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Take full control of your floating windows in Visual Studio

Make Visual Studio floating windows work perfectly with PowerToys FancyZones. Flip one option to get independent windows, better snapping, and less friction.
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MCP Apps on Azure Functions: Quickstart with TypeScript

Learn how to build and deploy MCP (Model Context Protocol) apps on Azure Functions using TypeScript. This guide covers MCP tools, resources, local development, and serverless deployment with a practical weather app example.
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Apr 1, 2026
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What's New in vcpkg (Feb 2026 - Mar 2026): Parallel file installation and more!

Augustin Popa
These updates include a security fix for OpenSSL packaging on Windows, parallel file installation for improved performance, and other improvements and bug fixes.
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Apr 1, 2026
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PowerShell 7.6 release postmortem and investments

Jason Helmick
This post shares context on the delayed timing of the PowerShell 7.6 release, our learnings, and the changes the team has already begun making to improve release predictability and transparency.
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Apr 1, 2026
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General Availability: Social Identity Providers for Native Authentication via Browser‑Delegated Flows (web-view) in Microsoft Entra External ID

Sasha Mars
We’re excited to announce the General Availability of Social Identity Provider (IdP) support for Native Authentication in Microsoft Entra External ID. This release enables developers to integrate popular social sign‑in options such as Google, Facebook, and Apple — into native and...
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Apr 1, 2026
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Improving the Markdown Editor for Work Items

Dan Hellem
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...
Azure DevOps Blog
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Apr 1, 2026
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The Polyglot tax - Part 3

Aditya Badramraju
Vectors, Analytics, and the End of ETL Part 3 of 4 - The Multimodal Database Series In Part 1: The Polyglot Tax we laid out the fraud detection scenario: a transaction comes in, and before you approve or deny it you need five checks. Order history (relational). Device fingerprint...
Azure SQL Dev Corner
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Apr 1, 2026
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Dataverse Skills: Your Coding Agent Now Speaks Dataverse

Suyash Kshirsagar
Building enterprise solutions is shifting from writing code to directing AI agents. Instead of stitching together APIs, CLIs, and scripts, developers are increasingly describing intent and letting agents execute. For enterprise platforms like Dataverse, this creates a new requirement:...
Power Platform Developer Blog
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Apr 1, 2026
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Bookmark Studio: evolving bookmarks in Visual Studio

Mads Kristensen
Bookmarks in Visual Studio have always been a simple, reliable feature. Many developers use them regularly, and over the years we’ve heard consistent feedback from those users. Bookmarks were useful, but there were a few core gaps that kept them from being as effective and relevant as...
Visual Studio Blog
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Apr 1, 2026
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Project Nighthawk: A Research Agent Built for Field Engineering

Diego,
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If you work in field engineering, you know the scenario. A customer is deploying AKS in a regulated environment. They hit an issue during node bootstrapping. They want to know exactly what happens when a node joins the cluster, which components run in which order, and whether the...
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