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Give your Foundry Agent Custom Tools with MCP Servers on Azure Functions
Learn how to connect your MCP server hosted on Azure Functions to Microsoft Foundry agents. This post covers authentication options and setup steps to give your AI agent access to custom MCP tools.
Read moreClick to read more about this postYour Migration's Source of Truth: The Modernization Assessment
Introducing GitHub Copilot Modernization and diving into the assessment report as part of cloud modernization process
Read moreClick to read more about this postGitHub Copilot for Eclipse Is Going Open Source
We’re excited to announce that the GitHub Copilot for Eclipse plugin is going open source under the MIT license and will be hosted on GitHub under the microsoft organization in the coming weeks.
By open-sourcing the project, we’re inviting the community to contribute,...
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Dec 8, 2025
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How does Windows synthesize CF_OEMTEXT from CF_TEXT and vice versa?
Starting with the easy case, or at least it looks easy.
The Old New Thing
Dec 7, 2025
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Foundry IQ in Microsoft Agent Framework
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Build enterprise-grade RAG agents with Foundry IQ Knowledge Bases in ~20 lines of Python. Learn how the Azure AI Search Context Provider brings intelligent, multi-hop retrieval to the Microsoft Agent Framework—no fragmented pipelines, just plug in the knowledge your agent needs.
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Dec 5, 2025
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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,...
Microsoft for Developers
Dec 5, 2025
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How can my process read its own standard output?
You'll have to trick yourself before anybody notices, which may not be possible.
The Old New Thing
Dec 4, 2025
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Locking Down MCP: Create a Private Registry on Azure API Center and Enforce It in GitHub Copilot And VS Code
Ever since MCP launched, every customer has asked the same thing: “How does a private MCP registry actually work, and how do we configure it for our enterprise?”.
So today, on a snowy, freezing Friday in Zurich, I grabbed a coffe, opened the GitHub docs, dove into Azure API...
All things Azure
Dec 4, 2025
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.NET Conf 2025 Recap - Celebrating .NET 10, Visual Studio 2026, AI, Community, & More
.NET Conf 2025 is over, but you can catch up with all the announcements and fun with video recordings, slides, demos, and more.
.NET Blog
Dec 4, 2025
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Unlocking 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...
Azure Government
Dec 4, 2025
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How can I read the standard output of an already-running process?
You can't. You'll have to do it before the process starts.
The Old New Thing
Dec 4, 2025
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Unlocking the Power of Web with Copilot Chat’s New URL Context
There are many scenarios where Copilot Chat can feel limited by the built-in model training data. Maybe you want guidance on the latest web framework, documentation, or project-specific resources—but Copilot’s responses just aren’t specific enough. For developers who...
Visual Studio Blog