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Aspire Docs in Your Terminal (and Your AI's Brain)

Aspire 13.2 ships aspire docs, a CLI for browsing, searching, and reading official aspire.dev docs from your terminal, with the same source of truth available to AI skills and automation.
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Improving the Markdown Editor for Work Items

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...
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Dec 1, 2025
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Join the OSS AI Summit: Building with LangChain Event

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Dan Wahlin
December 10, 2025 8 am - 10 am Pacific Registration: https://aka.ms/OSSAISummitRegistration Overview AI development is moving at a pace that leaves most teams reacting instead of leading. The next generation of applications will be built by people who understand how to design...
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Dec 1, 2025
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The "Golden Triangle" of Agentic Development with Microsoft Agent Framework: AG-UI, DevUI & OpenTelemetry Deep Dive

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Kinfey Lo
In the explosive era of Agentic AI, we're not just seeking more powerful models—we're searching for a development experience that lets developers actually get some sleep. When building Agents locally, we've traditionally faced three major challenges: Black-Box Execution: What is...
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Dec 1, 2025
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Upgrade MSVC, improve C++ build performance, and refactor C++ code with GitHub Copilot

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Erika Sweet
Visual Studio 2026 introduces new GitHub Copilot capabilities to support C++ developers in three development tasks:  Performing large-scale C++ refactors  Improving C++ build performance   Upgrading Microsoft C++ (MSVC) Build Tools  These experiences are...
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Dec 1, 2025
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How do I get my edit control text to be autoselected when I choose it to be the default focus in my dialog?

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Raymond Chen
Remembering some old APIs.
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Dec 1, 2025
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Accelerating AI Development with GitHub Copilot: Real-World Use-Cases

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This blog post shares real-world experiences from Microsoft's ISE team using GitHub Copilot to accelerate AI development workflows, demonstrating how AI tools can significantly speed up tasks like creating documentation, class diagrams, data visualizations, and demo scripts when used by experienced developers.
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Nov 28, 2025
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How can I have a Win32 drop-down combo box with a read-only edit control?

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Raymond Chen
You can ask for its handle and mark it read-only.
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Nov 27, 2025
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Announcing ASP.NET Core OData 10.0.0 Preview 1

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Samuel Wanjohi
We're thrilled to announce the release of ASP.NET Core OData 10.0.0 Preview 1, a major modernization update that embraces .NET's native System.DateOnly and System.TimeOnly types! This release upgrades to .NET 10.0 and replaces OData's proprietary Edm.Date and Edm.TimeOfDay CLR wrapper...
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Nov 27, 2025
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Visualizing GitHub Audit Log in Microsoft Defender

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Key Observability Trends Around GitHub Security Modern enterprises are increasingly adopting DevSecOps practices, integrating security into every phase of the development lifecycle. Key observability trends include: Unified Security Dashboards: Organizations seek a single...
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Nov 27, 2025
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Message-only windows are for messaging, not as a convenient victim for hosting UI

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Raymond Chen
If you want to host UI, use a real window (possibly hidden).
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