all GitHub Copilot surfaces and is an important step toward faster feature parity and higher-quality results in...
Microsoft for Java Developers