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VSLive! Microsoft AI Hackathon 2026: Send Your Team Home With Working Code

If you lead a development team, you already know the pattern. You approve the travel, your developers attend a great conference, they come back energized, and then the work resumes exactly as it was. The ideas don't survive contact with the backlog. This July at VSLive! @ Microsoft...
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Microsoft SQL Security Across the MAESTRO Stack: Building Secure Agentic AI with Defense-in-Depth

Artificial Intelligence is evolving rapidly. What began as simple prompt-and-response systems is now transforming into fully autonomous, agentic AI architectures capable of reasoning, orchestrating tools, interacting with enterprise data, and invoking external systems dynamically. While...
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May 14, 2026
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VSLive! Microsoft AI Hackathon 2026: Send Your Team Home With Working Code

Jim Harrer
If you lead a development team, you already know the pattern. You approve the travel, your developers attend a great conference, they come back energized, and then the work resumes exactly as it was. The ideas don't survive contact with the backlog. This July at VSLive! @ Microsoft...
Visual Studio Blog
May 14, 2026
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A constant-space linear-time algorithm for deleting all but the 10 most recent files in a directory

Raymond Chen
Using data structures you already knew.
The Old New Thing
May 14, 2026
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WebAssembly Data Processing at the Edge with Azure IoT Operations

Marcel Bindseil
Safe, composable dataflow operators for Azure IoT Operations, built as WASM modules using the Component Model, WIT interfaces, and WASI Preview 2.
ISE Developer Blog
May 13, 2026
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MSVC Build Tools Preview updates - May 2026

Eric Brumer
Try the latest updates to MSVC Build Tools Preview
C++ Team Blog
May 13, 2026
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Visual Studio Code 1.120

Visual Studio Code Team
Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.120 Read the full article
VS Code Blog
May 13, 2026
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PyCon US 2026

Vedha Ranganathan
PyCon US 2026
Microsoft for Python Developers Blog
May 13, 2026
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Microsoft SQL Security Across the MAESTRO Stack: Building Secure Agentic AI with Defense-in-Depth

Arun Vijayraghavan
Artificial Intelligence is evolving rapidly. What began as simple prompt-and-response systems is now transforming into fully autonomous, agentic AI architectures capable of reasoning, orchestrating tools, interacting with enterprise data, and invoking external systems dynamically. While...
Azure SQL Dev Corner
May 13, 2026
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Process API Improvements in .NET 11

Adam Sitnik
Process API improvements in .NET 11, including high-level APIs for starting processes, capturing output without deadlocks, handle inheritance control, lifetime management features, and a lightweight `SafeProcessHandle`-based API surface.
.NET Blog
May 13, 2026
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.NET MAUI Moves to CoreCLR in .NET 11

David Ortinau
.NET MAUI apps on Android, iOS, and Mac Catalyst now run on CoreCLR by default in .NET 11, unifying the runtime across all of .NET.
.NET Blog