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Building a Secure MCP Server with OAuth 2.1 and Azure AD: Lessons from the Field
How we built a production-ready MCP server with OAuth 2.1 authentication and On-Behalf-Of flow for Microsoft Graph, navigating a rapidly evolving specification.
Read moreClick to read more about this postThe Dongle Died at Midnight – WinForms Agent Saved my German Mom's Business Trip
Vibe Coding. IntelliSense on Steroids. Intention-Based Development. Call it what makes you happy - it's "just" the next evolutionary step in software development for me. Which let me build my stranded 82-year-old retirement-resistant mom an ersatz time-study app when her dongle died at midnight.
Read moreClick to read more about this postMSSQL Extension for VS Code: Query Profiler, ADS Migration Toolkit & More
The MSSQL Extension for VS Code continues to evolve, delivering features that make SQL development more integrated, more powerful, and more developer-friendly. In version v1.40.0, we're introducing the ADS Migration Toolkit, Basic Database Management, Flat File Import, Database Backup...
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Feb 26, 2026
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Fence Barriers: Fine-Grained GPU Synchronization in Direct3D 12
Introducing Fence Barriers
We are excited to share the preview release of Fence Barriers (Tier-1), a new capability now available in AgilitySDK 1.719-preview (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx12agility/). Fence Barriers expand on Enhanced Barriers to provide support for...
DirectX Developer Blog
Feb 26, 2026
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D3D12 Shader Execution Reordering
Now officially released, Shader Execution Reordering (SER) is an addition to DirectX Raytracing that enables application shader code inform hardware how to find coherency across rays so they can be sorted to execute better in parallel. SER support is a required feature in Shader...
DirectX Developer Blog
Feb 26, 2026
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D3D12 Opacity Micromaps
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DirectX Raytracing (DXR) now supports Opacity Micromaps (OMMs), enabling hardware to handle alpha tested geometry more efficiently than relying only on costly AnyHit shader invocations.
At GDC 2025 DXR 1.2 was announced including OMMs, and you can see it discussed in this: GDC...
DirectX Developer Blog
Feb 26, 2026
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Azure SDK Release (February 2026)
Azure SDK releases every month. In this post, you'll find this month's highlights and release notes.
Azure SDK Blog
Feb 26, 2026
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Intercepting messages inside IsDialogMessage, installing the message filter
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IsDialogMessage extension point.The Old New Thing
Feb 26, 2026
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Building a Secure MCP Server with OAuth 2.1 and Azure AD: Lessons from the Field
How we built a production-ready MCP server with OAuth 2.1 authentication and On-Behalf-Of flow for Microsoft Graph, navigating a rapidly evolving specification.
ISE Developer Blog
Feb 25, 2026
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The Polyglot Tax
Part 1 of 4 - The Multimodal Database Series
This is a four-part series about what happens when a single database engine handles relational, document, graph, vector, and analytical workloads natively - and what you stop paying for when it does.
You spin up a database, point an agent...
Azure SQL Dev Corner
Feb 25, 2026
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MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Query Profiler, ADS Migration Toolkit & More
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The MSSQL Extension for VS Code continues to evolve, delivering features that make SQL development more integrated, more powerful, and more developer-friendly. In version v1.40.0, we're introducing the ADS Migration Toolkit, Basic Database Management, Flat File Import, Database Backup...
Azure SQL Dev Corner
Feb 25, 2026
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Azure Developer CLI (azd) - February 2026: JMESPath Queries & Deployment Slots
This post announces the February 2026 release of the Azure Developer CLI (`azd`).
Azure SDK Blog