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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 2, 2026
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Windows App Development CLI v0.2: .NET support, manifest placeholders, "winapp store" and more!
Windows App Development CLI v0.2 is here! This release is driven largely by community feedback and packs in native .NET project support, manifest placeholders that eliminate hardcoded executable names, Microsoft Store Developer CLI integration, a revamped help experience, and more....
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Mar 2, 2026
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GitHub Copilot Dev Days: Build faster with GitHub Copilot CLI, in VS Code & Visual Studio, and beyond!
Modern software development is moving fast—and AI is now a practical part of how Microsoft developers design, build, and ship applications every day. From writing code in Visual Studio and VS Code, to building cloud-native apps on Azure, developers are looking for ways to stay...
Microsoft for Developers
Mar 2, 2026
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Give Your Agents Domain Expertise with Agent Skills in Microsoft Agent Framework
You can now equip your Microsoft Agent Framework agents with portable, reusable skill packages that provide domain expertise on demand — without changing a single line of your agent's core instructions. With built-in skills providers for both .NET and Python, your agents can discover...
Microsoft Agent Framework
Feb 27, 2026
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Updates to Team Calendar extension
We are excited to release a new update to the Team Calendar extension.
This update includes a series of visual refinements across the extension, introducing a more consistent design language, smoother transitions when expanding and collapsing sections, improved contrast for better...
Azure DevOps Blog
Feb 27, 2026
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Intercepting messages inside IsDialogMessage, fine-tuning the message filter
Making sure it triggers when you need it, and not when you don't.
The Old New Thing
Feb 27, 2026
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JCON Europe 2026: Java Modernization, Performance, and AI
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Java is the backbone of enterprise software engineering, and the conversations happening around it right now are the most exciting they've been in years. From AI-assisted development workflows to Kubernetes performance tuning, the community is moving fast - and JCON Europe 2026 is one of...
Microsoft for Java Developers
Feb 26, 2026
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Azure DocumentDB: A Fully Managed MongoDB-Compatible Database
Running MongoDB at scale eventually forces a trade-off: invest heavily in managing your own infrastructure or move to a managed service and risk losing the compatibility and portability your team depends on.
Azure DocumentDB is a fully managed, MongoDB-compatible database on...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Feb 26, 2026
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Measuring actual AI Impact for Engineering with Apache DevLake
If you want to skip the explain and get started super quick with adoption + impact insights, use gh-devlake to deploy a GitHub Copilot impact dashboard in a few CLI commands.
So! You've rolled out GitHub Copilot to your engineering teams. You've got the built-in dashboards. You...
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