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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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May 28, 2026
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SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – May 2026
SPFx is powering the future of Microsoft 365 with AI driven portals and deep integrations across SharePoint and Microsoft 365. The May 2026 update shares new features and the roadmap for the next evolution built for the AI era. This is a transparent community driven journey that we shape together based on your input.
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
May 28, 2026
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Announcing AgilitySDK 721 Preview and an addition to LinAlg in Shader Model 6.10
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Today, we are pleased to announce Agility SDK 1.721-preview with new D3D features along with DXC 1.10.2605.4 adding VectorAccumulate to LinAlg in the existing Shader Model 6.10 preview. The previous 1.720-preview and SM 6.10 preview blog is still relevant, as all of its...
DirectX Developer Blog
May 28, 2026
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Improve your agentic developer tools by grounding in Microsoft Learn
Development workflows span terminals, IDEs, background agents, and custom assistants. What matters is whether they draw from the same current source. Learn MCP Server gives any MCP-compatible agent direct access to current Microsoft documentation - one endpoint, nothing to install, no...
Microsoft for Developers
May 28, 2026
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PIX 2605.28-preview: previewing new PIX and D3D12 features
Today we released PIX version 2605.28-preview, which can be downloaded here.
This release complements the new D3D12 Agility SDK that was released today, version 721. This PIX release also includes initial preview versions of a lot of the exciting PIX features that we announced in our...
PIX on Windows
May 28, 2026
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How Azure Chaos Studio ships with hermetic Aspire end-to-end tests
Learn how the Azure Chaos Studio team uses Aspire.Hosting.Testing to run hermetic, per-PR end-to-end tests across four services — with emulators, stubs, and no shared environments.
Aspire Blog
May 28, 2026
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Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 2
Just let each person take turns trying.
The Old New Thing
May 28, 2026
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SQL + AI, hands-on: Join a free workshop near you
If you work with Microsoft SQL regularly, the AI conversation right now probably feels a little exhausting. Every week brings a new platform, a new pattern, a new opinion about how you’re “supposed” to build AI apps. Most of it assumes you’ll start over.
You don’t have...
Azure SQL Dev Corner
May 28, 2026
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Verification-driven tooling prompts for fast-moving codebases
A practical pattern for using GenAI research agents to produce reliable internal tooling by verifying assumptions with detection classes and a final checklist.
ISE Developer Blog
May 27, 2026
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What's New for C++ Developers in Visual Studio 2026 (18.1 - 18.6)
Visual Studio 2026 versions 18.1 through 18.6 deliver a wave of improvements for C++ developers. For MSVC Build Tools, the v14.51 release is now generally available with runtime performance gains and improved C++23 conformance. We also introduced Sample Profile Guided Optimization to help...
C++ Team Blog