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Securing Azure apps with Aspire enterprise networking
Network security has a funny way of showing up late.
You start with a web app, an API, storage, and Key Vault. The app works. The demo works. Everyone is happy. Then the production checklist shows up:
Can storage and secrets be taken off the public internet?
Can this app run inside our...
Read moreClick to read more about this postVSLive! Microsoft AI Hackathon 2026: Send Your Team Home With Working Code
If you lead a development team, you already know the pattern. You approve the travel, your developers attend a great conference, they come back energized, and then the work resumes exactly as it was. The ideas don't survive contact with the backlog.
This July at VSLive! @ Microsoft...
Read moreClick to read more about this postMicrosoft SQL Security Across the MAESTRO Stack: Building Secure Agentic AI with Defense-in-Depth
Artificial Intelligence is evolving rapidly. What began as simple prompt-and-response systems is now transforming into fully autonomous, agentic AI architectures capable of reasoning, orchestrating tools, interacting with enterprise data, and invoking external systems dynamically. While...
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Apr 22, 2026
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7 tips to optimize Azure Cosmos DB costs for AI and agentic workloads
AI apps and agentic workloads expose inefficiencies in your data layer faster than any previous generation of apps. You’re storing embeddings, serving low-latency retrieval, handling bursty traffic from chat and orchestration, and often operating across regions. Done right, Azure Cosmos...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Apr 22, 2026
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Introducing Toolboxes in Foundry
Linda,
Maria,
Ronak
Available in Public Preview Today
Toolbox is a new way to curate, configure, and reuse tools across all of your AI agents without rewiring them every time from Foundry.
Today, teams build agents across different frameworks and runtimes. Each agent often wires tools directly,...
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Apr 22, 2026
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From Local to Production: The Complete Developer Journey for Building, Composing, and Deploying AI Agents
Takuto,
jeffhollan
When we launched Microsoft Agent Framework last October, we made a promise: building production-grade AI agents should feel as natural and structured as building any other software.
Today, we’re delivering on that promise — with the v1.0 release of Microsoft Agent Framework and the...
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Apr 22, 2026
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Introducing the new hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service: secure, scalable compute built for agents
Takuto,
jeffhollan,
Lakshmi
Agents are already transforming how developers solve problems. Whether it's a coding agent that refactors your repo overnight, a research agent that synthesizes hundreds of documents into a brief, or an ops agent that monitors and remediates infrastructure — the pattern is clear....
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Apr 22, 2026
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Optimizing Git policy management at scale
With just a single improvement in the REST API of Azure DevOps, we achieved a massive reduction in CPU usage and execution time when managing Git policies: 2x less CPU and 10-15x faster execution!
This change is already available to all users of Azure DevOps, and it's time to share a bit...
Azure DevOps Blog
Apr 22, 2026
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Securing MCP: A Control Plane for Agent Tool Execution
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming a common way for AI agents to discover and use tools. It provides a consistent interface to databases, APIs, file systems, and third-party services, which makes it easier to plug capabilities into agent workflows.
However, MCP...
Microsoft for Developers
Apr 22, 2026
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Windows App Development CLI v0.3: new run and ui commands, plus dotnet run support for packaged apps
Windows App Development CLI v0.3 is here! This release brings some of our best features yet including a full run-and-debug experience outside Visual Studio and built-in UI Automation from the command line.
With v0.3, we've unlocked a whole class of agentic and automation scenarios....
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Apr 22, 2026
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Mapping the page tables into memory via the page tables
So-called "fractal page mapping".
The Old New Thing
Apr 22, 2026
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Public Preview: Actual Result for Manual Tests in Azure Test Plans
We're excited to announce the public preview of the highly anticipated Actual Result (AR) feature for manual testing in Azure Test Plans! This feature has been one of the top requests of the community, and we're thrilled to make it available for you.
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