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Automate your open-source dependency scanning with Advanced Security
Any experiences that require additional setup is cumbersome, especially when there are multiple people needed. In GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps, we're working to make it easier to enable features and scale out enablement across your enterprise.
You can now automatically...
Read more5 Copilot Chat Prompts .NET Devs Should Steal Today
Discover 5 practical GitHub Copilot Chat prompts to boost .NET development productivity, from code optimization to security reviews.
Read more.NET Conf 2025 - Announcing the Call for Content
The .NET Conf 2025 Call for Content is now open! Join us November 11-13 for the premier .NET virtual event celebrating .NET 10. Submit your session proposal by August 31st and share your .NET expertise with developers worldwide.
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Aug 12, 2025
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Hunting Living Secrets: Secret Validity Checks Arrive in GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
If you’ve ever waded through a swamp of secret scanning alerts wondering, “Which of these are actually dangerous right now?” — this enhancement is for you.
Secret validity checks in GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps (and the standalone Secret Protection experience) add a...
Azure DevOps Blog
Aug 12, 2025
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Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 2: Using a std::list
Tracking your trackers with a
std::list.The Old New Thing
Aug 12, 2025
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Real-Time Security with Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE) comes to Azure DevOps
We’re thrilled to announce that Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE) is now supported on Azure DevOps, bringing a new level of near real-time security enforcement to your development workflows.
🔐 What Is CAE?
Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE) is a feature from Microsoft Entra ID...
Azure DevOps Blog
Aug 12, 2025
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mssql-python vs pyodbc: Benchmarking SQL Server Performance
Reviewed by Imran Masud and Sumit Sarabhai
When it comes to working with Microsoft SQL Server in Python, pyodbc has long been the de facto driver. It's mature, trusted and has been serving the community well for years.
But as applications scale and Python becomes more...
Microsoft for Python Developers Blog
Aug 11, 2025
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Announcing GA of Bicep templates support for Microsoft Entra ID resources
We’re thrilled to announce that Bicep templates for Microsoft Entra ID resources is generally available from July 29th, 2025. Bicep templates bring declarative infrastructure as code (IaC) capabilities to Microsoft Graph resources. This new capability will initially be available for...
Microsoft Entra Identity Platform
Aug 11, 2025
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Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 1: Concept art
Following an object as it moves.
The Old New Thing
Aug 8, 2025
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Under what conditions could a ReadFile or WriteFile fail to transfer all of the bytes, and how do I detect that?
If there is not enough data to read, or not room to write.
The Old New Thing
Aug 7, 2025
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July 2025 (version 1.103)
Learn what is new in the Visual Studio Code July 2025 Release (1.103)
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VS Code Blog
Aug 7, 2025
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Python in Visual Studio Code - August 2025 Release
The August 2025 release includes Python shell integration support for Python 3.13+, Python Environments extension improvements, enhanced terminal suggestions with documentation, and more!
Microsoft for Python Developers Blog