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Join us for AI Dev Days - December 10-11
2025 was a year of incredible progress for AI and our industry as a whole. At Microsoft and GitHub, we've innovated beyond isolated chats and prompts to building systems that collaborate with connected workflows and operational intelligence. This shift can be seen across the stack, from...
Read moreWhy changing keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio isn’t as simple as it seems
A straight look at what’s behind the keys
We’ve all tried unlearning a keyboard shortcut - it feels like forgetting how to breathe. Muscle memory doesn’t mess around. We wrestle with this every time someone suggest a “quick” shortcut change. It’s not just editing a keybinding...
Read moreUnlocking New Possibilities: Microsoft Azure Hyperscale AI Computing with H200 GPUs Accelerates Secure AI Innovation in Azure for U.S. Government Secret and Top Secret
As artificial intelligence continues to reshape industries and redefine the boundaries of innovation, Microsoft is proud to announce a leap forward in secure, high-performance computing in our Secret and Top Secret clouds: the integration of NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs into Azure’s AI...
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Aug 18, 2025
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Handling Machine Reboots with VM Applications
One confusion around all of our extensions is: how are reboots handled? This varies by extension, but only VM Applications provide the option on how to handle them. It does this via the "scriptBehaviorAfterReboot"...
Azure VM Runtime Team
Aug 18, 2025
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Azure Developer CLI (azd) - August 2025
This post announces the August release of the Azure Developer CLI (`azd`).
Azure SDK Blog
Aug 18, 2025
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Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 6: Non-modifying trackers
Making tracking pointers to objects that you can't modify.
The Old New Thing
Aug 15, 2025
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Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 5: Copying our tracking pointer
How to copy from a const tracking pointer.
The Old New Thing
Aug 14, 2025
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Model Context Protocol (MCP) for GitHub Copilot in Xcode is Now Generally Available
Model Context Protocol (MCP) support with GitHub Copilot is now generally available for Xcode! Developers can now enable GitHub Copilot with MCP in Xcode to enhance coding intelligence and context awareness.
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With MCP support in Xcode, developers can now connect Copilot to...
Xcode
Aug 14, 2025
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GPT-5 for Microsoft Developers
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OpenAI announced GPT-5 last week in "GPT-5 and the new era of work". Working with OpenAI, we rolled out GPT-5 support the day it launched, making sure you can use and build with it and integrate it into your applications immediately.
We've got you covered with a dev-focused rundown:...
Microsoft for Developers
Aug 14, 2025
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Announcing the NuGet MCP Server Preview
We've released a preview of the NuGet MCP Server, which extends Copilot by providing realtime information about packages and adds advanced functionality around updating packages.
.NET Blog
Aug 14, 2025
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Data encryption with customer-managed key (CMK) for Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore
Built-in security for every configuration
Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore is designed with security as a foundational principle. Regardless of how your cluster is configured—whether it's a single-node deployment or a multi-shard architecture—your data is always encrypted at rest...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Aug 14, 2025
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Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 4: Using a circular doubly linked list
Building our own circular doubly-linked list.
The Old New Thing