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The New Loop: How Power Pages Builds Software with AI
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When I started writing software professionally in 2015, the tech landscape looked completely different. Tools and frameworks kept evolving since then, but the process of building software barely moved for a decade. That changed in the last couple of months. Here's what has...
Read moreClick to read more about this postThe problem: All-or-nothing batch processing in Azure Service Bus
Azure Functions lets you settle each Service Bus message on its own within a batch. Complete, abandon, dead-letter, or defer messages one by one to avoid duplicate processing and handle errors with precision.
Read moreClick to read more about this postGoverning MCP tool calls in .NET with the Agent Governance Toolkit
Learn how to govern MCP tool calls in .NET with the Agent Governance Toolkit—policy-based access control, security scanning, and response sanitization to reduce risk in AI agent systems.
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Jan 16, 2026
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Evaluate Small Language Model Function Calling using the Azure AI Evaluation SDK
This blog details how the Azure AI Evaluation SDK can be used to assess the performance of a small language model for function calling, such as Phi-4-mini-instruct, and view the results in Microsoft Foundry.
ISE Developer Blog
Jan 15, 2026
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Announcing GPT-5.2 Availability in Azure for U.S. Government Secret and Top Secret Clouds
Today, we are excited to announce that GPT-5.2, Azure OpenAI’s newest frontier reasoning model, is available in Microsoft Azure for U.S. Government Secret and Top Secret cloud environments. This release marks another significant milestone in our mission to bring cutting edge AI...
Azure Government
Jan 15, 2026
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When programs assume that the system will never change, episode 4: Stealing strings
The strings are an implementation detail.
The Old New Thing
Jan 15, 2026
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Announcing Microsoft Entra PowerShell v1.2.0
We are excited to introduce Microsoft Entra PowerShell v1.2.0, a major update that delivers full support for Agent Identity Blueprints, expanded application configuration capabilities, and modernized invitation APIs aligned with Microsoft Graph models. This release consolidates...
Microsoft Entra PowerShell
Jan 15, 2026
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Copilot Memories
Are you wasting time reviewing code for nits on code standards, project preferences, or important contribution guidelines? We know the pain. It’s all too easy for best practices and those tiny but critical team details to slip through the cracks, resulting in inconsistencies,...
Visual Studio Blog
Jan 15, 2026
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Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 — Call for Proposals Is Now Open
Every production system has a story behind it.
The scaling limit you didn’t expect.
The data model that finally clicked.
The tradeoff you had to make under real-world pressure.
The solution that worked—and the lessons you’d pass on to the next team.
Azure Cosmos DB Conf...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Jan 15, 2026
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Building docfind: Fast Client-Side Search with Rust and WebAssembly
How we built docfind, a high-performance client-side search engine using Rust and WebAssembly, and how GitHub Copilot accelerated development.
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VS Code Blog
Jan 14, 2026
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Announcing Agent Academy: Operative
Earlier this year, we launched Agent Academy: Recruit, a foundational learning path designed to help makers and developers get started with building agents in Copilot Studio. The response exceeded our expectations.
Since launch, thousands of learners have worked through the Recruit...
Power Platform Developer Blog
Jan 14, 2026
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Copilot Studio Extension for Visual Studio Code Is Now Generally Available
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If you build agents with the Copilot Studio extension for Visual Studio Code, you already know the fastest way to iterate is to treat your agent like software: version it, review changes, and promote it through environments with confidence. Today, the Microsoft Copilot Studio extension...
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog