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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.
Read moreClick to read more about this postYour Migration's Source of Truth: The Modernization Assessment
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 9, 2026
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What's new in Microsoft Foundry | March 2026
March ships Foundry Agent Service GA with private networking, GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4 Mini, Priority Processing, Phi-4 Reasoning Vision, SDK 2.0 GA across Python, JS/TS, Java, and .NET, Fireworks AI and NVIDIA Nemotron models, and third-party guardrails from Palo Alto and Zenity.
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Apr 9, 2026
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Foundry Local is now Generally Available
Ship local AI to millions of devices - fast, private on-device inference with no per-token costs.
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Apr 9, 2026
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Running Multiple Instances of an Aspire AppHost Without Port Conflicts
Aspire 13.2 introduces isolated mode, letting you run multiple instances of the same AppHost in parallel without port conflicts. Learn how the --isolated flag solves development and testing workflows.
Aspire Blog
Apr 9, 2026
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How do you add or remove a handle from an active WaitForMultipleObjects?
You can't, but you can cooperate with the other thread.
The Old New Thing
Apr 8, 2026
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Visual Studio Code 1.115
Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.115
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VS Code Blog
Apr 8, 2026
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Go 1.26.2-1 and 1.25.9-1 Microsoft builds now available
A new release of the Microsoft build of Go including security fixes is now available for download.
Microsoft for Go Developers
Apr 8, 2026
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Introducing SQL MCP Server
SQL MCP Server gives enterprises a secure, feature-rich way to enable agents to access data. This is accomplished without exposing the schema, risking consistency, or relying on fragile natural language parsing. SQL MCP Server is a feature of Data API builder, so deployments have a proven...
Azure SQL Dev Corner
Apr 8, 2026
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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.
Azure SDK Blog
Apr 8, 2026
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How do you add or remove a handle from an active MsgWaitForMultipleObjects?
You can't, but you can arrange for the waiter to do it for you.
The Old New Thing