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From Local Models to Agent Workflows: Building a Deep Research Solution with Microsoft Agent Framework on Microsoft Foundry Local
Introduction: A New Paradigm for AI Application Development
In enterprise AI application development, we often face this dilemma: while cloud-based large language models are powerful, issues such as data privacy, network latency, and cost control make many scenarios difficult to...
Read moreClick to read more about this postMasking 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...
Read moreClick to read more about this postWinGet 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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Oct 9, 2025
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Working with Git Submodules: Managing Dependencies Across Repositories
Working with Git Submodules and creating actions.
ISE Developer Blog
Oct 8, 2025
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Preparing for the .NET 10 GC (DATAS)
Learn how DATAS in .NET 10 adapts heap size, what changes to expect versus previous Server Garbage Collection (GC) behavior, and how to decide whether to tune or disable it.
.NET Blog
Oct 8, 2025
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Windows Runtime API design principles around read-write properties: Idempotence and self-assignment
Setting it to the value it already has is not a crime.
The Old New Thing
Oct 7, 2025
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Semantic Kernel and Microsoft Agent Framework
Last week we announced Microsoft Agent Framework, you can find all the details:
In the blog post here: Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework: The Open-Source Engine for Agentic AI Apps | Azure AI Foundry Blog
Explore documentation for more...
Semantic Kernel
Oct 7, 2025
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Announcing a new OData.NET serializer
One of the major, recurring complaints of the OData.NET libraries is the performance overhead of the serialization stack. We have done a lot of work to improve the serialization performance, but the existing architecture limits how far we can go. For this reason, we have started work on a...
OData
Oct 7, 2025
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What's new in Azure AI Foundry | September 2025
GPT‑5‑Codex GA, Sora video‑to‑video preview, Grok 4 Fast, Browser Automation & Key Vault previews, new Search knowledge sources, Voice Live GA.
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Oct 7, 2025
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Announcing the new Azure DevOps Server RC Release
We’re excited to announce the release candidate (RC) of Azure DevOps Server, bringing new features previously available in our hosted version. You can download Azure DevOps Server RC today. A direct upgrade to Azure DevOps Server RC is supported from any version of Team Foundation...
Azure DevOps Blog