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Take full control of your floating windows in Visual Studio

Make Visual Studio floating windows work perfectly with PowerToys FancyZones. Flip one option to get independent windows, better snapping, and less friction.
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MCP Apps on Azure Functions: Quickstart with TypeScript

Learn how to build and deploy MCP (Model Context Protocol) apps on Azure Functions using TypeScript. This guide covers MCP tools, resources, local development, and serverless deployment with a practical weather app example.
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Apr 8, 2026
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GitHub Copilot for Eclipse Is Going Open Source

Jialuo Gan
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,...
Microsoft for Java Developers
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Apr 8, 2026
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Building a Real-Time Multi-Agent UI with AG-UI and Microsoft Agent Framework Workflows

Evan Mattson
Multi-agent systems demo beautifully. Putting them in front of real users is another story. In early prototypes, a terminal or a basic chat window is enough. But once agents start handing off to each other, pausing for approvals, or asking follow-up questions, those...
Microsoft Agent Framework
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Apr 7, 2026
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MCP as Easy as 1-2-3: Introducing the Fluent API for MCP Apps

Lilian Kasem (she/her)
Build MCP tools with rich UI experiences using the new Fluent API for MCP Apps in the .NET isolated worker. Configure views, permissions, and security policies with just a few lines of code.
Azure SDK Blog
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Apr 7, 2026
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MCP Apps now available in Copilot chat

Deepak Pratinidhi
Agents bring rich, app powered UI experiences directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot chat, via MCP Apps or the OpenAI Apps SDK. Read about what customers and partners are building.
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
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Apr 7, 2026
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Your Migration's Source of Truth: The Modernization Assessment

Jeffrey Fritz
Introducing GitHub Copilot Modernization and diving into the assessment report as part of cloud modernization process
.NET Blog
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Apr 7, 2026
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Agentic development aspirations: build, run, observe — without more Markdown

Maddy Montaquila
AI agents can write code but struggle to run and test it. Aspire gives your agent a codified app model to build, run, and observe your whole stack.
Aspire Blog
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Apr 7, 2026
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ASP.NET Core 2.3 end of support announcement

Daniel Roth
ASP.NET Core 2.3 will reach end of support on April 7, 2027. Learn what this means for your applications and how to upgrade to a modern supported version of .NET.
.NET Blog
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Apr 7, 2026
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Scalable AI with Azure Cosmos DB: Tredence Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) | March 2026

Manish Sharma
Azure Cosmos DB enables scalable AI-driven document processing, addressing one of the biggest barriers to operational scale in today’s enterprise AI landscape. Organizations continue to manage massive volumes of structured and unstructured content—contracts, regulatory filings,...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
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Apr 7, 2026
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Write SQL Your Way: Dual Parameter Style Benefits in mssql-python

Jahnvi Thakkar
Reviewed by: Sumit Sarabhai If you've been writing SQL in Python, you already know the debate: positional parameters (?) or named parameters (%(name)s)? Some developers swear by the conciseness of positional. Others prefer the clarity of named. With mssql-python, you no longer...
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