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Azure Container Options: Matching Services to Operational Responsibility
Customers are looking to modernize their application on cloud and ask us for guidance on which Azure container services to choose. Should you choose A or B container services or A+B container services? Some choose both (A + B) or use A or B approach. Instead of trying to force fit...
Read moreFrom Manual Testing to AI-Generated Automation: Our Azure DevOps MCP + Playwright Success Story
In today’s fast-paced software development cycles, manual testing often becomes a significant bottleneck. Our team was facing a growing backlog of test cases that required repetitive manual execution—running the entire test suite every sprint. This consumed valuable time that could be...
Read moreScalable Data Governance & Compliance with UDM
Why Data Governance Matters
In today’s data-driven world, governance isn’t just a technical requirement—it’s foundational to successful business operations. Good governance ensures data is not only accurate and compliant but also discoverable and usable at scale. At the heart of...
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Jun 19, 2025
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Learning to read C++ compiler errors: Ambiguous symbol errors after including a header file
Finding out why multiple entities with the same name are visible.
The Old New Thing
Jun 19, 2025
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PACT Contract Testing - Because Not Everything Needs Full Integration Tests
PACT is a contract testing tool that allows you to define a contract between two applications, enabling
ISE Developer Blog
Jun 18, 2025
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MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Local Containers, GitHub Copilot Agent Mode and Connection Groups
The MSSQL Extension for VS Code continues to evolve, bringing powerful new features that make SQL development more local, more organized, and more intelligent. In version v1.33.0, we’re introducing Local SQL Server container, GitHub Copilot Agent Mode, and Connection Groups—three...
Azure SQL Devs’ Corner
Jun 18, 2025
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Additional reactions and ease of sharing
We're always exploring ways to enhance DevBlogs for our readers. In the past few weeks, we’ve introduced two updates to features: reactions and sharing.
Reactions: You now have six expressive reaction options to choose from—moving beyond the simple heart. It’s a small change that...
Developer Blogs News
Jun 18, 2025
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You have to tell Get- and SetSecurityInfo the object type, you can't make it guess
It needs to know which provider to give it to.
The Old New Thing
Jun 18, 2025
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Announcing Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.1.0
This post announces the release of Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.1.0. We discuss the features and benefits of DSC and how it differs from PowerShell DSC.
PowerShell Team
Jun 17, 2025
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Securely Turbo‑Charge Your Software Delivery with Codex Coding Agent on Azure OpenAI
Introduction
We have contributed the following four pull requests to add Azure OpenAI support to Codex, letting you enjoy the same Codex experience as in ChatGPT while running securely on Azure:
PR #769
PR #1324
PR #1321
PR #92 (work in progress – Entra ID...
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Jun 17, 2025
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Multimodal Vision Intelligence with .NET MAUI
Enhance your .NET MAUI app with photo-based AI by capturing images and extracting structured information using Microsoft.Extensions.AI.
.NET Blog
Jun 17, 2025
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SQL Server 2025 CTP 2.1: DiskANN Improvements
I'm happy to announce that SQL Server 2025 CTP 2.1 is now available, and it brings significant improvements to DiskANN support. While DiskANN remains in preview, each release continues to remove limitations and boost performance. In this release, we’ve made a particularly notable leap...
Azure SQL Devs’ Corner