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This post announces the November release of the Azure Developer CLI (`azd`).

Shared memory is the copy-free solution.

Microsoft Ignite 2025 kicked off with a wave of announcements for Azure Cosmos DB and Azure DocumentDB, setting the tone for a week of innovation in cloud databases and AI. Here’s your one-stop summary of everything unveiled—and what to watch for in the sessions ahead. Major...

We are back with a fresh PowerToys release! This month brings a redesigned Advanced Paste experience with support for multiple AI model endpoints, a wave of improvements to Command Palette, and plenty of smaller upgrades across the utility suite. Grab the update by checking for updates...

At the start of this year, we released a new set of T-SQL AI features for embedding your relational data for AI applications. Today, we have brought those features to Azure SQL and SQL database in Microsoft Fabric. This post will help you get started using the new AI functions of Azure...

Learn how Visual Studio 2026 and GitHub Copilot app modernization upgrade .NET versions and frameworks, fix build issues, and migrate apps to Azure with less manual effort

In May, we talked about the evolution of GitHub Copilot from a coding assistant into an AI powered peer programmer. Since then, GitHub has taken a major step forward - becoming an open platform for agentic development, where Agent HQ enables developers to orchestrate any agent, anytime,...

Discover the new and improved Teams SDK, designed to help developers create even more powerful agents for Microsoft Teams.

In the past, moving to the next major version of Visual Studio could take hours, sometimes days, to recreate your dev environment the way you like it. Visual Studio 2026 makes it easier than ever to stay current with the latest productivity features, performance improvements, and security...