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Guest Blog: Building Multi-Agent Solutions with Semantic Kernel and A2A Protocol

In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI application development, the ability to orchestrate multiple intelligent agents has become crucial for building sophisticated, enterprise-grade solutions. While individual AI agents excel at specific tasks, complex business scenarios often require...

Microsoft and LangChain4j: A Partnership for Secure, Enterprise-Grade Java AI Applications

The artificial intelligence landscape presents unprecedented opportunities for Java developers. With decades of experience building robust enterprise applications using Spring, Quarkus and Jakarta EE, Java developers are uniquely positioned to create sophisticated AI solutions. The...

Bring your own agents into Microsoft 365 Copilot

Custom Engine Agents now generally available—build and integrate your own AI into the flow of work Microsoft 365 Copilot is redefining how people interact with AI—embedding it directly into the flow of work as the intuitive, natural interface for agents: the ‘UI for AI’ As...

Jun 24, 2025

Abusing copyright strings to trick software into thinking it's running on your competitor's PC

Raymond Chen

I did technically cross my fingers.

The Old New Thing

Jun 23, 2025

🎉 Now in Public Preview: Create Dev Boxes on Behalf of Your Developers

varshaiyer

We’re excited to announce that one of our most-requested features is officially in Public Preview: You can now create Dev Boxes on behalf of your developers. Waiting around to get started is a thing of the past. Whether you're onboarding a new hire, running a hackathon, or...

Develop from the cloud

Jun 23, 2025

Deprecation of MS-APP-ACTS-AS header in Shifts Management Microsoft Graph APIs

Mike Lee

In app-only access scenarios, Shifts Management Graph APIs previously required the MS-APP-ACTS-AS: userId header to indicate the user on whose behalf the application was acting. However, this conflicted with the Microsoft Graph permission model where there is no signed-in user for...

Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

Jun 23, 2025

Inside Access: Join Us at VS Live! Redmond for a Week of Deep Developer Learning

Mads Kristensen

A long time ago, I stood in a packed room at VS Live! and watched developers erupt in applause after a debugging demo shaved hours off a real-world problem. That was the moment I realized this wasn’t just a conference—it was a place where developers and toolmakers come together to...

Visual Studio Blog

Jun 23, 2025

The MIDL compiler still has trouble with double greater-than signs, sadly

Raymond Chen

Many have tried.

The Old New Thing

Jun 20, 2025

💻 Spring Cleaning for Dev Boxes: Mastering Manual & Automatic Offboarding

varshaiyer

Let’s face it. Sometimes your Dev Box just… hangs around too long. Whether you’ve moved to a new project, left the company, want to create a new dev box with the latest tools, it's time to clean things up. 🎯 With Dev Box Auto-Deletion now in public preview, offboarding just...

Develop from the cloud

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Jun 20, 2025

codex-mini: Fast, Scalable Code Generation for the CLI Era

Ananya,

Anthony,

Govind

We’re announcing the general availability of Azure OpenAI’s codex-mini in Azure AI Foundry Models. codex-mini is a fine-tuned version of the o4-mini model, designed to deliver rapid, instruction-following performance for developers working in CLI workflows....

Azure AI Foundry Blog