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Hunting Living Secrets: Secret Validity Checks Arrive in GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
If you’ve ever waded through a swamp of secret scanning alerts wondering, “Which of these are actually dangerous right now?” — this enhancement is for you.
Secret validity checks in GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps (and the standalone Secret Protection experience) add a...
Read moreAzure DevOps OAuth Client Secrets Now Shown Only Once
We’re making an important change to how Azure DevOps displays OAuth client secrets to align with industry best practices and improve our overall security posture. Starting September, newly generated client secrets will be shown only once at the time of creation. After that, they will no...
Read more.NET Conf 2025 - Announcing the Call for Content
The .NET Conf 2025 Call for Content is now open! Join us November 11-13 for the premier .NET virtual event celebrating .NET 10. Submit your session proposal by August 31st and share your .NET expertise with developers worldwide.
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Apr 28, 2025
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Capturing video frames in Timing Captures
Starting with the 2505.09 release of PIX on Windows, an option has been added to Timing Captures to record video frames along with the timing data. If the option to collect video frames is selected before a capture is taken, PIX will add a lane named Video Frames to the Timeline view....
PIX on Windows
Apr 28, 2025
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Guest Blog: Letting AI Help Make the World More Accessible - Analyzing Website Accessibility with Semantic Kernel and OmniParser
Today we're excited to welcome Jonathan David, as a guest author on the Semantic Kernel blog. We'll turn it over to Jonathan to dive into Letting AI Help Make the World More Accessible - Analyzing Website Accessibility with Semantic Kernel and OmniParser.
With the European...
Semantic Kernel
Apr 28, 2025
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Protecting against indirect prompt injection attacks in MCP
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Den
In this blog post, we will provide some guidelines on how to mitigate prompt injection attacks in Model Context Protocol (MCP) and share the steps Microsoft has taken to address emerging risks such as this one for our customers.
MCP is an open protocol spearheaded by Anthropic that...
Microsoft for Developers
Apr 28, 2025
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Microsoft Copilot Studio ❤️ MCP
April,
Daniel
Ever wished your AI agents could tap into live data or execute actions beyond their built-in capabilities? Enter Model Context Protocol (MCP)—a game-changer for integrating external tools and data sources directly into your Copilot Studio agents.
🧠 What is MCP?
Think of MCP as a...
Power Platform Developer Blog
Apr 28, 2025
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Set the default file encoding
Have you ever encountered unexpected issues due to file encoding when working in cross-platform environments? These frustrating problems can disrupt your workflow and consume valuable time. Visual Studio addresses these concerns with a new feature – the Default File Encoding...
Visual Studio Blog
Apr 28, 2025
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ASP.NET Core OData Web API Template Preview Release
We are excited to announce the public preview release of the ASP.NET Core OData Web API Template Pack. This template helps you create an ASP.NET Core Web API project with OData support, providing a streamlined setup for .NET 8.0 and above. The following preview release is now available on...
OData
Apr 28, 2025
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Why did Windows 7, for a few months, log on slower if you have a solid color background?
It's waiting for Godot and eventually gives up.
The Old New Thing