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Azure MCP Server Now Built-In with Visual Studio 2026: A New Era for Agentic Workflows

Managing cloud resources often means juggling multiple tools, writing custom scripts, and switching contexts between your IDE and cloud management portals. These extra steps slow development and make it harder to build intelligent, secure applications efficiently. We’re excited to...
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Jul 10, 2025
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Customize AI responses from GitHub Copilot

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Matt Soucoup
Learn how custom instructions can tailor GitHub Copilot's AI responses to your team's exact needs.
.NET Blog
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Jul 10, 2025
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Our first attempt to detect and report all unhandled C++ exceptions as well as all unhandled structured exceptions

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Raymond Chen
Identifying and classifying the exit points.
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Jul 10, 2025
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Use Agent to Update Dataverse Table Content

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Flavio Furlan
Create an agent using Copilot Studio to update the content of a Dataverse table.
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Jul 9, 2025
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Customize GitHub Copilot in JetBrains with Custom Instructions

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Hang Wang
Today, you can use Custom Instructions in JetBrains to speed up development while staying aligned with your team's coding standards and personal preferences. Whether you're working on a solo project or part of a larger team, adhering to consistent coding standards is essential....
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Jul 9, 2025
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How We Use AI Agents for COBOL Migration and Mainframe Modernization

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Legacy modernization is one of the most frequently raised challenges customers approach us with. They want to eliminate technical debt and run applications cloud-native. Obviously, there are different levels of complexity in legacy modernization, but the most challenging cases remain...
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Jul 9, 2025
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June 2025 (version 1.102)

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Visual Studio Code Team
Learn what is new in the Visual Studio Code June 2025 Release (1.102) Read the full article
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Jul 9, 2025
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How the .NET MAUI Team uses GitHub Copilot for Productivity

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Jonathan Peppers
How the .NET MAUI Team uses GitHub Copilot for Productivity
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July Patches for Azure DevOps Server

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Gloridel Morales
Today we are releasing patches that impact our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly encourage and recommend that all customers use the latest, most secure release of Azure DevOps Server. You can download the latest version of the product, Azure DevOps Server 2022.2 from...
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Jul 9, 2025
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When I install an unhandled structured exception filter, why doesn't std::terminate get called?

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Raymond Chen
You're using the same hook that the compiler uses to call std::terminate.
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