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Agentic-Agile: Why Agent Development Needs Agile (Not Just Prompts)
"A bad system will beat a good person [or agent] every time" ~Dr. William Edwards Deming (with apologies)
I started vibe coding by writing prompts (often dictated into my phone), refining them with an agent in M365 Copilot, and creating handoff files to use with GitHub Copilot CLI. The...
Read moreClick to read more about this postStop prompt injection from hijacking your agent, new security capabilities now released within Agent Framework
Prompt injection is the #1 risk on the OWASP LLM Top 10, and most agents in production today defend against it with one of two heuristics: a defensive system prompt, or a hand-rolled allowlist. Neither is deterministic. Both fail silently the day someone slips a [SYSTEM OVERRIDE] line...
Read moreClick to read more about this postAnnouncing Agent Governance Toolkit MCP Extensions for .NET
Announcing a Public Preview .NET package that adds policy enforcement, startup tool scanning, fallback governance, and response sanitization to MCP servers with a single builder extension.
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Mar 25, 2026
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PIX 2603.25 - misc bug fixes and improvements
Today we released PIX 2603.25 which can be downloaded here. These releases include everything in the previous 2602.25 release, plus the following bug fixes:
Fix capture layer issue corrupting tiled resources in some scenarios
Fix debug layer error during capture in query heaps
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PIX on Windows
Mar 25, 2026
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How can I change a dialog box's message loop to do a MsgWaitForMultipleObjects instead of GetMessage?
The dialog box lets you change how it waits.
The Old New Thing
Mar 25, 2026
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Your Entire Engineering Floor Just Stopped Coding
And the developers running Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI didn't notice...
Status Page Says 'Operational.' Your Subagents Say Otherwise.
If you're running autonomous agents in any serious capacity, you've experienced this: model provider outages aren't edge cases —...
All things Azure
Mar 24, 2026
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SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – March 2026
SPFx is powering the future of Microsoft 365 with AI driven portals and deep integrations across SharePoint Teams and Viva. The March 2026 update shares new features and the roadmap for the next evolution built for the AI era. This is a transparent community driven journey that we shape together.
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
Mar 24, 2026
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Designing for Eventual Consistency for Microsoft Entra
Microsoft Entra is a globally distributed service that provides identity and access management to millions of customers world-wide. To scale reliably and remain resilient during failures, Microsoft Entra uses an eventually consistent directory model.
Key takeaway
A successful write to...
Microsoft Entra Identity Platform
Mar 24, 2026
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Unlock More Power in Your Development Workflow: Syncfusion for Visual Studio Subscribers
A few months ago, I was talking with a developer who said something that stuck with me:
“I love building apps. I just don’t love rebuilding the same UI controls over and over again.”
That’s the reality for a lot of teams. You want to focus on your business logic,...
Visual Studio Blog
Mar 24, 2026
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Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older version
A very primitive version of recovery.
The Old New Thing
Mar 24, 2026
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📢LangChain4j got a new video series
We recently released a step-by-step course from simple chat to AI agents using LangChain4j 👉http://aka.ms/LangChain4j-for-Beginners
Now watch the new 6️⃣part Video series with tons of hands-on demos.
Let's break down what you'll learn.
Introduction to...
Microsoft for Java Developers
Mar 23, 2026
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SQL code analysis in VS Code: Configure rules without editing your project file
SQL code analysis has been part of the SSDT workflow for a long time. Before deploying a schema change, you could run a set of static analysis rules against your project to catch potential issues, things like missing primary keys, deprecated syntax, or objects that could break under...
Azure SQL Dev Corner