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How to Build iOS Widgets with .NET MAUI
Build professional iOS widgets with .NET MAUI, from static displays to interactive widgets.
Read moreClick to read more about this postStreamlining your Git workflow with Visual Studio 2026
You’re a .NET developer with a busy morning, and an Azure DevOps ticket drops: “Login endpoint 500s under load.” You’ve got to fix it, review a teammate’s feature branch, and keep your repo clean - all before lunch. Visual Studio’s Git tools turn this everyday Git workflow of...
Read moreClick to read more about this postRetirement of Global Personal Access Tokens in Azure DevOps
In the new year, we’ll be retiring the Global Personal Access Token (PAT) type in Azure DevOps.
Global PATs allow users to authenticate across all accessible organizations. While this can feel convenient, a single credential with broad reach creates a concentrated security risk —...
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Aug 29, 2025
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Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 15: A custom shared pointer
Simplifying it for out limited use case.
The Old New Thing
Aug 28, 2025
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Getting Started with the Aspire CLI
The Aspire CLI is here and you can use it to configure and run your applications
.NET Blog
Aug 28, 2025
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Announcing Awesome Copilot MCP Server
Discover and save the best GitHub Copilot chat modes, instructions, and prompts right from Copilot Chat using the new Awesome Copilot MCP Server—install with Docker, search, preview, and commit in one flow.
Microsoft for Developers
Aug 28, 2025
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Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 14: Nonthrowing moves with the shared tracking pointer
Moving the exception somewhere else.
The Old New Thing
Aug 27, 2025
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Roadmap for AI in Visual Studio (September)
Today, we’re excited to share our public roadmap, which outlines the next steps in evolving Visual Studio with AI-powered agentic experiences. With every month, we aim to deliver smarter, faster, and more intuitive tools that enhance your coding experience.
Disclaimer: The items...
Visual Studio Blog
Aug 27, 2025
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EFCore.Visualizer - View Entity Framework Core query plan inside Visual Studio
A Visual Studio extension that helps developers visualize and analyze Entity Framework Core query execution plans directly within their development environment.
.NET Blog
Aug 27, 2025
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Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 13: Restoring the strong exception guarantee
Don't commit to anything until you know you can finish the job.
The Old New Thing
Aug 26, 2025
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Encoding Changes for Template Arguments in Semantic Kernel
In previous versions of the Semantic Kernel, the encoding of template arguments was performed automatically if the argument type was a string. The encoding was not applied for custom types, anonymous types, or collections.
With the latest changes, we've introduced stricter rules: if...
Semantic Kernel
Aug 26, 2025
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Azure Authentication Changes in Semantic Kernel Python
In previous versions of the Semantic Kernel Python, the default fallback authentication mechanism for Azure services like AzureChatCompletion was DefaultAzureCredential from the Azure Identity library. This provided a convenient way to authenticate without explicitly passing credentials,...
Semantic Kernel