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Build your own claw and agent harness with Microsoft Agent Framework
What does it take to build your own "claw" - a capable, CLI-style agent that can plan, use tools, remember things, and safely act on your behalf? Coding agents and assistants like these can feel like magic, but underneath they are an agent harness: a loop around a language model wired up...
Read moreClick to read more about this postIn memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
Starting in Word and expanding to nearly every other word processor, and even things that aren't word processors.
Read moreClick to read more about this postStop overloading your skills
You built a skill for your technology. API references, authentication flows, SDK patterns, error handling, version info, all packed into one skill. The agent calls it, gets all that context, and generates code. The kicker? You've just wasted a lot of tokens.
It already knows
Models have...
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Jun 2, 2026
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MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Azure SQL Database Provisioning and More
Yo-Lei,
Carlos,
Tauseef
The MSSQL extension for VS Code v1.43 expands what’s possible inside Visual Studio Code with the General Availability of Schema Designer with GitHub Copilot, Data API builder, and SQL Notebooks. We’re also introducing the Public Preview of Azure SQL Database provisioning, giving...
Azure SQL Dev Corner
Jun 2, 2026
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Rotation revisited: Another unidirectional algorithm
Moving in a straight line, in a different way.
The Old New Thing
Jun 2, 2026
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Staging Part 1 - Sharing is Caring
A key phase in installing a package is staging the package:
var packageUri = new Uri("C:\\Packages\\ContosoParts-v1.2.3.4-x64.msix");
var options = new StagePackageOptions();
var packageManager = new PackageManager();
var result = await packageManager.StagePackageByUriAsync(packageUri,...
Inside MSIX
Jun 1, 2026
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Aspire 13.4 is here
Aspire 13.4 is here with TypeScript apphost GA, typed resource commands with results, server-side CLI log and telemetry search, more mature Kubernetes and AKS deployment, and more.
Aspire Blog
Jun 1, 2026
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The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern"
Modern this and that.
The Old New Thing
May 31, 2026
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Microsoft Agent Framework at BUILD 2026
BUILD 2026 begins on Tuesday, June 2, and there will be tons of exciting announcements from the Microsoft Agent Framework team, Microsoft Foundry, and all things Microsoft AI. If you're traveling to San Francisco for BUILD, be sure to stop by the Microsoft Foundry booths to chat with...
Microsoft Agent Framework
May 30, 2026
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What's new in Microsoft Foundry | May 2026
May ships trace-based evaluation for any agent on any cloud, Grok 4.3 and DeepSeek V4 in the model catalog, GPT-5 Reinforcement Fine-Tuning at gated GA, three Microsoft Research on-device agent models, Managed VNET at GA, project-level cost attribution, Content Understanding improvements reaching GA, Foundry Local 1.1 and 1.2 with live audio and vision, and azure-ai-projects 2.2.0 with skills, toolboxes, external agents, and model weight registry — plus a guide to Microsoft Foundry sessions at Microsoft Build.
Microsoft Foundry Blog
May 29, 2026
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Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 3
A variation where we try only once.
The Old New Thing
May 28, 2026
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Visual Studio Code 1.122
Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.122
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VS Code Blog