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Choosing the Right Azure Hosting Model for AI Agents: A Deep Dive into Foundry Hosted Agents
AI agents are quickly moving from experiments to production‑critical components of modern applications. But while many teams know how to build agents, far fewer are confident they’re hosting them on the right foundation.
Most organizations start by deploying agents the same way...
Read moreClick to read more about this postOne-click security scanning and org-wide alert triage come to Advanced Security
We're shipping two major capabilities that change how security teams enable and act on application security in Azure DevOps: CodeQL default setup makes it possible to enable code scanning across your organization without configuring a single pipeline, and a new combined alerts experience...
Read moreClick to read more about this postDevOps Playbook for the Agentic Era
Practices, Principles, and Strategic Direction
Software delivery has entered a new phase. AI agents are no longer confined to autocomplete suggestions in the editor. They are opening pull requests, generating code across multiple files, proposing infrastructure changes, responding to...
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Feb 11, 2026
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How do I suppress the hover effects when I put a Win32 common controls ListView in single-click mode?
You can prevent the item from becoming hot-tracked.
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Feb 11, 2026
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Deploy to Azure App Service deployment slots with azd
azd now supports direct deployments to Azure App Service slots—quick, clear, and slot-aware for the first time.
Azure SDK Blog
Feb 11, 2026
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Maximize Azure Cosmos DB Performance with Azure Advisor Recommendations
In the first post of this series, we introduced how Azure Advisor helps Azure Cosmos DB users uncover opportunities to optimize efficiency and make smarter decisions.
This follow-up dives deeper into one of the most important categories of guidance: performance. If you've ever dealt...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Feb 10, 2026
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.NET 11 Preview 1 is now available!
Find out about the new features in .NET 11 Preview 1 across the .NET runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, C#, .NET MAUI, and more!
.NET Blog
Feb 10, 2026
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February Patches for Azure DevOps Server
We are releasing patches for our self‑hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly recommend that all customers stay on the latest, most secure version of Azure DevOps Server. The latest release, Azure DevOps Server, is available from the download page.
To make it easier to find...
Azure DevOps Blog
Feb 10, 2026
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.NET and .NET Framework February 2026 servicing releases updates
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A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for February 2026.
.NET Blog
Feb 10, 2026
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Building AI-Powered Apps with Azure Cosmos DB and the Vercel AI SDK
The Vercel AI SDK is an open-source TypeScript toolkit that provides the core building blocks for integrating AI into any JavaScript application. It works with 20+ AI providers out of the box—including OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, and more—so you can write your...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Feb 10, 2026
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Standardizing HLSL
The HLSL team is excited to announce the formation of Ecma Technical Committee 57; a committee to standardize the High Level Shading Language. The formation of this committee marks an important milestone in HLSL's development and strengthens Microsoft's commitment to HLSL as a...
DirectX Developer Blog
Feb 10, 2026
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How did Windows 95 get permission to put the Weezer video Buddy Holly on the CD?
Asking nicely, and asking a lot of people.
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