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This blog outlines best practices for optimizing Speech-to-Text (STT), Text-to-Speech (TTS), and Custom Keyword Recognition in Azure Speech Services, helping developers build more accurate and responsive voice-enabled applications.

With Visual Studio 2026 version 18.0 getting closer to General Availability (GA), we want to share with you how you can upgrade your projects from your current versions of Visual Studio and the Microsoft C++ (MSVC) Build Tools to the latest versions. The new IDE ships with the v145...

The only thing that’s constant in distributed systems is failures. No cloud platform is immune to failures — from regional outages and transient network blips to human errors or hardware faults. What defines resiliency & reliability isn’t the absence of failure, but how systems...

This post shares how to set up the GitHub Copilot coding agent integration with Azure resources and services by using the Azure Developer CLI (`azd`) extension.

An unfortunate error code collision, but the explanatory text leads the way.

SPFx is powering the future of Microsoft 365. From AI-driven portals to seamless integrations across SharePoint, Teams and Viva, SPFx is driving innovation at scale. This blog series kicks off our journey into the next evolution—transparent, community-driven, and built for the AI era. Let’s shape what’s next, together.

The October 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 (v17.14) is now available. In this month, we are bringing you improvements to model choices and agentic flows.  New Models  We now have Claude Sonnet 4.5  and Claude Haiku 4.5 available in the chat window. This means the latest...

Introducing Dev Proxy v1.3 with new plugins for inspecting and debugging API requests, along with enhanced permissions analysis and improved OpenAPI spec generation for complex testing scenarios.

Yesterday at GitHub Universe, GitHub announced support for custom agents. Custom agents are specialized configurations with custom prompts and context that focus Copilot on specific development tasks. On the C++ team, we have a similar goal: Provide differentiated capabilities that...