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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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Apr 27, 2026
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Announcing Shader Model 6.10 Preview and AgilitySDK 720 Preview
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Today, we are pleased to announce that Shader Model 6.10 and other features have been officially released with Agility SDK 1.720-preview and complementary DXC 1.10.2605.2. AgilitySDK 1.720-preview exposes the following features. There's more detail further below, including...
DirectX Developer Blog
Apr 27, 2026
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D3D12 LinAlg Matrix Preview
Welcome to the D3D12 LinAlg Matrix Preview release!
Today, we are excited to announce the preview release for the D3D12 Linear Algebra APIs! This feature set unlocks comprehensive hardware acceleration for Matrix-oriented operations across various use cases. Previously, we announced...
DirectX Developer Blog
Apr 27, 2026
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Looking at consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function on various architectures
It's bad news no matter how you slice it, but Itanium makes it even worse.
The Old New Thing
Apr 24, 2026
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Azure MCP Server now available as an MCP Bundle (.mcpb)
Azure MCP Server is now available as an MCP Bundle (.mcpb), enabling one-click installation into Claude Desktop and other MCP-compatible clients.
Azure SDK Blog
Apr 24, 2026
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Chat History Storage Patterns in Microsoft Agent Framework
When people talk about building AI agents, they usually focus on models, tools, and prompts. In practice, one of the most important architectural decisions is much simpler: where does the conversation history live?
Imagine a user asks your agent a complex question, clicks “try...
Microsoft Agent Framework
Apr 24, 2026
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Defending against exceptions in a scope_exit RAII type
But maybe it's not worth it.
The Old New Thing
Apr 24, 2026
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Axios npm Supply Chain Compromise – Guidance for Azure Pipelines Customers
On March 31, 2026, malicious versions of the widely used JavaScript HTTP client library Axios were briefly published to the npm registry as part of a supply chain attack.
The affected versions — 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 — included a hidden malicious dependency that executed during...
Azure DevOps Blog
Apr 23, 2026
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What's new for .NET in Ubuntu 26.04
Ubuntu 26.04 (Resolute Raccoon) ships today with .NET 10. Here's how to install .NET 10 from the archive, use the new -resolute container tags, build Native AOT apps, and install .NET 8 and 9 from the dotnet-backports PPA.
.NET Blog
Apr 23, 2026
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LangChain.js for Beginners: A Free Course to Build Agentic AI Apps with JavaScript
Yohan,
Dan
Want to build AI agents with JavaScript that go beyond basic chat completions? Agents that reason, call tools, and pull from knowledge bases on their own? We put together a free, open source course to help you get there.
LangChain.js for Beginners is 8 chapters and 70+ runnable...
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