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Aspire Docs in Your Terminal (and Your AI's Brain)

Aspire 13.2 ships aspire docs, a CLI for browsing, searching, and reading official aspire.dev docs from your terminal, with the same source of truth available to AI skills and automation.
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Improving the Markdown Editor for Work Items

We introduced the Markdown editor in July 2025 to bring Markdown support to large text fields in work items. Since then, we’ve received valuable customer feedback highlighting challenges with the editing experience, particularly when switching in and out of edit mode. Many users found...
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Mar 31, 2026
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Aspire 13.2: Dashboard Gets Smarter Export and Telemetry

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James Newton-King
Aspire 13.2 brings powerful new dashboard features for exporting and importing telemetry, querying telemetry via API, and improved GenAI telemetry visualization.
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Mar 31, 2026
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Visual Studio March Update - Build Your Own Custom Agents

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Mark Downie
This month's Visual Studio update gives you new ways to customize GitHub Copilot. Custom agents allow you to build specialized Copilot agents tailored to your team's workflow, backed by the tools and knowledge sources that matter to your project. Alongside that, agent skills bring...
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Mar 31, 2026
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Before you check if an update caused your problem, check that it wasn't a problem before the update

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Raymond Chen
It was going to be like that when I got here.
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Mar 30, 2026
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Azure Developer CLI (azd) - March 2026: Run and Debug AI Agents Locally, GitHub Copilot Integration, & Container App Jobs

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PuiChee (PC) Chan
Run, invoke, and monitor AI agents locally or in Microsoft Foundry with the new azd AI agent extension commands. Plus GitHub Copilot-powered project setup, Container App Jobs deployment, local preflight validation, and configurable timeouts.
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Mar 30, 2026
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Writing Azure service-related unit tests with Docker using Spring Cloud Azure

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Rujun Chen
This post shows how to write Azure service-related unit tests with Docker using Spring Cloud Azure.
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Mar 30, 2026
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A question about the maximimum number of values in a registry key raises questions about the question

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Raymond Chen
Why is this even a question?
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Mar 27, 2026
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What if a dialog wants to intercept its own message loop?

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Raymond Chen
You can steal them from your owner.
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Mar 26, 2026
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Azure SDK Release (March 2026)

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Ronnie Geraghty
Azure SDK releases every month. In this post, you find this month's highlights and release notes.
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Mar 26, 2026
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Breaking Change Ahead: Graph API Updates to Sensitive Email Properties

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Thomas Mechelke
On 12/31/2026, we will begin restricting updates to sensitive properties on non-draft email messages (including subject, body, and recipients). Apps will need Mail-Advanced.ReadWrite (or .All / .Shared) with admin consent to continue modifying these fields. Review your current usage and update permissions now to avoid unexpected failures.
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