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Get started with GitHub Copilot CLI: A free, hands-on course
Learn GitHub Copilot CLI with this free, 8-chapter hands-on course. Review code, generate tests, debug issues, and build custom agents and skills - all from your terminal. No AI experience needed. Works with GitHub Copilot Free. Clone the repo or open in Codespaces to get started.
Read moreClick to read more about this postPlatform Engineering for the Agentic AI era
For the last decade, platform engineering has relied on explicit API interaction layers: CLIs, SDKs, pipelines, wrappers, and UI workflows that translate human intent into machine‑safe API calls. AI agents are now short‑circuiting much of that stack. By combining natural language...
Read moreClick to read more about this postVisual Studio at GDC Festival of Gaming 2026
Join us at GDC Festival of Gaming 2026 for a deep dive into Visual Studio, GitHub Copilot, PowerToys, and the Windows tools that speed up your daily dev workflow. We'll show how these tools work together to boost productivity and cut friction across your entire inner loop.
Session...
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Mar 5, 2026
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The mystery of the posted message that was dispatched before reaching the main message loop
Perhaps it's because you dispatched it.
The Old New Thing
Mar 5, 2026
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Platform Engineering for the Agentic AI era
arnaud,
davidwright
For the last decade, platform engineering has relied on explicit API interaction layers: CLIs, SDKs, pipelines, wrappers, and UI workflows that translate human intent into machine‑safe API calls. AI agents are now short‑circuiting much of that stack. By combining natural language...
All things Azure
Mar 5, 2026
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Announcing WinUI Gallery 2.8
Niels,
Marcel
Hey WinUI developers! If you’re new around here, WinUI Gallery is the go-to app for exploring WinUI 3 controls, samples, design guidance, and handy tools — all in one place. Today, we’re excited to announce WinUI Gallery 2.8, bringing jump list support, new samples,...
#ifdef Windows
Mar 4, 2026
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C++ Performance Improvements in MSVC Build Tools v14.51
MSVC Build Tools v14.51 improves performance through a wide range of new optimizations.
C++ Team Blog
Mar 4, 2026
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February 2026 (version 1.110)
What's new in the Visual Studio Code February 2026 Release (1.110).
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VS Code Blog
Mar 4, 2026
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The Polyglot tax - Part 2
When JSON Met Graph
Part 2 of 4 - The Multimodal Database Series
A note on naming. Throughout this series, when we say "SQL Server 2025" we also mean Azure SQL. The multimodal capabilities we discuss - native JSON, graph, vector, and columnstore - are available across both the...
Azure SQL Dev Corner
Mar 4, 2026
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DirectX Innovation at GDC 2026
The excitement is building as we head into the 2026 Game Developer Conference and the DirectX team has a lot to share. We will be showcasing major updates in asset streaming, GPU tooling, ML-powered real-time graphics on Windows, and shader compilation at...
DirectX Developer Blog
Mar 4, 2026
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Aha, I found a counterexample to the documentation that says that QueryPerformanceCounter never fails
Of course, anything can happen if you break the rules.
The Old New Thing
Mar 3, 2026
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Azure Developer CLI (azd): One command to swap Azure App Service slots
The new azd appservice swap command makes deployment slot swaps fast and intuitive.
Azure SDK Blog