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Give your Foundry Agent Custom Tools with MCP Servers on Azure Functions
Learn how to connect your MCP server hosted on Azure Functions to Microsoft Foundry agents. This post covers authentication options and setup steps to give your AI agent access to custom MCP tools.
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Introducing GitHub Copilot Modernization and diving into the assessment report as part of cloud modernization process
Read moreClick to read more about this postGitHub Copilot for Eclipse Is Going Open Source
We’re excited to announce that the GitHub Copilot for Eclipse plugin is going open source under the MIT license and will be hosted on GitHub under the microsoft organization in the coming weeks.
By open-sourcing the project, we’re inviting the community to contribute,...
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Apr 14, 2026
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New Aspire database integrations
Aspire 13.2 brings MongoDB Entity Framework Core and Azure Data Lake Storage integrations, plus quality-of-life improvements to existing database clients.
Aspire Blog
Apr 14, 2026
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MSVC Build Tools Version 14.51 Release Candidate Now Available
Try out the final preview of MSVC Build Tools v14.51
C++ Team Blog
Apr 14, 2026
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Why was there a red telephone at every receptionist desk?
Not a direct line to Bill Gates's office.
The Old New Thing
Apr 13, 2026
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Finding a duplicated item in an array of N integers in the range 1 to N − 1
Taking advantage of special characteristics of the array.
The Old New Thing
Apr 13, 2026
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Agent Skills in .NET: Three Ways to Author, One Provider to Run Them
Your agents can now draw on skills authored in three different ways – as files on disk, as inline C# code, or as encapsulated classes – and combine them freely in a single provider. Add built-in script execution support and a human-approval mechanism for script calls, and you have a...
Microsoft Agent Framework
Apr 10, 2026
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Announcing Azure MCP Server 2.0 Stable Release for Self-Hosted Agentic Cloud Automation
Azure MCP Server 2.0 is now generally available, delivering first-class self-hosting, stronger security hardening, and a faster foundation for agentic workflows across Azure.
Azure SDK Blog
Apr 10, 2026
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How do you add or remove a handle from an active WaitForMultipleObjects?, part 2
Waiting for the waiting thread to acknowledge the change.
The Old New Thing
Apr 10, 2026
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PowerShell MSI package deprecation and preview updates
This post announces the deprecation of MSI packaging beginning with PowerShell 7.7.
PowerShell Team
Apr 10, 2026
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Putting Agentic Platform Engineering to the test
Arnaud,
davidwright,
Suzanne
In Part 1 of this blog series set the stage for why platform engineering is being reshaped by agentic AI. (read it here)
Basically we outline how instead of humans translating intent through layers of CLIs, SDKs, and bespoke workflows, capable agents can interpret natural-language...
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