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Masking 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...
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WinGet 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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.NET and .NET Framework October 2025 servicing releases updates

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A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for October 2025.
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Announcing .NET 10 Release Candidate 2

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.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.
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Oct 14, 2025
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Azure Developer CLI (azd) - October 2025

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This post announces the October release of the Azure Developer CLI (`azd`).
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Oct 14, 2025
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The Developer’s Guide to Smarter Fine-tuning: Unlock custom AI for every business challenge

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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,...
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Oct 14, 2025
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Announcing the .NET Security Group

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Jamshed Damkewala
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.
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Oct 14, 2025
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Go 1.25.3-1 and 1.24.9-1 Microsoft builds now available

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Davis Goodin
A new release of the Microsoft build of Go is now available for download.
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Oct 14, 2025
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Modernizing Authentication for Legacy Visual Studio Clients

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Angel Wong
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...
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Oct 14, 2025
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I remember taking a screen shot of a video, and when I opened it in Paint, the video was playing in it! What witchcraft is this?

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Raymond Chen
You copied the green screen.
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Oct 13, 2025
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API design principle: Don't tempt people to divide by zero

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Raymond Chen
Remove it from the equation.
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