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Build your own claw and agent harness with Microsoft Agent Framework
What does it take to build your own "claw" - a capable, CLI-style agent that can plan, use tools, remember things, and safely act on your behalf? Coding agents and assistants like these can feel like magic, but underneath they are an agent harness: a loop around a language model wired up...
Read moreClick to read more about this postIn memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
Starting in Word and expanding to nearly every other word processor, and even things that aren't word processors.
Read moreClick to read more about this postStop overloading your skills
You built a skill for your technology. API references, authentication flows, SDK patterns, error handling, version info, all packed into one skill. The agent calls it, gets all that context, and generates code. The kicker? You've just wasted a lot of tokens.
It already knows
Models have...
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Jun 12, 2026
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How can I schedule work on a thread pool with low latency?
The thread pool is designed for throughput, not latency.
The Old New Thing
Jun 12, 2026
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Orchestration Patterns for Multi-Agent Systems: Performance and Trade-offs
Real-world lessons from evolving a production chatbot into a coordinator-based multi-agent architecture, including performance trade-offs for enterprise-scale agent reuse.
ISE Developer Blog
Jun 11, 2026
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MSVC Build Tools Preview updates - June 2026
Try the latest updates to MSVC Build Tools Preview
C++ Team Blog
Jun 11, 2026
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June Patches for Azure DevOps Server
We are releasing new patches for our self‑hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly recommend that all customers stay up to date with the latest, most secure version of Azure DevOps Server.
The most recent release, Azure DevOps Server, is available on the download page.
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Azure DevOps Blog
Jun 11, 2026
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Migrating EWS notifications to Microsoft Graph
Migrating from the Exchange Web Services (EWS) notification framework, which supports push, pull, and streaming notification types — to the Microsoft Graph subscription model represents a fundamental transition toward a unified, stateless, and event-driven framework.
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
Jun 11, 2026
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Your agent just scaffolded a project from 2020
Your agent ran a scaffold command. Project generated, dependencies resolved, no errors. Everything looks fine. Except it's based on the project structure from 2020, and neither you nor the agent noticed.
How npx picks the right-but-wrong version
When an agent scaffolds a project or runs...
Microsoft for Developers
Jun 11, 2026
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Windows App Development CLI v0.3.2 — bundling support, smarter initialization, and more
Windows App Development CLI v0.3.2 is here! This release brings MSIX bundle support for multi-architecture packaging, a smarter winapp init experience that auto-detects your projects, higher quality UI screenshots, and a handful of reliability fixes across the board. Get the update by...
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Jun 11, 2026
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Review pull requests without leaving Visual Studio
Pull request integration in Visual Studio has been one of the most requested Git features. Developers have been asking for a way to open a PR, inspect the changes, discuss feedback, and finish the review without switching to the browser. The feedback on that request has played a big role...
Visual Studio Blog
Jun 11, 2026
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Copilot Autofix for GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
Over the last few years, we've encouraged customers to move their repositories from Azure Repos to GitHub, where the newest AI-powered and agentic development experiences land first.
Migrating isn't equally simple for everyone. A move to GitHub can range from straightforward to a...
Azure DevOps Blog