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Ask Mode vs Agent Mode - Choosing the Right Copilot Experience for .NET
GitHub Copilot Chat offers two powerful modes, Ask Mode and Agent Mode, that can dramatically accelerate your development. Learn when to use each mode to get the most out of this tool.
Read moreBuild Smarter with the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit MCP Server
As AI agents become central to how we build and interact with modern productivity apps, developers need tools that are flexible, standard-based, and deeply integrated with AI. That’s where the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit MCP Server comes in.
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Read moreAzure Developer CLI: From Dev to Prod with One Click
This post walks through how to implement a "build once, deploy everywhere" pattern using Azure Developer CLI (azd) that provisions environment-specific infrastructure and promotes applications from dev to prod with the same build artifacts. You'll learn how to use conditional Bicep...
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May 8, 2025
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C# 14 - Exploring extension members
C# 14 introduces extension members. See how the `extension` syntax offers flexibility for extension authors and continuity for developers using extensions
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May 8, 2025
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A Developer's Guide to Build 2025
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Microsoft Build 2025 is just around the corner (May 19-22), and we're fired up about all the developer-focused content we've got lined up for you! Whether you're a Visual Studio power user, a VS Code fan, all about Azure, looking for the newest in .NET, or just pumped about AI in...
Microsoft for Developers
May 8, 2025
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Exchange Web Services code analyzer and usage report
We are less than 18 months away from the retirement of Exchange Web Services. Start planning your migration from EWS to Microsoft Graph.
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
May 8, 2025
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Avoid T-SQL anti-patterns with the free T-SQL analysis tool
T-SQL Analyzer is a free, open-source, cross platform command line tool for identifying, and reporting the presence of anti-patterns and design issues in SQL Server T-SQL scripts. As a database developer, you can catch any potential bad practices and design problems very early in the...
Azure SQL Devs’ Corner
May 8, 2025
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Fabric Mirroring for Azure Cosmos DB: Public Preview Refresh Now Live with New Features
We’re thrilled to announce the latest refresh of Fabric Mirroring for Azure Cosmos DB, now available with several powerful new features that enhance your data analytics infrastructure. This update significantly improves the experience, making it easier than ever to replicate your Azure...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
May 8, 2025
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Why doesn't Clipboard History capture rapid changes to clipboard contents?
Clipboard history operates asynchronously, so you are changing it before it can respond to the changes.
The Old New Thing
May 8, 2025
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Announcing the General Availability of Managed Identities as Federated Identity Credentials in your Entra apps
Announcing the GA of Managed Identities as Federated Identity Credentials for Microsoft Entra. Enhance security by replacing app secrets with managed identities, simplify setup, and enable seamless cross-tenant access to Entra-protected resources like Azure and Microsoft Graph.
Microsoft Entra Identity Platform
May 8, 2025
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Integration testing with Dapr and Testcontainers
This blog post discusses setting up a Pytest integration test framework for a system using Dapr and Testcontainers. This framework was initially setup for a customer to suit their needs and it has been extracted into a sample project to provide a starting point.
ISE Developer Blog
May 7, 2025
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Azure Developer CLI (azd) - May 2025
This post announces the May release of the Azure Developer CLI (`azd`).
Azure SDK Blog