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Agentic-Agile: Why Agent Development Needs Agile (Not Just Prompts)
"A bad system will beat a good person [or agent] every time" ~Dr. William Edwards Deming (with apologies)
I started vibe coding by writing prompts (often dictated into my phone), refining them with an agent in M365 Copilot, and creating handoff files to use with GitHub Copilot CLI. The...
Read moreClick to read more about this postStop prompt injection from hijacking your agent, new security capabilities now released within Agent Framework
Prompt injection is the #1 risk on the OWASP LLM Top 10, and most agents in production today defend against it with one of two heuristics: a defensive system prompt, or a hand-rolled allowlist. Neither is deterministic. Both fail silently the day someone slips a [SYSTEM OVERRIDE] line...
Read moreClick to read more about this postAnnouncing Agent Governance Toolkit MCP Extensions for .NET
Announcing a Public Preview .NET package that adds policy enforcement, startup tool scanning, fallback governance, and response sanitization to MCP servers with a single builder extension.
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Feb 10, 2026
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Standardizing HLSL
The HLSL team is excited to announce the formation of Ecma Technical Committee 57; a committee to standardize the High Level Shading Language. The formation of this committee marks an important milestone in HLSL's development and strengthens Microsoft's commitment to HLSL as a...
DirectX Developer Blog
Feb 10, 2026
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How did Windows 95 get permission to put the Weezer video Buddy Holly on the CD?
Asking nicely, and asking a lot of people.
The Old New Thing
Feb 10, 2026
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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...
Microsoft Agent Framework
Feb 9, 2026
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Time Travel in Azure SQL with Temporal Tables
Applications often need to know what data looked like before. Who changed it, when it changed, and what the previous values were. Rebuilding that history in application code is tedious and error prone. This is especially valuable when exposing a database to an AI agent through MCP servers...
Azure SQL Dev Corner
Feb 9, 2026
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What should I do if a wait call reports WAIT_ABANDONED ?
It's your one chance to make amends.
The Old New Thing
Feb 6, 2026
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What’s New in vcpkg (Nov 2025 - Jan 2026)
This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2025.12.12 and 2026.01.16 registry releases and the 2025-11-13, 2025-11-18, 2025-11-19, 2025-12-05, and 2025-12-16 tool releases. These updates include support for targeting the Xbox GDK October 2025 update,...
C++ Team Blog
Feb 6, 2026
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Mastering User Settings in SharePoint Framework
User preferences and settings are fundamental components of modern web applications. When developing SharePoint Framework (SPFx) solutions, the ability to store and manage user-specific configurations across devices and sessions becomes crucial for delivering personalized experiences....
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