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Give your Foundry Agent Custom Tools with MCP Servers on Azure Functions
Learn how to connect your MCP server hosted on Azure Functions to Microsoft Foundry agents. This post covers authentication options and setup steps to give your AI agent access to custom MCP tools.
Read moreClick to read more about this postYour Migration's Source of Truth: The Modernization Assessment
Introducing GitHub Copilot Modernization and diving into the assessment report as part of cloud modernization process
Read moreClick to read more about this postGitHub Copilot for Eclipse Is Going Open Source
We’re excited to announce that the GitHub Copilot for Eclipse plugin is going open source under the MIT license and will be hosted on GitHub under the microsoft organization in the coming weeks.
By open-sourcing the project, we’re inviting the community to contribute,...
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Mar 5, 2026
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Visual Studio at GDC Festival of Gaming 2026
Join us at GDC Festival of Gaming 2026 for a deep dive into Visual Studio, GitHub Copilot, PowerToys, and the Windows tools that speed up your daily dev workflow. We'll show how these tools work together to boost productivity and cut friction across your entire inner loop.
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C++ Team Blog
Mar 5, 2026
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Windows Terminal Preview 1.25 Release
We briefly paused our quarterly release cycle to focus on reliability and performance, but now we're back with Windows Terminal 1.25!
We are also updating Windows Terminal stable to version 1.24, which will include all of the features from this previous blog post. Some notable features...
Windows Command Line
Mar 5, 2026
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Release v1.0 of the official MCP C# SDK
Discover what’s new in the v1.0 release of the official MCP C# SDK, including enhanced authorization, richer metadata, and powerful patterns for tool calling and long-running requests.
.NET Blog
Mar 5, 2026
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The mystery of the posted message that was dispatched before reaching the main message loop
Perhaps it's because you dispatched it.
The Old New Thing
Mar 5, 2026
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Platform Engineering for the Agentic AI era
Arnaud,
davidwright
For the last decade, platform engineering has relied on explicit API interaction layers: CLIs, SDKs, pipelines, wrappers, and UI workflows that translate human intent into machine‑safe API calls. AI agents are now short‑circuiting much of that stack. By combining natural language...
All things Azure
Mar 5, 2026
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Announcing WinUI Gallery 2.8
Niels,
Marcel
Hey WinUI developers! If you’re new around here, WinUI Gallery is the go-to app for exploring WinUI 3 controls, samples, design guidance, and handy tools — all in one place. Today, we’re excited to announce WinUI Gallery 2.8, bringing jump list support, new samples,...
#ifdef Windows
Mar 5, 2026
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Making agents practical for real-world development
Explore agent orchestration, extensibility, and continuity in VS Code 1.110: lifecycle hooks, agent skills, session memory, and integrated browser tools.
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VS Code Blog
Mar 4, 2026
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C++ Performance Improvements in MSVC Build Tools v14.51
MSVC Build Tools v14.51 improves performance through a wide range of new optimizations.
C++ Team Blog
Mar 4, 2026
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February 2026 (version 1.110)
What's new in the Visual Studio Code February 2026 Release (1.110).
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VS Code Blog