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From Local Models to Agent Workflows: Building a Deep Research Solution with Microsoft Agent Framework on Microsoft Foundry Local
Introduction: A New Paradigm for AI Application Development
In enterprise AI application development, we often face this dilemma: while cloud-based large language models are powerful, issues such as data privacy, network latency, and cost control make many scenarios difficult to...
Read moreClick to read more about this postMasking Sensitive Data in Azure SQL
Applications often need access to data without needing access to everything. Social Security numbers, email addresses, and phone numbers are common examples. Storing them is required. Exposing them broadly is not. This is especially valuable when exposing a database to an AI agent through...
Read moreClick to read more about this postWinGet Configuration: Set up your dev machine in one command
I've set up a lot of dev machines in my life. Traditionally, this takes a lot of time to get everything just right, but now there's a faster way with WinGet Configuration files. Let me show you how to go from a fresh Windows install to a fully configured dev environment with a single...
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Oct 15, 2025
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Easily connect AI workloads to Azure Blob Storage with adlfs
Microsoft works with the fsspec open-source community to enhance adlfs. This update delivers faster file operations and improved reliability for AI workloads that connect to Azure Blob and Data Lake Storage.
Azure SDK Blog
Oct 15, 2025
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Why can you increment a reference count with relaxed semantics, but you have to decrement with release semantics?
It's more important to clean up when you leave.
The Old New Thing
Oct 14, 2025
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.NET and .NET Framework October 2025 servicing releases updates
Tara,
Victor
A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for October 2025.
.NET Blog
Oct 14, 2025
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Announcing .NET 10 Release Candidate 2
.NET 10 Release Candidate 2 focuses on final quality, reliability, and stabilization across the runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, and more.
.NET Blog
Oct 14, 2025
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Azure Developer CLI (azd) - October 2025
This post announces the October release of the Azure Developer CLI (`azd`).
Azure SDK Blog
Oct 14, 2025
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The Developer’s Guide to Smarter Fine-tuning: Unlock custom AI for every business challenge
Malena,
Jacques
Azure AI Foundry makes fine-tuning smarter, faster, and more accessible than ever. Whether you’re building agents that reason, tools that adapt, or workflows that scale, this is your launchpad for customizing models to solve real business challenges. Dive in to discover best practices,...
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Oct 14, 2025
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Announcing the .NET Security Group
Learn how to join the .NET Security Group for early access to CVE information and help deliver security patches to your .NET distribution simultaneously with Microsoft.
.NET Blog
Oct 14, 2025
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Go 1.25.3-1 and 1.24.9-1 Microsoft builds now available
A new release of the Microsoft build of Go is now available for download.
Microsoft for Go Developers
Oct 14, 2025
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Modernizing Authentication for Legacy Visual Studio Clients
As part of our ongoing commitment to security and modernization, we’re updating outdated authentication mechanisms used by older versions of clients reliant on our older Visual Studio client libraries.
For full details on all known impacted clients, refer to the official announcement...
Azure DevOps Blog